NEW YORK (PRNewswire-USNewswire) — Girl Scouts of the USA on Monday announced gluten-free Girl Scout Cookies are returning for the 2016 cookie season.
Back by popular demand, Toffee-tastic (buttery cookies with toffee bits) and Trios (made with real peanut butter, chocolate chips, and whole grain oats) will be available nationwide from most Girl Scout councils. These tasty treats made history in 2015 as the organization's first-ever nationwide offering of gluten-free options, joining classics like Thin Mints and Samoas/Caramel deLites. Not all varieties are available in every market, so contact your local council to inquire about the cookies they're offering this season.
Marking the 99th year of the first known sale of cookies by Girl Scouts, the 2016 season will find more girls learning the basic skills and acumen they need to be leaders in business and sales, manage their finances, and gain confidence and self-sufficiency in handling money. One hundred percent of the net revenue from Girl Scout Cookie sales stays with the originating council, and girls decide how their troop cookie money is spent.
"This cookie season is a landmark one for our iconic Girl Scout Cookie Program," said Anna Maria Chávez, CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA. "In responding to an important consumer trend, we've brought back our delicious gluten-free cookie varieties, allowing even more cookie customers to indulge while supporting girls and their communities. And with Digital Cookie 2.0, Girl Scouts are able to further explore STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), while still engaging in more traditional, including door-to-door, sales and giving back to their communities."
