According to the Girl Scouts of the USA, the very first Girl Scout Cookie fundraiser took place in 1917, in Muskogee, Oklahoma when the Girl Scouts of the Mistletoe Troop baked homemade cookies and ...

Indeed, Girl Scouts used to bake and sell their own cookies — and the recipe’s history is a look ... made online to drum up sales, including Thin Mint cookie pie and cookie dip.