10 Clever Recipes for Girl Scout Cookies (2024)

Chocolate Cookie Pudding

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Earn yourself a badge by thinking outside the cookie box to try one of these crafty Girl Scout cookie re-use recipes.

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Tagalong Milkshake

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Tagalong Milkshake Recipe

Your favorite peanut butter and chocolate Girl Scout cookie in yummy milkshake form. We recommend buying high quality ice cream and hot fudge. You can also use pre-made peanut butter sauce, but having the leftovers is delicious (and useful for making more shakes). Enjoy immediately.

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No-Bake Samoa Pie

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No-Bake Samoa Pie Recipe

Save a stash of Samoas (or Caramel DeLights) in order to make an epic pie that looks, and tastes, just like the classic Girl Scout cookie. Use the back of a measuring cup to press the crust into the pie plate and add heavy cream to the caramel when melting for a smoother, drizzle-with-ease consistency. Serve chilled, as you would a coconut creme pie.

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Lemon Shortbread Cheesecake

Finely ground Trefoils cookies make the perfect base for this elegant lemon cheesecake. Decorate with sliced strawberries and "do a good turn daily" by sharing with friends and family.

Recipe:Lemon Shortbread Cheesecake

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Chocolate and Peanut Butter S'mores

Chocolate and Peanut Butter S'mores

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Gather 'round the campfire and substitute Thin Mints for the wafer cookies to give this peanut butter and roasted marshmallow combo a hint of mint.

Recipe:Chocolate and Peanut Butter S'mores

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Easy Chocolate-Mint Ice-Cream Sandwiches

Easy Chocolate-Mint Ice-cream Sandwiches

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From Samoas and Tagalongs to Thank U Berry Munch and Daisy Go Rounds, any cookie can be transformed into a flavor-bursting ice-cream sandwich. Just choose your favorite cookie, pick a flavor of ice cream, and roll in candy, crushed cookies, and ground nuts. The rest is cookie history.

Recipe:Easy Chocolate-Mint Ice-Cream Sandwiches

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Grasshopper Milkshake

Grasshopper Milkshake

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Eaten your last Girl Scout cookie? "Be prepared!" You can use cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies (like Oreo's) in this milkshake. If you still have Tagalongs on-hand, give Peanut Butter-Chocolate Tagalongs Milk Shakes or Vanilla-Banana Tagalongs Milk Shakes a try.

Recipe:Grasshopper Milkshake

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Lemon-Blueberry Layered Dessert

Lemon-Blueberry Layered Dessert

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Only 5 ingredients are needed for this deceptively refreshing, summertime parfait. Earn your badge for creativity when you layer crushed Lemonades, blueberry filling and lemon-flavored cream.

Recipe:Lemon-Blueberry Layered Dessert

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Triple Chocolate-Trifle Pie

Triple Chocolate-Cookie Trifle Pie

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Divide up your kaper chart and assign each member a responsibility. Let one person choose their favorite leftover cookies for decoration, another to crush cookies for the crust, and some else to prepare the Raspberry Glaze. If you're making this pie for your Daisy, Brownie, Cadette, Junior, or Senior, substitute chocolate sauce for the mocha liqueur.

Recipe:Triple Chocolate-Trifle Pie

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White Chocolate Snow Balls

White Chocolate Snow Balls

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Just like the buddy system, this double cookie delight fills two cookies with creamy white chocolate. Use two Samoas, Dulce de Leches, or a Do-Si-Dos split in half to make these decadent, cream-filled sandwich cookies.

Recipe:White Chocolate Snow Balls

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Samoas Ice-Cream Truffles

Samoas Ice-cream Truffles

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For a sweet, bite-sized dessert, roll ice cream into small balls then coat in your favorite Girl Scout Cookie crumbs. Pile Samoa truffles, Do-Si-Dos Ice Cream Truffles, and Trefoils Ice-Cream Truffles into a bowl or waffle cone to resemble individual scoops of ice cream.

Recipe:Samoas Ice-Cream Truffles

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Chocolate Shortbread Sundae

Chocolate-Shortbread Sundae

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Call in the troops to help with this simple after-dinner dessert. Use your favorite flavor of ice cream, extra Trefoils, and of course, the classic sundae toppings like chocolate, maraschino cherries, and whipped cream.

