12 easy homemade sweet recipes

Welcome to my blog on “12 easy homemade sweet recipes”! In this blog, I will share with you some of the easiest and most delicious sweet recipes that you can make at home. These recipes are perfect for anyone who loves sweets and wants to try something new. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced cook, these recipes are sure to satisfy your sweet tooth. So, let’s get started!

Importance of Indian sweets

I often post about the most popular Indian festival sweets that can be easily prepared at home. These sweet or mithai dishes are simple to prepare and will be a big hit at your Diwali celebration or party. Additionally, the list below includes various Diwali sweets recipes that you can make ahead of time and give as gifts or mithai boxes to family and friends. Isn’t that incredible? Why wait? Check it out and get started on your preparations right away.

Looking for something different to eat? Why not try some Indian desserts! Indian sweet desserts are referred to as mithai, and each one has its own distinct flavor profile. Simple components like sugar, wheat, almonds, milk, and lentils are widely used in Indian desserts. However, each one has its own distinct flavor profile that is complemented with traditional Indian spices.

Below are the 12 Sweet/Dessert recipes

If you’re looking to step up your dessert-making game and experiment with new flavors in the kitchen, here are five wonderful Indian delicacies that you can cook at home!

1) Milky coconut Ladoos

To make Milky coconut ladoos, mix freshly grated coconut, milk, sugar, ground cardamom, and Ghee(Clarified butter). These famous Indian sweets are loaded with coconut flavor which is real yum. They are easy and quick to prepare and perfect for special occasions, especially during Indian festivals. Check out the recipe below and find more easy dessert recipes in this blog. Find Full Recipe here at Milky Coconut Ladoos (sonalichoudhury.com)

Ingredients required to prepare Milky Coconut Ladoos are

• Freshly Grated Coconut 16 Oz
• Milk (full fat) 3 cups
• Sugar 1 and 1/2 cups
• Cardamoms ground 1/2 teaspoons
• Ghee/Clarified butter 1 to 2 teaspoons

2) Malai Mawa Gulabjamuns

To make Malai Mawa Gulab jamuns, mix Pure mawa or khoya and malai paneer. Mash and mix with some flour and baking powder to form a smooth and soft dough for the jamuns. Divide into equal portions and roll out between the palms to prepare smooth softballs with no cracks on them. Then deep-fry until they turn a dark shade of golden brown in color. Finally, dip them into thin sugar syrup for 2 or more hours.

Ingredients required to prepare Malai Mawa Gulab jamuns.

• Malai Mawa 1 cup
• Paneer (preferably malai paneer) 1/4 cup
• Maida (All-purpose flour) 3 to 4 tablespoons or as required
• Pistachios for filling
• Baking powder 1/2 teaspoon

For Sugar Syrup ~

• 3 cups of water
• Sugar 2 cups
• Kesar (Saffron) few strings
• Rosewater 2 tablespoons

Making of Malai Mawa Gulabjamuns.

3) Rasgulla recipe. Super tasty and spongy rasgullas. Step by Step method to prepare

Rasgullas are famous Indian sweets that are super tasty and spongy. They are widely enjoyed during special occasions and festivals in India and abroad. Women have been preparing them at home for decades. To make Rasgullas, curdle full-fat milk using vinegar or lime juice to obtain soft and pure chenna. Then, mash and knead the prepared chenna for 3 to 5 minutes before preparing small balls out of it. In the recipe below, I have shown how you can easily prepare sponge Rasgullas step by step at home. Let’s get into it in detail.

Ingredients required to prepare Rasgulla.

• Full cream milk 7 cups
• Diluted vinegar ( mix 6 tablespoons of vinegar with 1/4 cup of water  and mix)
• Sufficient plain tap water to cook the chenna balls/Rasgulla
• All-purpose flour 1 teaspoon (maida)

For sugar syrup for the Rasgullas-

• Water 2 cups
• Sugar 1 cup
• Saffron strings few (kesar)
• Rose water 2 teaspoons

Making of Rasgulla’s

4) Instant Modak recipe

This Ganesha sweet/dessert recipe is super quick and tasty, made with only 2 main ingredients. You can watch the full video on YouTube at GreatFoodIdeas at the link below. This sweet recipe for Ganesh Chaturthi is made with very few ingredients and is super soft and delicious. Find more sweets and dessert recipes in this blog, including festival special sweets and desserts that can be easily prepared at home anytime.

