Brooklyn Girl Scout bests snack-slinging Manhattan rival to become new top cookie seller in NYC for 2025

There’s a caller queen of nan cookies.

A sweet-talking Brooklynite has been crowned nan apical Girl Scout cooky seller successful each of nan 5 boroughs aft hawking much than 2,500 boxes of Tagalongs, Trefoils and Thin Mints, The Post has learned.

Bay Ridge’s Ashleigh F. roseate to nan apical aft 2 years of being nan apical Brooklyn seller, this clip unseating her very ain frenemy, who held nan title for 3 years running.

“It feels really good. There’s nary different measurement to picture it,” Ashleigh said, adding that location were immoderate screams erstwhile she heard nan news.

The 12-year-old cadet sold a mouth-watering 2,528 cookies this twelvemonth — which, astatine $7 a box, equates to $17,696 successful profit.

The full was much than capable to overtake reigning champ Avianna Spatz of Manhattan, whom Ashleigh had travel to cognize done their years arsenic their respective borough’s apical cooky sellers.

“Me and Ashleigh person been doing Girl Scouts for nan past for illustration 5 years and we’ve had this small rivalry, like, ‘Who tin waste them much and who tin beryllium nan number 1 seller?’ And I’ve had it for nan past 3 years. It was an astonishing emotion to beryllium nan champion — I’m gladsome Ashleigh sewage this,” Avianna, 13, told The Post.

The unthinkable feat was easy capable for Ashleigh, who punched successful an mean of 8 hours per week peddling nan iconic treats successful Prospect Park — positive countless days manipulating nan societal media algorithm to scope an moreover wider audience.

The 7th-grader utilized her mother’s Facebook arsenic her ain individual advertizing site, posting tempting snapshots of nan saccharine treats and upping nan cuteness facet successful videos that reminded viewers that each acquisition straight benefits nan Girl Scout troops.

They would station nan clips connected Monday, past her begetter would stock them connected Tuesday, and connected Wednesday, a friend would remark to re-boost nan post, and truthful connected until each garnered upwards of 1,000 views, her father, William, explained.

The ingenious trading method was a invited boost, successful summation to her already tried-and-true strategies — which progressive mounting up stands astatine uber-popular Brooklyn hotspots.

“We spell waste them astatine train stations during nan weekdays and during nan evening erstwhile group are getting location from work, and connected bully weekends we spell to nan park,” Ashleigh said.

When The Post asked wherever precisely she sets up shop, nan Cadet laughed. It’s confidential, she explained — and she’s already battling chap Girl Scouts for nan area.

“I person to get location early,” she continued.

Once group up, nan cooky connoisseur lets nan treats do each nan sweet-talking.

All Ashleigh has to do is get her customer’s attraction pinch an easy grin and an irresistible question: “Hi. Would you for illustration to bargain immoderate Girl Scout cookies?”

And if nan customer tries to weasle their measurement retired by saying they don’t person cash, Ashleigh follows up pinch nan closer: “We return Venmo!”

Most customers don’t request convincing, she explained — pointing to 1 man who chased her family down nan thoroughfare aft he caught them loading nan van pinch 18 boxes of Do-si-dos, each of which he eagerly took disconnected their hands.

Despite her erstwhile occurrence arsenic Brooklyn’s apical seller, Ashleigh was shocked to perceive she took location nan apical seed successful 2025, considering she sold little this twelvemonth than she had during nan 2 anterior years.

She hawked 364 much boxes successful 2024, and different 41 much nan twelvemonth earlier — positive Tribecca teen Avianna Spatz had consistently peddled astir 5,000 boxes for nan past 3 years.

However, nan Girl Scouts of Greater New York (GSGNY) was struggling this year. The group sold 1.1 cardinal boxes successful 2025, an 8% diminution from past year, perchance caused by nan $2 value jump per box.

“I was rather surprised, because this twelvemonth we hardly made it complete my extremity of 2,500,” Ashleigh said.

“My dada says group will ever walk $20 connected cookies, whether it’s 5 boxes aliases 2 boxes.”

Ashleigh wasn’t nan only 1 who climbed to nan apical this year. Winter, a Brownie, became nan apical seller for Staten Island aft trading 2,500 boxes, a full she tied pinch caller Manhattan seller Naomi.

Bronx Cadette Kalila and Queens Senior Julia maintained their borough apical spots aft hawking 2,008 and 1,551 boxes, respectively. The NYC Girl Scouts asked that nan high-performing scouts’ past names not beryllium utilized to protect nan young women’s privacy.

Reigning champ Avianna was wholly knocked disconnected nan charts this year, but nan humble teen said that’s conscionable nan measurement nan cooky crumbles.

The nonaccomplishment was bittersweet for Avianna, who had hopes of winning nan title yet again, but was saddled pinch precocious schoolhouse applications, bat mitzvah studies and an exploding attraction to volleyball.

The Manhattanite sold conscionable 600 boxes this twelvemonth to adjacent retired her clip pinch nan Girl Scouts, which she’ll beryllium leaving astatine nan extremity of this spring.

But she warned that her small sister Eliana, 5, will proceed her legacy.

“I’m excited because my sister, she’s going to beryllium starting Girl Scouts soon, truthful hopefully she tin regain nan title and get immoderate of that emotion for herself.”