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Description
Healthy and simple (but incredible!) 4-Ingredient Samoas that might just taste better than the real deal. Shh…. don’t tell the Girl Scouts. Vegan, gluten-free and paleo-friendly.
Ingredients
- 1 cup pitted medjool dates
- 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- 1/3 cup dark chocolate (chips or a chopped bar)
- 1/2 teaspoon coconut oil
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 400°F. Spread the shredded coconut onto a baking sheet for toasting. Place in oven for 5-10 minutes, until coconut is a light golden brown color. Make sure to stay in the kitchen watch the coconut, as it can easily go from toasted to burnt. Alternately, you can toast the coconut in a pan on the stove-top.
- Add dates and toasted coconut into the bowl of a food processor. Pulse until mixture is combined and starts to form a ball of dough.
- Remove from food processor, roll 1 Tablespoon size pieces of dough into a ball and then shape into a round cookie. Using a straw or chopstick punch a hole in the middle of the dough. Move the straw or chopstick around a bit to make the hole wider, if needed. At this point you’ll likely need to reshape the cookie a bit.
- Place all cookies on a sheet lined with parchment and transfer to the freezer to harden up a bit. While cookies are in the freezer, add chocolate and coconut oil to a shallow microwave-safe bowl and melt in 20-30 second increments until the chocolate is melted enough to drizzle.
- Grab cookies from the freezer and dip each one in the chocolate to coat the bottom. Place cookies on the parchment and use remaining chocolate to drizzle over top the cookies. Transfer cookies back into the freezer for 10-15 minutes to let the chocolate harden. Once they’ve hardened you’ll be able to easily remove the cookies from the parchment paper. If you want to enjoy right away, let them sit out on the counter for a few minutes. For enjoying later, store in a sealed container in the fridge for up to one week.
- Category: Dessert
- Method: No Bake
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 135
- Sugar: 17g
- Sodium: 4mg
- Fat: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 6g
- Carbohydrates: 21g
- Fiber: 3g
- Protein: 1g
- Cholesterol: 0
Keywords: healthy homemade samoas
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I LOVE these! So simple and so delicious! Thank you!
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So glad you’re loving these, Viviane!! 🙂
Hi! Can you use fresh coconut?
Fresh coconut won’t work as well. It needs to be dried coconut.
Omg I made this recipe tonight after having a major sweet tooth all day and the cookies are AMAZING!!! Seriously better than girl scout cookies(sorry girls!!) and I don’t feel bad about eating them!
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Ahh yay!! Aren’t they SO good?! I’m pumped you loved them. 🙂
Even better than samoas!!
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These are AMAZING. I usually don’t “bake”, but these are SO easy and absolutely delicious. My husband said they are better than Girl Scout cookies and I agree! Now I’m figuring out how to hide my stash from him and the kids! Haha!
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Woo-hoo!! That makes me so happy to hear, Jacki. I’m so pumped these cookies were a hit. Thanks for trying them and for coming back to leave a comment + star rating. I really appreciate it. <3
Best guilt-free dessert ever! And I almost always have these ingredients on hand. They are a must try if you like samoas.
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So glad you enjoyed this recipe, Samantha!! 🙂
Could not wait till it cooled off so yummy. Canʻt wait to make again.
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I have made these twice and they are absolutely delicious! Majool dates are so good! My friends and family are obsessed with them! Will definitely make them again!
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Ahh yay!! So glad these samoas have been a hit. Thanks for coming back to leave a comment + star rating, Amber. I so appreciate it!
I didn’t have enough dates on hand so I mixed in a few prunes, too. (Someone gave us a dried fruit medley, and I didn’t know what else to do with the prunes, haha.) I was surprised by how much these tasted like the Girl Scout cookies! The only thing missing was a little cookie crunch. Will definitely make these again!
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Hey Kristina! I’m glad you enjoyed these cookies! Thanks for making them. I did want to ask – I see you left a one star rating, so wanted to check to see if you had any other feedback or if that was a mistake?
Easy and love that you only need a couple ingredients. These taste surprisingly like the real thing and my husband is obsessed to!
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Woot woot! So glad these are a hit, Vicki! Thanks for making them and for coming back to leave a comment + star rating. I so appreciate it.
Made these tonight and they did NOT disappoint ! The flavor is perfect, I wouldn’t change a thing.
