Ginger Snap is a character only introduced in the Strawberry Shortcake 2003 series. Ginger Snap is Strawberry Shortcake's perky, tomboyish best friend who lives in Cookie Corners. There, Ginger Snap runs her own factory and has a workshop. Her usual hobbies are inventing, fixing machinery, and baking cookies. Her pet is named Chocolate Chipmunk; She is also best friends with Orange Blossom.
Personality[]
| “ | "Ginger Snap is the best cookie chef in the world. Ginger’s home is in the tiny village of Cookie Corners, where even her house and bakery are made of cookies. An inventor, her greatest invention is the amazing cookie maker machine, which produces tray after tray of delicious cookies. Her greatest joy of all is sharing a warm cookie with a friend." | „ |
| ~ Description from the official 2003 website |
One personality trait that Ginger Snap is known for is being hyperactive, energetic and having a "motor mouth", or having a tendency to talk very fast and chatter. She is usually kind and friendly to others but doesn't have a lot of patience. She is scared or frightened easily, especially in the dark, as shown in "Ginger Snap's No Light Night of Fright" and "The Blueberry Beast." She often overreacts and gets rowdy if she's ever scared, mad, worried, or annoyed, which shows she doesn't handle stress well. She says she eats lots of chocolate when she feels upset or stressed. In "Strawberry's Big Journey", she states she dislikes sitting still for a long time. She is an intelligent mechanic and inventor. Her machines have many purposes. She can create a machine from scratch, anywhere, without being in her factory, as seen in "Get Well Adventure". She claims to always see the glass as half-full, showing that she is an optimistic person.
Appearance[]
2003[]
Ginger Snap has tan skin, brown eyes, and medium-length black hair with framed bangs. Her hair is tied into long pigtails with pink scrunchies. She has a blue hat with a design of a gingerbread man on the front, alongside a pink ribbon tied around it. She wears a pink jacket with a white undershirt underneath, alongside blue jeans designed with pink waves and a leather belt. She also wears blue Mary Janes with pink socks underneath.
2007[]
Due to the fact that the rest of the characters have aged, Ginger Snap appears to be taller and older. Her usual outfit is the same as in past seasons, except her pigtails became longer, and pink stripes have been added to the bottom of her jeans. Her same shoes has been replaced with blue sneakers as well.
Pets[]
Her pet is Chocolate Chipmunk. His name is a pun on "chocolate chips" and "chipmunk". He wears a tiny chef hat and has a cookie-shaped collar.
Her pet horse is Cookie Dough. She is a paint pony with a dark brown mane with blue highlights. She is known as the slowest of the fillies.
Trivia[]
- Ginger Snap not only bakes cookies, but macarons as well, as mentioned in "Meet Strawberry Shortcake" and "Spring for Strawberry Shortcake".
- She addresses people by their first and last names.
- Her favorite color is Gingerbread Brown.
- Her exact ethnicity is unknown. She might be of South Asian or Middle Eastern descent, for in the Thanksgiving book, she wears a blouse similar to South Asian/Middle Eastern attire.
- "Cinderella" is her favorite book. She also likes "The Trojan Horse". ("The Play's The Thing")
- Her ideal jobs have been mentioned as being a racecar driver ("The Sweet Dreams Movie"), a firefighter ("The Good Mayor"), or an astronaut. ("One Small Step")
- Aside from inventing and baking, Ginger Snap also has an interest in astronomy, especially stars. She has mentioned that she has a handful of books about stars and liked to read about space. ("One Small Step")
- In music, she can play the saxophone. ("It Takes Talent"; mentioned in "Playing to Beat the Band")
- Angel Cake mentions that Ginger Snap is a professional at hair braiding, and she taught her tips. (mentioned during an extra of the DVD "Happily Ever After")
- Ginger Snap does not like being in narrow spaces for too long. ("Strawberry's Big Journey")
- In season 4, Ginger Snap is the least featured of the four/five main girls.
- In the Playmates Toys era, she only got a single doll.
- Ginger Snap makes a cameo in the Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City episode Strawberry's Bad Day! on a television alongside the 2003 versions of Orange Blossom and Strawberry Shortcake.
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