Why don’t those little bitches Girl Scouts sell cookies year round? Seriously? They are like cookie drug dealers. They are EVERYWHERE for a month. They are at the grocery store pushing their product when you go in and out. They show up at your door batting their adorable little eyes and pushing even more cookies on you. They get you hooked…and then they disappear for a year. It’s incredibly wrong and totally unfair. I was seriously considering buying a box of Tagalongs on Ebay until I did a quick little google search to find that I can actually make my own!
So I did. And let me tell you, I think I might be able to avoid buying a box or thirty next year. These were a perfect substitute for the Girl Scout’s version of a Tagalong and they really didn’t take much time at all to make. Plus, I bet you already have everything you need in your kitchen! Now if someone can come up with a serious replacement for Thin Mints, I might just cry.
Tagalong!
Tagalongs are a Girl Scout Cookie Classic... and now you can make your own! If you've got a sweet tooth (or two), these chocolate peanut butter cookies are not to be missed.
Ingredients
- For the Cookies:
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp milk
- For the Filling:
- 1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter (natural or regular)
- 3/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
- generous pinch salt
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- For the Chocolate Coating:
- about 8 oz. semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 oz cocoa butter OR 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Mix in flour, baking powder and salt at a low speed, followed by the vanilla and milk. The dough should come together into a soft ball.
- Take a tablespoon full of dough and flatten it into a disc about 1/4-inch thick. Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet and repeat with remaining dough. Cookies will not spread too much, so you can arrange them fairly closely together.
- Bake cookies for 11-13 minutes, until bottoms and the edges are lightly browned and cookies are set.
- Immediately after removing cookies from the oven, use your thumb or a small spoon to make a depression in the center of each cookie. Cool for a few minutes on the baking sheet then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- To make filling, whisk together peanut butter, confectioners’ sugar, salt and vanilla in a small microwave-safe bowl. When the mixture has come together, heat it in the microwave (in short intervals, stirring frequently), until it is soft. Working carefully with the warm filling, transfer it to a pastry bag (or plastic bag with the tip cut off) and pipe a generous dome of the filling into each cookie’s “thumbprint”.
- Chill filled cookies for 20-30 minutes, or until the peanut butter is firm.
- Melt the chocolate and cocoa butter in a small, heat-resistant bowl placed over a small saucepan filled with simmering (not boiling) water.
- Dip chilled cookies into chocolate, let excess drip off, and place on a sheet of parchment paper to set.
Notes
As seen on Love & Olive Oil originally from Baking Bites
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
36Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 203Total Fat: 14gSaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 14mgSodium: 133mgCarbohydrates: 17gFiber: 1gSugar: 9gProtein: 3g
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Girl Scout Thin Mint copy cat recipe… I’ve made these several times and they are a good substitute for Thin Mints…
All you need are Ritz Crackers, Chocolate Chips, and mint extract.
Melt the chocolate chips in the microwave per package directions (or double boiler, or however you usually melt chocolate). Add about 1/4 tsp mint extract (I’ve used peppermint and mint, both are good). Dip crackers and place on waxed paper til the chocolate sets.
They are a great substitute and very easy to make! Hope you enjoy them as much as my family and I do!
YES! Girl Scout Cookie season comes and goes WAY too fast for my liking. Tagalongs are my absolute favorite. I’m not ashamed to say that I buy about 6 boxes when they come on sale. The problem is not eating them all at once. I have to hide them from myself…
I can’t wait to try these out!
lolz I love the way you start this post!
So here is another way of making Tagalong-like cookies. Take two Ritz crackers, put a healthy spoon of Peanut Butter in the middle, then immerse it in the melting chocolate and voila, they taste amazing. My hubby and I like to put them in the freezer, we say it slows us down from eating them all in one sitting, but that isn’t necessarily true. They are fun to make with kids, I got the idea from my friend who is a preschool teacher. Talk about fabulous. I am going to try your recipe now too. Thanks for sharing!!!
Wow. These look amazing. These are my favorite Girl Scout cookies by far. My BF is hooked on Thin Mints. I’ve been making these for him: http://101cookbooks.com/archives/001370.html (actually the version in her cookbook), and I would dare to say that they are as good as the real thing (and better for you).
@ Joanne–Let’s talk. My niece is Girl Scout and my sister mails me one of those “take to work” cookie order forms and has me bring them to all my NYC friends who want their fix. 😉
These are Nathan’s favorite Girl Scout cookies.
PS. I would love to know how many hateful emails you got for calling Girl Scouts bitches. 😉
Haha, girl that is why I buy a case of each of our favorites so that when I really want them in the middle of summer I can have them! As long as you dont open the box OR you freeze them they stay delicious!
