Great News About Girl Scout Cookies
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Food on Thursday, April 16, 2009 8:17 PM
Do you like Girl Scout cookies?
I admit to a weakness for them. My favorites are Thin Mints and Samoas (known as Caramel De-Lites where I grew up). Over the years, I’ve enjoyed dozens of them.
However, I don’t think I’m imagining that the boxes used to be bigger. They don’t contain all that many cookies these days, and around here a single box goes for $3.50. Those little things, delicious as they might be, are not cheap.
Girl Scout cookies have another drawback: they’re not available year-round! I’ve heard they freeze well, but I don’t have the enterprise to do something like that. If I have a craving for a Samoa in mid-November, I’m out of luck.
This is why I was thrilled to discover that one of my favorite food blogs, Baking Bites, has recipes for homemade Girl Scout cookies. You can find Thin Mints, Samoas, Tagalongs, and Do-si-dos on the site.
The recipes look excellent, and when I first saw them I bookmarked them and made a mental note to try them all, eventually. But it’s been more than a year since then, and I still haven’t done it, largely because the recipes all seem fairly time-consuming.
But earlier this week Bryan brought home a box of Samoas he’d bought from the daughter of a co-worker, and when the pitifully small box was empty, I was still craving the cookies. So I decided to take the homemade-Girl-Scout-cookie plunge.
I started small, with Baking Bites’s modified version of the cookie in Samoa Bars. They were still fairly time-consuming, but the end result was worth it. Just as delicious as the Girl Scouts’ Samoas, but fresher.
And best of all, available any time I want to make them!
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