Food - Expensive Christmas baking: prices for ingredients have risen
When baking cookies, you have to pay significantly more for some ingredients this year. Prices for jam, marmalade and jelly in particular (up 11.3 percent) and for sweet almonds, coconut flakes and the like (up 9 percent) were significantly higher in November than a year earlier, according to the state statistics office IT.NRW on Tuesday. However, those who knead their own dough and fire up the oven can avoid some drastic price increases: ready-made cookies were more than a third (34.8 percent) more expensive this November than in the previous year.
Basic ingredients such as flour (up 3.3 percent) and eggs (up 1.3 percent) also became slightly more expensive year-on-year. However, the increase here remained below the average price increase for all foodstuffs (plus 6.2 percent). Butter, on the other hand, cost 22.9% less this November than in the same month last year.
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In North Rhine-Westphalia, the state statistics office IT.NRW reported a 11.3% increase in the price of jam, marmalade, and jelly for Christmas baking, while sweet almonds and coconut flakes saw a 9% price hike. Despite the price rise, homemade Christmas baking in Düsseldorf can help avoid significant price increases. The cost of basic ingredients like flour and eggs also increased slightly, but the prices remained below the average increase for all foodstuffs in the region.
Source: www.stern.de
