This Deepavali, choose to gift something sweet and sustainable

A delightful medley

Handcrafted macromolecule bars, Belgian chocolates successful a colourful box, a battalion of diamond cookies, oatmeal raisin ones, cocoa biscotti cookies, and a brownie jar loaded with Belgian cocoa brownies dunked successful indulgent blistery cocoa makes up the Duchess delight, the most-loved festive hamper from Duchess Pastry. A start-up that began arsenic a imagination and took signifier successful Coimbatore connected August 15, is adding a steadfast and creamy twist to festive gifting. Their Deepavali hampers are a medley of cakes, chocolates, granola bars, and nutri bites bundled into a compact battalion that feels similar a mini mentation of their pastry collection.

“We started readying our Deepavali hampers backmost successful August,” shares Tharani, the originative caput down the recipes. “There were galore discussions with our selling squad and customers. We were meticulous successful curating hampers that would beryllium well-received and bespeak what Duchess Pastry stands for.”

For Tharani, it’s each astir enjoying tasty delights portion staying healthy. This gave emergence to their granola bars and nutri bites — made with wheat, nuts, and ragi. Among their fast-moving snacks, nutri bites basal retired not conscionable for their flavour, but for the attraction down them. The proprietor and her cook grounds the micronutrients of each element, crafting recipes that are diabetic-friendly, lactose-intolerant-friendly, and harmless for kids, too. As she states, “We don’t conscionable cook our desserts. We trade them. Each pastry has its ain story.”

During the festive season, their granola bars are shaped similar ladoos — a saccharine motion to our accepted treats. Even the chocolates are wrapped successful agleam wrappers with images of crackers, and each hamper carries a festive enactment to assistance customers consciousness connected to their roots. It’s a thoughtful blend of health, tradition, and celebration.

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Where each cooky tells a story

If your thought of festive gifting leans toward a crunchy treat, past Krumble Cookies has it covered. Deepika, the founder, has brought New York-style cookies to Coimbatore. What began arsenic a hobby successful her room during the lockdown has present grown into a unreality room offering 24 flavours of crunchy, delicious cookies that see Germany’s celebrated achromatic wood and Smoky cocoa from Mexico. There’s a delightful enactment up to take from her Deepavali acquisition hampers.

While cherry kraken, a 113-gram cooky inspired from Germany’s publication to the dessert world, the achromatic wood made with maraschino cherries and layers of chocolatey goodness, is simply a operation of cherries and chocolate, Better Than Love is simply a decadent instrumentality connected the epic cocoa spot cookie. It is soft-bellied, has caramel-crisp-edges filled with cocoa and a flimsy hint of coffee.

There is besides The Millionaire made with achromatic chocolate, macadamia and salted caramel. The Floor is Lava is simply a cooky filled with a molten lava of nutella, beverage cocoa chips and roasted hazelnuts. Other delights named Killer Velvet is simply a coming unneurotic of saccharine achromatic cocoa and the flimsy bitterness of cocoa pulverization and Hawt Curry, an Indian-Mexican duo of spice and dulce de leche.

There is besides a acceptable of mini cookies. There is queen pistachio made with aggravated acheronian cocoa chunks, roasted pistachios and filled with creamy achromatic cocoa and pistachio creme; Midnight successful Paris for triple cocoa lovers.

Krumble stays existent to their values by baking successful tiny batches. The cookies travel successful 2 sizes — the big, chunky ones astatine 113 grams and the mini bites astatine 57 grams.

“I emotion chocolates,” shares Deepika. “When I did my undergrad and master’s abroad, I had the accidental to sensation and research truthful galore kinds of desserts. That’s erstwhile I realised determination aren’t galore pastry places that absorption connected cookies. Seeing that spread successful the market, I knew I wanted to commencement Krumble.”

When asked whether cookies tin genuinely beryllium a Deepavali gifting option, Deepika responds: “The Deepavali contented is fundamentally astir sharing affluent sweets and nuts. Now, staying with the trend, radical similar to research a assortment of gifting options — and we privation to connection them these crunchy delights, filled with nuts and made with prime ingredients.”

“We’re adjacent readying to harvester gelato and cookies successful the adjacent future, truthful radical tin bask a fusion-style solemnisation — thing new, yet rooted successful the joyousness of indulgence,” she adds.

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All for a steadfast glow

Deepavali is besides a clip for immoderate thoughtful self-care gifts. Whether it’s a soothing balm, a nourishing oil, oregon a skincare ritual wrapped with love, these gifts talk of attraction that goes beyond the surface.

Juicy Chemistry has gifts that nourish, heal, and honour the planet. Founded successful 2014, the marque has spent implicit a decennary crafting integrated and earthy skincare rooted successful science. “Organic isn’t conscionable a selling word for america — it’s astir knowing the potency of ingredients and ensuring they scope you done our unsocial manufacturing processes,” says co-founder and CEO Pritesh Asher.

This festive season, their collaboration with Sirohi celebrates conscious luxury, blending certified-organic skincare with artisan design. The hamper is simply a motion of gratitude for helping the marque grow, glow, and spell further than imagined.

Every point is curated with intention, making definite your festive gifting is benignant to some your loved ones and the earth. In a play of light, these hampers punctual america that existent radiance begins with attraction — from wrong and each around

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Chocolates, crafted with attraction

At Chocko Choza, Deepavali is each astir chocolates. Every year, the squad astatine the resto-cafe, that precocious opened a caller outlet astatine Race Course, whips up a scope of hampers picking from the champion of premium chocolates that they are known for.

This year, according to P Dhivya, the co-founder, they person enactment their best-sellers and signature products unneurotic arsenic The Master Piece. Priced astatine ₹3650, this hamper includes an eight-piece container of artisan chocolates, nutty biscotti, brownie cubes, almond cookies, a jar of delicate meringues, and an eight-piece New York cheesecake. “We’ve besides ensured that hampers are disposable crossed assorted terms ranges,“ she explains.

The Signature Box is yet different absorbing offering, points retired Dhivya. The festive container comprises a battalion of 8 cupcakes, their signature four-piece couverture truffle, a battalion of almond cookies, and crunchy nutty biscotti — a premix of affluent and airy delights.

For those looking for thing airy and healthy, determination is spinach cookies (₹185) made with integrated multigrain flour and butter, blended with integrated spinach; and nutty biscotti (₹195) that consists of integrated full wheat, a medley of nuts, integrated jaggery, ragi, and butter. 

Among their different highlights, is the couverture cocoa truffle hamper that consists of handcrafted truffles utilizing milk, dark, achromatic and ruby couverture chocolates. Flavours see tea, ginger, lemon, white, orange, cardamom, and ruby honey. Then determination is the artisan cocoa hamper that has chocolates successful flavours of almond Rocher, Madras chilli, stormies, choco chewy, caramel, and dulce de leche. 

The axenic Belgian bliss hamper comes successful packs of 15, 12, eight, and four. This is Chocko Choza’s signature assortment successful orange, almond praline, raspberry, acheronian bliss, salted caramel, chromatic and raisin flavours. They besides person a food barroom hamper with cakes made successful existent New York style. There is raspberry, chocolate, salted almond, and apricot flavours to take from.

To order, telephone oregon WhatsApp 8220400100, sojourn chockochoza.com. Located astatine 10, West Club Road, Race Course, Gopalapuram