Roughly 200 million boxes of Girl Scout cookies are sold each year.
Since the cookies are sold by weight, it is hard to state a definite number of cookies.
Looking at the information about serving size and number of cookies per box, the number of cookies range from 14 to 40 per box.
So, take 20 cookies per box times 200 million, you get an estimate of 4 billion Girl Scout cookies baked during the Girl Scout cookie season.
If you want to use Girl Scout cookies in recipes, there are many places which have recipes for that. The web sites for the Girl Scout Cookie bakers (Little Brownie Bakers and ABC Bakers) are good places to start. Recipe web sites also have recipes which use Girl Scout cookies.
If you are looking for recipes which are similar to the Girl Scout cookies, there are some on the "Food" recipe web site - see related links!
Little Brownie Bakers are based in Louisville, KY.
ABC Bakers parent company, Interbake Foods, is based in Richmond, VA, but the Girl Scout cookies are manufactured in Sioux City, IA.
Currently (2015) there are two licensed bakers for Girl Scout cookies. They are ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers.
Do-si-dos Girl Scout cookies (by Little Brownie Bakers) are also called Peanut Butter Sandwich cookies by ABC Bakers. They are very good, especially if peanut butter sandwich cookies are a favorite!
No. The bakers which make Girl Scout cookies do not use peanut butter from the company that was having problems with contamination.
People in Alabama can purchase Girl Scout cookies from any Girl Scout who is selling them. They can also use the Girl Scout Cookie Finder or the Girl Scout Cookie Finder App to find the price, locations, and sale dates of the current Girl Scout Cookie Sale.Girl Scout councils determine which of two cookie bakers (ABC Cookies and Little Brownie Bakers) supply the cookies for their council. There are three Girl Scout councils in Alabama. If you want to know which baker supplies the cookies in your area, contact the local council or look at any box of Girl Scout cookies.
For the 2014 Girl Scout Cookie Sale, ABC Bakers Thin Mints have about 32 cookies per box and Little Brownie Bakers Thin Mints have about 28 cookies per box. Note that the boxes are filled by weight, not by the amount of cookies, so the number of cookies may vary.
Lemonades Cookies were introduced by ABC Bakers in 2006.
If there are Girl Guide cookies made in Pakistan, it is probably because the Pakistan Girl Guides Association sells cookies. Girl Scout cookies sold in the USA are made in the USA, in Kentucky for Little Brownie Bakers and in Iowa for ABC Cookie Bakers. Some Girl Scout troops ask customers to purchase boxes of Girl Scout cookies which are sent to US Armed Forces personnel all around the world, so US Girl Scout cookies may have been seen in Pakistan because they were sent there as a gift or sold there by USA Girl Scouts Overseas.
Pictures of Girl Scout cookies can be found at the web sites for each Girl Scout cookie baker: ABC and Little Brownie Bakers. The Girl Scout Cookie Finder web site also has links to a picture of each kind of cookie.
There are at least two.Here on the east coast we get them from "Little Brownie Bakers".The other company is called ABC Bakers.There are two licensed commercial bakers, Little Brownie Bakers and ABC Bakers..
So far, in the 2011 Girl Scout Cookie Sale, no cookies have been recalled. In 2010, Little Brownie Bakers recalled the Lemon Chalet Cremes because of an off smell and taste to some of the cookies. The cookies were safe to eat.
There are several reasons why the cookies do not taste the same as they did years ago.One is that the Girl Scout cookie bakers removed trans-fats several years ago.Another reason is that there used to be as many as 14 licensed bakers. Each baker had their own recipe and way of making the cookies. In 1978, that number was reduced to 4 bakers, and, in the 1990's, it was reduced to 2 bakers. The cookies from each company do taste different from each other even though there are three mandatory cookies that each company must bake each year.Girl Scout councils choose which company to use each year to supply their cookies. Your local Girl Scout council may have chosen a different cookie baker, which could be why the cookies taste different.The cookie bakers are also working to remove artificial flavors from all their cookies. This might also affect the taste of the cookies.
There are two licensed Girl Scout Cookie Bakers in the US. Each Girl Scout council chooses the cookie baker, either Little Brownie Bakers or ABC Bakers. Except for THIN MINTS® and TREFOILS®, the cookie bakers choose the names of the cookies. So, Little Brownie Bakers Calls them Do-si-dos® while ABC Bakers calls them Peanut Butter Sandwich. Each company also develops their own recipes, so if your Girl Scout council switched to a different cookie baker, the cookie will have a different name and may also taste different.
For the 2011-2012 Girl Scout cookie sale, Little Brownie Bakers has: Thin Mints Samoas Tagalongs Do-si-dos Trefoils Savannah Smiles Dulce de Leche Thank U Berry Munch