It’s time to buy your Girl Scout cookies. Girl Scout cookie sales have begun in the Tri-Community and will continue through mid-March 2025. Local Girl Scout troops will be out selling cookies.
Do you have a favorite? Whether it’s Thin Mints, Lemonades, Caramel deLites, Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Tagalongs or something else, the girls are excited to help you decide.
Girl Scouts will be at their cookie booths in Phelan at Stater Bros during the week and on weekends. In Wrightwood, they will be at Mountain Hardware on Feb. 10, 15, 20 and 27 from 2 to 4:30 p.m., and at the Wrightwood Arts Center on Park Drive on Friday, Feb. 7, from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Pick up a box or two of your favorites or try this year’s new cookie. Don’t forget to buy a few extra for the freezer.
The cookie program is a key part of Girl Scouts’ entrepreneurship training, focusing on five essential skills. Girls learn to set goals and create plans to achieve them. They develop decision-making abilities by working both independently and as a team. They gain hands-on experience in money management by creating budgets and handling transactions. Customer interactions help them build confidence and strengthen people skills. The program also emphasizes business ethics, teaching them to act responsibly in business and life.
The Girl Scout Cookie Program began in 1917 as a way to fund troop activities. Juliette Gordon Low founded Girl Scouts in the United States in March 1912. The first known cookie sale was by a troop in Oklahoma, which baked cookies and sold them in a high school cafeteria as a service project. Since then, Girl Scouts across the country have learned skills in business, financial management and self-sufficiency.
By the late 1930s, cookie sales were so popular that commercial bakers were called in to help. During World War II, Girl Scouts faced a challenge in 1944 when supplies of key ingredients such as eggs, milk, sugar and chocolate were in short supply. But that didn’t stop them.
The original cookie recipe was simple: 1 cup butter or substitute, 1 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons milk, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 2 cups flour and 2 teaspoons baking powder. Cookies were sold for 25 to 30 cents per dozen and packaged in wax paper bags sealed with a sticker.
Stop by and support your local Girl Scouts.
