Coconut Caramel Cookies with Dark Chocolate

It's Girl Scout Cookie season. I love love love Girl Scout Cookies. Unfortunately, they are not vegan. So, I decided I was going to take a jab at my favorite cookies, the Caramel DeLites! I made up this recipe and it did not turn out exactly Caramel DeLites. But, they are still really good! The cookies came out much larger than I expected, so if you want smaller cookies, make them really small, they'll grow in the oven. Also, making caramel is tricky. Most recipes use corn syrup, I opted out. Caramel can burn quickly and your supposed to have a candy thermometer. (Which I didn't have.) I cooked it until it was the consistency I wanted about 7 minutes. Anyways, good luck!


Ingredients:

For the cookies-
2-1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup vegan butter
1 1/2 cups sugar or brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
egg replacer equivalent of 2 eggs
2 tablespoons almond milk or any non-dairy milk

For the Caramel-
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup shredded coconut

Dark Chocolate Layer-
1 cup dark chocolate chips

What to do:


Preheat oven to 375 degrees farehnheit


Cookies-
In a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt.
In a large bowl, cream together butter, sugar, and vanilla.
Beat in Egg Replacer, then slowly mix in flour mixture.
Add in non-dairy milk 
On a greased cookie sheet, roll out cookies into balls, and then flatten them into a cookie shape.
Bake for about 10 minutes.

Caramel-
In a medium saucepan, melt the butter. Once the butter is melted, stir in the sugar and vanilla. Stir about 1 minute and then add in the almond milk. Consistently stir the caramel or it will burn. Stir about 7 minutes. It will boil a lot. (Don't worry about that.) Once the caramel is a little thicker than maple syrup, turn off the heat and stir in coconut. Pour the Caramel over the cookies. If it is too thick to pour add in more milk. DO NOT TOUCH the caramel, it is VERY HOT, even if it doesn't seem like it.
Let the caramel cook and harden for about 20 minutes.

Dark Chocolate-
Over a double broiler melt the dark chocolate. Dip the bottom of the cookies in the melted chocolate and lay the cookies down with chocolate side up until hardened.
Once the cookies have cooled, they're ready to eat!