I must have been in Kindergarten or First Grade when a Girl Scout representative came to our classroom.  She was dressed from head to toe in the tan and green regalia.  Buttons, bows, patches she had it all going on.  She gave us a little speech about the program and then invited any girl who was interested to line up out in the hall and one by one she would sign us up.

I was mainly interested in the cookies, the brownies (I had no idea it was the title of an age group level), and the patches. So I followed most of my female classmates out into the hall and into the line.  As I inched my way closer to the woman taking down each girl’s information I heard her say to one of them ahead of me, “OK, I need your name and your home phone number.”  I immediately began to panic!  What was my home phone number?  I knew I knew it. I just could not think of it in that moment.  I could not let any of my classmates know that I did not know my home phone number!  They were cruel and relentless at that age.  Come to think of it kids are cruel and relentless at all ages.

I did the only thing I could think of to do at that moment.  I said to myself out loud, “I have to get something I will be right back.”  I don’t know if anyone heard me or even cared.  From there I marched back into the classroom and sat at my desk.  No one said anything to me:  not my teacher, not the Girl Scout Lady, and not any of the other students.  No one noticed and I was relieved.  And so my Girl Scout Career began and ended in a matter of maybe five minutes.

No offense to their program, but I am always dumbfounded every year when I buy my requisite boxes of Girl Scout cookies.  They are just so mediocre and processed.  Not that I am expecting something resembling homemade.  And, they are not advertising a miracle cookie and they are not expensive.  They are just one of those things I build up in my head every year, like State Fair Food.  And then I’m like, Hmmm.  And then I move on.

But this year my cookies were delivered and I had an idea.  What if two wrongs can actually make a right?  So I put together my second to last baking mix and a box of Tagalongs.  The result was definitely a right!  Ben and I ate every last resulting cookie creation in ten minutes flat.  Only about double the time it took me to not become a Girl Scout.

Ingredients:

-One box yellow cake mix (I used Duncan Hines 16.5 oz.)

-1 egg

– ½ c. butter (1stick) melted

-1 package Tagalongs (Girl Scout Cookies) mine were frozen

-2 Tbsp. Reese’s Pieces Candy, mine were frozen

-2 Tbsp. milk chocolate chips, mine were frozen

-cooking spray

Preheat oven to 350° F. Coat a muffin top pan with cooking spray. In a medium bowl combine cake mix, egg, and butter. Stir until well combined. With a small cookie scoop place one full scoop of batter into each cup of the pan.  Place a Tagalong (cookie) on top of each scoop and press down into batter.  Place about ½ scoop of the batter over the top of each cookie.  Spread it out a little with your fingers.  In a food processor or blender add Reese’s Pieces Candy and chocolate chips pulse for a few seconds to chop up the candy.  Sprinkle a bit of the candy mixture over each cookie.  Bake cookies for 15 to 20 minutes until they begin to brown.  Let cookies cool for a few minutes in the pan then remove from pan and EAT!!!