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Y’all loved the Samoa Magic Bars so much last week that I decided to beat a dead horse.

Enter: Mini Samoa Pies. Again, no Samoas (or Caramel deLites) were harmed in the making of this recipe.

Overhead shot of Mini Samoa Pies with caramels, chocolate chips and samoa cookies

My dessert ADD is at an all-time high right now. I cannot focus. I can’t stop switching gears halfway through recipes. I don’t have my March  recipes all planned out.

{Well, actually, that last one is a lie. I do – but it’s been crossed out and erased and scribbled on so much I can’t read it anymore. So at this point, I’m winging it.}

I have so many ideas for recipes and there is just not enough time in each day to make the recipes, let alone post them all. I’m a total spaz – jumping from mint to coconut to carrot cake to peanut butter to cinnamon rolls to cookies to pie…

It never ends.

One thing that I love about my dessert distractedness?  It gives me something to focus on. The other day at the gym I was doing wall sits, three rounds of a minute each. My trainer was getting mad because my poker face was in full effect (meaning I don’t grimace or show pain). I told him I go to my happy place during things I hate. My happy place is sugar. I’ve come up with some of my best recipes during wall sits, squat sequences, leg raise marathons, and the never ending curl sequence.

Like these Samoa Pies. I came up with them one day during a particularly brutal weights-over-head lunge walk.

Exercise = Dessert. My kind of equation!

Mini Samoa Pies stacked with top one cut in half to show inside filling

So I know I posted Thin Mint Truffle Brownies on Sunday, Thin Mint S’mores on Thursday, and Samoa Magic Bars last week. But, um, can we do one more? I mean, my BFF Ashton is doing 3 weeks of Girl Scout Cookies (it’s Samoa week!) so I figure y’all can hang with me for recipe #4, right?

Good. These pies are worth it, I promise!

This is one of the easiest recipes ever. I’m going to go out on a limb and say they’re easier than the aforementioned magic bars. They’re easier than opening a box of Samoas. (Almost.)

Simply take a pie crust (I used a Pillsbury crust, but you can also use my all butter pie crust) and cut 2.5″ circles with a round cutter or jar lid or glass. Press each into a mini muffin pan. One crust makes about 18 mini pies, FYI.

Fill each pie with chocolate chips, and then a mixture of melted caramel and coconut. Bake until they’re browned and then top with a drizzle of melted chocolate to simulate the “Samoa Stripe”.

These really do taste like a Samoa in pie form. I make lots of mini pies, but I think these were one of my favorites! I ate a few too many so I had to do more wall sits.

And you know what that means, right?

Photo.collage of Mini Samoa Pies with samoa cookies and chocolate chips

If you give a girl a wall sit, she’ll bring you more dessert. Come back tomorrow! (And the next day and the next day and…)

mini pies filled with caramel and drizzled with chocolate

Mini Samoa Pies

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Yield 18

Ingredients
 

  • 1 refrigerated pie crust from a pack of two or a from scratch crust)
  • 2/3 cup chocolate chips divided
  • 1/2 cup shredded sweetened coconut
  • 15 caramel squares unwrapped
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 1/8 teaspoon vegetable oil or Crisco
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Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease or spray mini muffin pans with cooking spray (I like to use the kind with flour.)
  • Unroll pie crust and cut 2.5” circles with a cookie cutter (or jar or glass). Press gently into the cavities on your pan. (Makes about 18 with re-rolling the crust.)
  • Place about 6 chocolate chips in the bottom of each pie (about 1/3 cup total). Place pans in the refrigerator until ready to continue.
  • Melt caramel squares and water in a medium microwave safe bowl on HIGH power for 30 seconds; stir. Heat in additional 30 second increments, until it melts and is smooth after stirring (about 1 minute total). Stir in coconut.
  • Spoon about 1/2 tablespoon of the coconut mixture onto the top of the chocolate chips. Spray your hands with cooking spray and press the coconut mixture down evenly (it is very sticky). Work fast, the caramel starts to harden after only a few minutes.
  • Bake for 10-14 minutes, until the crusts start to get golden. Cool completely in pan then remove to a cookie sheet. They should pop right out, but if the caramel has melted onto the sides of the pan, you can use a knife to loosen them.
  • Melt remaining chocolate chips in a small bowl with vegetable oil or Crisco. (30 seconds to 1 minute in the microwave.) Stir until smooth. Place in a sandwich bag and cut off a teeny tiny bit of one corner. Pipe stripes over the pies to mimic the stripes on the Samoa cookies.
Nutritional information not guaranteed to be accurate

Click here to see more of my ULTIMATE COCONUT recipes!

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Sweets from friends:
Samoa Oreo Cookies by Chef in Training
Samoa Donuts by Damn Delicious
Samoas Fudge by Something Swanky

Last Updated on June 8, 2020



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57 Comments

  1. These look delicious! I don’t think that anyone can overload on too many girl scout cookies 🙂

  2. I hate/love wall sits!! I Love that you think of desserts during them, all my brain goes to is cursing and hatred for working out!! LOL I have issues, oops!

  3. I went home to visit my parents this past weekend, and I totally found a box of these infamous Girl Scout cookies half-eaten and hidden in the back of their pantry! (Definitely my dad’s doing, seeing as my mom was on travel for 4 days and didn’t know about it…) But they actually switched the name back to Samoas!!! At least according to that new purple box that I snuck a few cookies from. 😉 And I’ve gotten some of my best recipe ideas from my long runs too! Exercise is the best time to recipe brainstorm. All those happy endorphins floating around, all that strain/pain you want to ignore, all those things you crave while working up an appetite… But I suppose a hardcore trainer just doesn’t quite understand the way a food blogger’s mind works!

  4. AND these tasted even better than the looked if that’s possible. Thanks for bringing me some!
    xoxo, Mom

  5. I’m with Averie – I just want to slather that filling all over my face – holy YUM! Pinned!

  6. OK…..UNCLE. Lead me to the recipe book that has all of these in it.. Seriously. I just found you last week and already made 2 recipes that are the best brownies I’ve ever made. Send the link please.