This recipe for gluten-free Paleo Girl Scout cookies is based on one from the wonderful cookbook Paleo Indulgences by Tammy Credicott (the book also has a fantastic forward by Robb Wolf). This Paleo cookbook is packed with healthy substitutes for your favorite treats. Tammy has done an amazing job in compiling nutritious, yet mouthwatering recipes that range from all sorts of fun gluten-free baked goods and candies to healthy entrees and vegetable dishes.
My favorite part of this gluten-free Paleo Girl Scout cookie recipe? The vegan caramel sauce recipe that Tammy includes in it, which is a true piece of culinary genius. There are dozens of other treats that you’ll want to have at hand as well, so I recommend getting yourself a copy of this delightfully healthy cookbook.
For about a week I was calling these cookies Samoras instead of Samoas. I’m not really sure what got into me as I used to call them by the correct name. If you like cookies with toasted coconut, vegan caramel sauce and dark chocolate, then these are right up your alley, regardless of the name.
Paleo Samoas
Ingredients
Cookies
- 2 cups blanched almond flour (not almond meal)
- ½ cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ cup honey
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 3 tablespoons coconut oil, melted
Topping
- 1 cup chocolate chips, 6 ounces
- 1 cup coconut sugar
- ¼ cup coconut nectar
- ½ cup full fat coconut milk
- ½ cup unsweetened shredded coconut, toasted
Instructions
Cookies
- In a food processor combine dry ingredients
- Pulse in wet ingredients until dough forms
- Refrigerate dough for 30 minutes
- Roll dough between 2 sheets of parchment paper to ¼-inch thick
- Use a 2 inch cookie cutter to cut out rounds
- Use a knife to cut holes in center of rounds if desired
- Bake at 350°F for 6-8 minutes
- Cool cookies completely on baking sheet
Topping
- Melt chocolate over very low heat
- Dip base of each cookie into chocolate
- Place on parchment paper to set
- To make caramel, place coconut sugar, coconut nectar and coconut milk in a saucepan
- Bring mixture to a boil, then decrease heat and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring frequently
- Remove mixture from heat and stir in toasted coconut
- Use a small spoon to drizzle caramel-coconut mixture onto cookies
- Drizzle additional chocolate over cookies and sprinkle with extra coconut if desired
- Place cookies in refrigerator to set, then serve
While the ingredients for these homemade Paleo Girl Scout cookies are based on a recipe from Tammy Credicott’s Paleo Indulgences, much of the method is based on that from the Samoa recipe by David Leite at Leite’s Culinaria. Leite has one of the best cooking sites around. His photography is beautiful and the instructions for his recipes are full of detail, yet at the same time quite simple.
Finally, a bit of Girl Scout cookie trivia –did you know that in 2002 Bruce Willis purchased 12,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies and had them sent to troops in Afghanistan?
What is your favorite Girl Scout Cookie recipe? If you could see another gluten-free Girl Scout cookie recipe over here which one would it be?
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anne says
you are amazing!
Jen (yup, another one) says
TAGALONGS. Although I don’t think they will translate that well with almond or sunbutter. :(
Bob says
Love,love,love thin mints. This is great. My family will have a great time making these and I’m sure they won’t last long.
Many Thanks!
Sunteerto says
Well that’s look like a donuts. You maybe could make variation on the garnish putting some almond on that chocolate would look great cause I love almond.
Britt in TX says
O well, I am sorry to say I haven’t made these yet : ( which means I bought them from the GS; ) and also the thin mints Haha. I know, I know, I will still make them both! Thanks you are so helpful and you have alot of people that thank you. Just think of all the people around the world at breakfast, lunch, & dinner cooking your healthy recipes!!! Lots of people say thanks but we really need to think about how much work you have put in cookbooks, recipes, this website, responding when you can & many more!!!! Thanks again!!!! GOD BLESS!!!
Jane Hull says
Tagalongs!!!
Lynnette Foster-Horwith says
Now that I cant eat eggs nor almonds anymore in addition to already no gluten, dairy, corn nor sugar, so I am playing with recipes and having fun. Also would enjoy a quality chart about soaking seeds and nuts to make them healthy. My latest : soaked cashews which I vita mixed into cashew cream, added cocoa and chocolate and peppermint stevia. Froze spoonfulls and they’re yum.
Carly says
Samoas have always been my favorite! I just made these tonight and they were EPIC!
Serafina says
I checked out this recipe due to the thinking about what an oxymoron this recipe is… I laughed about it for a while and thought to myself, those sound delicious!
Karen says
As a former cookie selling champ, and woman surrounded by adorable girls who sell cookies, I’m thrilled to Samoas. We used to freeze them and cut them up and put in homemade vanilla ice cream.
Thin Mints though – were my favorite.