#CDM2021 Vendor Announcement
Christkindlmarket Des Moines 2021 Food & Beverage Vendors
An der Weihnachtsecke, Des Moines, IA
Shop the Christkindlmarket Des Moines store for your favorite European treats.
Offering: Advent calendars, truffles, Irish whisky fudge, Mozart kugeln, marzipan, liquor-filled chocolate, assorted holiday cookies, limited-edition Toblerone, Lebkuchen, stollen, stroopwafeln, clotted cream, shortbread, tea, Swedish lingonberry jam, German mustard and German honey
Price Range: $3 – $38
Pre-Sale: Bottles of Glühwein, 2021 Glühwein commemorative mugs, select food items. URL to our online store will be provided as we get closer to the event.
Glühwein and Kinderpunsch, Des Moines, IA
Support Des Moines European Heritage Association, the non-profit that produces Christkindlmarket Des Moines, with the purchase of warm traditional Christkindlmarket beverages:
Glühwein (“glow-wine”, from the hot irons once used for mulling) is prepared from red wine, heated and spiced with cinnamon sticks, cloves, star aniseed, citrus, sugar and at times vanilla pods.
Kinderpunsch is a warm beverage made from cranberry juice, apple cider, brown sugar and mulling spices.
Offering: Glühwein, Kinderpunsch, various liquor add-ins
Price Range: $2 – $6
Pre-Sale: Bottles of Glühwein, 2021 Glühwein commemorative mugs, select food items. URL to our online store will be provided as we get closer to the event.
European Imports and Iowa Craft Beer, Des Moines, IA
Support Des Moines European Heritage Association, the non-profit that produces Christkindlmarket Des Moines, with the purchase of various European Imports and Iowa Craft Beers. MENU CHANGES DAILY!
Offering: European imports and Iowa Craft Beers
Price Range: $6 – $7
Bratwurst Imbiss am Markt, Des Moines, IA
Support Des Moines European Heritage Association, the non-profit that produces Christkindlmarket Des Moines, with the purchase of a German-style Usinger Brat.
Offering: Usinger brats
Price Range: $5
The Kringle Man, Elk Horn, IA
The Kringle Man creates a light and flaky Danish Kringle using a puff pastry dough that is folded and buttered 81 times to give you a mouth watering experience. We add Almond Paste sweetly prepared and different fruits blended together to create an flavor explosion of sweet and flaky. A must have for coffee or ice cream or anytime.
Offering: Danish Kringle (2 sizes), Danish Letter, Cream Horns, Krispies, Danish Pastry
Price Range: $6 – $15
Sugarplums Cakes and Confections, Altoona, IA
During the holiday season, Sugarplums specializes in made from scratch, traditional, German cookies and baked goods. Try our Lebkuchen, Pfeffernuss, Springerle, Stollen, Spritz, Sentiment Hearts, Sugar Cookies and Cupcakes.
Offering: Gingerbread: Sentiment Hearts, Lebkuchen, Pfeffernuss, Springerle, Stollen, Scotch-a-roo Santa’s, cupcakes, Spritz, decorated sugar cookies, decorated Gingerbread houses, possibly some gingerbread themed Christmas ornaments.
Price Range: $4 – $30
Pickle Creek Herbs, Fairfield, IA
At Pickle Creek, we use the herbs we grow on our sustainable Iowa farm to handcraft artisanal olive oils and vinegars, soaps, salves, and balms using our own original recipes.
Offering: Herb-infused olive oils and vinegars (including the Apple Strudel White Balsamic we created especially for this event and the Prairie Fire olive oil that earned the 2019 1st Place Scovie Award for a Chile Oil), soaps, salves, salts, and balms that we handcraft ourselves using original recipes and the herbs and other produce we grow in our garden.
Price Range: $3.25 -$25
Pre-Sale: www.picklecreek.com/shop
Danish Windmill, Elk Horn, IA
Step back in time to our little Danish Christmas Market booth that will feature “Keepsakes for a Lifetime”. Experience a piece of Denmark close to home.
Offering: Scandinavia, Nordic and made in Denmark Christmas gift items such as Gnomes, Nisse, Elves, straw Ornaments, Cookware and prepackaged foods and glogg.
