Girl Scout Cookies
ABC Bakers ( Interbake ) Little Brownie Bakers ( Keebler ) Sales Flavor
Thin Mint Thin Mint 25% Thin , mint -flavored chocolate wafers dipped in a chocolatey coating
Caramel Delites Samoa 19% Vanilla cookies coated in caramel , sprinkled with toasted coconut and laced with chocolatey stripes
Peanut Butter Sandwich Do-si-dos 16% Peanut butter filling sandwiched between crunchy oatmeal cookies
Peanut Butter Patties Tagalongs 13% Crispy vanilla cookies layered with Peter Pan peanut butter and covered with a chocolatey coating
Lemonades 9% Shortbread cookie with lemon icing
Shortbread Trefoils 7% A traditional shortbread cookie made in the shape of the Girl Scout trefoil
Thanks-A-Lot 6% Shortbread cookies dipped in fudge with a thank you message ( in English , French , Mandarin Chinese [ Latinized ] , Spanish , or Swahili ; per cookie )
Girl Scout S'mores Graham cookie double dipped in crème icing and finished with a chocolatey coating
Girl Scout S'mores Graham sandwich cookies with chocolate and marshmallow filling
Toffee-tastic Gluten-free butter cookies with toffee bits . ( Pilot , not offered everywhere . )
Caramel Chocolate Chip Gluten-free caramel chocolate chip cookies
Lemon-Up Crispy lemon cookie with a layer of sweet glaze on one side , new in 2020
Production -- Varieties
Up to 28 varieties of Girl Scout cookies are offered . The same cookies may be sold under different names by different bakeries , with the choice of bakery determining the name . There has been no move to standardize names . [ 46 ] [ 47 ] The merger of many councils ( from 312 to 109 ) following the August 2006 reorganization resulted in many councils changing bakeries , thus causing some confusion at that time . [ 9 ] Thin Mints are the most popular Girl Scout Cookies , with Samoas/Caramel deLites the second most popular . [ 48 ] About 50 million boxes of Thin Mints were sold in 2013 compared with 38 million boxes of Samoas . Thin Mints averages about 32 cookies per box and Samoas 15 cookies per box . Girl Scout cookie varieties include :
Girl Scout Cookies are cookies sold by Girl Scouts to raise funds to support Girl Scout councils and individual troops. Commonly sold by going door to door, or through school- or town-wide fundraisers, these cookies are widely popular. The program is intended to both raise money and improve the financial literacy of girls. During an average selling season (usually January through April), more than 1 million girls sell over 200 million packages of cookies and raise over $800 million. The first known sale of cookies by Girl Scouts was in 1917. Cookie sales are organized by 112 regional Girl Scout councils who select one of two national bakeries to buy cookies from. The bakery selected determines which cookie varieties are available, when girls can begin selling cookies in their area, and cookie price. The bakery is paid about 25 to 35 percent of the profits; 45 to 65 percent is used by the regional council to cover programming costs; and 10 to 20 percent is kept by the local troop whose members decide how to spend their portion of the funds. A regional council receives up to 60 percent of its budget from cookie sales. GSUSA states that the program is the largest girl-run and girl-led financial literacy program in the world, teaching girls skills like goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, and business ethics. These skills are reinforced with Girl Scout badges, such as Cookie CEO. The Girl Scouts say it is the largest annual fundraiser in the world dedicated to girls.