Girl Scout Cookies, 2007: Lemonades

Girl Scout Cookies, 2007: Lemonades

Over the years, I’ve had three Girl Scouts and one Girl Scout leader living in my house, so I’m used to the spring harvest of cookies. Now, The Wife is a school teacher and a sucker for buying boxes from her students, so we have numerous cookie caches strategically positioned around the house.

Thin Mints are the perennial favorite, but the marketing wizards keep extending the line, and this year they came out with a new recipe: Lemonades.

These cookies are shortbread, really rather light and nicely crisp, with a layer of lemon-y icing on the bottom, the slight sourness balancing the restrained richness of the cookie. The top wafer is imprinted with a lemon slice image, which I like for purely aesthetic reasons (makes it more fun to eat)

While not the World’s Greatest Cookie (patent pending, DCHammond Worldwide, Inc), you could do a lot worse. Good with a bracing Ceylon or Assam.

I agree with your assessment. In fact, I was able to get an advance screening sample of the Lemonades a couple of months ago, and currently have a couple of boxes on order. A much more delicate sensibility in a cookie than I've come to anticipate from the GSA, known mostly for over-the-top combinations like the Samoa (whatever they call it now) and liberal use of chocolate. Not that their's anything wrong with that!

sounds like a tasty cookie - but isn't the secret of success simplicity? the old favorites sell so well year after year - and yet the girl scouts are always introducing new ones into the mix. i don't get it. stick with the tried and true, streamline your production and you'll make more money in the end.

I ordered a box of the Lemonades and my husband and kids ate then all before I got to try them. And, of course, I only ordered one box.

Suzy

HI,

I was just over the Girl Scout Cookie site, where I found their sales stats:

25% Thin Mints
19% Samoas®/Caramel deLites™
13% Peanut Butter Patties®/Tagalongs®
11% Peanut Butter Sandwich/Do-si-dos™
9% Shortbread/Trefoils

The other varieties combined account for the remaining 23%.

Regards,

thefrugalfoodie wrote:sounds like a tasty cookie - but isn't the secret of success simplicity? the old favorites sell so well year after year - and yet the girl scouts are always introducing new ones into the mix. i don't get it. stick with the tried and true, streamline your production and you'll make more money in the end.

A "secret of success" is most definitely branding, and many companies successfully extend their brand (so there's Ralph Lauren clothing, but also window coverings, furniture, editions of automobiles, cologne, etc.). I don't think any company will continue to thrive by just doing what they've always been doing -- and hey, those lemon cookies are really very good!

They had some sort of low-fat lemon cookie last year (and perhaps a few years before that). OMG! So good. But because they had little fat, not satisfying, so you (um, I) ended up eating about 12 at a shot and then feeling vaguely queasy and vaguely embarrassed.

Cathy2 wrote:HI,

I was just over the Girl Scout Cookie site, where I found their sales stats:

25% Thin Mints
19% Samoas®/Caramel deLites™
13% Peanut Butter Patties®/Tagalongs®
11% Peanut Butter Sandwich/Do-si-dos™
9% Shortbread/Trefoils

The other varieties combined account for the remaining 23%.

Regards,

HI,

I saw this blog on how to make the three top Girl Scout cookies. My personal favorite is the Caramel deLites. I may take a stab at making them for the Christmas cookie exchange later this year.

Regards,

Cathy2 wrote:HI,

I saw this blog on how to make the three top Girl Scout cookies. My personal favorite is the Caramel deLites. I may take a stab at making them for the Christmas cookie exchange later this year.

Leah Eskin in the Trib had a recipe in the Sunday Magazine section (when the Magazine section was weekly) for thin mints. I made them as one of my Christmas cookies one year and they were delicious. I'll see if I can dig up the recipe.

I have a recipe- really an assembly for a GS cookie pizza
it is crazy good.
You take a tube of Choc chip cookie dough-(or you could make your own if you want,
and smush (technical term) onto a pizza pan (not one with holes )
it's OK if there are empty spaces, just kind of cover the pan.
Then take one tube of thin mints-
these are your pepperoni slices...
and smush them into the choc chip cookie dough randomly over the pan.
If you want you can even break a few in half.
Then bake as directed for the cookie dough, maybe add 2 min or so.
Now take 6 oz of white choc chips and put in a heavy duty quart ziploc bag and melt on med in the micro
for 30 sec at a time until they are liquidy.
cut off the tip off the corner, and squeeze back and forth over the pizza.
This is your "mozzarella chesse"
Allow to cool some, and cut into wedges.

Yummy and delicious- my Girl Scout troop used to love to make this.

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Hi,

At Big Lots at Harlem and Dempster in Morton Grove (or is it Niles?), they had a Samoas®/Caramel deLites™ knock off. It is a Caramel Coconut Fudge cookie branded Fresh Finds, which is distributed by Big Lots.

It was a seven ounce box with about 16 cookies costing $1.40. Considering how I pay directly from Girl Scouts, this was a steal.

Thank goodness I bought only one box, it disappeared fast in my household this evening.

Regards,