12 Clever Ways to Use Girl Scout Cookies

Tagalong Milkshake Recipe

Your favorite peanut butter and chocolate Girl Scout cookie in yummy milkshake form. We recommend buying high quality ice cream and hot fudge. You can also use pre-made peanut butter sauce, but having the leftovers is delicious (and useful for making more shakes). Enjoy immediately.

No-Bake Samoa Pie Recipe

Save a stash of Samoas (or Caramel DeLights) in order to make an epic pie that looks, and tastes, just like the classic Girl Scout cookie. Use the back of a measuring cup to press the crust into the pie plate and add heavy cream to the caramel when melting for a smoother, drizzle-with-ease consistency. Serve chilled, as you would a coconut creme pie.

Finely ground Trefoils cookies make the perfect base for this elegant lemon cheesecake. Decorate with sliced strawberries and "do a good turn daily" by sharing with friends and family.

Recipe: Lemon Shortbread Cheesecake

Gather 'round the campfire and substitute Thin Mints for the wafer cookies to give this peanut butter and roasted marshmallow combo a hint of mint.

Recipe: Chocolate and Peanut Butter S'mores

From Samoas and Tagalongs to Thank U Berry Munch and Daisy Go Rounds, any cookie can be transformed into a flavor-bursting ice-cream sandwich. Just choose your favorite cookie, pick a flavor of ice cream, and roll in candy, crushed cookies, and ground nuts. The rest is cookie history.

Recipe: Easy Chocolate-Mint Ice-Cream Sandwiches

Eaten your last Girl Scout cookie? "Be prepared!" You can use cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies (like Oreo's) in this milkshake. If you still have Tagalongs on-hand, give Peanut Butter-Chocolate Tagalongs Milk Shakes or Vanilla-Banana Tagalongs Milk Shakes a try.

Recipe: Grasshopper Milkshake

Only 5 ingredients are needed for this deceptively refreshing, summertime parfait. Earn your badge for creativity when you layer crushed Lemonades, blueberry filling and lemon-flavored cream.

Recipe: Lemon-Blueberry Layered Dessert

Divide up your kaper chart and assign each member a responsibility. Let one person choose their favorite leftover cookies for decoration, another to crush cookies for the crust, and some else to prepare the Raspberry Glaze. If you're making this pie for your Daisy, Brownie, Cadette, Junior, or Senior, substitute chocolate sauce for the mocha liqueur.

Recipe: Triple Chocolate-Trifle Pie

Just like the buddy system, this double cookie delight fills two cookies with creamy white chocolate. Use two Samoas, Dulce de Leches, or a Do-Si-Dos split in half to make these decadent, cream-filled sandwich cookies.

Recipe: White Chocolate Snow Balls

For a sweet, bite-sized dessert, roll ice cream into small balls then coat in your favorite Girl Scout Cookie crumbs. Pile Samoa truffles, Do-Si-Dos Ice Cream Truffles, and Trefoils Ice-Cream Truffles into a bowl or waffle cone to resemble individual scoops of ice cream.

Recipe: Samoas Ice-Cream Truffles

Call in the troops to help with this simple after-dinner dessert. Use your favorite flavor of ice cream, extra Trefoils, and of course, the classic sundae toppings like chocolate, maraschino cherries, and whipped cream.

Recipe: Chocolate Shortbread Sundae

Earn your Girl Scout Gold Award with this 5-star cookie pudding recipe. Use Tagalongs to make chocolate peanut butter pudding, Do-Si-Dos for oatmeal peanut butter pudding, or Thin Mints for chocolate mint pudding.

Recipe: Chocolate Cookie Pudding