Homemade Tagalongs are made with a buttery cookie base, peanut butter center, and covered in milk chocolate; they’re better than the originals.
These Copycat Girl Scouts Tagalongs Cookies have become my favorite cookies to make and devour. I am adding yet another cookie to my cookie addiction repertoire.
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While I completely love those original tagalong cookies from the Girl Scouts and could eat an entire box on my own, there is still nothing like homemade.
I honestly feel those cute little girl scouts see me coming from a mile away with a sign on my head that says, “sucker for cookies.” I am not the only one who falls for the cookies and their cute little smiles. I always feel for the moms standing out in the cold with them at the grocery store, trying to push cookies like there is no tomorrow.
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Can you freeze homemade Tagalongs?
Yes! All cookies can be frozen, but it is best to wrap them individually to freeze them and only do this once they have cooled completely. Another way to freeze then is to stack them in layers in a Ziplock bag or container, separating the layers using parchment paper. I personally love individually wrapping them as I feel they taste better. Also, sometimes cookies taste better frozen. Let them sit out on the counter to come to room temperature before eating.
How long will Tagalongs stay fresh in an airtight container?
If properly stored, these cookies will last upto to a few days at a normal room temperature and stored in an airtight container. If you freeze or put in the refrigerator they will last longer. I like storying them in the fridge.
For the past few years though I will say that I didn’t buy the tagalong cookies. Mainly because I wanted to save myself from the self-inflicted torture of debating on whether to eat the whole box in one hour or draw it out a few.
A few years I have lied to myself by thinking, I will buy the ones the kids like and not eat any. Well, that’s a joke. It always happens that on a busy afternoon, I find myself have eaten a ½ row of Thin Mints. Then I find myself consequently cursing the cute little girl from Jordan’s dance class that sold it to me.
I decided last year that if I am to eat cookies, I’m going to eat my favorite! That’s when I decided to pull it together and come up with my own Tagalong cookie. So I got my little helper, Jersey Cake and whipped up a batch.
The result is essentially identical, if not better. The butter cookie tastes fresh, making a complete difference. So while you may be tempted to just buy a box don’t. Try out these Copycat Girl Scout Tagalong Cookies from scratch, they won’t disappoint, I promise. Want to try some of your other Girls Scout favorites?
Try these Girl Scout inpsired treats! Samoa Truffles, Homemade Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies, and Samoa Magic Bars.
Enjoy the cookies friends, life is too short not to enjoy a little sugar. XOXO San
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Tagalongs Cookies
Ingredients
Peanut Butter Filling
- 1 ¼ cup all natural peanut butter like Adam’s All-Natural Peanut Butter
- 1 cup powder sugar sifted
Shortbread Cookies
- 3/4 pound salted butter at room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- Salt to taste, if wanted
Chocolate Coating
- 1 lb. Milk Chocolate dipping candy I like Chocomaker
Instructions
Peanut Butter Filling
- In a small mixing bowl, mix together peanut butter and powder sugar until it’s completely blended and no sugar can be seen.
- On a cooking sheet, lay wax paper or grease the pan with cooking spray. Place ½ tablespoon of the peanut butter mixture on the prepared pan. I use my cookie dough scooper and use only ½ of scooper full of the peanut butter (I just eye ball it). Set in the refrigerator while making the cookies.
Shortbread Cookie
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix together the butter and 1 cup of sugar until they are just combined. Add the vanilla. In a medium bowl, sift together the flour and salt if wanted, then add them to the butter-and-sugar mixture. Mix on low speed until the dough starts to come together. Dump onto a surface dusted with flour and shape into a flat disk. Wrap in plastic and chill for 30 minutes.
- Roll the dough 1/2-inch thick and cut with a 3 by 1-inch finger-shaped cutter. Place the cookies on an ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake for 14-16 minutes, until the edges begin to brown. Allow to cool to room temperature.
- Once cool, take out peanut butter balls from the fridge. Using a spatula, remove the peanut butter from the pan. Place 1 ball in the middle of the shortbread cookie and use a butter knife to spread the peanut butter around the cookie. Repeat with remaining peanut butter balls and cookies. You will have some left over cookies (8-10) – just dip those in the left over chocolate.
Chocolate Coating
- Melt chocolate per directions of the package. Once melted, place the cookie on a fork and dip into the chocolate. Remove the cookie from the chocolate once it is fully covered while still on the fork. Let the excess chocolate drip off and transfer on to wax paper to cool or greased cooling rack to harden.
This recipe was recently updated from it’s original posting date February 2014.
These look amazing!! How long did they hold up?
These are amazing!! The only thing I had to change was I used a little under 1/2 cup of confectionary sugar in the frosting because when I used 1 whole cup it turned the peanut butter too doughy. These are to die for. Thank you so much for the recipe!
Made these last night, theyre amazing !
Be careful which kind of butter you use though, mine didn’t have a high enough moisture content and i had to add about 1\4 stick more. You’ll be able to tell if your dough is too crumbly. Also, be conscious of the chocolate, you don’t want them tasting cheap and overly sweet !
These are going on the must have list! Serious deliciousness!
My absolute Girls Scout cookies ever! Now I can make them all year round, yes!
Thanks 4 recipe. Here video of me trying out the recipe.
https://youtu.be/ud4IUpucBQc
Delicious! My only complaint was that the cookies were a little heavy and buttery. However, everything else matched exactly with the Girl Scout cookies.
I made these quite a bit smaller than the recipe said, trying to make them closer to the actual size of the Girl Scouts version, and I ended up with just the right amount of peanut butter to cover all of them. So that was nice. I did need a little extra chocolate, though.
These look wonderful, what a great treat!!
These were always my favorite when I was a girl scout!
My 6 year old daughter loved it. Thanks for sharing.
Oh my gosh, tagalongs are my absolute FAVORITE girl scout cookie!!!
I hope you enjoy these!
Homemade is always SO much better! These really do look great!! Putting them on my to-try list!
I agree! Thank you, enjoy!
My kids go crazy for these cookies! So glad I have a way to make them at home now!
So do ours! I hope you enjoy!
My kids love girl scout cookies! I can’t wait to show this to them so we can make them together!
I hope your kids like these!
Best copycat cookie ever! Looks amazing!
Thank you!
OH MY WORD!!! I need these in my life!
Thanks, enjoy!
Kindly clarify something for me: in Step 7 of the Shortbread Cookie directions, it says to cut the chilled dough with a 3 by 1-inch “finger-shaped cutter”- I have read the directions over and over again yet can make no sense of this. Why would one use a “finger-shaped” cookie cutter (let alone find such a thing anywhere!) to cut the dough when the cookies are clearly a round shape? And one of the photos even shows someone’s hand using what appears to be a round biscuit cutter to cut the dough. These homemade Tagalong cookies sound lovely and I would love to make them but am perplexed by the “finger-shaped” cutter issue. Looking forward to your reply, and thank you!
I honestly have no clue either! It must have been a typo or auto correct when entering the recipe when it was made in 2014. I would definitely say go with whatever size circle cookie cutter you have. I hope you enjoy these cookies!