page_title: Girl Scout Cookies
section_title: Varieties
hierarchical_section_title: Girl Scout Cookies / Production / Varieties
caption_attribution_description: Thin Mints (Girl Scout Cookie), made by Little Brownie Bakers (left) and ABC Bakers (right).
context_page_description: Girl Scout Cookies are cookies sold by Girl Scouts in the United States to raise funds to support Girl Scout councils and individual troops. Commonly sold by going door to door, online, or through school- or town-wide fundraisers, these cookies are widely popular. The program is intended to both raise money and improve the financial literacy of girls. During an average selling season, more than 1 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. The bakery selected determines which cookie varieties are available, when girls can begin selling cookies in their area, and cookie price. The bakery is paid about 25 to 35 percent of the profits; 45 to 65 percent is used by the regional council to cover programming costs; and 10 to 20 percent is kept by the local troop whose members decide how to spend their portion of the funds. A regional council receives up to 60 percent of its budget from cookie sales.
context_section_description: Up to 28 varieties of Girl Scout cookies are offered. The same cookies may be sold under different names by different bakeries, with the choice of bakery determining the name. There has been no move to standardize names. The merger of many councils (from 312 to 109) following the August 2006 reorganization resulted in many councils changing bakeries, thus causing some confusion at that time.
  Thin Mints are the most popular Girl Scout Cookies, with Samoas/Caramel deLites the second most popular. About 50 million boxes of Thin Mints were sold in 2013 compared with 38 million boxes of Samoas. Thin Mints averages about 32 cookies per box and Samoas 15 cookies per box.
  Girl Scout cookie varieties include:
  Operation Thin Mint is a program led by Girl Scouts from the San Diego Council, to provide military members with donated cookies. The operation sends over 200,000 boxes of cookies annually to service members stationed in the Middle East. Since the program began in 2002, those Girl Scouts have shipped over 3 million boxes of cookies.
  Keebler manufactures a similar cookie known as a Grasshopper, which is produced in the same factory as Little Brownie Bakers's Thin Mints.
caption: A comparison between Thin Mints made by Little Brownie Bakers (left) and ABC Bakers (right)
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