By Kaelen Wiegand
for the Beacon
It’s Girl Scout cookie time, and this year there is a new flavor that is an adventure for the taste buds.
Everyone’s favorites, such as Tagalongs, Samoas, and the ever-popular Thin Mint, are back. However, they have been joined by a new taste sensation — the Adventureful.
The new edition is a brownie cookie with a caramel filling and drizzle with a dash of sea salt. It’s inspired by the many adventures the Girl Scouts enable young girls to have.
Girl Scout cookie season has begun with online and in-person sales. On Feb. 18, cookies will arrive for door-to-door and cookie booth sales.
If you can’t wait until February, Girl Scouts have an online ordering service called Digital Cookie. Sales from Digital Cookie still benefit your local troop.
To order from Digital Cookie, go to girlscoutstoday.org, hover over the Cookie+ tab on the green ribbon at the top of the page, and click ‘Buy Cookies’ at the top of the drop-down menu. This brings you to a Google map to find your local troop and their order page, which the girls customize with their own pictures and goals.
The Digital Cookie service has been active for the last several years but, in 2021, it increased in popularity, accounting for 30 percent of cookie sales.
Maura Warner, a former girl scout and the vice president of marketing for the Girl Scouts, fondly spoke about girls as young as five, initially extremely shy and unsure of themselves. Through the cookie program and other experiences, she’s seen them gain confidence, become more outgoing, and begin to learn to advocate for themselves.
Warner said the mission of the Girl Scouts is to make girls feel capable of completing their goals and have confidence in their entrepreneurial skills. A large part of this goal is allowing girls to be active in nature and teaching them to give back to their community. Girl Scouts gives young girls opportunities to take action against problems they see in their community.
Visit girlscoutstoday.org for more information.