World War C3 (Caramel, Chocolate, Cocounut)

As I look at the aftermath of what appeared to be World War 3 between Caramel, Coconut, and Chocolate; I realize that I learned a few things today.

1. I do not have a long enough attention span to toast coconut without burning it.
2. I do not enjoy melting caramels.
3. I am never ever ever (hope you sang that TSwift style) making homemade samoas again unless someone pays me (and I promise it will cost more than buying them from Girl Scouts).

So I've been meaning to bake samoas from scratch since sometime in February or March when I found the recipe on Pinterest. (Thanks a lot, Pinterest).Well at first I couldn't make them because I really needed a double boiler or a heatproof bowl. Had neither. Ordered one. Then I just didn't have the time, knowing it would be a whole day of baking. Well now I needed to empty out my baking cabinet so I finally decided that today was the day to get adventurous in the kitchen.

Delicious, homemade Samoas.

5.5 hours later I have about 4 dozen cookies, my kitchen is a disaster, and I have enough ingredients to make at least a half batch of these. Well, I'm going to cut my losses and not bake any more (see list above). They're delicious, but the effort and the mess are not worth it. I'll stick to buying these from the Girl Scouts.

They look so nice here.

They lost some shape when I moved them to the cookie sheet. Oh well.

Completed the messiest step...

As for some other updates: I have not heard from Hawaii. Alaska turned me down. Binghamton University emailed me to say they're still interested, and wanted to know if I'm still interested. Good timing, I think. I have 3 boxes packed for shipping (if necessary), one packed for storage at home, and I have a huge collection of stuff to go to Good Will. I've made decent progress.

Oooh and my hair is getting decently long (relative to where it was in December, of course). Not that you care, but I'm excited about it.

See?