Price Range: $1 – $350
Pre-Sale: www.Danishwindmill.com, 712-764-7472, [email protected]
L&L European Delight, Chariton, IA
Ukrainian style food and gifts
Offering: Perogies, Pelmenie, cabbage Rools,Chebureckie, candys, honey, poppyseed/sweet rolls,gift items.
Price Range: $4 – $20
Ruhland’s Strudel Haus, St. Paul, MN
Handmade, sweet and savory strudel
Offering: Sweet Strudel: Apple, Strawberry Rhubarb, Tart Cherry, Raspberry Almond Cream Cheese, Blueberry Lemon. SAVORY STRUDEL: Spinach Feta Artichoke Heart, Reuben, Chicken Pot Pie, Mushroom Medley with Goat Cheese, Italian Stallion.
Price Range: $3 – $9
Pre-Sale: [email protected]
Top of the Hill Nuts, Grinnell, IA
Roasting on sight almonds, cashews, and pecans with cinnamon or maple flavoring.
Offering: Cinnamon roasted nuts
Price Range: Small $5, large $8
Pre-Sale: 641-990-2005, [email protected]
Fritz Toffee Company, Ames, IA
Handcrafted Gourmet Toffee
Offering: Toffee, Toffee Popcorn, Toffee Coated Carmel Apples
Price Range: $4 – $75
Christkindlmarket Des Moines 2021 Gift and Specialty Item Vendors
An der Weihnachtsecke, Des Moines, IA
Shop the Christkindlmarket Des Moines store for your favorite European treasures.
Offering: Steinbach nutcrackers, INGE ornaments, beer steins and glassware, Herrnhuter Moravian stars, commemorative Glühwein mugs, Christkindlmarket Des Moines merchandise,
Price Range: $5 – $350
Pre-Sale: Bottles of Glühwein, 2021 Glühwein commemorative mugs, select food items. URL to our online store will be provided as we get closer to the event.
Dakota Tinworks, Estelline, SD
Dakota Tinworks is a family-owned business dedicated to making and selling traditional tinware, ornaments, and other Christmas-themed decorations in tin and copper, hand-made exclusively by tinsmith Karl-Josef Schmidt, using primarily antique, 19th century tinsmith’s tools and techniques.
Offering: Handmade tinware and copperware of various kinds: tin and copper Christmas ornaments, tin and copper tree tinsel, tin tree toppers, tin cookie cutters, tin biscuit cutters, tin candle holders, pierced tin candle covers, tin candle sconces, tin cups, earrings using tinplate and copper, and tin candle lanterns. Also tin photo frames. Selected ornaments made from brushed aluminum (similar to the ones from from tinplate, but in sheet aluminum).
Price Range: $6 – $450
Pre-Sale: [email protected] (Pre-sale customers can contact me about products they wish to buy, I can send them a PayPal invoice to pay online, and then they can pick up their pre-paid order at CDM 2021 in person. Customers who do not pick up their orders at CDM 2021 will be billed for shipping and their order will be sent via USPS once shipping payment has been received).
DamonLayne Woodworking, Earlham, IA
DamonLayne Woodworking provides beautiful, handmade woodworking for your home or kitchen. Each item is eye-catching and will be a unique focal point in your home.
Offering: Woodworking: including cutting boards, Springerle molds, charcuterie boards, cribbage boards, lazy susans
Price Range: $35 – $225
The Permanent Collection Letterpress, Des Moines, IA
Artisan Hand-printed letterpress products made in Des Moines, Iowa.
Offering: Letterpress cards, art prints, cut-out paper prints of holiday trees, holiday cards, holiday paper letterpress coasters, holiday stationery, tote bags with holiday themes
Price Range: $5-50
Pre-Sale: www.thepermanentcollection.net
DSM Foundry, Des Moines, IA
DSM Foundry offers traditional German, art deco, and other styles of holiday decor made with modern technology.
