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Occasions on Which Party Sweets Should Be Ordered
Sweets are the most integral part of any celebration. No party is complete without the perfect dosage of sweets or desserts. The delicious and mouthwatering sweets bring out the actual essence of happiness and liveliness and are a fantastic way to share the joy of the celebration or occasion. Indeed, sweet treats make your party complete so you'll need to find the best ones to give as a favour.
For Kids Party
Kids love sweets, there’s no doubt here. That’s why when you are hosting your kid’s birthday parties or sleepovers, you have to organise some delicious and colourful sweets for them. Before ordering sweets for kid's parties, you have to make sure that sweets are colourful, won't create any mess, dessert items should be easy to carry back home, etc. One thing you should always keep in mind when you are hosting a kid’s birthday party is that never include cake in sweet return gifts as kids are going to eat cake at the party anyway. Some colourful kids party sweets can be – brownies, muffins, sugar cookies, etc.
For Baby Shower Party
Baby shower party or as we say in India 'godh bharai' ceremony is a beautiful way to honour the mother to be. So, it’s a good idea to make this occasion special with some mini size sweets. Yep, to celebrate the birth of a baby, you should incorporate mini sweets such as cupcakes (instead of cake), small bite size brownies, mini caramel apples etc. However, if you want to include traditional Indian sweets, then small jalebis, rasgullas, laddoos, barfis, etc., are some creative delicious suggestions.
For Traditional Parties
No Indian festival or wedding celebration is complete without the aroma of sweets. Indian culinary has gifted us variety of dessert options with their own regional identity. So, to create the perfect traditional dessert menu, you have to include different regional sweets into your traditional style celebration. For instance, you can include Rajasthani ghevar, Bengali rasgullas, Goan bebinca, Lucknowi khaja, Marathi shrikhand, Punjabi gajar ka halwa, etc. You have to include famous regional sweets into your traditional style parties to bring out the essence of real India.
Sweets to Be Shared on Birthday Parties of Kids
Kids birthday parties are incomplete without some sweet return gifts. To impress your little guests, you have to present them with some delicious sweet treats. Kids parties sweets have to be as vibrant as the personality of children plus it has to be easy to carry and eat, that’s because kids love to make a mess. For your kid’s birthday party, you can place an order for the following sweets.
Multiple Candy Bag
The perfect way to please your little guests is to gift them pouch full of multiple flavoured candies. You can order organza party bags in bulk from the websites like paytmmall.com. Then, you can order multiple flavoured candies and toffees from the wholesale website indiamart.com. You should order packets of different flavoured candies like various fruit flavoured candies, mango candies, orange candies, sugar candies, imli candies, coconut candies and many more. Now, you can create small bags with all the separate flavors of candies and share it with your kid’s friends.
Donuts
Everyone loves small circles of sweet goodness dripped with different flavors of jams. Especially, kids adore delicious donuts! So, for your kid’s birthday party, you can order small boxes of donuts which you can easily present to all the guests as a return gift. You can order donuts from your local city bakers using Zomato or Swiggy apps. However, if these two online food delivery services are not available in your city, then you can order multiple flavoured donuts from dunkinindia.com. There are plenty of different topping options available to drip your donuts with, but chocolate and strawberry flavor donuts are highly preferred by kids.
Chocolate Bars
Chocolates are the best friend of children so you can order chocolate bars as a sweet return gift. There are all types of chocolate bars available online. You can order chocolate bars from a price range between Rs.10-Rs.100 or even more according to your budget. Some of the most popular chocolate brands in India are - Nestle, Cadbury Dairy Milk, Ferrero Rocher, Kinder-Joy, Amul, Snickers, etc. If you want to order chocolate bars in bulk, then you can order them from indiamart.com or you can purchase from websites like bigbasket.com.
Colorful Popcorn
To make your sweets look wonderful and eye popping for kids, you can prepare caramelised popcorn and stuff them in these colourful bags. These colourful bags have beautiful cartoon prints on them which will attract kids very much. Moreover, these bags are easy to carry and effortlessly store bite-size snacks. You can order colourful popcorn bags from firstcry.com in a pack of 12 for Rs. 182.
Chocolate Cupcakes
All-time kids favourite sweet is chocolate cupcakes. They are the most delicious way to win the heart of your little guests. You can order tasty chocolate cupcakes and distribute among your kid’s friends. This pack of four chocolate cupcakes contains chocolate cream cupcakes with the candles and knife. You can order the delicious chocolate cupcakes from the mayflowertree.com for Rs. 599 only. Or order them at your local bakery.
Delicious Sweets for Baby Shower
If you are hosting a baby shower party for your friend or sister, don't forget to pamper guests with some delightful sweet treats! For baby shower parties, you have to select sweets which convey the message of the day clearly. Moreover, sweets should be bite size which can be easily carried by guests back home as a return gift. Perfect baby shower sweets are going to be like this:
Strawberry Mousse Cups
If a mother to be is craving for strawberries during her pregnancy, then you have to include strawberry mousse cake in her baby shower. You can order this delicious strawberry cake which is layered with strawberry mousse and some freshly cut strawberries. This cake can be a showstopper for a baby shower party which can be cut by a new mother to celebrate her important life event. You can place an order for this one-kilogram strawberry mousse cake from thebakers.in. For same day delivery, you have to place an order before 3 pm, otherwise, they won’t deliver your cake on time. This cake is going to cost you around Rs. 1,800.
