Thin Mints, Samoas and Tag-Alongs … in doughnut form? What a world we live in! Watch video
What’s the best thing about February? No, it’s not the Super Bowl or tax returns — it’s the beginning of Girl Scout cookie season!
Chances are someone at work is already hitting you up to buy their daughter’s Tag-Alongs and Savannah Smiles, and if you’re a sweets savage like me, you’ll soon be sucking down Samoas and Thin Mints by the sleeve.
But a doughnut shop at the Jersey Shore takes the confectionary craze to a new level: Girl Scout Cookie doughnuts.
That’s right, the Purple Glaze doughnut shop in downtown Asbury Park — a favorite of our own doughnut expert Pete Genovese — is serving up four types of delicious GSCDs:
– Tag-Along doughnuts, with chocolate, peanut butter drizzle, double-fudge buttercream and topped with a Tag-Along cookie
– Samoa doughnuts, with chocolate icing, toasted coconut, dulce de leche filling, caramel drizzle and topped with a Samoa cookie
– Thin Mint doughnuts, with chocolate icing, mint chips, double-fudge buttercream, mint drizzle and topped with a Thin Mint cookie
– Savannah Smile doughnuts, with powdered sugar, lemon tart filling and topped with a Savannah Smile cookie
Girl Scout Cookie doughnuts clockwise from left: the Thin Mint, the Savannah Smile, the Samoa, the Tag-along. (Bobby Olivier | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Each doughnut costs $2.50 and is, as you may imagine, wildly popular — Purple Glaze got its most recent shipment of cookies in Monday and then were ordering more Wednesday afternoon (the place is closed on Tuesday).
Owner Jacki Sharpe says her Summerfield Avenue store will feature the Girl Scout cookie doughnuts for a few more weeks — get ’em before they’re gone!
Bobby Olivier may be reached at bolivier@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @BobbyOlivier and Facebook. Find NJ.com on Facebook.
