Are Trefoils that good? What is going on? The recorded history of Girl Scout cookies dates back to — five years after the organization was founded — when a troop of Girl Scouts in Muskogee, Oklahoma, held a cookie sale in their high school cafeteria as a way to fund troop activities. But the original cookies were home-baked, just regular cookie-cookies. Word spread; a troop in Connecticut started selling, and then a troop in Massachusetts. In July , the American Girl magazine published a recipe for basic sugar cookies, intended for troop sales.
Ingredients cost between 26 and 36 cents and would yield six or seven dozen cookies, which, the publication suggested, could be sold door to door for 25 to 30 cents per dozen. As Atlas Obscura points out , the simplicity was important since the scouts were baking the cookies themselves. But even back in the bootstrapping olden days, older and savvier relatives may have been involved.
Two years later, the national Girl Scout organization switched to commercial bakers, and that was the end of the Girl Scout baking era. Not all cookies have been lasting hits. Shortbread also known as Trefoils and Thin Mints are enduring classics. Other cookies have been lost to time. Golden Yangles, an experimental cheese cracker, was excised from the lineup in Are the cookies the same? In spirit, yes.
In reality, there are slight variations in the recipes, apparent on the nutritional panel, and also by looking at it. Even cookies that go by the same name nationwide — a Thin Mint is always a Thin Mint — taste different depending on who makes them.
Some cookies, meanwhile, are only available through one baker or the other. Each baker, a Girl Scout spokesperson told the Washington Post , can offer up to eight varieties; as new cookies come, old cookies go. And so one might imagine that this would somehow inform which cookies are sold where.
But this would be a mistake. How big is the cookie business? For the rest of the cookie market, Girl Scout cookie season is an inevitable fact of life. Because each regional council sets its own prices, the cost of a box of cookies depends on the realities of your local market. The proceeds are split between the council — which funds things like summer camps and adult volunteer trainings , as well as coveted cookie-selling prizes — and the particular troop, where it goes toward activities and projects.
Making these decisions as a group is an important part of the process. Managing inventory is important. The logistics of ordering cookie stock — taking preorders versus buying cookies in advance to have ready on the spot — is a science and an art.
There are door-to-door sales. There are booth sales, where troops set up cookie pop-ups at well-traversed locations. Would you like to find a booth near you? By early spring, when troops usually set up booths to sell cookies in person, U. Hundreds of girls opted not to sell cookies in person. Online sales and even a delivery partnership with Grubhub failed to make up the difference.
As a result, around 15 million boxes of cookies were left over as the cookie season wound down. Another 3 million boxes are in the hands of the Girl Scout councils, which are scrambling to sell or donate them. The cookies have a month shelf life. That likely came during World War II, when the Girl Scouts were forced to shift from selling cookies to calendars because of wartime shortages of sugar, butter and flour.
Around 1. Clark and some other local leaders were able to avert a cookie stockpile because they calculated their own sales projections instead of relying on guidance from the national office. Parisi acknowledged that membership fell during the pandemic as troops struggled to figure out ways to meet safely. But those numbers are already rebounding, she said. There were other reasons for the declining sales. Join a troop, find events, become a volunteer, or discover alum opportunities. Find out how to buy Girl Scout Cookies, explore Girl Scout Cookie flavors, try delicious recipes, see how girls learn essential life skills, and more.
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