SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The 2026 Girl Scout cookie season has kicked off for San Antonio-area troops.<\/p>\n
Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas (GSSWT) distributed boxes of cookies in Bexar and 20 other surrounding counties on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
GSSWT represents the nearly 250 troops and few thousand girls selling cookies in the region this year.<\/p>\n
The demand for the popular treat is so high that distribution to troops runs for over four days in San Antonio.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you don\u2019t know anything about Girl Scouts, you at least know about the Girl Scout cookie program,\u201d said GSSWT Chief Development and Communications Officer Stephanie Finleon Cortez.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so iconic because so many women have gotten their start in business and learned such valuable skills selling Girl Scout cookies,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Cortez said the cookie program remains the largest entrepreneurial program for girls in the world as GSSWT enters its 102nd year.<\/p>\n
With nearly 1.2 million cookie boxes sold in 2025, $800 million was raised to support troops nationwide.<\/p>\n
This year, eight flavors are available for $5 a box. These include Thin Mints, Lemon-Ups, Adventurefuls, Trefoils, Do-si-dos, Samoas, Tagalongs, Toffee-Tastic and \u2014introducing for the first time \u2014 Exploremores.<\/p>\n
Inspired by rocky road ice cream, the new Exploremores cookie has flavors of chocolate, marshmallow and toasted almond cr\u00e8me.<\/p>\n