Cheesecake
To indulge your guests in the sweet and soft heaven of cheesecake, you have plenty of options available in the market. You can order different flavors of cheesecakes to make your baby shower party interesting. In your sweet corner, you can include oreo chocolate cheesecake, red velvet cheesecake, blueberry cheesecake, pineapple cheesecake, cookie butter cheesecake, and other flavors of cheesecakes. You should order a variety of cakes so that your guests can enjoy a piece of their favourite flavors. You can order all different flavors of cheesecakes from myflowertree.com with same day delivery option. The price of these cheesecakes start from Rs. 999.
Frosted Cupcakes
If you don’t want to buy a whole cake for a baby shower party, then you can get cupcakes of multiple flavors. You can organise platter full of mouth-watering cupcakes on which your guests can munch upon. You should order all the favourite cupcake flavors of mother to be as it's her big day. There are plenty of sensual and cute cupcake flavors available like death by chocolate cupcakes, beauty strawberry cupcakes, vanilla bean cupcakes, rose cupcakes, red velvet cupcakes and many more. All these gorgeous looking cupcakes can be ordered from onlinedelivery.in for various prices according to the flavor of cupcake.
Macaron Tower
If you are looking for a beautiful centrepiece for your dessert table, then nothing is better than this macaron-tower. This gorgeous macaron-tower consists of 10 individual clear stackable lightweight plastic levels. You can bake or order colourful macarons and arrange them on this stand to create stunning looking macaron-tower. This macaron-tower is available on ubuy.co.in for Rs. 4,368. To order macarons, you can use apps like Swiggy or Zomato to get freshly baked goods from your local bakeries.
Coconut Panna Cotta
If you are hosting a baby shower in summers, then creamy coconut panna cotta is a perfect sweet dish to refresh your guests. It is very easy to make coconut panna cotta at home, however, if you don't want to cook it yourself, then you can always order it from Zomato or Swiggy. To make soothing panna cotta, you have to follow these simple directions.
- Bloom two teaspoons of gelatin with water.
- While the gelatin is blooming, warm up the coconut milk on the stove along with some honey and vanilla extract.
- Once the mixture reaches desirable temperature, add gelatin into it and whisk properly.
- Leave panna cotta mixture to set for at least 4 hours.
Traditional Indian Functional Sweets
When you are hosting a pooja or festival parties at your home, then your celebration is incomplete without the authentic Indian sweets. To make the occasion even more meaningful, you have to share traditional Indian sweets with your friends and family. There are a variety of regional Indian sweets available to try from, but if you want some all-time favorite sweets, then you should definitely include these sweets in your dessert menu.
Shrikhand
Shrikhand is a Marathi sweet which is made using hung curd and sugar. It's a beautiful assortment of silky smooth curd with an essence of flavouring and dry fruits. Shrikhand is served cold that’s why it is a perfect sweet dish to refresh your guests. There are a variety of flavors infused with the shrikhand like pistachio, almonds, raisins, saffron, etc. You can present shrikhand as a sweet return gift to your guests also. You can order 500 gm of shrikhand packed in tumbler from bigbasket.com for a price of Rs. 100 only.
Shahi Tukra
Shahi Tukra is a royal dessert which can be prepared at home without many efforts. Shahi Tukda also known as ‘Double ka Meetha’ is a Hyderabadi delicacy. It's sort of a bread soaked in flavoured milk sauce. In wedding and other important events, milk is infused with the kesar to give a royal touch to the dessert. You can order regal kesar and pista shahi tukra from nukkadwala.co.in for Rs. 75 only.
Sandesh
Sandesh is a popular Bengali delicacy. This mouth-watering dessert is out the two ingredients only. Just like many other Bengali sweets such as rasgulla, chum-chum, the base of the sandesh is – milk and sugar. Sandesh is a bite-size sweet which you can easily share with other people on happy occasions. Moreover, you can order or make sandesh in multiple flavors like pista, kesar, and many more. However, if you want to order the premium quality sandesh, then you can try this mango pista sandesh. It is an original Bengali sandesh which you can order from placeoforigin.in for Rs. 363.
Malpua
Malpua is like a pancake with rich Indian flavours. It is a very popular wedding dessert in North India. Malpua has been adopted from Pakistan and Bangladesh, however, traces of this dish can be found back to the Vedic period as well. They are mainly served with a rich syrup of sugar infused with kesar and other aromatic flavors. If you want to order some traditionally made malpua, then you can order it from sulemanmithaiwala.com. For 1 kg of malpua, you have to pay Rs. 700.
Barfi
If you are looking for an all-time favourite Indian sweet, then barfi can be categorised in it with gulab jamuns and laddoo. It is made from the condensed milk and sugar with a touch of different flavours. You can present a platter of barfis in front of your guests like - moong dal barfi, besan barfi and lauki barfi to coconut, sesame, chocolate, almonds, gulkand and more. Moreover, these days sugar-free barfis for diabetics patients and health conscious people are also available. You can order a box of barfi for around Rs. 269 from seniority.in.
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Get These Desserts for Your Parties
From cupcakes to barfi, take our word and serve these party favour sweets to your guests. Whether seven years old or seventy years old, everyone loves a pinch of sweetness after their meal. Serve these sweets as desserts or give them as return gifts, there's always space for some 'meetha' even if you're full!