OMG, those look amazing!! I can’t wait to make these soon! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thank for recipe.
I made these earlier this year and have made them about 483053 since then. Dangerous. And SO SO good.
These look delicious — and you are hilarious!
Oh my gosh!! These cookies look incredible!! 😀
Hahaha, they really are sneaky like that. when I was little my grandma used to stock up on girls scout cookies and freeze most of them for later. I guess I won’t have to pull that trick now that I found your recipe!
I can’t wait to try these. No matter how many girl scout cookies I buy, they only last a few weeks. Now I can have them all year round.
I’ve tried at home thin mint cookies and it just ain’t the same! Good, but the magic just isn’t there. I just recently feel in love with the tagalongs after making myself break away from the thin mints. And whats up with the portion size? They are small enough that you can eat a row and not notice…. then the guilt…. oh, the guilt.
These sound great! Thanks for sharing. 😀
Love the tongue-in-cheek humor throughout this post! Girl scout cookies definitely should be a thing all year round, though. There’s no doubt about that 😉 Thanks for the awesome recipe! I’m going to check back here often for more laughs and food porn.
God, you just made me laugh so hard.. And reminded me that I still have some thin mints hanging in the back of the fridge (a kind friend brought them all the way to London for us). How we still have any left over, I don’t know. There won’t be by tonight.
um…you may have just become my favorite person. Tagalongs are my fav!!!!!
Those floating mints could change the way these girl scout cookies are endorsed. Are there other cookie recipes of the same kind?
…other cookie recipes of the same kind?
I do not understand what you are asking.
Ooh, I make these, too! These sure solve the GS cookie withdrawals! Loving the title!
I love tagalongs! yum! Do you have any recipes for their shortbread cookies? I love those too! = )
No but I will put them on my list! The shortbreads are my grandfathers favorite as well 🙂
The Girl Guide cookies sold in Canada are so different from those sold in the States. I’ve never seen Tagalongs. Yours look delicious.
Tagalongs are my favorite. Now I can enjoy them all year long – yay!
I made a similar tagalong copycat recipe–we LOOOVED them! And I’ve seen several for thin mints, which are next on my list 🙂
can’t wait to see what kind of google searches now lead to this post haha
Love Girl Scout cookies… your recipe looks great!
P. S. hilarious post!!!
haha! I love that you compare girl scouts to drug dealers! That being said, if you pushed these cookies at me in front of the grocery store, I would totally buy them! First hit is free, right?? 🙂
Haha! I was laughing sooo hard when I read your post title. Those cute little girl scouts and especially their cookies are so hard to resist! I feel even more guilty because I was a girl scout so I know how it feels to be rejected and I don’t want to do that to them! Also I have seen homemade versions of the caramel delights (samoas) and thin mints. I have never made any of them before (because I feel like I having access to girl scout cookies year round would be dangerous) but I have them bookmarked to I will try and find them and share the links with you.
You actually just made me cry! This post if the best thing that happened to me today. I might make them today itself!
Oh goodness! When I was prego with emily I wanted girl scout cookies so bad and they were no where to be found! Ugh,…I also would love a recipe for the Peanut butter patties, Ive tried a few peanut butter cookies that are “similar” but never makes the cut.
Help Jess!
PS- if you make them ass friendly that would even be better!!! & miss ya!
i think i’m one of the few who can’t be suckered into girl scout cookies. however, I have seen the thin mints floating around and I plan on making it soon 🙂
Can you send some of your girl scouts to NYC? We have NONE here! Or…I could just make these. That’ll probs be easier.
What? How are there no girl scouts in NYC?
i think the girl scout cookies differ somewhat from girl guide cookies… who’d a thunk it?
These look amazing!!!! And don’t tell the Girl Scouts, but I think they look MUCH more appetizing than their boxed tagalongs. 😉
well, this could be trouble. 🙂
The pearly gates have opened up.
GREAT looking cookie!!
I always buy a few extra boxes of Thin Mints, and Samoas to put in the freezer, but they never even get there!! So sad. Those cookies are definitely like crack!!
Love this recipe! Just remember to still buy Girl Scout cookies; a whole lot of Girl Scout programs are based on the proceeds from that sale (not to mention my salary!).
These look amazing…. and addictive like drugs! You always make me laugh. So true about the girl scouts.
You are so funny!!! Lloyd LOVES Thin Mints and hoards boxes… but like you said, now we can just make them ourselves! These look amazing.
Omg I love you and what you said about the Girl Scouts. So true, pushers….and then..they vanish! lol
And these cookies look amazing!!
Your title drew me in and then the photo rtotally got me!
I’m with ya. I looooove those tagalong cookies. Thanks for this!