This Samoa Oatmeal has all the flavors of the popular girl scout cookie: coconut, chocolate, and caramel. A deliciously sweet way to start the day.
It’s girl scout cookie time 🙂 🙂 :).
I can resist almost all packaged cookies, but not Girl Scout Cookies. They are my favorite cookies. And the fact that they are only available for a limited time each year makes them all the more enticing.
And let’s not talk about the cute little girl scouts who park themselves directly in front of the entrance to my grocery store and flash me those pretty smiles while asking me to please buy a box of cookies. Can’t say no.
The first time I saw them I bought a box of samosa, thin mints, and tagalongs. Samoas and thin mints are tied for my favorite. They’re so different it’s kind of hard to compare them.
I made the mistake of opening all 3 boxes when I got home and I must have eaten 1/2 of each box. And that’s why I’m on Jenny Craig this week 🙁
Today I walked by the same cookies and I just bought cookies for the troops. Yay me!
But luckily before I started the Jenny Craig Girl Scout Repentence, I made this delicious Samoa Oatmeal. It’s filled with that same chocolate, caramel, and coconut goodness of a samoa cookie. I was a huge hater of shredded coconut until I tried a samoa cookie about 5 years ago. Samoa cookies are so good they made me give up my 35+ year hatred of shredded coconut.
I still remember the time (I think it was my 5th birthday) my grandmother had a teddy bear cake made for me. I had a huge smile on my face when I first saw it, but when it was placed in front of me my heart sunk. There may have been tears shed.
It was completely covered in shredded coconut.
If I had just tried a samoa cookie or maybe some of this samoa oatmeal before then, I most certainly would have yummed it up instead of refusing to take a single bite.
Samoa Oatmeal
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups old-fashioned oats
- 3 cups water
- 10 caramels,, the kind wrapped in plastic
- 1/4 cup shredded toasted coconut
- 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Bring water to a boil in a medium saucepan.
- Chop each caramel square into 4 smaller squares.
- Stir in oats. Cook for 5 minutes over medium heat, adding the caramel pieces with about 1 minute of cooking time left.
- To serve, top with coconut and chocolate chips.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Recipe adapted from HappyFoodHealthyLife.com
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What a wonderful, genius idea my friend! Samoa flavored oatmeal sounds out-of-this-world delicious <3
This oatmeal looks soooo good! Totally loving your pictures and the caramel is the cherry on top!
I love this idea Christin, this oatmeal looks insanely good! Samoas are my favorite GS cookies and adding the flavors to oatmeal is brilliant – can’t wait to give this a try – pinning 🙂
great oatmeal recipe! thank you!
Gorgeous pictures! And seriously BEST idea ever! Love this!
My heart breaks for your grandma who made you an adorable cake that made you cry. Oh so sad! But Grandmas love us anyway, don’t they? I’m so glad you’re on the coconut bandwagon 🙂
I adore oatmeal and have had it with peanut butter and chocolate before – but not shredded coconut! Fantastic idea – thank you!
I love the Samoa flavors, and I think adding them to oatmeal is a fantastic idea!
Oh my! I can have this oatmeal for my breakfast every single day. So beautiful and so delicious.
So funny! I was creating some samoa inspired things this weekend!
Love that I can have cookie flavour for breakfast! YUM!