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The time everyone waits for has arrived. Better than birthdays, better than Christmas, better than Halloween: It’s Girl Scout Cookie season.
Before patiently waiting for the doorbell to ring or the booth in front of King Soopers to pop up, one must research what cookie is the best.
From worst to best, here are the Girl Scout Cookies for 2025.
9. Lemon-Ups
In 2020, Girl Scouts released Lemon-Ups, a shortbread cookie with lemon icing on the bottom and motivational phrases on top. They replaced the far superior Savannah Smiles in 2020, which were lemon-flavored shortbread wedges coated in powered sugar. Lemon-Ups are a bland cookie with icing that isn’t nearly flavorful enough.

8. S’mores
The S’mores cookie is exactly what it sounds like: a sandwich cookie that tastes like graham crackers with chocolate and marshmallow filling. It’s a fine cookie, but it is incredibly sweet.

7. Do-si-dos
Do-si-dos, like the S’mores, are a sandwich oatmeal cookie with a peanut butter filling. They are a tasty peanut butter cookie, but the combination of the dry cookie with the peanut butter filling makes it taste like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with too much peanut butter. The texture of this cookie is enough to be placed at No. 7 on this list.

6. Trefoils
Trefoils are your classic shortbread cookie. It isn’t particularly special, but it’s exactly what one might want in a shortbread cookie. It is sweet, buttery and goes really well with a hot drink. There’s not much to say about this cookie.

5. Toffee-tastic
Toffee-tastics are another shortbread cookie. These ones are bumped up because of the small pieces of toffee in the cookie. They are also a bit drier and more crumbly than the Trefoils, which creates more of a melt-in-your-mouth sort of texture. The shortbread cookies are tasty but nothing special, which is why they find themselves in the middle of the list.

4. Adventurefuls
Adventurefuls are the newest cookie to be released, coming out in 2022. They are a rich chocolate cookie with a caramel flavored crème center and a chocolate drizzle. If you are a chocolate fan, these are the cookies for you. They are very sweet and rich — exactly what a chocolate and caramel cookie should be.

3. Samoas
Here is when the list may become a bit controversial. Samoas are a shortbread cookie topped with shredded coconut and chocolate. Don’t get it twisted, Samoas are great. That’s why they are No. 3. However, the texture of the shredded coconut knocks it down to third place, as the coconut is just thin enough to work itself between teeth.

2. Tagalongs
Tagalongs, a chocolate-coated shortbread cookie with peanut butter in the center, is ranked at No. 2 because of it’s similarity to Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. These cookies are top-tier. Everything works so well together to make a tasty cookie with a delightful texture.

1. Thin Mints
And now for No. 1: The best cookie one can buy at a cookie booth this year are Thin Mints. The mint chocolaty shortbread coated in even more chocolate is great. It never gets old. Frozen Thin Mints are even better, though most mint things are. To put them anywhere other than No. 1 would be a disservice to them and a lie to you.
Truthfully, there are not any bad Girl Scout Cookies — except for Lemon-Ups — so this list was far more difficult than expected. Enjoy this cookie season; it will only be around for a little while longer.

Reach Audrey Weishaar at life@collegian.com or on Twitter @CSUCollegian.
Donna Rey • Mar 12, 2025 at 6:54 am
I stopped buying girl scout cookies since they stopped making Savannah Smiles. Those were my favorite and the only cookies I bought. If the girl scouts want more support I suggest bring back the Savannah Smiles.
Daniel • Mar 12, 2025 at 3:53 am
It is Samoas #1 by a freaking mile. Then who cares #2
Jamie • Mar 12, 2025 at 2:14 am
My daughter LOVES the Lemonades which is what they are called here. I wouldn’t say they’re better than a thin mint in my opinion, but as someone who hates coconut I would rank them a lot higher.
Christine • Mar 8, 2025 at 8:43 pm
The gf caramel choc chip is terrible. Tastes like raisin bran in a weird way. Really wish we could have gf thin mints!
Anna D • Mar 8, 2025 at 6:49 pm
I’d love to see Savannah smiles and strawberry sandwich cookies back
Do-Si-Dos, Tagalongs, samoas and Thin mints
are my family’s favorites .. everyone has a different cookie as their fav … there used to be a strawberry sandwich cookie also lemon sandwich and Savannah smiles were delicious
In my opinion you can cancel new lemon cookie with affirmations .. forget the affirmations and work on the cookie. I’m sorry I purchased 2 boxes of these yuk
In Georgia now
WH • Mar 7, 2025 at 6:56 pm
In our area, the cookie ranking is different. From worst to best:
9 Toast-Yays
8 Trefoil
7 Gluten Free CC
6 Peanut Butter Sandwich
5 Lemoade
4 Adventureful
3 Peanut Butter Patty
2 Thin Mint
1 Caramel Delight
Monica • Mar 7, 2025 at 6:42 pm
I buy a case of thin mints every year, they are my absolute favorite
Rosemary • Mar 7, 2025 at 4:24 pm
The lemon-up or in my town lemonades are fantastic! The “plastastics”, the gluten free cookie are absolutely terrible. Love the TM’s and trefoils should be higher on the list
sarah • Mar 7, 2025 at 1:39 pm
thin mints are disgusting. and do-si-dos deserve to be higher up on the list
Morse • Mar 7, 2025 at 1:02 pm
Our favorites are Thin mints and Do si dos
Lisa Armbrester+ • Mar 7, 2025 at 12:52 pm
Yes ! I love the Thin Mints I’ll choose them over any GS cookie,but I also like the others, but Thin Mints will always be #1 for me.
KingBa • Mar 7, 2025 at 10:14 am
You clearly are bad at judging because thin mints are nasty like most mint things .
Emily M • Mar 7, 2025 at 7:12 am
This only covers the Little Brownie Baker versions. Interested to see where the ABC Baker versions would rank. (It’s a regional thing.) Our region switched this year & even the Thin Mints are slightly different, although I’m sure they would still rank first. Especially interested in seeing where ToastYays & Caramel Chocolate Chip would fall. (BTW, sales end Sun March 9… audreysgirlscoutcookies dot com for one potential source.) I do guarantee that ABC’s “Lemonades” would be far above LBB’s “Lemon-Ups.”
Laryssa Baczynskyj • Mar 6, 2025 at 11:31 pm
Little Brownie Bakers don’t make the cookies this year – Ferrero does. They changed the Thin Mint Recipe you hardly taste any mint!. Keeblers mint chocolate cookies are the original recipe and better.
Christel B Clark • Mar 6, 2025 at 9:49 pm
Well myself I have to say the oatmeal peanut butter cookies are very delicious. Here from Georgia
Alan Caskey • Mar 6, 2025 at 6:01 pm
Peanut butter is better than a thin mint . Yuck
Jaylin Hunter • Mar 6, 2025 at 1:53 pm
Never let bro rank again – Girl scout
Raymond Kelley • Mar 6, 2025 at 10:21 am
I need some were are they
Mom of a girl scout • Mar 5, 2025 at 11:04 pm
Interesting take on that, as a mom of a current girl scout that is not the order of their popularity.
Mom a beautiful daisy scout • Mar 7, 2025 at 10:57 am
Agreed. Yes, thin mints are super popular but a close second and third are trefoils and Samoas. People also love adventurefuls and lemon ups. Tagalongs and dosidos hardly get requested by buyers.