Easy Bake GS Cookies coming this summer

[josieposy]

Okay it's a new competitor for Easy Bake, but I didn't know what else to call it. Pics at link:

money.cnn.com/2015/04/23/smallbusiness/girl-scouts-cookies-oven/index.html


Everyone loves Thin Mints and Do-si-dos, but you only get a chance to buy them from the Girl Scouts once a year.

That's about to change, as a new bake-it-yourself Girl Scout cookie oven heads to Wal-Mart (WMT), Target (TGT)and Toys "R" Us stores this summer.

For the first time in nearly a century, the Girl Scout organization has loosened the tight grip it has on its cookie empire to let fans bake the iconic treats themselves.

It will go head to head with another iconic name: Hasbro (HAS)'s Easy-Bake Oven.

"We're excited to disrupt a toy category that's been dominated for years by one product," said Michael Rinzler, co-founder of the toy startup Wicked Cool Toys, which won a licensing deal with the Girl Scouts organization to make the oven.

The Girl Scouts sell 200 million boxes of cookies a year.

The oven is for kids 8 and up and will be priced at $59.99, including one cookie pack. The cookie mix packs are sold separately for $6.99 each and come in Thin Mint, Trefoil and Chocolate Peanut Butter.

Kids can bake up to 6 small cookies at a time in about 15 minutes -- less than half the time of competing toy ovens, he said.

"The best part is the taste," said Rinzler. "It's all the popular Girl Scouts cookie flavors."

But is it really?

The Girl Scouts did collaborate with the toymaker, but Rinzler admits he couldn't get the exact formula of the original cookies.

"So we reversed engineered the flavors," he said. "We like to say the flavors are reminiscent of the classic Girl Scout cookies and not the exactly the same."

The toymaker is also making a Girl Scouts wagon and a Girl Scouts cookie stand so kids can sell cookies themselves.

"A core principle of the Girl Scouts is to encourage creativity," he said. "So we don't just want to put kids in the kitchen. We want to encourage them to learn about business basics and being an entrepreneur."

[jln]

Well I know what I'm getting for Christmas.

[meshaliuknits]

There are options other than the easy bake oven, but they suck. And some "cook" in the fridge.

I think I'd still rather an ez bake oven & my thin mints the old fashioned way.

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Do people not realize that there are cookies sold in stores that taste exactly like Girl Scout cookies? They are generally sold under generic store brand names. Although Keebler does have the "Coconut Dreams" cookie.

[alleinesein]

Apr 26, 2015 9:26:06 GMT -5 papiercherri said:

Do people not realize that there are cookies sold in stores that taste exactly like Girl Scout cookies? They are generally sold under generic store brand names. Although Keebler does have the "Coconut Dreams" cookie.

Little Brownie Bakers is a subsidiary of Keebler. Coconut dreams are Samoas with just a few less calories and Grasshoppers are just Thin Mints with a thicker chocolate coating.  

[jln]

Apr 26, 2015 10:17:48 GMT -5 alleinesein said:

Apr 26, 2015 9:26:06 GMT -5 papiercherri said:

Do people not realize that there are cookies sold in stores that taste exactly like Girl Scout cookies? They are generally sold under generic store brand names. Although Keebler does have the "Coconut Dreams" cookie.

Little Brownie Bakers is a subsidiary of Keebler. Coconut dreams are Samoas with just a few less calories and Grasshoppers are just Thin Mints with a thicker chocolate coating.  

I did not know this.  I will be adding these to my grocery list. 

[meshaliuknits]

Apr 26, 2015 10:06:01 GMT -5 mr+ms said:

I got DD an EZ bake oven for Xmas and it was a flop. It takes about 45 minutes to bake a batch of gross "cookies." Fuck that. I can get some cookie mix for $1 and DD can bake something edible in the toaster in about 12 mins. I can't believe the age recommendation for that thing is 8+.

I frequently find the age recommendations on toys baffling. If BabyLiu could read I would get her one.

I will never get the snoopy snow cone maker though. That thing has always sucked.

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Apr 26, 2015 10:17:48 GMT -5 alleinesein said:

Apr 26, 2015 9:26:06 GMT -5 papiercherri said:

Do people not realize that there are cookies sold in stores that taste exactly like Girl Scout cookies? They are generally sold under generic store brand names. Although Keebler does have the "Coconut Dreams" cookie.

Little Brownie Bakers is a subsidiary of Keebler. Coconut dreams are Samoas with just a few less calories and Grasshoppers are just Thin Mints with a thicker chocolate coating.  

Good to know.

Our local Dollar General always has these:

True love.

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