5) Ripe Mango Sweet With Almonds

To make Ripe Mango sweet with Almonds, mix a few ripe mangoes, almond flour, powdered sugar, cornstarch, milk, cardamom powder, and some clarified butter. Garnish with some ground pistachios and whole almonds. It’s very easy to prepare and makes for a soft and tasty treat for any special occasion or as an at-home, after-meal dessert. TheseLooks gorgeous and is full of real mango flavor. Find the full recipe here at Ripe Mango Sweet with Almonds. Mango Dessert is easy to make at home (sonalichoudhury.com)

Ingredients required to prepare ~

• 1 and a half cups of mango pulp paste
• 1/4 cup + 4 teaspoons powdered sugar
• 4 teaspoons of Cornstarch mixed in 1/4 cup of water
• Cardamom powder 1 teaspoon
• 1/2 cup Almond flour
• 2 tablespoons of milk
• Clarified butter 1 teaspoon
• Pistachios ground form to roll the sweets
• Few whole almonds are required for decorating the sweets

6) Besan Ladoo with Gond. Healthy Lodoo recipe. Homemade Ladoos.

To make Ripe Mango sweet with Almonds, mix a few ripe mangoes, almond flour, powdered sugar, cornstarch, milk, cardamom powder, and some clarified butter. Garnish with some ground pistachios and whole almonds. It’s very easy to prepare and makes for a soft and tasty treat for any special occasion or as an at-home, after-meal dessert. It looks gorgeous and is full of real mango flavor. Find the full recipe here at Besan Ladoo with the Gond recipe. Healthy besan Ladoos. Homemade ladoo, (sonalichoudhury.com)

Ingredients required to prepare the Besan Ladoos with Gond at Home

• 1 cup chickpea flour
• Ghee between 8 to 10 teaspoons
• Sugar (granulated) 1/3 cup + 4 teaspoons
• Cardamom powder 1/2 teaspoon
• Gond 1/3 cup
• Sliced almonds 1/3 cup
• Pumpkin seeds 2 teaspoons

Tips to prepare perfect Besan Ladoo with Gond.

• Here are the revised instructions without passive voice:
• When cooking, continuously stir the mixture to avoid burning at the bottom of the pan.
• Before adding sugar, completely cool the mixture so that it doesn’t melt and ruin the mixture.
• If your Laddu mixture is too moist, add some extra granulated sugar or dry roasted chickpea flour (Besan) to adjust the consistency. If the mixture is too dry, add a few drops of warm ghee into it and mix.
• It’s important to ghee roast and fry the chickpea flour (besan) nicely.
• Cook on a slow flame.

7) Chocolate Kalakand Sweet/dessert/Easy Milk dessert /Paneer Kalakand recipe/Tastes delicious.

Chocolate Kalakand Sweet is an amazingly delicious recipe that you can easily prepare at home using just a few main ingredients. To make this sweet, mix grated soft paneer with milk and dark chocolate and cook it thoroughly until it can be shaped like sweets. The result is a creamy, slightly chewy, and gooey textured sweet that kids are sure to love because of the chocolate flavor. If you are a Kalakand fan, then you won’t want to ignore this recipe! Find out the full recipe here at Chocolate Kalakand recipe made with paneer, milk, dark chocolate, and (sonalichoudhury.com)

You can also prepare this sweet using soft chenna prepared at home simply by curdling the milk. Just for the tip, you may also enjoy these when slightly milky and soft instead of cooking them until they can be shaped.

Ingredients required to prepare Chocolate Kalakand.

• Milk 3 cups full fat
• Paneer finely grated 3 cups
• 1/2 cup grated dark cocoa chocolate bar (unsweetened)
• Milk powder 1/3 cup (unsweetened)
• Sugar 1 cup
• Salt a pinch

8) Pineapple and Semolina. Sooji Halwa/Sweet/ Dessert recipe. Easy and quick/Healthy and delicious.

