Embrace Possibility: Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey Kicks-Off the 2025 Cookie Season Today, Monday, January 6
January 06, 2025
Westfield, NJ – January 6, 2025 - It’s the most delicious time of the year! Starting today, Monday, January 6, Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey (GSHNJ) opens the 2025 Girl Scout Cookie Season, inviting cookie lovers to enjoy their favorites while supporting local members. From timeless classics like Thin Mints® and Caramel deLites® to the farewell season of Toast-Yay!®, every purchase helps participants develop invaluable life skills while funding inspiring, life-changing experiences.
“The Girl Scout Cookie Program™ is a powerful tool that equips members with essential skills like goal setting, money management, decision making, people skills, and business ethics,” said Natasha Hemmings, CEO of Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey. “Every box sold helps participants learn how to run their own businesses, tackle challenges, and make meaningful decisions—skills that will serve them well throughout their lives. It’s amazing to witness their growth and determination as they embrace these opportunities.”
The Girl Scout Cookie Program does more than delight taste buds—it changes lives. Every purchase helps fuel the dreams of Girl Scout members across New Jersey, providing critical funding for service projects that give back to communities, camp adventures that promote growth and teamwork, and unique learning opportunities that inspire creativity and resilience. Each box sold supports the development of skills and experiences that enable our members to make a positive impact on the world around them.
This year’s lineup includes nine irresistible varieties, each priced at $6 per package:
Adventurefuls™: Indulgent brownie-inspired cookies with caramel-flavored crème and a hint of sea salt.
Toast-Yay!™: French-toast inspired cookies dipped in delicious icing.
Lemonades™: Tangy lemon-flavored shortbread cookies topped with a refreshing lemon icing.
Trefoils®: Iconic shortbread cookies with a delicate, buttery taste.
Thin Mints®: Crisp wafers covered in chocolatey coating and infused with natural peppermint oil.
Peanut Butter Patties®: Crispy cookies layered with peanut butter and covered in a chocolatey coating.
Caramel deLites®: Crispy cookies topped with caramel, toasted coconut, and a chocolatey drizzle.
Peanut Butter Sandwich®: Crunchy oatmeal cookies with a creamy peanut butter filling.
Caramel Chocolate Chip: Gluten-free cookies loaded with caramel, semi-sweet chocolate chips, and a hint of sea salt.
Community members eager to support Girl Scouts can purchase cookies in several ways. If you know a registered Girl Scout, reach out to learn how they’re selling cookies this year. Starting Friday, February 21, anyone can visit the Girl Scout Cookie Finder to purchase cookies for direct shipping, locate a local cookie booth, or even donate cookies to support community causes. From Friday, March 7 to Sunday, April 13, cookie booths will be set up across communities, providing an in-person opportunity to stock up on your favorite flavors. For those who prefer staying informed, text COOKIES to 59618 for updates on cookie sales and other exciting Girl Scout news.
The 2025 Girl Scout Cookie Program theme, "Embrace Possibility," inspires members to dream big and tackle challenges with determination. Represented by the resilient panda—a symbol of adaptability—the theme reminds Girl Scouts that, just as pandas thrive in their environment, they too can explore new opportunities and create positive change in their communities.
About Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey:
Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey (GSHNJ) believes in the power of every girl. Our leadership program is designed to help girls discover who they are, what they can do, and connect with a powerful community of girls and mentors to make it happen. With unique opportunities, Girl Scouts explore, learn, succeed, and take action to make a difference in their community. Providing over 12,000 girls from Kindergarten through 12th grade access to leadership programs and mentors throughout Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Somerset, Union, southern Warren, and parts of Middlesex counties, GSHNJ offers girls a chance to practice a lifetime of leadership. GSHNJ operates two service centers located in North Branch and Westfield and the Girl Scout Leadership Center in Newark as well as three camp locations: Camp Hoover in Middleville, N.J., Camp DeWitt in Hillsborough, N.J., and The OVAL in Maplewood, N.J. To volunteer, reconnect, donate, or join, please visit www.gshnj.org.