Offering: Ornaments, Schwiboogen, decorative lanterns, wooden maps and Iowa themed small decor
Price Range: $2 – $100
Pre-Sale: https://www.dsmfoundry.com/
Three In One Artworks, Urbandale, IA
Three In One Artworks offers unique handcrafted, ceramic mugs, trays and ornaments featuring Iowa agriculture, Iowa history and Celtic themes, all perfect for gift giving!
Offering: Christmas ornaments, mugs, plates and trays, vases and bowls.
Price Range: $10 – $125
Pre-Sale: www.threeinoneartworks.com. [email protected]. text: 515-979-0238
Nymph In The Woods, Boone, IA
Wearable art to help you show off your style! Handmade from fused glass and wire wrapping, each piece is unique. Perfect as a gift to a loved one or yourself!
Offering: Wearable art made from fused glass and wire wrapping – Necklaces, earrings, rings, bracelets, and circlets.
Price Range: $15 – 300+
Pre-Sale: www.nymphglassjewelry.com
Quilted Gardens Nursery, Des Moines, IA
Specializing in fresh made wreaths and greens bundles, seasonal decor, Iowa made leather bells and straps, glass bird and Fair trade gourd ornaments.
Offering: Fresh made wreaths and Bundles of greens, Glass Christmas Ornaments, Iowa-made leather sleigh and Door Bells, Fair trade gourd ornaments and boxes, Straw ornaments, Ice Globe kits, Holiday optic Specs, Table top Christmas trees
Price Range: $2 – 75
Pre-Sale: www.quiltedgardens.com
Danish Windmill, Elk Horn, IA
Step back in time to our little Danish Christmas Market booth that will feature “Keepsakes for a Lifetime”. Experience a piece of Denmark close to home.
Offering: Scandinavia, Nordic and made in Denmark Christmas gift items such as Gnomes, Nisse, Elves, straw Ornaments, Cookware and prepackaged foods and glogg.
Price Range: $1 – $350
Pre-Sale: www.anishwindmill.com, 712-764-7472, [email protected]
Schanz Furniture, South Amana, IA
Schanz Furniture is a family owned business that has been making hand-made furniture and gift items for over 50 years. We are located in South Amana, Iowa.
Offering: Hand-made (Set of 3) Spalted Maple Christmas Trees & our Hand-made Multi-wood Christmas Trees in various sizes.
Price Range: $20 -$150
Pre-Sale: www.schanzfurniture.com 319-622-3529 [email protected]
TeaGschwendner, Chicago, IL
Explore the world of tea with TeaGschwendner. A local retailer locally owned and operated by Tea Sommelier. With over 300 teas to offer you will find your favorite holiday tea. A Christmas tea is a must to try.
Offering: Loose leaf tea and tea ware, German honey
Price Range: $5 – 100
Pre-Sale: www.tgtea.com
Winterborn Alpaca, High River, AB, Canada
Winterborn Alpaca designs winter wear derived from premium alpaca fleece.
Offering: Hand-woven alpaca scarves, socks, mittens, beanies, and alpaca stuffies.
Price Range: $20 – $85
Pre-Sale: www.winterbornalpaca.com
Pickle Creek Herbs, Fairfield, IA
At Pickle Creek, we use the herbs we grow on our sustainable Iowa farm to handcraft artisanal olive oils and vinegars, soaps, salves, and balms using our own original recipes.
Offering: Herb-infused olive oils and vinegars (including the Apple Strudel White Balsamic we created especially for this event and the Prairie Fire olive oil that earned the 2019 1st Place Scovie Award for a Chile Oil), soaps, salves, salts, and balms that we handcraft ourselves using original recipes and the herbs and other produce we grow in our garden.
Price Range: $3.25 – $25
Pre-Sale: www.picklecreek.com/shop
Pam Hyde Pottery, Des Moines, IA
Handmade pottery for everyday use. Thrown, glazed and fired in my home studio. Mugs, bowls, plates, spoon rests, utensil holders, vases, butter keepers, pour overs, votive candle holders, and, of course, ornaments!
Offering: Mugs, bowls, yarn bowls, butter keepers, spoon rests, utensil holders, garlic grater plates, vases, ornaments, votive candle holders, coffee pour overs.
Price Range: $8 – $80
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