Top Selling Cookie Troop

Drum roll please...........

The Top Selling Cookie Troop for 2011 is Troop 20488 in Muskegon! Total troop sales were $20,419! Way to go girls!

They are awarded the Super Troop Award! This award is a resort package at the Double JJ Ranch. It includes: spending the night in a cabin, wagon or teepee; enjoying the indoor water park and many other activities!

CONGRATS TROOP 20488!!

Girl Scout Cookies coming to the Food Network!

Show Details:
Watch Samoas® Girl Scout cookies made at our Louisville bakery Saturday, May 28, on the Food Network’s “Unwrapped” series at 9 p.m. EDT.

Have you ever wondered how your favorite Samoas® Girl Scout cookies are made? Those tender vanilla cookies, covered with real caramel, rolled in toasted coconut and striped with a rich, chocolaty coating, are enjoyed by countless Girl Scout-cookie lovers each year. But how do all those ingredients come together to make such a tasty snack?

The answer will be revealed next Saturday, May 28, when the classic cookie takes over the airwaves at the Food Network.

Samoas® will be one of several American classics featured on a special one-hour “All-American Eats” segment on the Food Network’s “Unwrapped” series. The popular show visited the Louisville bakery to film how Little Brownie Bakers makes Samoas® – a brand name cookie so popular it has 400,000+ Facebook “likes.” Viewers will get a behind-the-scenes peek at the copper kettles filled with creamy caramel and how the cookies “earn” their distinctive chocolaty stripes.

Each week, “Unwrapped” uncovers behind-the-scenes details on classic American food. Additional classics that will be featured in the “Unwrapped” segment include Coca-Cola, Twinkies and Hungry Jack, among others.

“Unwrapped” is hosted by Marc Summers, who has previously hosted Nickelodeon’s “Double Dare” as well as ABC-TV’s “Home Show,” Lifetime’s “Our Home” and the Food Network’s “Ultimate Recipe Showdown” series.

For more information about the show, visit: http://www.foodnetwork.com/unwrapped/all-american-eats/index.html.

Gift of Caring Cookies donated to MI Blood

Yesterday we delivered our Gift of Caring cookies to Michigan Blood in Grand Rapids. 3,319 boxes of GS Cookies were donated. WZZM 13 news was on hand to film as well as the Grand Rapids Press.

Way to go all the girls who worked hard to donate to MI Blood and all the other great charities this cookie season!!

Troop 20126 Winner of the 'Bling You Booth Contest'

We had so many creative, wonderful pictures sent in for our Bling Your Booth Contest. It was very hard to select a winner! Our GSMISTS staff members all cast their votes for their favorite booths.

The winning troop exemplified the criteria we were looking for which included:
• Promotion of the Gift of Caring
• Use/promotion of Bundling
• Creativity

Troop 20126 had their booth at Sam's Club in Muskegon on April 1, 2011. The girls had fun with painting their handprints and decorating paper for their cookie risers. They dressed up as their favorite cookie and added a little personality of their own! The girls also decorated a minivan with Girl Scout cookie decals! Troop 20126 will be treated to a dinner at their favorite restaurant by the Product Sales Director (me!).


Congrats Troop 20126!!!

Booth Sales extended through April 30th

Is your troop still trying to earn money? Do you have a special trip planned? An exciting community project that could use some extra funds? Do you have extra cookies that just need to be sold?

We are extending Booth Sales through April 30th! You have an additional 2 weeks to sell those cookies. It's not too late to contact local businesses and sell those cookies! With Easter around the corner- remind people that cookies make a great addition to any Easter basket! Also- I highly recommend using cookies to make a yummy dessert to bring to any family Easter dinner! The possibilities are endless!!

Cookie Drive Thru

We had a wonderful 1st ever Cookie Drive-Thru! We were at the corner of the East Beltline and 28th Street. Council provided the setup and cookies and cars had to literally drive up and order!

If you missed it- you can sign up for this weekend on ebudde. We have 2 shifts- 11 Am-2 PM and 2 PM-5 PM. This is a great last minute opportunity for your girls. We have cookie costumes, cookies, change....we just need troops.

Click on the link to check out WZZM 13's news story on our drive thru. It was featured both Saturday night and Sunday morning!

http://www.wzzm13.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=161774

Ice Cream Shop wanting Girl Scouts to sell cookies this weekend

I just received a call from The Dairy Den in Wyoming. They are having a Grand Opening of the Season and would love to have a Girl Scout Troop Booth sale in front of their ice cream place. They are even going to offer a ‘girl scout special’ 99 cent slushie or something like that. They are open for booth sales Fri.-Sun., anytime. She really wants this weekend but is open next weekend as well.

If interested- please contact Becca Emaus directly to set up the booth sale. Her phone is: 616-406-2102 and is the owner of The Dairy Den.

The Dairy Den
4054 Division Avenue South
Grand Rapids, MI 49548-3369
(just down a little ways from Branns Restaurant)