Healthier Samoa Bars
on Feb 20, 2020, Updated May 14, 2024
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THESE BARS!!! I love Girl Scout cookies. And i really love Samoas. So I wanted to make an easy bar version that used cleaner ingredients you can feel good about! The bottom shortbread layer is simple and almond flour based and the caramel is beyond easy to make because I perfected it for the microwave.
Making caramel is a scary thing on a stove top if you aren’t familiar with it and don’t want to have to pay too much attention (hello toddler at my ankles). So this caramel is a combo of coconut sugar, honey, sweetened condensed coconut milk, ghee, vanilla and just a pinch of salt. The sweetened condensed coconut milk is a must, I got mine at sprouts but it is also at whole foods, walmart and online! I love that cleaner things like this are popping up so we can make delicious treats that aren’t way too overly processed. Once you make the easy shortbread and caramel, you just layer them and drizzle on chocolate and then once they are cooled, slice and dip in some more chocolate!
Recipe List
- Almond flour
- Egg
- Coconut oil
- Maple syrup
- Vanilla
- Salt
- Unsweetened shredded coconut
- Ghee
- Honey
- Coconut sugar
- Coconut sweetened condensed milk
- Chocolate chips
Can’t wait to hear what you think of these!!
We have lots more Grain Free treats on the site:
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Healthier Samoa Bars
Ingredients
Crust:
- 3 cups almond flour
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup coconut oil, at room temp
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon salt
Caramel:
- 2 ½ cups unsweetened shredded coconut
- ½ cup ghee, melted
- ½ cup honey
- 1 cup coconut sugar
- ½ cup coconut sweetened condensed milk
- Pinch of salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Chocolate:
- 2 cups chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a 9x13 pan with parchment paper (helps to spray the pan with oil so the paper sticks!). In a large bowl combine almond flour, egg, coconut oil, maple syrup, vanilla and ½ tsp salt. Once evenly combined, pour into the prepared pan and press it down evenly. It will be a thin layer! Use moist hands so it doesn’t stick to them when pressing down.
- Bake the crust for 25-30 minutes or until lightly browned on the edges and on top.
- While the crust bakes, pour the shredded coconut on a baking sheet and add it to the oven as well. Bake for about 7-8 minutes, stirring the coconut halfway through, until it is lightly browned all over. Watch it closely because it can burn quickly!
- In a medium sized microwavable bowl, combine ghee, honey, coconut sugar and coconut sweetened condensed milk and mix to combine. Microwave for 4 minutes on high. Remove and stir in vanilla extract then add in toasted coconut and stir to combine. Feel free here to add another pinch of salt if you like salty caramel!
- Once the crust is done, let it cool for a few minutes, then pour the caramel on top and spread it evenly.
- In a small bowl melt chocolate chips in the microwave for 30 second increments until smooth.
- Drizzle ½ of the chocolate on top of the bars and let them cool completely in the refrigerator.
- Once cool, slice into squares and dip the bottoms into the remaining chocolate (you may have to re-melt if it has hardened).
5 stars aren’t enough!! I just gave my fiancé a taste pre cooling and his response was “these are better than samoa cookies!!” These are definitely making life in quarantine significantly better!!
That is great!!!
So good! Can’t say enough about how awesome these bars are!
So so glad!!
Seriously so good!
Thank you!!
These are amazing and taste like Samoa cookies! Thank you!!
Love it!!
My grown daughters were so happy to find a Girl Scout selling Samoas in downtown Chicago in February they bought three boxes each. So I thought it would be fun to try your recipe and oh my goodness!! They are so good I had to share with my neighbors so I wouldn’t eat them all!! I was out of ghee so used 1/4 cup butter and 1/4 cup coconut oil and this worked and now have an excuse to make them again with ghee this time 😉 Thank you, Kelsey.
That is awesome!!!
Totally panicked about running out of Girl Scout cookies until I came across these – just what I needed!
So glad!!
I accidentally used the entire can of coconut milk, so it turned into more of a Samoa soup versus bars- still super tasty! (PS crust works with fox egg )
Haha glad it was still tasty!
Hi, I have evaporated coconut milk, not sweetened condensed 🙁 do you think I could add more sugar to the Carmel mixture or just try it without?
I don’t know if that would work, haven’t tried it!
These are delicious! Highly recommend!
So glad!
Will sweetened condensed milk work instead of the sweetened condensed coconut milk?
Yes!