Girl Scout Cookies are cookies sold by Girl Scouts in the United States to raise funds to support Girl Scout councils and individual troops. The cookies are widely popular and are commonly sold by going door-to-door, online, through school or town fundraisers, or at "cookie booths" set up at storefronts. The program is intended to both raise money and improve the financial literacy of girls. During an average selling season, more than one million girls sell over 200 million packages of cookies and raise over $800 million. The first known sale of cookies by Girl Scouts was in 1917. Cookie sales are organized by 112 regional Girl Scout councils who select one of two national bakeries to buy cookies from.
A variety of different Girl Scout Cookies
Girl Scout cookie box of Girl Scout Shortbread cookies, baked by Weston Biscuit Company
A girl selling Girl Scout cookies in 2013
Emily Sells 500,000 Girl Scout Cookies to Delta Airlines
A cookie or biscuit is a baked snack or dessert that is typically small, flat, and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar, egg, and some type of oil, fat, or butter. It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, or nuts.
Chocolate chip cookies
Traditional American Christmas cookie tray
A dish of assorted cookies, including sandwich cookies filled with jam
Cookies baking in an oven