Every year, as Christmas approaches, IKEA relaunches some of its most typical products. These products may have more or less public acceptance, although if they are relaunched, that is precisely because they reach certain sales levels. Some, especially, are popular and can achieve great success. It is important to take into account the wide variety of Christmas products offered by this brand.
That is the case here, it is a cheap product, with a price of around five dollars, and that last Christmas turned out to be a surprise in sales and success. We are referring to the mini gingerbread house kits. That product obtained a really important sales success last year for its originality and reduced price. These are the keys to this famous and well-priced product that you can find in IKEA shopping malls.
IKEA Vintersaga Gingerbread House Food
As the name suggests, this kit allows you to build up to six small gingerbread houses. It comes in two different formats, the smaller one costs only five dollars, and the large size costs six dollars. As you can see, this is a very affordable price in exchange for a food product that also provides fun for assembly and decoration. With these gingerbread kits, it is possible to build up to six mini-houses: a small mini-city of gingerbread that can also be decorated to taste with candies, creams, etc.
An interesting aspect is that this is something other than a product you can buy over the Internet. You will have to go to IKEA shopping centers to find it. Remember that this company does not market food products through the Internet in any case.
How to build a mini gingerbread house
Building gingerbread houses, including the Vintersaga Gingerbread House, is really simple. The materials are based on baked gingerbread dough. With the dough, small pieces are created with which the mini houses are formed. A glaze is used to join the parts together.
Anyway, it is very well explained in simple and easy-to-understand instructions.
Users bought this product en masse last year because it provided a cheap, beautiful, edible decoration. You can put it to many different uses. You can create a small city of gingerbread houses and decorate it with other sweets or ornamental food motifs. Furthermore, you also can thread a string through the holes in homes to hang them, for example, on the Christmas tree or in the windows.
In addition, this kit is very compatible with another, also inexpensive, gingerbread people kit. The gingerbread people kit is $5.5 and can nicely complement the mini-city with various baked gingerbread dough figurines.
A Swedish culinary landmark
Swedish gingerbread cookies are one of the most important culinary traditions in the country. They are baked all year round because, come on, you know Sweden it is cold 12 out of 12 months.
Originally, pepparkakor were much spicier than they are today. In fact, they are called pepparkakor (pepper cookies), not ingefärakakor (gingerbread cookies), because they tasted really spicy.
In folk tradition, it was believed that they cured diseases and even drove away sorrows, and that is why at least one pepparkakor recipe is found in every family that comes from several generations back.
Ikea has been selling its gingerbread houses for years following the tradition of the recipes of the Swedish grandmothers, and eating them transports you to those beautiful Julmarknad (Christmas markets) that are set up in every town and city of the Nordic country.