The 2025 Cookie Sale will be ending on March 23, 2025.  In last year’s sale, the girls of Troop 1806 sold a total of 16,440 boxes of cookies, of which 588 boxes were Operation Cookie Drop donation boxes. Help us make the 2025 cookie sale just as successful. 

Nine Cookie Varieties to Chose From

At the top of this page are pictures of the nine cookies available for the 2025 Girl Scout Cookie Sale, produced by the ABC Bakery for our Council.  Each picture has a link to the ABC Bakery page describing the cookie in more details.  This will be the last year for the Toast-Yay cookie.  This year, the price for a cookie box has increased to $6/box

For Cookie Buyers and Operation Cookie Drop Donors

Direct Sale of Boxes:  Cookie sales in our Council are all direct sale.  Girls make these direct sales by going through neighborhoods with actual cookies in hand, others are setting up cookie sales booths, some are doing both.  There are also virtual and online sale options.  Booth locations at non-residential locations have to be approved by our Council (to avoid conflicts with other Girl Scout troops), so as soon as we have those approvals, we post booth sale locations, for all our patrols, on our Cookie Booth page.

Digital Cookies:  Girls can earn awards, manage sales, and create online sales opportunities through their own Digital Cookies account.  Our Council will send each girl a special link to create her own Digital Cookies account for the 2025 cookie sale.

OnLine Sales:  Troop 1806 girls have two main options for online sales.  Each of these online sales methods requires the girl to initiate the online sales contact with a buyer-there isn’t a website to just buy cookies online from a specific girl or troop. 

The first online sales method is like a virtual order card.  The girl initiates an e-mail invitation to a buyer through her Digital Cookies account, the buyer selects the cookies they want (including Operation Cookie Drop, if desired), and the girl then arranges to deliver the cookies to the buyer herself and collect the sales price.  The customer has the ability to prepay online for the cookies, so that when the girl delivers them, they are also paid for.  As in previous years, credit/debit cards may be used for payment upon delivery.

The second online sales method is called Digital Cookies Direct.  With Digital Cookies Direct, the girl still initiates the sales contact to a buyer, but the buyer purchases directly from the bakery (full sales credit goes to the girl), using a credit/debit card, and the bakery will then ship directly to the buyer.  A portion of the shipping cost for Digital Cookies Direct is an automatic subsidy from our Council which reduces shipping costs to our buyers.

Operation Cookie Drop:  Buyers who want to support Troop 1806’s cookie sale have the option (in addition to, or instead of, buying actual boxes for themselves), to make a charitable donation of cookie boxes to our active military.  This is called Operation Cookie Drop.  Girls at booths or going through neighborhoods will give this option to anyone.  The way it works is like this:  Say the buyer/donor wants to give a $30 donation to a Troop 1806 girl for the cookie sale.  This donation is “converted” by the girl to equivalent number of boxes.  So a $30 donation would be 5 Operation Cookie Drop boxes (30 divided by 6).  If the donation is something other than in multiples of 6, then the donation will be rounded down to the nearest multiple of 6.  This is reported to our Council, which will, later in the year, calculate the total Operation Cookie Drop donations in our Council, and deliver these. Donors cannot designate the actual types of boxes given by the Council to the military.  The only way donors can designate and deliver actual boxes to military personnel is to do it through the direct ship sale.

Payment for Cookies:  Payment for Girl Scout cookies, whether in direct sales, online sales or at cookie booths, can always be made with cash (real cash, no cash apps), but girls may or may not have exact change with them when making these sales.  Checks are never accepted for payment unless the girl’s family personally knows the writer of the check and trusts that the check will not be returned or stopped.  Payment can also be made by credit/debit checkcard, provided that the girl has created her personal Digital Cookies account, and is accompanied by a smartphone or tablet user who has the app installed. There is no extra charge to the buyer or Troop 1806 for using the credit/debit checkcard.   Buyers can also prepay  for cookies online, still with girl delivery of the actual cookies.

Taking Orders for More Cookies/Operation Cookie Drop:  Even though the sale is all direct order, Troop 1806 girls do take orders during the sale period for more cookies and to accept additional Operation Cookie Drop donations.

For Our Troop 1806 Cookie Sellers

Resources.  Most resources for the cookie sale are available through the Digital Cookies interface.  There is also good information available on our cookie sellers homepage of our council website.

Working with Patrol Cookie Managers.  Each Troop 1806 patrol has a patrol cookie manager.  The patrol cookie managers work as a team with Chip Reinhardt as the Troopwide Cookie Coordinator.  The patrol cookie managers line up booths, do training, answer questions, collect money, keep accounts, staff booths, order and distribute cookies, figure recognitions, and many other functions.  Girls and families in a patrol must work closely with their patrol cookie managers to assure a successful sale.

Cookie Sale Permission Form (now Cookie Receipt).  When cookies are distributed by patrol cookie managers to girls in their patrol, the caregivers of those girls must sign submit the top of the Cookie Receipt as well as the part of the Cookie Receipt itemizing the cookies being distributed.  This makes the caregiver financially responsible for any cookie boxes that are signed out by a patrol cookie manager to a girl in the patrol. 

Earning Patrol Cookie Money:  For each box of cookies sold (whether actual or online) and for each Operation Cookie Drop box, all at $6 per box, the Troop 1806 patrol to which the girl belongs will earn a per-box commission which is tied to the overall per-girl average of cookies sold in the entire troop.

Earning Recognitions:  In addition to patrol cookie money for the patrol, individual Troop 1806 girls will receive special patches, prizes and recognitions based on the number of boxes (both cookie boxes and donation/Operation Cookie Drop boxes) they sold.  All of these patches, prizes and recognitions are described in the 2025 CookieGram.

Earning Pins and Badges:  By participating in the sale, and learning the skills associated with this girl-run business, every Troop 1806 girl is able to earn a number of pins and awards.  Check out this link:

Girl Scout Cookie Badges and Pins

Some other awards and patches have special requirements:  Cookie Rally patch (attend the D10 cookie rally, or alternatively a Council or patrol cookie rally), Cookie Booth patch (work at least one cookie booth with your patrol), My First Cookie Sale patch (for girls new to the sale), Walkabout patch (must sell 15 boxes of cookies during the walkabout week of January 18-24); Goal Getters patch (setting your personal sales goals in Digital Cookies by January 31), and Operation Cookie Drop patch (must sell 15 donation/OCD boxes).

Chip Reinhardt
Troopwide Cookie Coordinator, Troop 1806
(see Contacts page to get in touch)