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Homemade versions of Girl Scout cookies
When it's not Girl Scout Cookie time, how can you get your fix?
Wed, Mar 10 2010 at 10:22 PM
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I admit it: We’re Thin Mint addicts in our house. I try to limit the number of boxes I buy each season because they aren’t particularly healthy or earth-friendly. But, I have many friends with daughters in the Girl Scouts, and the Thin Mints are just so yummy.
My 7-year-old didn’t even realize there was any other flavor of Girl Scout cookies than Thin Mints. When one of my friends asked him what kind of cookies he wanted to buy from his daughter he said, “You know. Girl Scout cookies,” with a confused look on his face.
One reason that Girl Scout cookies hold such a spell over many people is that they are only available for a limited time. However, I’ve seen recipes for homemade versions of the cookies lately on different blogs.
Whether you’re looking to create a healthier version of the cookies that you like so much or you want a way to get your fix during the off-season, try your hand at these recipes for Girl Scout-like cookies.
- Tagalongs – Baking Bites has a recipe for these peanut butter patty Girl Scout cookies.
- Thin Mints – Serious Eats has a version of my family’s favorite that I’m going to have to try.
- Samoas – Christine’s Cuisine makes a duplicate of the chocolatey, caramely, coconutty cookies in bar form.
- Do-Si-Dos - Baking Bites has a recipe for a larger version of these peanut butter sandwich cookies.
- Shortbread Cookies – CD Kitchen’s recipe makes 60 of these copy-cat cookies — more than you’d get in the seemingly ever shrinking box.
- Thanks-a-lot – Delish has a recipe for two-tone cookies that are like the chocolate and vanilla Girl Scout cookies.
- The Original Cookies – Lemondrop.com has a recipe for the original Girl Scout cookies. The ones the Scouts used to bake and sell for a quarter a dozen before they went with commercially baked.
Also on MNN: 12 healthy, homemade candy recipes
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Just giving a way to get something similar when they aren't available.
Sure, one COULD buy tons all at once and "dole them out" throughout the year, but who can afford to buy a hundred boxes of cookies all at once just because they're only available then?
Chill.
i think you need to chill out a little, rather than write an essay to someone offering cookie recipes. i don't think she's out to get the girl scouts here.
That's all I need - to be able to get my FIX 365 days per year! I am looking for ways to cut down not BULK up! Here is my experience just last week. Nice Blog and resource. W.C.C.
http://pjmonolog.blogspot.com/2010/03/cookie-conundrum.html
I would love to make these in my own kitchen! That way I can choose ingredients that are allergy free for our son and also healthier ingredients like Kamut Khorasan Wheat flour! Yay - I am excited to give it a try :)
I love making my own Girl Scout Cookies, as none of the real ones are vegan. A couple years back, I even posted how to make them raw. Check out my old post (http://www.welikeitraw.com/rawfood/2008/01/raw-girl-scout.html) on We Like It Raw.
Really a nice post, thanks.Botanical Slimming
A woman at my church flavored melted chocolate with peppermint extract and dips Ritz crackers in it. They tasted EXACTLY like thin mints. And much easier to make!
I know they could be healthier, but honestly, I'm like 95% of the other Girl Scout Cookie addicts out there - I just don't care. I don't want them to tinker with the recipe at all if there is any chance they will be less delicious. I like feeling like I'm supporting a good cause, and they only come around once a year, so I don't feel too guilty about it. Maybe that makes me a green hypocrite, but too bad - now pass the Thin Mints!
After we're done baking our wholesome "Scout-esque" cookies, maybe we can ask ourselves why such a great organization for girls is still selling total junk in 2010. We shouldn't teach our kids to settle for crap just to support a good cause.
How can we get Girls Scout's of America to sell a better product--one without HFCS, GMO ingredients, etc. What if the Girl Scout cookies sold in 2011 were even yummier than ever, but made with whole, and even organic ingredients?
yes, there are certain GS cookies I don't eat anymore, due to the HFCS, hydrogenated oil, and other ingredients I cannot pronounce. I know it is a once a year thing. So my limit is 3 boxes of what I can eat and share with my co-workers. Although they dont need cookies w/ HFCS and Hydrogenated oil!
All you have to do is start at the council level and get all the scouts in the council to want to sell something else for the annual fundraiser, and eventually the whole organization will change. Good Luck, let me know how that works for you.
....didn't they used to be worse though? I vaguely remember them making improvements maybe 3 years ago. In any case, making your own is the way to go.
...and while they don't look as uniform as the boxed kind, they are incredibly delicious! Especially warm from the oven.....deadly. Plus my kids loved telling everything on the street that they made cookies instead of buying them. (doesn't mean that we didn't buy a bunch too!)
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