Girl Scouts Are Now Taking Cookie Orders: Tell Us Your Favorite
Your classic favorites will be available for order along with a new lemon wedge cookie called the Savannah Smile.
Rejoice! It's Girl Scout cookie season!
What will you be ordering? Thin Mints? Samoas? Tagalongs?
Girl Scouts will begin taking your orders today, Friday, Jan. 6, with orders to be delivered Feb. 16 thorugh Feb. 23.
Price per box will be $4, with the girls receiving 70 cents to 80 cents for every box of cookies sold. They can use the money toward camp registrations, membership dues, program costs and Girl Scout merchandise.
Cookie options for in our area include the classics: the shortbread Trefoils, the oatmeal and peanut butter Do-Si-Dos, the vanilla-caramel-coconut-chocolate Samoas, peppermint and chococlate Thin Mints, and the peanut butter-covered-in-chocolate Tagalongs.
Other options are a cranberry and white fudge chip Thank U Berry Munch, a milk caramel Dulce de Leche, and this year's new offering, a lemon wedge cookie called the Savannah Smile in honor of the Girl Scouts' 100th anniversary.
They are baked exclusively for the Girl Scouts by ABC Bakers / Interbake Foods LLC, a Richmond, VA-based manufacturer, and Little Brownie Bakers. Find a listing of ingredients and nutrient information for each of the cookies here.
Are you a troop leader or the parent of a Girl Scout selling cookies? Let Patch readers know what streets you'll be knocking on and/or how to get in touch with you to put in their order by leaving a comment on this article. If you want to share how your local Girl Scout Troop uses the fundraising money, emailing editor Amanda Gillooly at Amanda.Gillooly@patch.com.
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Editor's Note: I'm going on record: My favorite are the Trefoils. Someone call me at 724-510-5659 so I can get a fix :)
Amanda Gillooly
10:08 am on Saturday, January 7, 2012
THANK YOU Mary Kitchen for calling me about my cookies :D
Mary Kitchen
10:12 am on Saturday, January 7, 2012
You are very welcome Amanda! Anyone else that needs a cookie fix please contact me! We will deliver! My daughter is selling them for her troop! Donated cookies will benefit the Peter's Township Meals on Wheels Program! Call me at 724-413-9319 or email me at jmkitchen6@gmail.com. Please put COOKIES in the subject line! Thanks in advance for your support of Scouting and her troop!