Girl Scout Cupcakes (Caramel deLites or Samoas)
I don’t generally post a lot of desserts here, and here I am doing cupcakes twice in 8 days. What can I say? Sometimes you just need cupcakes.
(Actually, I was making some cupcakes for a Spoonful post, and I decided to do a couple of variations while I had everything out.
Also, you know me, any excuses to whip out the frosting gun. Best $10 I ever did spend).
And anything that is even remotely flavored like my favorite Girl Scout cookies/caramel delites is pretty much guaranteed to be worth making in my book.
I’ve loved Samoas my whole life (Bart even gave me a box of them when he proposed), but my most vivid memory of them is passing a troop of girl scouts in Boston selling them and Bart pulling over so I could hop out and buy some.
We’d just barely finished paying off our student loans and were coming out of a year of absolutely no spending, so paying $3 for a box of cookies seemed like extremely high living.
Eating these girl scout cupcakes made me feel rich again (even if we actually are very much the opposite).
girl scout (caramel delites) cupcakes
Girl Scout Cupcakes
Ingredients
Cupcakes:
- 6 Tablespoons butter room temperature
- 3/4 cup plus 2 Tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 teaspoon coconut extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 6 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 eggs room temperature
- 3/4 cup whole milk next time, I think I'll use coconut milk instead, just for fun
Frosting:
- 1/2 cup chilled heavy whipping cream
- 1 8- oz package cream cheese room temperature
- 1/2 cup butter room temperature
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon coconut extract
Toppings:
- Caramel sauce homemade or storebought
- Shredded coconut sweetened or unsweetened
- Mini chocolate chips or chocolate shavings
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line muffin tin with paper liners.
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In an electric mixer, beat the butter, sugar, salt, baking soda, vanilla, and coconut extract together until light, for 3-4 minutes.
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While that mixes, whisk together the flour and cocoa powder. Set aside.
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Beat the eggs, one at a time, into the butter mixture, scraping down the sides as needed. When they are fully incorporated, add the flour/cocoa mixture in three parts, alternating with the milk, just until combined.
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Fill the cupcake liners 1/2 full and bake for 10 minutes. Rotate pan and bake another 10 minutes or until a toothpick comes out cleanly.
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Let cool in pan for 10 minutes then remove from pan and let cool completely.
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For frosting, beat the whipping cream until peaks form. Refrigerate it while you do the next steps of the frosting.
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With an electric mixer, beat cream cheese and butter together until smooth, then sift in the powdered sugar and mix until combined. Add coconut extract then whisk in the chilled whipped cream. Refrigerate it for an hour or more before frosting your cupcakes.
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Frost the cupcakes, then drizzle with caramel sauce and sprinkle with coconut and chocolate pieces. Enjoy!
Recipe Notes
(adapted from Sweet Pea's Kitchen and Perry's Plate)
if you liked this girl scout cupcakes recipe, you might also like these other recipe:
- Strawberry-Vanilla Cupcakes
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The photos are amazing! They look delicious!
Those look super-yummy! Great job!
I caught the baking fever as well lately
(http://lasagnolove.blogspot.de/2013/07/something-sweetbirthday-cupcakes.html).
Greetings from Europe,
Bambi
These look (and sound) absolutely delicious, especially since Samosas are my next to favorite kind of Girl Scout cookies (it is hard to beat Thin Mints). Just wish you were at my house to make me some while I played with the girls.
I just pinned these and marked them as my first to bake when I begin baking again (read: Fall).
I LOVE Samoas and have been meaning to make a samoas-flavored dessert for ages.
Seriously, I just died a little. Being pregnant doesn't help me one bit while looking at your posts! Had to pin this though so one day I can make my attempt. When I do, you will surely hear about it!
I adore Samoas, so these will probably be made for my birthday (in 6 months…).
I am SO intrigued by the "Year of no spending." I would love to know more about that!
Well, it's not that exciting. We basically just bought no new clothes, no gifts, didn't go out to dinner, or buy any new things for a year until our loans were paid off.
Wow! That is really impressive!
those are soooooo beautiful! also, did you know that this year, our first year of no student debt, i also bought girl scout cookies for the first time? i felt like such a grown up and ate both boxes by myself. 🙂
I had no idea we had a love of samoas in common (probably because they are expensive for such a little box). I will have to make these. Matt bought me a box while we were dating— loved him… you know the girl scouts that stood at the bottom of the hill south side of campus, close to brick oven..and tempt me to the point I had to chance my walking route home so i wouldn't see them for a few weeks.
Yummy! Although I filled mine with caramel, and toasted the coconut like they do on the cookie! Thanks for the recipe