If you're looking for Diwali mithai recipes, you've come to the right place! I've rounded up 20easy Diwali sweets recipes, from fudgy burfis and soft ladoos to milky, rich kheers, so your festive table is covered from start to finish!
In this roundup, you'll find traditional Indian sweets alongside a few fun fusion twists, organized so you can jump straight to what you're craving - laddos, burfis, pedas, halwa, and chilled kheers. Each recipe is simple enough for beginners, with no fancy equipment or hard-to-find ingredients, so you can fill your Diwali spread without stress.
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Easy Ladoos
Soft, sweet, and so well loved. Ladoos are the mithai everyone reaches for first!
Easy Homemade Malai Laddu
About as low-effort as mithai can get, with just 2 ingredients - paneer and sweetened condensed milk. Delicately flavored with cardamom and kewra water.
Besan, ghee, and jaggery powder - slow roasted until the flour turns fragrant and nutty. That patient roasting is what gives these ladoos their soft, melt-in-the-mouth texture!
Desiccated coconut cooked down with milk powder and milk until it binds into soft, chewy balls. Roll them in a mixture of beetroot powder and coconut for a pop of color!
Rich, dense, and melt-in-your-mouth good, these burfis are a Diwali table essential.
Kaju Katli
Finely ground cashews mixed with milk powder and cardamom, bound with sugar syrup, and cut into classic diamond shape. Topped with silver leaf for a full festive look!
Almond flour and milk powder mixed with saffron-infused sugar syrup, kneaded into a smooth dough. Topped with beautiful silver varq, these are rich, nutty, and melt-in-your-mouth!
Almond meal, milk powder, and cocoa powder cooked with ghee and milk. Finished with rosewater and cardamom, these are soft, chewy, and a fun twist on the classic peda!
A fun mash-up of coconut modak and chocolate burfi! Just khoya cooked with cocoa powder, sugar, and ghee until it forms a smooth, caramelized dough. Easily shaped by hand or in a modak mold!
Warm, indulgent, and comforting, no Diwali spread is complete without these traditional sweets.
Besan Ka Halwa
Besan halwa is the most popular Indian halwa. It’s one of the Indian sweets you’ll find in every household. Bursting with notes of cardamom, besan ka halwa is soft, rich, and has a texture that melts in the mouth.
Pineapple sheera- a lovely, soft sooji ( semolina) halwa with bits of juicy pineapple. This pineapple-flavored, saffron-hued halwa is hugely popular with adults and kids alike.
The classic showstopper for any Diwali spread, this is my mother's recipe that I swear by! Soft semolina-milk dough, fried until golden, then soaked in a saffron-cardamom sugar syrup.
A Bengali specialty (Komlalebur payesh) - whole milk reduced slowly and then gently mixed with fresh oranges. Refreshing, full of citrusy brightness, and unlike any kheer you would've had!
Diwali is truly the sweetest time of the year. The lights, family and friends gathered together, and of course, boxes and boxes of mithai! I hope this collection of traditional Diwali sweets will help you fill your festive table with ease and deliciousness and bring as much joy to your home as it does to ours.
