Thursday, February 17, 2011

(48/365)

homemade samoa cookies

ingredients:
6 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup Karo corn syrup lite
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 can of 14 oz sweetened condensed milk (yum)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 cups toasted coconut
vanilla wafers
1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

directions:
1. in a saucepan, combine butter, sugar and corn syrup. cook on low heat and stir a lot
2. once that comes to a boil, add the sweetened condensed milk. stir/cook until it turns medium golden brown (well, if you have a candy temperature, cook it til it gets to 220-228 degrees). remove from heat and add vanilla
3. add toasted coconut and stir it right up
4. spoon small little roundies onto wax paper on top of a vanilla wafer and let em coool down til theyre hardened. (i put it in the freezer for a few seconds cause i got impatient and hungry)
5. melt chocolate chips in the microwave until its a lovely drizzly texture and drizzle it right on top of those cookies!
6. let the chocolate harden and then eat emmmmm

theyre prettty good.




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