![]() The Girl Scouts are selling them for $4 a dozen (I was wrong in my last post, this year the sales price in my area is $4/dozen), or $12. The cost breakdown for these came out to:Ĭlearance bag of Hershey's Kisses: ($.49)įlour/Sugar/Baking Powder/Milk/Vanilla/Salt: (~$3.50) OH YUM! I ended up once again with 3 dozen. They aren't really impressive until you cut those babies open: ![]() I allowed these to harden for a few hours and here is what we ended up with: That chocolate runs out of there fast and a thinner, finer stream is much easier to work with. My tip for this step is cut the TEENIEST hole in the bag that you can. I stood the bag up in the microwave inside a beer glass so that the chocolate would all stay down in one corner. I microwaved dark chocolate chips in a zip top bag. To cover up the fact these were lumpy little cookies (and the fact that I didn't have enough chocolate to cover all of them), I thought I would accent them with dark chocolate drizzle. There aren't any pictures of the actual dipping stage because there was no way I could deal with scortched chocolate coated fingertips and my camera at the same time. (This was because clearance Valentine's day milk chocolate candy was way cheaper than milk chocolate chips) I then set up my make shift double boiler (a pyrex bowl on a 4 quart pot) and melted down an entire bag of Hershey's Kisses. Instead they sorta looked like a blob of on top of a cookie. Now, if the cookies were smaller in diameter and had a deeper well I think this would have gone better. I used a zip top bag with the corner cut of to add a dollop of the mixture to each cookie. I would only use 1 cup of peanut butter if I was going to do this again. I’m sorry for the anger but this has been building up in my mind for many years.This turned out to be way too much filling. We are all better off buying Keebler cookies at Walmart and donating the difference (which is about double GS cookie prices) to the individual troops. Anyone in their right mind would scream child abuse. What distribution company in the world would make that deal. The girl scouts (moms) do all the work and receive 10% of the take. These girl scouts are replacing the truck drivers, store managers and whoever else is involved with distribution of cookies. The GS council gets half of the price of a box of cookies. In time we realized that the troop received $0.25 from each box of cookies which were $2.50 at the time. We all sold the cookies at home work and school. Here, find out the best-tasting Samaos alternatives available at the grocery store. My wife was a troop leader for those years. The Best Grocery Store Samaos Knockoffs You Can Buy If you're craving Samaos outside Girl Scout Cookie season, we know precisely which knockoffs for you to buy. But here they are:īoth of my daughters sold GS cookies for years. The site notes that this is significantly cheaper than the 4 to. ![]() According to Hip2Save, an 8.5-ounce package of these cookies will run you just 1.39 at Aldi. So the Girl Scout cookies are just under twice the price of Keebler’s (or just over twice the price, if you find the Keebler on sale), which makes sense since Girl Scout cookies are a fundraising product. If you're a fan of Samoasthe cookie that is covered in caramel, toasted coconut, and fudgethen you may want to make a pitstop at the store to find a similar option made by Benton's. (I got them on sale for $2.00, so that made them $3.20/pound.) Keebler Grasshoppers are $2.50 for a 10-ounce box, or $4.00/pound. Girl Scout Thin Mints are $4.00 for a 9-ounce box, or $7.11/pound. (Furthermore, I got them on sale for $2.00, so that made them $3.76/pound.) Keebler Coconut Dreams are $2.50 for a 8.5-ounce box, or $4.71/pound. Girl Scout Samoas / Caramel deLites are $4.00 for a 7.5-ounce box, or $8.53/pound. (Today I also found a version of Do-Si-Dos / Peanut Butter Sandwich, but we’d already done the taste test.) I thought we’d do a blind taste test and see if we could tell them apart, and which we liked better.įirst, a cost comparison. Keebler has cookies that look similar to Samoas / Caramel deLites (they’re called different things regionally for some reason) (and why the lowercase D and uppercase L in deLites?) and also cookies that look similar to Thin Mints (called the same thing everywhere). One thing I wanted to try this year is a taste test. I’m also planning to bring some as my appetizer contribution the next time I get together with the wine-and-appetizer friend group. It’s a poor idea to have a cookie fundraiser the first two weeks of January, right when people are most committed to their resolutions.) If I let the kids have two cookies every day after school, we go through them surprisingly fast. I hate selling things, so basically what I do is buy a whole bunch of boxes ourselves and consider that good enough. Elizabeth is a Brownie Scout, so she has to sell Girl Scout cookies.
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