Make Your Own Girl Scout Cookies
Our versions of Samoas, Tagalongs, and Thin Mints
Girl Scouts, your youthful entrepreneurial ambitions are lofty. But you dominate the minty-cookie market, and some healthy competition would be good for you. So we present our versions of three of your most anticipated springtime treats. Your Tagalongs cannot compete with our real-peanut-butter Left-Behinds. Your Thin Mints are thin on flavor compared to our Slim Mints. Our Fijis will take down your Samoas. We think our cookies deserve a badge all their own.
Thank you to Mary Brady of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, for the use of the 1950s-era Girl Scout sash pictured.
I like the taste of Tagalongs, but i am not happy with the trans oils they use, so I don't buy them. However, with this recepie I can make my own without using the trans oils.
Thanks for posting it.
@winecafe95, the name you are looking for is Do-Si-do.
By refusing to buy from the girls, you are missing the whole point of having them do the cookie sale. Besides making money for troop activities, the product sales teach the girls leadership skills, dealing with the public, safety, public speaking, budgeting and planning and a host of other skills and experiences, like working towards goals, doing the work to get what you want. Yes, it is true,...+READ
By refusing to buy from the girls, you are missing the whole point of having them do the cookie sale. Besides making money for troop activities, the product sales teach the girls leadership skills, dealing with the public, safety, public speaking, budgeting and planning and a host of other skills and experiences, like working towards goals, doing the work to get what you want. Yes, it is true, that some of the money goes to keep the offices running, but those offices provide program and supplies and troop oversight, as well as training for the leaders. The Girl Scout movement provides extensive training for anyone who will have contact with other people's children. We should be thankful for that. When was the last time you heard of a Girl Scout leader (male or female) molesting their young charges?-COLLAPSE