Get to Know Our Cookie Baker

ABC Bakers has been baking Girl Scout Cookies since 1937!

ABC’s mission is to deliver the best tasting cookies and provide an easy Cookie Program experience for our organization, our troops, and our families! They are licensed by Girl Scouts of the USA to provide Girl Scout Cookies for the annual Girl Scout Cookie Program. As one of the original licensed Girl Scout Cookie bakers, ABC Bakers proudly provides customer-focused responsive service, innovative products, and more effective training and digital tools to support us.

Focusing on Quality

To continue creating safe, high-quality cookies that taste amazing, their bakery in North Sioux City, SD has an extensive program that analyzes potential risks, ensures preventive controls are in place, and regularly tests overall effectiveness with audits from the Global Food Safety Initiative. All these measures are working well, the bakery recently received the audit program’s highest rating—AA!

But wait, how do cookies get from South Dakota all the way to the Missouri Heartland?

Starting from our bakers, delivery agents, employees, cookie cupboards, communities, service units, troops, families, and down to every girl—the Cookie Program really does take a team effort to be successful. After the cookies are baked in South Dakota, they are transported to our three local delivery agents and warehouses. From there, our delivery agents work hard to deliver cookies to service unit drop-offs, cookie cupboards—or wherever cookies are needed. That’s where you come in! After delivery, we count on you—our volunteers—to distribute cookies from service units to troops to our families and girls for selling, where they finally end up in customers hands—and stomachs!

Guess what? There is a new cookie! Learn all about it on page 32.

Respecting the Environment

In 2010, ABC kicked off the “out of the box” initiative, where they opted for cookie sleeves instead of cardboard boxes for some of our top-selling cookies, including Lemonades and Toast-Yay! This change alone led to saving 150 tons of paperboard, and an estimated 2,600 gallons of diesel fuel a year! This is a powerful example of what can be accomplished through making just one change, and they are always keeping an eye out on the next environmentally conscious way to bake and sell Girl Scout Cookies.

Sustainable Foods for All Tastes

ABC Bakers is committed to support the production of certified sustainable palm oil. As part of Weston Foods, ABC Bakers is a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an organization of growers, buyers, manufacturers, conservationists, and other interested parties striving to develop and follow best practices to ensure sustainability. Since 2015, all the palm oil used in their Girl Scout Cookies has been sourced exclusively from RSPO members through RSPO Credits, which support sustainable palm oil production practices. Baker, South Dakota

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Did Someone Say New Cookie?

Announcing the new Adventurefuls cookie joining the nationwide lineup for the 2022 Girl Scout Cookie season. An indulgent brownie-inspired cookie with caramel-flavored crème and a hint of sea salt, Adventurefuls take cookie lovers on a delicious taste adventure just like Girl Scouts go on their own amazing adventures through the program. Girl Scouts in the Missouri Heartland and Girl Scouts across the United States will offer the Adventurefuls cookie next season alongside favorites like Thin Mints® and Caramel deLites®.

Check out the new badges on pages 10-11!

Where are the events and trainings?

We know you are used to seeing our events and trainings listed in the Volunteer 411. However, due to COVID-19, our program and training teams have had to shift gears in many different directions in the past year alone. As the Delta variant adds to the uncertainty of COVID-19, we are working hard to plan trainings and events appropriately for our members.

Thank you for your patience. We promise to keep you updated via all communication channels as we create more training and program opportunities for you.

If you have any questions regarding a training or program, contact us via email at info@girlscoutsmoheartland.org.

gsEvents Coming Soon!

We will be replacing our current event registration system with a movement-wide system later this fall. We’ll send more information out as soon as possible.