I only needed to bake the coconut 3 minutes at 400 before it was all golden brown— so when she said keep an eye on the coconut, she meant it! I was just slightly shy on the amount of chocolate so I melted a few more chips to get the drizzle. Most likely I made them too small (I got 19 out of this instead of 11, but I would repeat this “mistake” again. Each lil nugget ended up being almost exactly 20g with the chocolate included. Just multiplied the macros by 11 and divided after by 19).
Thanks and can’t wait to try another recipe!
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So glad you’re loving this recipe, Chelsea! I so appreciate you making these and for coming back to leave a comment + star rating. It means the world to me. <3
these are absolutely delicious!!! even my boyfriend who doesn’t like dates loved them! super easy too 🙂
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Ahh yay, that makes me so happy to hear!! I’m glad these cookies were a hit. Thanks for making them and for coming back to leave a comment + star rating. I so appreciate it!
I loved this easy recipe! I love that it’s no bake and I can whip up a batch so quickly. The cookies were SO good and I ate them all within two days of making them. Definitely a go to recipe for my sweet tooth!
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Yay!! So glad you’re loving these cookies, Edith! Thanks for making my recipe and for coming back to leave a comment + star rating. I so appreciate it. <3
I made them on my birthday for snacking! The guests liked them so much and I enjoyed them too! I’m a teenage and trying to do more easy and interesting recipes (healthy), so this one is perfect! And I’m gonna search for others here!:)
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Ahh I’m so glad these cookies were a hit, Emily! Thanks for making them and for coming back to leave a comment + star rating. I so appreciate it. <3
Love these! Currently 36 weeks pregnant and trying to follow the recommendation to eat 6 dates a day but it’s hard when you don’t like them that much. 😛 This recipes is so good and makes eating my dates so much more enjoyable! I will be telling lots of people to try these cookies both pregnant and not pregnant!
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So glad you’re loving these cookies, Anna. I basically lived off them while pregnant with Olivia. 🙂 Thanks so much for coming back to leave a comment + star rating. I so appreciate it!
My 3 year old and i made these…sooo incredibly good! And best of all she loved them too!
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Woot woot! So glad these cookies were a hit, Whitney. Thanks for making them and for coming back to leave a comment + star rating. I so appreciate it. 🙂
Let’s just say I’m embarrassed at how quickly I polished off a batch of these! They are delicious!
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Happens to me all the time!! 🙂 Thank you so much for coming back and leaving a comment and star rating!
WOW!!! These are incredible! I will definitely be making these on a regular basis. Thanks for the amazing recipe!
Ahh yay! You’re so welcome. I’m glad you enjoyed these cookies, Angela. 🙂
I don’t know why I didn’t make these sooner! These are so delicious. I bought extra ingredients so I can make them more often.
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Yay!! So glad you enjoyed these cookies, Louise. 🙂 Thanks for trying them and for coming back to leave a comment + star rating. I really appreciate it.
can i sub brown sugar or white sugar for dates?
No, you really can’t sub the date with sugar. You could try using raisins or figs instead of dates, but the cookies won’t taste the same because the dates give them the caramel flavor.
Everyone was amazed that I made them, I almost didn’t want to tell them how easy it was! We liked them just as much as the real ones!
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That makes me so happy to hear!! I’m glad these cookies were a hit. 🙂 Thanks for coming back to leave a comment + star rating. It means the world to me.
Great recipe! They taste just like Girl Scout cookies. I’ve made these about 5x, this last time I used a mini donut mold to help me get the desired shape (game changer).
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Ahh yay!! I’m so glad you enjoyed these cookies, Kathryn! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment + star rating. I so appreciate it. 🙂
These are so simple and absolutely delicious! I love the simple ingredients. My daughter has peanut allergies and three of us are gluten free so girl scout cookies aren’t an option for us. Before my husband and I needed to switch to a gluten free diet, the Samoas were our favorite. It’s been a very long time since we could eat them. Now, we can all enjoy them. Thank you, these are perfect!
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Ahh that makes me so happy to hear, Anna!! I’m so glad these samoas are a hit. 🙂 Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment + star rating. I so appreciate it.
These are stellar on all fronts – tasty, simple and healthy! I have recommended these to so many others and will continue to make them for my household 🙂
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These are amazing!! I’ve had quite the sweet tooth throughout this quarantine, and wanted something healthier to snack on. These are SO good, and actually taste just like the real thing. I added a touch of maple syrup to the coconut and dates!
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