Best Diwali Sweets Recipes & Snacks to Cook

Diwali is a festival of light and love. If not through sweets, then how could you ever tell someone how much you love them? Food is special, Your own handmade food is top-notch! Here in this article, we bring to your notice top Diwali sweets recipes to lighten up your festival of lights.

List of Top Diwali Sweets & Their Recipes for 2024

1. Milk Barfi –  The Diwali Special Mithai

Barfi is the easiest yet tasty sweet one can ever make. Though Barfi can be done using multiple ingredients, this recipe session lets how to make it in just 10 minutes. With this recipe, make your own special for this Diwali.  

Needed Ingredients for this Diwali Sweet ( serves 2-3 people)

• 3 Cups milk powder
• 1 cup sugar
• 1.5 cup milk
• 3 tbsp pistachios ( finely chopped)
• 1/2 cup ghee.

Recipe to Prepare

• Mix 3 cups of milk powder with 1 cup of sugar and 1.5 cups of milk.
• Whisk them without crumbs.
• Transfer this mixture to a non-stick pan.
• Now add 1/2 cup of ghee and stir well
• Keep stirring till the mixture gets thick.
• In 10 minutes, you will see the mixture getting nonsticky from the pan. It will get its own shape.
• Tip: make sure to not overcook or undercook this Deepavali Sweet
• Transfer the mixture to a tray with baking paper.
• Add the finely chopped pistachios and other nuts you would like to add and press it in gently.
• Now cover this and fridge it for an hour or more.
• Once it’s all strong and sorted, cut it to your desired shape.
• Your handmade, Diwali mithai is now ready to be served.

2. Apple Halwa – Must Make Sweet Recipe for Diwali

The essence of sweet apples and dry nuts makes this Deepavali sweet special. It can be prepared for any occasion not just Diwali. It is the dish you for sure want to serve your guests on Diwali.

Needed Ingredients :

• 1 kg Apple (Tip: Always prefer sweeter apples so that you won’t need a lot of sugar. HEALTHY !!)
• 5 tbsp sugar
• 3 tbsp Ghee
• 1 tbsp vanilla
• 1 tbs Cinnamon
• Nuts of your choice.

Let’s cook:

• Rinse 1 Kg of apple really well and strain it.
• Peel each apple fully.
• Now slice them and take off the seed part.
• Then slice them into nice, small, tiny pieces. ( You will need 6 to 8 cups of sliced apple)
• In a pan or Kadai, melt 2 tablespoons of ghee and add the finely chopped apples.
• Mix it nicely with the ghee and let it cook under low flame.
• Saute them for like a good 5 minutes while you see some apple cubes soften up.
• Add 3 tablespoons of water and mix it with the apple base.
• Cover the pan and let it cook for a solid 15 minutes on low flame.
• Stir it at regular intervals.
• Once the base gets unstuck from the pan, mash the cubes using a potato masher or spoon.
• Add 5 tablespoons or the required amount of sugar.
• Mix well till the sugar dissolves into the apple base.
• Stir till you see the ghee you added on the top and sides of the pudding.
• Now add one tablespoon of cinnamon powder and vanilla extract.
• Add the nuts of your choice. 
• Mix well and add sugar if needed.
• Stir well for 3-5 minutes.
• Turn off the stove.
• Add half a tablespoon of ghee and some crushed nuts.
• close the pan and let it sit for a while.
• Apple halwa is now ready. Serve it hot with love. Try this Diwali sweet recipe and have great festival food.

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3. Sweet Dahi Poha

A cold and tasty Deepavali sweet that will make your guests feel warm and welcome. The best and easiest sweet recipe for Diwali.

Required Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon Cashews
• 2 tablespoon Almonds
• 1 cup curd
• 3 tablespoon Sugar
• 1/2 cup Pomegranate seeds
• 1 tablespoon Ghee
• 1 cup Thin poha flakes

Let’s cook: 

• Heat ghee in a pan.
• Add almonds and nuts of your choice
• Fry till it turns golden brown.
• In a bowl, add curd and mix the roasted mixture and pomegranate seeds to it.
• To this mixture add sugar ( required amount)
• Fridge it.
• When you are about to serve, mix it with poha.
• add some roasted nuts to garnish it.
• Your easy, yet tasty Diwali special sweet is all set to spellbind your taste buds.

4. Shankarpali Sweet Snack of Diwali

A snack of Diwali that is sweet and crispy, a snack bite you for sure want to cook on this occasion.

Required Ingredients:

• 1/4 Sugar/Jaggery
• 1 Cup purpose Flour
• 1/4 teaspoon of cardamom powder
• Ghee
• Cooking Oil for Frying/Air Fry

Lets Cook:

• Add 1/4 cup of sugar in a saucepan or powdered jaggery and melt it by adding 1/4 cup of water.
• Next, add 2 & 1/2 cups of ghee to the saucepan and let it cook on low flame until sugar melts.
• After the jaggery/sugar has melted down take it down from the flame and let it cool.
• Now add 1 cup of all-purpose flour, a pinch of salt, and 1/4 cardamom powder into a mixing bowl.
• Take the syrup and start to add and mix gently with flour and try to make a dough.
• Knead the dough until it’s soft and there are no lumps, if using wheat flour you might need a little amount of water.
• Now divide the dough into parts and start rolling it like a chapati.
• Use a knife/pizza cutter and start to cut it to the required shape, you can make straight lines and cut it as a diamond.
• Separate the dough bites and let it rest. Before taking a deep fry pan and add oil/you can use an air fryer.
• Now take the cut pieces and start to fry them once they are golden brown take them out gently and place them on a tissue paper.
• Now your Diwali Sweet snack recipe is ready to bite on and enjoy.

End note

Sweets at times sound a bit difficult to make. We often decide to buy it in a shop. Though that is not a bad thing as long as we share it with love, it would be really nice if we make at least a simple yet best Diwali sweets recipe. Here we insist that you try these easy sweet recipes for Diwali and serve them.