FRED & GINGER SNAPS!!!

Some of my all-time favorite movies are the ten films that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers filmed together between 1933 and 1949.  While a friend and I were completing a marathon viewing event of their movies recently, I was struck by a craving for a cookie, and I thought of ginger snaps, and then the moment of genius happened: we could make Fred and Ginger snaps!   So we did.  We decided that the best way to get Fred into the ginger snaps would be either to bake them in the shape of iconic props or items from their films or to decorate them, post-baking, with images evocative of Fred (and Ginger) and their films.  While shaping the cookies didn't work so well, our decorations were a success!  And the cookies were delicious and the perfect accompaniment to our movie marathon.

The shaped cookies looked really good--until we baked them and they turned into blobs!

all 10 movie titles, plus some assorted designs

"top hat, white tie, and tails" --from the song "Top Hat" in the movie Top Hat

Fred and Ginger!