DIehard cookie eaters rejoice: Mint chocolate(y) Girl Guides cookes are out.
Chocolatey mint cookies, the ones sold by young girls across the country through Girl Guides of Canada, well those cookies and the original flavours of vanilla and chocolate are pretty popular depending on people's taste, according to a local volunteer.
In the fall season chocolatey mint cookies are sold and in the spring the original cookies are sold which are vanilla and chocolate.
Which cookies do people like better?
“It’s hard to say because people have their own preferences,” said Annemarie Fairborn, local Girl Guides administrative community leader for Community 6. “Sometimes we find that when we’re selling the mint people are looking for the classic and when we’re selling the classic people are looking for the mint. It’s just some people that just love chocolate mint.”
It seems people enjoy the chocolatey mint flavour and it’s something people have come to love over the years that they recognize with Girl Guides cookies, said Fairborn.
The Girl Guides’ Community 6 unit covers Guelph, Puslinch, Rockwood, Elora, Fergus, Erin, Mount Forest, Alma, Drayton, Shelburne and Orangeville.
Cases of cookies are ordered for the young girls to sell. In each case there are 12 boxes of cookies.
On average Community 6 sees two cases of cookies per registered child for the fall campaign and three cases per registered child for the spring campaign, Fairborn said in a follow-up email.
Anecdotally, when it comes to chocolatey mint cookies Fairborn sold six boxes to a woman who said she was looking forward to using them in her baking.
The success of Girl Guides cookies, despite the kind, Fairborn lends to tradition and the many years of selling the cookies. “People recognize the uniform. They recognize what Girl Guides stands for. They support young women in leadership and with the many different activities that the kids get to do,” she said.
As a child Fairborn was registered to participate in Girl Guides and then became a volunteer in 2009, after she graduated from university. She stays on as a volunteer because she sees the joy in her daughter from participating in Girl Guides, she said in follow-up email. Fairborn also enjoys the sisterhood she experiences with other Girl Guides leaders.
For each cookie selling season there is a cookie recipe competition in Ontario. Girl Guides members can compete in their unit or on their own. Members create and bake their own recipe with the main ingredient being Girl Guides chocolatey mint cookies. Those competing send in a recipe and a photo of their creations. It started on Sept. 24 until Nov. 3, a minute before midnight for submission.
Here is what has been ordered so far for cases of chocolatey mint cookies this year:
Guelph: 1,099
Orangeville: 493
Alma: 220
Fergus: 135
Elora: 116
Erin: 110
Shelburne: 75
Mount Forest: 45
Drayton: 25
Puslinch: 25
Rockwood: 21
The number of Girl Guide members youth ages five to 17 in Community 6 this year:
Guelph: 379
Orangeville: 188
Fergus: 81
Elora: 52
Shelburne: 45
Alma: 41
Erin: 38
Puslinch: 14
Rockwood: 11
Drayton: eight
Mount Forest: four
There is a Girl Guides chocolatey mint cookie sale set for Oct. 2 between 6:30 and 8 p.m. at Zehr's Hartsland at 160 Kortright Rd.
