This year’s Christmas sweets can be pigs expensive – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

This year's Christmas sweets can be pigs expensive – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

Even crucial Christmas candy ingredients like sugar and cream have become more expensive.

– prices have risen to almost everything we need to make candy. Cocoa has risen a lot and nuts and almonds have risen insanely much. Walnuts, we can hardly find at all. At least not the fancy that we need for our chocolates, says Marie-Louise Ardebäck who together with his family runs the chocolate manufacturing in their own shop Ejes chocolate in Stockholm.

There are a number of converging factors in years affects the prices of julgodisets inputs. Cocoa farmers have had poor harvests due to fungus and adverse weather. Almond growers in California are affected by water and the Turkish hazelnut growers got frost too early.

And for the person who should turn up caramel, toffee and marzipan pigs contributes understood the usual price increases in the store to drive up costs. Sugar prices have risen 3.5 percent since last year and gräddpriset has gone up 0.7 percent.

For lovers of mint chocolate is there perhaps a comfort to world market price of peppermint oil has fallen 75 percent since the spring of 2012.