If you are looking for a different kind of cookie meeting, why not have your troop bake the original Girl Scout cookie recipe?
It’s that time of year, when leaders and Troop Cookie Managers are kicking off cookie season. There are plenty of badges to earn and safety skills to teach your girls. If you have been selling cookies for any number of years, then a lot of these activities are familiar.
If you have the capability to meet in someone’s home, you may want to have your troop bake the original Girl Scout cookie recipe. Since the dough has to be chilled for two hours, you will need to make it in advance. If this is not possible, your co-leader or you, if you have the time, can bake a batch at home for the girls to taste test. You can have them compare the taste to the cookies sold today. Then you can send them home with a copy of the recipe for them to try with their families.
The History of Girl Scout Cookies
According the the GSUSA website:
The sale of cookies by Girl Scouts had humble beginnings, born as a way for troops to finance activities. The first known sale of cookies by Girl Scouts occurred in 1917, when the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, baked cookies and sold them in their high school cafeteria as a service project. As the Girl Scout Cookie Program developed and evolved, it not only became a vehicle for teaching five essential skills—goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, and business ethics—but it also enabled collaboration and integration, as early as the 1950s, among girls and troops of diverse backgrounds as they worked together toward common goals.
The Original Girl Scout Cookie Recipe
The GSUSA has the original Girl Scout cookie recipe in an easy to print PDF form. You can find it here.
Have you ever baked the original Girl Scout cookie recipe?
