This season’s Girl Scout Cookies were a batch made in heaven

Girl Scout cookie season is wrapping up this year, and yet again, the Syracuse community was in for a treat!  

Throughout the month of March, local Girl Scout troops planted their green around the Syracuse community. Decorated booths were seen at many local spots, including Brooklyn Pickle on Marshall Street, Destiny USA, and Syracuse University, allowing those passing by to greet them and purchase their favorite cookies.

All Girl Scout booths had beloved fan-favorite flavors fans: brownie-inspired Adventurefuls, oatmeal-peanut butter Do-si-dos, sweet Lemon-Ups, coconut-caramel Samoas, peanut butter-chocolate Tagalongs, shortbread Trefoils and the classic Thin Mints.

A new cookie was added to this season’s usual lineup: the Exploremore. Exploremores were introduced in September 2025 and debuted in January of 2026, and are inspired by the famous rocky road ice cream flavor. This sandwich cookie has two chocolate cookies with marshmallow and toasted almond crème in the middle.

Customers of all ages came by to support the local scouts, which not only gave them a delicious treat but also a sense of comfort and nostalgia.

“Seeing Girl Scout cookies being sold at places like the mall brings me so much happiness,” said Cecilia Gonzalez, a visiting community member who bought cookies from the Destiny Mall Girl Scout troop. “My mom, when I was younger, used to surprise us with some cookies when she got back from the grocery store, and my siblings and I got so excited.”

Photo by Lucy Gonzalez

Girl Scout troop 10044 set up shop at Destiny Mall USA to sell cookies for customers passing by.

In 1917, Girl Scout cookies began as a home-baked project by a troop with young girls and their mothers in Muskogee, Oklahoma, to finance activities and an official troop. By 1937, more than 125 Girl Scout councils were reported to be holding cookie sales.

Throughout the years, the Girl Scouts have carried on, while some of the cookies of the season have changed. The 2025 cookie season was the last year Girl Scout S’mores and Toast-Yay! cookies were included in the lineup. 

But classic cookies such as Thin Mints, Do-si-dos and Trefoils have persisted. Customers enjoy the unique flavors the Girl Scouts offer.

“The Tagalongs are my favorite cookie…they’re just the crispiest cookies layered with peanut butter, and they’re amazing,” said customer Gregory Walple.

Luckily for customers, the Girl Scout cookie tour has been quite expansive around Syracuse and the CNY area. Girl Scout Isabelle from troop 10044 of the local Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways
said her troop has sold in places like Destiny USA and the Webster pond.

“Selling at Destiny Mall has been very good because we have had lots of people pass by and try our cookies even if they have never had them before,” Isabelle said.

The placement within the local community has helped the Girl Scouts reach cookie enthusiasts all over at reasonable prices, at $6 dollars a box. According to the Girl Scouts of NYPenn, the product program aims to teach the young girls essential skills of “goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, business ethics.”

To find out more about where the Girl Scout cookie booths around the Syracuse community are, their booth locations can be found on the Girl Scout website.