For the last two years, my daughter has been the top cookie seller in her Girl Scout troop. What that means is a lot of work on her mama's end and more than a few boxes of extra cookies. One of the more popular varieties is Samoas, which are shortbread cookies dipped in chocolate and layered with caramel and toasted coconut. It's unclear if the Girl Scouts named these cookies after Samoa, the Polynesian islands where coconuts grow rampant and excellent cocoa is cultivated. Nonetheless, here’s a recipe that repurposes Samoas as an element of a slightly more grown up dessert, one inspired by a trip I took years ago to those iconic tropical islands in the South Pacific. <br />(To read the full story, see here: http://spiceboxtravels.com/2012/01/31/samoa-coconut-trifle/)

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