Exploremores are the new Girl Scout Cookie this year, a rocky road ice cream-inspired sandwich cookie that is filled with chocolate, marshmallow and toasted almond-flavored creme. (USA Today via Reuters Connect)
While S’mores and Toast-Yays have been retired, there’s a new cookie this year, Exploremores, a rocky road ice cream-inspired sandwich cookie with flavors of chocolate, marshmallow, and toasted almond crème.
Another year, another opportunity to impulsively purchase Girl Scout Cookies at the office and outside your local grocery store.
The 2026 Girl Scout Cookie season is rolling out across Pennsylvania, with enterprising young Girl Scouts earning life skills and badges while selling the organization’s popular varieties like Thin Mints, Samoas, and Tagalongs to fund local councils and troops.
Online sales are underway, and Girl Scouts should be setting up cookie booths in person sometime over the next few weeks. (Click here to find a cookie booth in your area.)
While S’mores and Toast-Yays have been retired, there’s a new cookie this year, Exploremores, a rocky road ice cream-inspired sandwich cookie with flavors of chocolate, marshmallow, and toasted almond crème.
The Pa. roots of Girl Scout Cookie sales
Did you know that the roots of the Girl Scout Cookie sale as we know it can be traced to Philadelphia?
Though the sale of cookies to finance troop activities began in 1917 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, the Girl Scouts of Greater Philadelphia Council baked cookies and began selling them in the city’s gas and electric company windows in November 1932 at a price of 23 cents for a box of 44 cookies. By 1934, the Greater Philadelphia Girl Scouts became the first council to sell commercially baked cookies. Things went so well in Philly that the National Girl Scout office contracted Keebler-Wyl in 1936 to become the national supplier for the Trefoil Girl Scout Cookie, and from Oct. 24 to Nov. 7 of that year, the Girl Scouts of America held their first official nationwide Girl Scout Cookie sale.
By 1937, more than 125 Girl Scout councils nationwide were holding cookie sales.
You can learn more about Philadelphia’s role in Girl Scout Cookie history from Explore PA History and the Girl Scouts.
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