Crumbs introduced their Girl Scout Cupcake Collection last month that feature four flavors honoring the famous Girl Scout Cookies. Samoas® are my favorite Girl Scout Cookie, so of course I had to try the Girl Scout Caramel & Coconut cupcake. It looks great with a Samoa cookie on top.
Crumbs plays homage to the cookie with a vanilla cake and chocolate frosting, topped with with toasted and untoasted coconut and a caramel drizzle. While vanilla cake is not my preferred cake flavor, it makes sense to match the cookie base. The chocolate frosting drizzled with caramel is a flip of the original cookie that has a caramel coconut topping drizzled with chocolate. While I would love a caramel coconut frosting for the cupcake, the chocolate frosting goes well with all the vanilla cake. I saved the Samoa cookie for last!
Did You Know? I just learned that my beloved Samoas are also called Caramel deLites®...huh? According to the
Girl Scouts site, the two have slightly different nutritional facts and the difference is because because a different baker makes each one. The same goes for some of the other cookies like Tagalongs®. Not sure why both bakers aren't able to use the same name or recipe, or why only some cookies have two names. But I have only know this cookie as Samoas and I think it's the better name!
