On menu: Girl Scout cookie desserts

Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Mar 25, 2004

The Girl Scouts of Utah are staging a culinary challenge to local restaurants in the first annual Girl Scout Cookie Dessert-A-Thon.

It will run through Sunday. Each participating restaurant will create a unique recipe, or recipes, for desserts made from Girl Scout cookies and serve them in their restaurants during the competition.

Then, on Sunday at the Girl Scout Cookie Celebration at Girl Scout offices throughout the state, a panel of celebrity Girl Scout cookie connoisseurs will judge the entries and choose the winning chef and restaurant who will win the Top Cookie award.

"We are thrilled to bring this event to Utah," says Elaine Gause, CEO of Girl Scouts of Utah. "We've had an overwhelming response among restaurants and I am looking forward to sampling a variety of the Girl Scout Cookie desserts!"

The Girl Scouts of Utah, with 5,000 members, is part of the world's pre-eminent organization for girls, with a membership of more than 3.5 million girls and adults worldwide.