Whether or not its Girl Scout Cookie season, these desserts are available all year round.
Depending on where you live Girl Scout Cookie season might last from January to March sometimes even April, but that’s certainly not long enough for cookie lovers.
Since Girl Scout Cookie season is only a short time, today we are exploring desserts inspired by the favorite cookie flavors. This way you can enjoy these famous cookies all year round.
Girl Scout Cookie Flavors:
- Thin Mints® – mint chocolate cookies
- Caramel deLites®/Samoas® – caramel, toasted coconut, and chocolate cookies
- Peanut Butter Patties®/Tagalongs® – chocolate coated peanut butter cookies
- Shortbread/Trefoils® – crisp traditional shortbread
- Do-si-dos®/Peanut Butter Sandwich – oatmeal cookies with peanut butter filling
- Lemonades™ – lemon icing shortbread
- Savannah Smiles® – lemon cookies with powdered sugar
- Thanks-A-Lot® – shortbread with chocolate bottoms
- Toffee-tastic® – butter cookies with toffee bits
- Caramel Chocolate Chip – caramel, chocolate chip cookies with sea salt
- Girl Scout S’mores® – layers of graham cracker, marshmallow, and chocolate
For more information on the cookies, check this out.
Thin Mints are my personal favorite. My love for Thin MInts began when I was Brownie in Girl Scouts. Still every year I buy Thin Mints and immediately put them into the freezer. I find that they become more delicious when frozen! They are cold and crispy which is nice and refreshing with the mint flavor. Plus they last a little bit longer when I freeze them, and it’s a nice surprise when I open the freezer door!
Okay, so enough about my favorite cookie let’s get into these delicious desserts. Here are 11 Drool-Worthy Girl Scout Cookie Desserts!
Let’s Get Started!
1. No Bake Tagalong Peanut Butter Cheesecake
Found from Country Cleaver
Here’s an easy dessert to start us off, this no-bake cheesecake is packed with lots of peanut butter and chocolate. Not only is it layered beautifully but it’s beyond easy to make. Start with crushed Tagalong cookies (any chocolate cookies will do), then add a peanut butter cheesecake filling on top that’s finished with fresh whipped cream. This peanut butter and chocolate dessert is light and oh so craveable!
2. Thin Mint Gooey Cake Bars
Found from Picky Palate
This gooey cake will make your taste buds dance. It’s made from a simple yellow cake mix that’s enhanced with condensed milk, chocolate chips, and creme de menthe baking chips. The cake mix is made into more of a cookie dough that is pressed into the pan. These mint gooey cake bars take Thin Mints to the next level!
3. Samoa Cupcakes
Found from Cooking Classy
These Samoa cupcakes start with a moist vanilla cupcake that is dunked into chocolate ganache then its topped with a homemade caramel buttercream that’s rolled in toasted coconut and drizzled with caramel and chocolate. This cupcakes still embodies the flavors we love from the original Samoas but in a light and fluffy cupcake, so its basically two desserts in one!
4. Thin Mint Brownies
Found from Country Cleaver
These thin mint brownies are what dreams are made up of fudgy brownies and mint cream cheese frosting. The brownies are soft and gooey and have the perfect amount of mint flavor that reminds us of a thin mint cookie!
5. Lemonades Cookie Truffles
Found from Glitter and Goulash
These rich cookie truffles are made from the Girl Scout Lemonade cookies, white chocolate, and cream cheese. If these cookies are not available to use a simple shortbread cookie you find at your local store and add fresh lemon juice and zest that should bring the tangy lemon flavor through. Simply place cookies and cream cheese into a food processor and blend until the cookies are smooth. Then dip into melted white chocolate. That’s it! You’ve instantly transformed your favorite lemon cookies into a new truffle dessert!
6. Tagalongs Cookie Bars
Found from Tidy Mom
These Tagalong cookie bars are made with a tender shortbread cookie crust that holds a creamy peanut butter filling that is finally topped with a thick layer of chocolate ganache. It’s rich in flavor and is perfect for any chocolate peanut butter lover!
7. Samoa Macarons
Found from Barbara Bakes
These Samoa macaron cookies are made from chocolate macaron cookie shells that are filled with a coconut caramel filling. Just like the original cookie, this Samoa macaron is all about the delicious coconut and creamy caramel. The chocolate shells are crispy and chewy which blends nicely with the decadent filling!
8. Sugar Dusted Lemon Cookies
Found from Delish
If you’re really craving the tangy Girl Scout lemon cookies, but you aren’t in cookie season, these sugar-dusted lemon cookies are the perfect recipe to get your fix. This is a copycat recipe of the Savannah Smiles®. They are little sweet tart confections that you won’t be able to stop eating!
9. Do-si-dos® Cupcakes
Found from Baking Mischief
Here are cupcakes inspired by the peanut butter sandwich cookies called Do-si-dos®. These peanut butter cupcakes are but dense similar to a blondie. The cupcakes are topped with a light and fluffy peanut butter frosting so its a perfect balance.
10. Chocolate Peanut Butter Tagalong Pie
Found from Sweetest Menu
This chocolate peanut butter pie is made from a buttery shortbread crust that has a creamy peanut butter filling and is covered in a velvety smooth chocolate ganache. Then the top is marbled with chocolate and peanut butter for a delicious design. This pie is almost too pretty to cut into it!
11. Lemon Muddy Buddies
Found from Heaven In A Dish
Muddy buddies have to be one of the best sugary snacks you’ll ever have, and they are so easy to make. Its a mixture of Chex cereal doused in white chocolate, powdered sugar and sprinkled with crushed lemon cookies. These lemon muddy buddies make delicious homemade gifts that anyone would love to receive.
The Girl Scout’s website actually has its own fun recipes using their cookies that look delicious! Check that out here.
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Now you know how easy it is to make Girl Scout Cookie-inspired desserts. Enjoy your favorite Girl Scout Cookies all year round. What’s your favorite Girl Scout Cookie?
Happy Baking!
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