Homemade Samoas Cookies

Vegan & gluten-free, and only four ingredients: coconut, dates, chocolate chips and coconut oil

4 ingredients•Prep: 15 mins•Cook: 25 mins

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Santa Anna•

April 19, 2025

Traditional Samoas, as much as we love them, are highly processed and made with lots of saturated fats and artificial flavoring. We’re skipping all of those extra ingredients like white sugar, corn syrup and sweetened condensed milk and making them with just medjool dates, toasted coconut and chocolate chips. I recommend using Lily’s chocolate chips or Hu Kitchen gems for less sugar! (This recipe is from Eating Bird Food)

Ingredients (4)

Shredded coconut(1 cup)
ideally unsweetened
Medjool dates(10, pitted)
Dark chocolate chips(⅓ cup)
Coconut oil(½ tsp)

Instructions

Toast coconut

Preheat oven to 400 °F.
Spread the shredded coconut (1 cup) onto a baking sheet. Place in oven for 3-5 minutes, until coconut is a light golden brown color.

Form cookies

Add dates (10) and toasted coconut (1 cup) into the bowl of a food processor. Pulse until mixture is combined and starts to form a ball of dough.
For each cookie: scoop about 1 Tbsp of dough, shape into a round cookie, then place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Using a straw or chopstick punch a hole in the middle of each cookie. Move the straw or chopstick around a bit to make the hole wider, if needed. At this point you’ll likely need to reshape the cookie a bit.
Place baking sheet in the freezer for 10 minutes so the cookies harden a bit.

Add chocolate

When the cookies are almost done hardening in the freezer, add chocolate chips (⅓ cup) and coconut oil (½ tsp) to a shallow microwave-safe bowl, and melt in 20-30 second increments until the mixture is melted enough to drizzle.
Grab cookies from the freezer and dip each one in the chocolate to coat the bottom. Place cookies on the parchment and use remaining chocolate to drizzle over top the cookies.
Transfer cookies back into the freezer for 10-15 minutes to let the chocolate harden. Once they’ve hardened you’ll be able to easily remove the cookies from the parchment paper.