What do you get when you introduce one of Canada’s best loved foods to some of Canada’s favourite chefs?

You get Cookie Recipes for Girl Greatness of course!

We all know that the only thing better than enjoying Girl Guide cookies straight out of the box are the recipes that use our classic chocolate and vanilla and chocolatey mint cookies! With that in mind, Girl Guides of Canada-Guides du Canada challenged Canadian chefs and bakers to create their most scrumptious recipes using our famous cookies and we couldn’t be happier with the results.

The six delicious recipes are:

• No-Bake Chai Cheesecake – Bal Arneson, Food Network’s Spice Goddess
• Girl Guide Minted Chocolate Salame – Massimo Capra, regular on City TV’s Cityline
• Girl Guide Brownie Cupcakes – The Cupcake Girls, Heather White and Lori Joyce
• Minty Hot Chocolate – Kary Osmond, former host of CBC’s Best Recipes Ever
• Girl Guide Vanilla Banana Trifle – Petite and Sweet, Elle Daftarian and Caspar Haydar
• Chocolate Vanilla Coffee Cake – Emily Richards, home economist and cookbook author

These recipes are a great way to promote Girl Guide Cookies and increase your sales.

• Make one or two of these recipes or create one of your own and offer samples to everyone who walks by your table at your next cookie event.  After just one bite, I bet there would be few people who will say ‘no’ to buying an extra box of cookies.
• Print your favourite recipes from girlguides.ca and use them in your cookie display.
• If customers want to know where they can get their own copy then you can give them one of the notecards with the Cookie Recipes for Girl Greatness logo and web address that we’ve put  on Members Zone in the Cookie Selling Resources folder.
• Or maybe you could print off copies of your favourite recipes and offer them to customers who buy multiple boxes.

We are sure the girls will think of lots of innovative ways to use this new selling tool! All six recipes are available on our updated recipe page at girlguides.ca, and special recipe cards can be picked-up in select Sears stores across the country during Cookie Days in Canada, this weekend – April 20-21.

Do you have your own delicious recipe using our cookies?

If you think that you have a recipe to rival those of our celebrity chefs, we would love to share it with everyone. Send your recipe to ckhelp@girlguides.ca and who knows it might be the next dessert featured as a Cookie Recipe for Girl Greatness.

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What’s New with Girl Guides? Cookie Day in Canada 2013 is April 20 (and 21 in select locations) across Canada. Cookie lovers: don’t forget to check out our Cookie Finder Map to find a location near you! Cookie sellers (Guiders): don’t forget to add your unit cookie sales event to our interactive cookie drive map.