Months ago I heard about this new box mix line releasing and I have been dying to try them ever since. Miss Jones came out with a line of blondie box mixes that are inspired by Girl Scout cookies. When I finally saw them at my local Walmart, I took them home and immediately got to baking. I tend to go back and forth between which Girl Scout cookie is my favorite but it is always a toss up between thin mints and caramel delights (or samoas). Luckily for me, both of these flavors are included in Miss Jones’ blondie box mixes as well as the “lemonades” cookie. Today we are going to try out the coconut caramel blondie box mix inspired by caramel delights.
To start off, you need water, melted butter, and an egg. I mixed this all together with the powdered mix in the box and it came together in a thick almost cookie dough like consistency. Then you add in the butterscotch chips that came separate in the box. The dough had a fake caramel flavor that was almost like maple syrup. It was too artificial tasting so I didn’t love it but then again, it’s dough, not the baked blondie, so my opinion here is insignificant.
I put the blondie batter/dough into an 8×8 metal pan and the box calls for baking 22-26 minutes. I never trust a box mix bake time because they are almost always wrong, so at 20 minutes I started checking on this pan of blondies and surprisingly, at 23 minutes the pan was baked. Miss Jones has blown me away by this accurate bake time, I can’t wait to see how the product comes out.
After baking, unfortunately, the box recipe wants you to let the pan cool for 30 minutes, then removed the blondies from the pan and cool for at least another hour. I’m gonna be honest, I didn’t do this. I did notice that the longer it cooled, the firmer it got, but I wanted to eat these asap and accepted the risk of these falling apart or looking ugly. I was already nearly an hour into this, I couldn’t give it another hour, but maybe that’s my lack of patience talking.
Once the pan has cooled fully, or only somewhat in my case, you need to take the included icing packet and warm it up and massage it until it’s soft. Then you cut the corner of the bag and drizzle it on top of the pan of blondies. Now here’s where they lost me. I understand that this chocolate icing is put down and then the coconut is stuck to it, without the chocolate the coconut could not stick. However, in the example photo, and on a true caramel delight, the chocolate is drizzled on top of the coconut. I think that the box recipe could have easily told us to reserve some icing for on top of the coconut but they did not. I followed the recipe and put all of the chocolate down, spread it over the blondies, and topped it with the provided toasted coconut.
Now, let the icing set for 30 minutes. Or 10 if you’re too excited to taste test. I cut the pan into 16 pieces and gave it a try. I am conflicted here. This does not taste like a caramel delight, at all. I think it is hardly similar but when I take that away and I only think of this as a recipe inspired by the same flavors, I like it a lot more. Texturally, the blondie is so soft and I love the crunch of the coconut and the butterscotch chips inside. The flavor profile is unique and not like anything I have had before. As a dessert, I would absolutely bake this again. I just don’t feel like it matched the profile of the Girl Scouts caramel delight. As a caramel coconut blondie, this box is a great product. Next we will try out the Lemon-ups blondie kit and see if it is just as good.
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