I was recently cruising around the internet, looking for baking/food photography contests, when I came across this site. I became curious and went over to their recipe section, to see what their selection of recipe's was like to choose from. These samoa cookies instantly caught my attention, because they reminded me of the chocolate fudge pinwheel cookies I used to eat as a kid. Those were delicious. I never eat them now, because they have weird chemicals in them, and I'd rather make them myself :P

Sooo, I decided to make them!
Rolling the dough:
Toasted coconut:
Cutting the cookies:
Baked:
Finished cookies:
These were pretty fun to make. I got a little bored with the tedious work of topping each cookie with the coconut/caramel mixture, but it was still fun.
OH! I did change something about the recipe, though (don't I always?). It calls for those individually wrapped caramels you buy in the candy bins at the store. I didn't use them because I didn't have them on hand, plus they don't taste as good as homemade caramel, plus its more fun to make it myself, PLUS homemade>store-bought. I had some caramel sauce on hand that I had made a few months ago for some pecan-caramel cheesecake, so I just used that instead. I suppose it was about a cup and a half total...don't quote me on that, though.
As far as the contest goes, I'll be entering one of the shots I got of the completed cookie, but the entries are unlimited, so I might try to make something else to submit before the deadline in July. The only catch is that I can't enter more than one entry for one recipe, so I'll have to choose another recipe. Which, of course, I won't mind.

~Lacey

"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap." - Robert Fulghun