Girl Scout Cookies are Here

Moorestown’s Girl Scouts received 9,240 boxes (including eight varieties of cookies) Jan. 14, but they cannot sell the cookies until Jan. 20.

Moorestown Girl Scout Troop No. 2528 will sell Girl Scout cookies for $3.50 a box at the Young Avenue Acme Jan. 20 to 31, at the Moorestown Mall in front of the Information Desk from Jan. 20 to Feb. 18 and at the Main Street Wawa Feb. 19 to 28.

The Girl Scouts are selling the following seven Philadelphia region Girl Scout Cookie staples:

Do-Si-Dos - Peanut Butter Sandwiches - (peanut butter cookie with peanut butter filling): 20 cookies per box

Lemonades (shortbread cookie with a tangy lemon icing): 16 cookies per box

Tagalongs - Peanut Butter Patties (regular cookie with soft peanut butter and coated with chocolate): 15 cookies per box

Thanks-A-Lot (shortbread cookie with chocolate on the bottom): 16 per box

Thin Mints (thin chocolate-peppermint cookie coated in chocolate): 32 cookies per  box

Trefoils (shortbread): 44 cookies per box

Samoas - Caramel deLites (vanilla cookies covered with caramel on top and bottom then rolled in coconut and striped with chocolate): 15 cookies per box

The Girl Scout troops in each region introduce a new cookie biennially. This year’s new variety complementing the staple cookies is Shout Outs! Shout Outs are light and crisp, ½-inch circle-shaped, Belgian-style caramelized cookies with word imprints on each cookie. They are sold in 9-ounce boxes each containing approximately 40 cookies.

Courtney Sullivan has been Moorestown Girl Scout’s cookie service unit manager since 2007. She handles the annual delivery of thousands of boxes of Girl Scout cookies delivered to Moorestown in early January each year. Sullivan said this year’s shipment of 770 cases of 9,240 boxes of Girl Scout cookies is significantly less than her usual shipments.

“I only have 10 troops selling at this moment. Last year we had 17 or 18 troops selling cookies,” said Sullivan.

“We have fewer troops in town this year. We have a few troops who aren’t selling. It would be great if more girls registered and we had more troops.”

Seventeen-year-old Alyssa Green estimates she has sold more than 9,000 boxes of cookies in her 11 years as a Girl Scout. Her goal is to sell 1,000 boxes this year to hit her target of 10,000 boxes of cookies sold since she started with the Girl Scouts in second grade.

She sells cookies to teachers, friends and athletes at her school, Cherry Hill High School West.

“I wear sweatshirts in school that say ‘Girl Scouts’ on them,” said Green.

“And my friends know I’m a Girl Scout. My one friend knows when the cookies come out and comes to my house and fills out the form. That’s kind of when it all starts (each year).”

Green’s grandmother and mother were both Girl Scouts and Green plans to be a troop leader after she finishes her last year as a Girl Scout this year.

“It’s a generation thing,” she said.

For more information, visit the Girl Scouts of Central & Southern New Jersey website or for more detailed information on Girl Scouts and cookie products visit the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania website.