Recipe:Chocolate Shortbread Sundae

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Chocolate Cookie Pudding

Chocolate Cookie Pudding

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Earn your Girl Scout Gold Award with this 5-star cookie pudding recipe. Use Tagalongs to make chocolate peanut butter pudding, Do-Si-Dos for oatmeal peanut butter pudding, or Thin Mints for chocolate mint pudding.

Recipe:Chocolate Cookie Pudding

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FAQs

What are the top 3 best selling Girl Scout Cookies? ›

The best-selling Girl Scout Cookies are: Thin Mints® Caramel deLites®/Samoas® Peanut Butter Patties®/Tagalongs®

What 5 things do Girl Scouts learn from selling cookies? ›

Through “learning by earning,” Girl Scouting aims to empower girls through the development of five essential skills: goal set- ting, money management, people skills, decision making, and business ethics.

What is the 2nd most popular Girl Scout cookie? ›

Samoas /Caramel deLites are the second most popular Girl Scout cookies, making up about 19% of sales. The statistic means that Samoas or Caramel deLites, a type of Girl Scout cookie, is the second most popular cookie among customers and accounts for approximately 19% of the total sales of Girl Scout cookies.

What is the biggest Girl Scout cookie seller? ›

Katie Francis holds the career record for number of Girl Scout Cookies sold with a total of 180,000 boxes.

What's the least popular Girl Scout Cookie? ›

Toffee-Tastic

These cookies lack everything: flavor, looks, sweetness, texture, ect. They're even boring to look at. The cookie is described by The Girl Scouts of the USA as “rich, buttery cookies with sweet, crunchy toffee bits”, however I disagree with their description.

What is the new Girl Scout Cookie for 2024? ›

The 2024 lineup includes classics such as Thin Mints®, Samoas®/Caramel deLites®, Peanut Butter Patties®/Tagalongs®, Adventurefuls® and other fan favorites. “When people buy Girl Scout Cookies, they're buying so much more than cookies.

What are the three C's of Girl Scouts? ›

Girls lead with courage, confidence, and character to make the world a better place.

Why do Girl Scouts only sell cookies once a year? ›

To ensure freshness, Girl Scouts only sell cookies produced for the current season.

What do Girl Scouts say when they sell cookies? ›

We would appreciate you supporting us by purchasing some Girl Scout cookies! The cookies are $5 and $6 a box. We have all the yummy flavors, please allow me to show you. We also have Gift of Caring where you can donate boxes of cookies to five organizations including the military.

What is the oldest Girl Scout Cookie? ›

In July 1922, Girl Scout national headquarters published an edition of The American Girl magazine for all Girl Scouts. The issue contained a recipe for a sugar cookie that could be baked and sold to raise funds for local councils. Thus, the simple sugar cookie was arguably the first true Girl Scout Cookie.

What is the #1 cookie in the world? ›

Oreo is the best-selling cookie in the world. It is now sold in over 100 countries. Oreo was first produced in 1912 by the National Biscuit Company, now known as Na-Bis-Co.

Do Girl Scout Cookies taste different in 2024? ›

Girl Scouts of Western Ohio, which has troops in western Ohio and southeastern Indiana, changed bakers for the 2024 season. Each baker makes their own Girl Scout Cookies, which means iconic favorites may differ in flavor and name – and new, specialty cookies are now available.

What Girl Scout cookie is reselling for $200? ›

To this day, you can still find listings on eBay for Raspberry Rally boxes. The priciest of these listings found at the time of publication was $200 for one box. This isn't the only recent Girl Scout news that will undoubtedly disappoint the Cookie Monsters among us.

Why are Girl Scout Cookies so expensive? ›

Did you know that prices are set at the local level by each of the 100+ individual Girl Scout troops? Some states raise their prices depending on inflation and production costs, while others may choose not to.

Which Girl Scout Cookies are more expensive? ›

Most of the cookies are $5 per package, according to Gutkind. S'mores and gluten-free Toffee-tastic are $6 because there's a higher production cost due to the specialty ingredients.

What is the number one selling cookie? ›

Oreo is the best-selling cookie in the world. It is now sold in over 100 countries. Oreo was first produced in 1912 by the National Biscuit Company, now known as Na-Bis-Co. But did you know Oreos are a copycat product?

What is the top Girl Scout rank? ›

Seniors and Ambassadors earn the Gold Award—the highest award in Girl Scouting—by developing and carrying out lasting solutions to issues in their neighborhoods and beyond. Gold Award Girl Scouts truly are the world changers, rock stars, role models, and real-life heroes we all look up to.

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