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When I mentioned that Girl Scout cookie season was starting, there were many comments about Lemon Pastry Cremes, one of the retired cookie flavors that featured a light pastry cookie and a creamy lemon filling. As far as I've heard, the reason that they were discontinued is that they were switched from ABC Bakeries to Little Brownie Bakers, the second bakery that produces the Girl Scouts' cookies, and that Little Brownie Bakers lacks the right kind of equipment to produce them.
The Girl Scouts seems to retire one every few years, if not more often. Off the top of my head, I can think of several past favorites that are now gone.
- Lemon Coolers were light, crisp cookies with a bold flavor and dusted in powdered sugar.
- Double Dutch were chocolate, chocolate chip cookies.
- Ice Berry Piñatas looked vaguely like Danish pastries, with jam at the center of a tender cookie and a drizzle of icing. http://baking.about.com/od/familybaking/a/girlscoutcookie_2.htm
- Animal Treasures were just the same as the current "All Abouts" and "Thanks" cookies, with a butter cookie dipped in chocolate, as were Friendship Circles Cookies.
- Ole Oles were light, round, powdered sugar-covered cookies with vanilla, pecans and coconut.
- Aloha Chips had macadamia nuts and white chocolate chips
- Apple Cinnamons were apple shaped sugar cookies, topped with cinnamon sugar.
- Lemon Drops had lemon-flavored chips
- Striped Chocolate Chips were exactly what they sound like.
- Snaps were iced, oatmeal raisin cookies
- Sugar Free Chalet Cremes were similar to the lemon pastry cremes, but were sweetened with aspartame.
- Juliettes were named after the term for individual girl scouts who are not members of a particular troop.
- Other cookies, going back to the 1970s, include: Golden Nut Clusters, Trail Mix, Cabana Cremes, Country Hearth Chocolate Chip, Echo, Chocolate Chunk, Pecan Shortee, Medallions, Van'chos, Forget-Me-Nots and Granola cookies.
Which ones were your favorites, or would you prefer to stick with Trefoils, Thin Mints and Samoas?
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2-13-2007 @3:24AM ryan said... Has my sister and cousins were girl scouts in the 90's. I was draged out of my bed to go down and help sell those cookies, My 2nd years selling they came out with one (something with pralines)cookie that Out sold the thin mints by about 12 cases down here in south carolina.. I got three cases my self that year at 2.00 a box.. now the thing I hated was that they didn't come back the following year and alot of people had got mad about it ( i know I was cause I'd saved from months to buy a few cases) because so how it was on our order sheet and we ended up haveing to get the girls more sheets there were so many orders, so when the cookies came in everybodys wanting their cookies and my mom ( the Asst. Troop leader) came in and was telling the girls that they had to tell the people that the cookie was nomore.. A bad year for the GS that year.. Sells droped bad.. we sold about 20 cases that year where the year before we were over 150-200..
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2-21-2007 @10:17PM cookiemonster said... I loved the reduced-fat Chalet Cremes! FYI, for the calories, fat and carbs of each cookie available today, http://www.myspace.com/GirlScoutCookieSale is a good resource (the blog entry entitled "Straight from the Box"). And if you haven't purchased yours yet, I know http://girlscoutcookies.org/ will give you the contact info for the council selling cookies nearest you, just by entering your zip code - yum.
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2-23-2007 @7:23PM Monique said... So does anyone else remember the Kookaburras? They were wafers and caramel? covered in chocolate ??
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2-25-2007 @10:40PM Ashley said... What were the Strawberry ones called, I loved those?!?!? They were round with a hole in the middle filled w/ strawberry stuff!!!
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3-02-2007 @10:56PM Erin said... I'm a leader in Louisiana, and I'm jealous of you who say you get .56 a box - we only get .35!!! I would love that extra .21 - it would go a long way! Anyway - we sell a lot of Tagalongs and Thin Mints. I hear Samoas are really big in some areas, and the Council still says they are our top seller, but our troop has never had that to be our experience. I loved the Lemon Coolers - those Cafe Cookies need to go - those are just horrible!
And thanks to all of you out there who just donate the cash - our troop loves people like you!
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3-05-2007 @6:52PM Chad Littrell said... I can't believe the Iced Berry Pinada cookies really sold that badly. I loved them and when I would go to the cookie stands two years ago...they often were out of this particuar type of cookie. That tells me it sold well. I really wish they would bring this cookie back. I would certainly stock up.
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3-16-2007 @10:30AM picmajik said... I remember the Thin Mints in my area (late 60s/early 70s) were not a chocolate cookie base, they were a light color cookie dipped in the mint chocolate coating. I think that is a difference in regional bakeries before things became more standardized.
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3-16-2007 @10:31AM picmajik said... ps--forgot to add that I'm a Lemon Pastry Creme fiend also--found one last box in my freezer and enjoying it bit by bit.....
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3-18-2007 @6:04PM Melanie said... i miss the lemon pastry cremes! as a little girl, the were my very favorite. i also loved the iced berry piñatas, and it's sad that they're not around anymore. and the ole oles were great, i can't believe they didn't sell well!
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3-23-2007 @9:02AM travelina said... Juliettes were named after the founder of the Girl Scouts, Juliette Low: http://www.girlscouts.org/who_we_are/history/low_biography/
You can visit her childhood home in Savannah, which is now a National Historic Landmark.
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