Girl Scout Cookie Taste-Off

When Kyrie was selling Girl Scout cookies, she was frequently asked what her favorite kind of cookie was and since she had never had a GS cookie, she could not give an answer. I thought that it would be nice for her to be able to try all the flavors of cookies so that next year, she would be able to answer that question. And thus began my plans for the "Coble Family Girl Scout Cookie Taste-Off." It would be a fun activity for our family and a nice way to kind of celebrate the end of our GS cookie sales for this year! (Thanks to all our family, friends & neighbors who bought cookies to support Kyrie & her troop!)

Kyrie had been waiting for the cookie taste-off from the moment we brought home our boxes of cookies. Of course, we made the kids wait a few weeks and then until after dinner and after I had cleaned the entire kitchen. I prepared a plate of cookies for everyone, one of each flavor that they got along with a 'ballot' and a sheet of stickers to award as they saw fit to each cookie.

We all dug right into our cookie plates, each with a different methodology to the tasting. Degen picked the cookie he thought looked best and ate it all up. After that he tried a few bites of the others and left a few untouched. Kyrie gobbled her first cookie right up, but then started to take small bites of the rest. Darren & I chose a more traditional single bite of each approach.

Kyrie liked the Thin Mints the best, but also scored Savannah Smiles, Tagalongs & Do-Si-Dos quite high. She was not a fan of Thank U Berry Much or Trefoils.

Degen just had fun putting stickers all over his chart! The only cookie he ate all of was the Tagalong, though he did try several bites of Thin Mints, a little Samoa and gave the Savannah Smiles a single lick.

This is my dear husband being a dork! In the end he chose the Thin Mint as his favorite, and it really does have a great mint flavor. It was close though, he was highly impressed with the quality of the Do-Si-Do and its peanut buttery flavor!

My favorite was the Samoa. That chocolate, caramel & toasted coconut flavor combination is just too good to deny! YUM! Do-Si-Dos, Thin Mints and Tagalongs all earned runner-up positions for me. As did the newcomer: Dulce de Leche. I was pleasantly surprised by the cinnamon & caramel flavor of this little cookie. It wasn't my favorite at first bite, but the more I tasted the more I appreciated its flavor.

Overall, the big winners of the night were: Thin Mints, Do-Si-Dos, Tagalongs & Samoas! And, of course, our taste buds & tummies which walked away full of sweet, cookie goodness!