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PALEO SAMOA COOKIE BARS

These Paleo Samoa Cookie Bars are just like the popular Girl Scout Cookies, but homemade and healthier! Gluten free, dairy free, and so delicious!

Are you familiar with Samoa cookies? They are a shortbread base topped with caramel and toasted coconut and drizzled with chocolate. They are also known as Caramel deLites and according to the Girl Scout website are the 2nd most popular cookie after Thin Mints. These bars have all those same components, but healthier of course! I also decided on bars instead of cookies because they’re easier and just as tasty!

I used the same shortbread base that I used for my Paleo Homemade Twix. It’s simple and so delicious. It’s the only baking part of this recipe and it’s super quick. It is not overly sweet which is good because the caramel layer is quite sweet so it balances out perfectly.

Ingredients

Caramel Layer
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup coconut sugar
3/4 cup canned coconut cream (the thick part on top of the coconut milk)
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons Golden Barrel Coconut Oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups finely shredded unsweetened coconut
Shortbread Layer
2 cups almond flour
2 tablespoons coconut flour
1/3 cup Golden Barrel Coconut Oil, melted
1/3 cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Chocolate
1 1/4 cups dairy free chocolate chips, divided

Instructions

Caramel Layer
Make the caramel sauce. This can be done ahead of time and stored in the fridge. In a small sauce pan, combine honey, coconut sugar, coconut cream, and salt.
Heat over medium heat until just boiling, turn to low and let simmer for 10 minutes. Stir continuously to prevent burning.
Remove from heat and add coconut oil and vanilla and whisk to combine. This may take some whisking to fully incorporated it. Pour the caramel into a glass jar and let cool at room temperature.
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for full instruction please see : www.goldenbarrel.com