hey everyone its James from fun foods and today I'm going to make this giant Samoa
Girl Scout cookie now this is massive and just to show you in comparison on
size this is the giant one this is the regular sized one so keep watching no
I'll show you step by step how to make this before we start making this recipe
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back to the recipe so a large bowl we're gonna start off with 2 sticks of butter
that's soften at room temperature add to that half a cup of sugar and then just
cream these together now once your butter and sugar has been creamed
together just take this set this aside we're gonna bring in a medium bowl here
and then here I have 2 cups of flour next I want to add 1/2 of a teaspoon of
baking powder also a dash of salt and we're gonna whisk this up now we're
gonna bring back our wet ingredients which is our butter and sugar and we're
gonna slowly add in our dry ingredients to that I'm gonna do about half at a
time we also need to add one teaspoon of vanilla extract in two tablespoons of
Milk
so after a starts to get pretty hard this is a very dry mixture so it gets
pretty difficult to mix with an actual mixer so we are gonna need the rest of
this with our hands now I just have some plastic wrap here I'm gonna turn our
dough out onto that wrap so just flatten this down we're going to into putting
this in the refrigerator just for a little bit about 10 minutes or so into
the refrigerator it goes alright so I'm pulling my dough out of the refrigerator
it should have firmed up a bit and that's what we want next what I'm going
to do is I want to make our Samoa cookie as big as possible and the biggest pan I
have is this giant pizza pan and it's quite large we're gonna use that so we
want to roll our dough out and I'm gonna kind of form the outer ring first so I'm
gonna wrap this I have some parchment paper down here just gonna turn this out
onto it and again it's a very dry dough so don't be alarmed if you think it
might be too dry kind of work it in knead it a little bit now I can already
tell that this is not gonna be enough dough to fill around this whole thing so
I have to double the size of my recipe so I'm just gonna make another batch and
we're gonna lay it out alright so I made another batch of the shortbread cookie
and I am gonna join it together with this first batch I did leave it in the
refrigerator a little bit too long and so it's harden up a lot but that's okay
we can just work with it I'm gonna put it all on here and we're just gonna need
all of it together
of course if you leave it in the refrigerator too long like I did you can
just let us sit out until it gets more closer to room temperature and then
it'll be easier to need all right so I've needed it pretty good now what I'm
going to do is roll it out I'm gonna roll it out just like this I'm not gonna
wrap it around the pizza pan like I did before and hopefully we can get it as
big as possible I am going to put some parchment paper over top of it this way
I don't have to use flour and it won't stick to my roller so we're gonna roll
it and I want to roll it to be about between 1/2 inch and 3/4 of an inch
thick that's pretty thick thicker than normal cookies but this is gonna be a
giant Samoa so it has to be quite thick
so I'm going to transfer it to this now to clean up around the edges I wanted to
be nice and perfect around the edges so I'm just going to kind of take my hand
and work it for right now and I'm going to trim it just one more time just to
make sure we're nice and perfect and for the hole in the middle I'm just gonna
use this to trace around now just take this we're gonna put this in the oven at
350 degrees and I'm gonna guess it's gonna take between 12 and 15 minutes but
I'm going to check it after 10 minutes
so all in all that took about 32 minutes for this to cook and now I'm going to
let it cool completely before we move on to the next step so while we're letting
our shortbread cool what I'm gonna do is I have a baking sheet right here with a
silicon mat you can use parchment paper if you'd like I have a 14 ounce bag of
the sweetened coconut flakes just gonna open this up
now our oven is already at 350 degrees Fahrenheit so we're going to just spread
these coconut flakes out on this baking sheet
now we're going to toast these and we're going to put it in the oven at 350
degrees for about three or four minutes and then we're going to toss them with a
spatula so after about 15 minutes in the oven I stir them every 5 minutes or so
this is what you have these nice beautiful toasted coconuts and if you
made too much don't worry save them put them on top of some ice cream because
they're amazing that way or just eat them like this now we're gonna let these
cool down completely and we're gonna move on to the next step now I have some
chocolate here that I heated up in a double boiler you can use a microwave
whatever way you like I'm not gonna use all of it but I'm gonna use a lot of it
and we're gonna cover this this is actually going to be the bottom of our
cookie and you can see my cookie kind of split a little bit but that's okay so
we're gonna let this chocolate harden up just as it is and then we'll flip it
back over onto our serving dish and then prepare the rest of our Samoa next I
have 22 ounces of these caramels and you can get them in a package similar to
this don't use this brand or you can make your very own caramels it doesn't
matter so have it in a microwave-safe dish and I have 3 to 4 tablespoons of
milk I'm gonna pour over top of this stick in the microwave one ml time 30
seconds at a time stirring in between until they have completely melted so i
melted the caramel down now what we need to do is we're gonna take some of our
toasted coconut and just put it inside there and let's mix this up with it with
the caramel
probably gonna use about half of this baking sheet of coconut just in here so
now we're bringing back to the finished shortbread that's covered in chocolate
and I'm gonna flip it over because this is gonna be the bottom part I have some
more of this parchment paper here and I'm going to take that and put it on
there first just to help prevent it from cracking even more flip it over
hopefully it turns out all right there we go
now we're going to take our caramel and our toasted coconut that we put on there
and just cover this with it now I've melted down some more chocolate this is
so we can drizzle across just like a real Samoan now I'm gonna try to make
them lie as nice and thick that's it that's our giant Samoa Girl Scout cookie
well now it's time for the taste test I'm gonna bite into one of the small
ones I made I did make this myself it's same process as I made the big one but I
want to bite into us and see how good it tastes
the shortbreads town crumbling but the taste is there really good well thanks
everyone for watching I hope you enjoyed watching you make this giant Samoa Girl
Scout cookie now this is a massive Girl Scout cookie and I do suggest you cut it
up like a cake and serve it if you just try to bite it it's kind of big and
awkward let's say so it is a lot of fun making this so I hope you get a chance
to make one for yourself especially if you have a whole family who loves Samoas
and now you can just serve them up so I hope you enjoyed this and if you did
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until then I'll see you next time and for the hole in the middle I'm gonna use
this because it's just the perfect shot shot we're bringing back our finished
what's it called I can't think