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Have a Girl Scout Cookie Dessert Idea and Want Some Help? Many of ChefsLine chef consultants are also cookbook authors and recipe developers. The first five girl scout cookie lovers to post their dessert idea using Girl Scout cookies will receive a personalized recipe suggestion and baking tips. WOW!
Tagalong Ice Cream
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**Special Equipment needed: an Ice Cream/Sorbet Maker**
In a sauce pan, heat the cream, Half & Half, salt and vanilla. Heat until it almost simmers (do not let boil). Mix sugar and eggs in a mixer until light in color and fluffy. Temper the milk by pouring 1/4 cup warm milk into the egg mixture. Mix by hand until well-blended and pour back into the sauce pan. Stir with a wooden spoon until thick. DO NOT BOIL. To test if it’s done, lift the spoon out and using the tip of a knife make a line. If the line holds it’s done! Pour into a pan and place in an ice bath to cool. When cooled, pour into ice cream maker and turn on. Slowly add the coarsely chopped cookies. Allow ice cream maker to mix according to manufacturer's instructions. Don’t over-mix, because it will come out grainy. Makes 1 1/2 quarts.
Thanks-a-Lot Strawberry Mille Feuille
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Whip cream in mixer and slowly add sugar and vanilla. Make individual desserts as follows: Place a cookie on individual dessert plates with the chocolate part facing down. Using a piping bag, pipe some cream over the cookie. Next add strawberries (let strawberries stick out from the sides). Top with another cookie, then repeat with cream and strawberries. Finish to off with another cookie. Add a dollop of cream and a sprig of mint. Serve!
article and recipes: Chef Robyn Fennessey
They're c-o-m-i-ng.
Soon, that old familiar refrain will greet us every where we go: “Hi, would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies?” Case in point, a ChefsLine member was driving along Santa Monica Blvd in Beverly Hills just the other day and a little girl in the car next rolled down her window and said, "Would you like to buy some girl scout cookies?"
Yep, it's Girl Scout cookie time and it takes an iron will to say no to sweet ambition. You probably will think back to the day you were a Girl Scout and remember how much work it was to sell them. If thoughts of the past or those adorable girls dressed in brown, green or khaki don't make you reach for your wallet - knowing you are supporting girl power, surely will.
Troop Leader, Tricia Cascione explains, “Selling cookies teaches girls many life skills and instills confidence. The money is used for educational activities and to provide community service. Last year, in partnership with Operation Gratitude, we shipped more than a thousand boxes of cookies to men and women serving our country overseas.”
For many girls, Girl Scout cookie sales are a first entrepreneurial endeavor. Henrietta in New York looks forward to the sales call every year. "My niece, Paige, did a hardsell on the low-cal cookies the other night and sure enough I ordered those plus a box of my usual thin mints. She ushered in a big order perfectly by passing the phone over to her little sister Grace who closed the deal on three more boxes."
The Girl Scouts have been selling cookies for 80 years - and that's a lot of cookie boxes, memories, and controversy (as is any $700 million dollar annual venture).
Kirstin's memories of Girl Scout cookie- time are filled with even more boxes than many of us find in the back of our freezers and of her mom's incredible organizational skills. She told us: "At 10 or 12, I knew the routine. Pallets of cookies were delivered to our garage, inventoried, and distributed to the droves of girls who stopped by for their supply. Even though my mom always bought a bunch for the house, she had us check time and again to be sure there wasn't a shortage of those sold to others first. So, we always had the last of the lot for ourselves. Those few weeks working in our home- turned-distribution-center of course heightened that pre-teen impatience based on the suspicion that adults have stupid reasons for delaying good things - in this case - my own box of thin mints! Did the wait make them taste better? Who knows. But the first four or five I had were eaten at lightening speed to make up for lost time."
If you decide to support your local scouts and throw calorie caution to the wind, we've developed some easy and delicious recipes to help you exhaust your supply before next year's order.
