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40+ Vegan Diwali Sweets Recipes
Happy Diwali! Celebrate the festival of light with these delicious, Diwali sweets including Burfis, Ladoos, Halwa, and more from different regions of India. Eat them yourself or give them as gifts!
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Happy Diwali! Celebrate the festival of light with these delicious, Indian Diwali sweets including Ladoo, Burfi, Halwa and more from different regions of India. Eat them yourself or give them as gifts! All Dairy-free Eggless Vegan. This post was published Nov 7, 2015
Diwali is the Indian festival of lights and one of the bigger Hindu festivals celebrated in many parts of India. The festival spiritually signifies the victory of good over evil and celebrates kindness, compassion, prosperity, love and sharing. Before Diwali, people clean, and decorate their homes. People dress up in festive clothes, light up diyas (lamps and candles) inside and outside their home, participate in family pooja (prayers) typically to Goddess Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity. Followed by fireworks, a family get together, loads of great food ( appetizers, lots of mains and sides), including mithai (sweets).
People also visit family and friends and exchange gifts in the days before the festival, and these Diwali sweets make great gifts, as well!
Indian sweets and desserts often use milk solids – khoya, clarified butter – ghee, fresh cheese- chenna, milk, cream and other forms of dairy, but you don’t need these to make delicious desserts! I have a huge collection of vegan Indian Diwali sweets, including burfis, halwas and ladoos along with fusion desserts like my Ras Malai Tres leches cake, Carrot Halwa cheesecake and pistachio kulfi tiramisu that will please a crowd. Let’s reduce the pain and suffering of moms by choosing dairy-free options for Diwali festival!
If you try any of these sweets and desserts, do let me know how you and your family liked them!
HAPPY DIWALI!!!
If you’re looking for more Diwali recipes, don’t miss my vegan Diwali menu! It uses one base sauce to create a 3-course meal plus rice! And if you don’t do onion or garlic, I have a no onion no garlic Diwali menu, as well. Any of these Diwali sweets would be amazing with these menus!
Ladoo
Toasted Coconut Ladoo
Vegan Malai Ladoo
Vegan Whole Wheat Date Ladoos
Mango Coconut Ladoo
Coconut Ladoo
Burfi
Vegan Almond Burfi
Layered Carrot Halwa Coconut Burfi Bars Vegan
Vegan Malai Burfi (Milk Cake)- Indian Fudge Bars
Vegan 7 Cup Burfi – Chickpea flour & Coconut Fudge Bars
Vegan Kaju Katli – Indian Cashew fudge. Glutenfree
Gujiya Peda (Indian Almond Fudge With Coconut Pistachio Raisin Swirls)
Vegan Mango Burfi. Mango Fudge Bars. Indian Recipe
Besan Burfi with Condensed Milk (Dairy-free) – Chickpea flour fudge
Kesar Peda – Saffron Infused Almond Cookie
Diwali Sweets in Pitzn Indian Kitchen
There are about 17 Indian sweets and dessert recipes in my first cook book too, like malai peda, nankhatai, rasmalai, phirni, bhapa doi, sandesh, atte ka halwa, mysore pak, vegan kalakand burfi and more!
