My Favorite Girl Scout Cookies in 2024, Ranked Worst to Best – CNET

This is the only one I couldn’t swallow. After biting into the hard, gluten-free cookie and letting it dissolve a bit, it felt like I had just eaten a spoonful of sand. And it didn’t get any better from there: The toffee bits tasted more like a mediocre caramel and the cookie smelled like actual dirt. 

Toffee-Tastic is a very hard cookie, similar to biscotti. It might taste better if dipped into tea or coffee. The cookie was so hard that I conducted a “drop test” over a concrete sidewalk to see what it would take to break it. After four attempts and a toss, it finally broke clean in half. 

Needless to say, I don’t recommend this cookie.

This is another gluten-free option the Girl Scouts offer and while it’s way better than Toffee-Tastic, it’s still bland. The texture is pleasant, soft and has large chocolate chunks. However, it’s not much different from a regular chocolate chip cookie. It’s extremely sweet since it has caramel flavoring but it’s also a bit salty, which I didn’t like.

I’ve only ever had the Tagalongs, but for this taste test I received Peanut Butter Patties. It’s been years since I’ve actually indulged in Tagalongs, but the taste between the two is somewhat different (they’re made by different bakeries). 

The upper layer is a soft peanut butter while the lower layer is a crunchy crust, and the entire cookie is covered in a soft chocolate coating. Peanut Butter Patties are a bit too rich in flavor for me but have an overall good taste. 

S’mores Pop-Tarts heated in a toaster were always my favorite as a kid, and the Girl Scout S’mores cookies taste similar. They’re very soft with a buttery graham cracker sandwich filled with creamy chocolate and marshmallow-flavored filling. 

But since s’mores aren’t meant to be cold, I decided to heat these cookies up in my microwave. Fantastic decision. The chocolate melted as it should and the marshmallow filling became much softer. If you buy these, I recommend heating them up (I used increments of 7 seconds to be on the safe side).

No, they still don’t taste like the s’mores you make by a campfire, but they’re pretty good.

Do-si-dos are soft, easy-to-break peanut butter sandwiches. Not only do they have peanut butter in the center, but the cracker also tastes like peanut butter. The entire cracker melts in your mouth and has a nice, subtle flavor — I could eat these as is without the peanut butter. 

The peanut butter tastes different in the Do-si-dos than in the Tagalongs because it’s not so overwhelmingly sweet. To me, it tastes more like authentic peanut butter without artificial flavors and has the same texture.

These cookies knocked Thin Mints into my personal third place, and I’m not sorry about it. Have you ever tried Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal? That’s what the Toast-Yay cookies remind me of. They have a gingerbread and cinnamon graham cracker taste with a delicious layer of icing. The crust melts in your mouth almost instantly.

The large bread-shaped cookies are nearly the size of my palm. They’re only available in certain regions, however, so they may be hard to come by. But if you can get your hands on some, I highly recommend them.