Bengaluru: Visualize this: Shiny decoration pieces like stars, gingerbread houses, fairies and small snowmen that add Christmas decorations and can also be served as snacks at parties.
Bengalureans took their Christmas celebration this year with carrying decor and delicious food together.
Mabel Kurian, a housewife, said her 12-year-old child insisted on adding Gingerbread House to their Christmas decorations.
“It looks beautiful and has an extraordinary aroma,” said Resident RT Nagar, added he was surprised by the variations available on the market.
Shelza Chand, a pastry chef, said Gingerbread houses have become popularity in recent years.
“It was built with edible cakes, icing, jelly and sweets, and were destroyed around the new year to symbolize the new start,” he said, adding Hansel and Gretel Fairytale, where two lost children were eaten to a witch house made of gingerbread and cakes, make it popular throughout the world.
Shelza offers a DIY kit (do-it-yourself) with chatty cookies cut into templates, icing to hold a shared house and cake base.
He also makes Marzipan eggs for Easter every year.
Freeda Lazar, founder of Freddie’s Baking Studio, who specializes in eaten art, say people like decorative Christmas cookies and keep them as artwork on the table.
Freddie cakes are handmade, hands and heavy designs – like snowmen, ginger bread men, Christmas trees, Santa Claus and more flavor like chocolate, vanilla and cinnamon.
Studio of all women, who employ skilled workers from the local community, also offer a dyi kit for gingerbread houses.
“This kit includes a roof, wall, with red and green icing.
This is a fun activity for children and adults,” he said, adding that cookies, preservatives, will remain in good condition for 12 days.
FoodHall at 1mg in the Trinity circle offers ginger trees that can be stacked which can stay close to Christmas trees and DIY cakes that can be hung in trees as edible ornaments.
Smoor has cinnamon stars and ginger cakes as edible decorations.
Vimal Sharma, Founder-Director and CEO of Smoor, said children like to eat it in various forms and it became a fun game to spend some for Santa on Christmas Eve.