Last week on Dezeen, furniture brand IKEA released some instructions on how to assemble the Billy bookcase and some of its other seminal furniture designs from gingerbread, which can be downloaded and printed out at home.

"In true IKEA fashion, each furniture cookie is designed to be easy to assemble," the company said.

The resulting pieces are designed to make traditional, sparsely furnished gingerbread houses feel like a real gingerbread home.