To make Pineapple and Semolina sweet, cook freshly chopped pineapples in a mixture of water and sugar until soft. Then, sauté semolina in clarified butter and mix it with the cooked pineapples. This aromatic and delicious dessert is served garnished with ground toasted pistachios and almonds. It’s the simplest and easiest semolina sweet/dessert recipe that looks gorgeous when served. For a tip, the light green color of the ground pistachios mixed with some ground almonds compliments the sweets and enhances their taste and flavor because of their slightly salty taste which works great. Check out this blog for more Indian sweets and dessert recipes, including 10 amazingly delicious sweets and desserts that you can easily prepare at home during festivals and other special events without putting in much effort. Find the full recipe here at Pineapple and Sooji Halwa. Pineapples and semolina sweet or dessert rec (sonalichoudhury.com)

Ingredients required to prepare Pineapple and Semolina. Sooji Halwa/Sweet/ Dessert recipe.

For Pineapple syrup:

• A big bowl of juicy pineapples finely chopped. or say 2 cups
• Sugar Littke less than half of the bowl
• Water 2 bowls/cup

For Halwa mixing

• Semolina (Sooji) 1 cup
• Water 1 cup
• Ghee (clarified butter) 1/3 cup + 3 tablespoons
• Almond flour 1/2 cup
• Sugar 3 tablespoons or as required
• Cardamom powder 1/2 teaspoon

9) Easy and quick Malai Chom Chom sweet. Rasgulla sponge chom chom. Milk powder kesar malai sweet. An Amazing dessert!

Malai Chom Chom is an amazing dessert that is easy and quick to prepare. It is a spongy rasgullas malai chom chom or chum chum recipe, also known as Malai chop. It has a super creamy texture and simply melts in the mouth. To make this dessert, use soft chenna as the main ingredient and knead it before cooking it in boiling water for about 10 minutes. The cooking time depends on the size of the chenna balls. The key point to understand is that once they increase in size, they are ready.

When the chenna doubles in size, turn off the flame immediately and let it cool. After boiling, transfer it into the hot sugar syrup for a minimum of one hour.

Finally, pour amazing milk Kesar milk malai on top with some of your favorite dry nuts. To give it a stunning look, add some colorful tutti-fruity in the center of it. It looks beautiful when served. You may decorate these with some fresh half-cut cherries as well.To prepare the malai or cream in this recipe, I used milk powder in addition to some amazing flavors of kesar/saffron and cardamom powder. This combination makes it aromatic, creamy, rich, and delicious. Find out the full recipe here at Malai Chom Chom. Easy and quick Malai chom chom recipe (sonalichoudhury.com)

Total cook time

• Pre-preparations 20 minutes
• The time to prepare chenna sweets, malai, and garnishing takes 40 minutes.
• Total time consumed 60 minutes

Cooking the sweets

To cook the chenna balls, heat and boil sufficient tap water in a large container. Drop these balls one by one into the boiling water, cover with a tight lid, and allow them to boil for 10 minutes. They will double in size and look beautiful. After 10 minutes, immediately turn off the flame and let them cool.

Once they are cold, gently squeeze out the water and transfer them into a hot sugar syrup. Keep them soaked in sugar syrup for a minimum of 1 hour. To prepare the sugar syrup, you need 2 cups of water and 3/4 cup of sugar. Dissolve the sugar nicely into the water and give it a quick boil. You don’t need any string consistency. Just as soon as it reaches its boiling point, turn off the flame.

To add the prepared chom-chom sweets to the hot sugar syrup, squeeze out the water from them and add them one by one. These sweets are so soft and spongy.

Ingredients required to prepare Malai Chom Chom sweets ~

1) For Chenna Balls we need

• Whole milk 8 cups
• White vinegar 5 tablespoons mixed with 5 tablespoons of water
• For cooking the chenna balls we need sufficient plain water to boil them for 10 minutes

2) For Sugar syrup

• 2 cups of water
• 3/4 cup of sugar

3) For milk powder kesar malai

• Milk powder 1/2 cup + 3 tablespoons
• Milk 1 cup Sugar little less than 1/3 cup
• Pinch of Kesar (saffron)
• Cardamom powder 1/2 teaspoon

4) For garnishing

• Almond flakes Tutti-frutti

10) Murmura Laddu. Puffed Rice Sweet.

To prepare Puffed Rice Sweet/ Murmura Laddu, use Jaggery without adding any extra sugar. It’s so simple and easy to prepare and looks gorgeous while tasting delicious. These laddus are so much fun to eat, especially for kids and toddlers.

To make these laddus, dry-roast the puffed rice for a while to make them crispy. You can add 1 teaspoon of clarified butter to dry roast them or just roast them without it. It takes hardly 5 minutes to dry roast 3 cups of puffed rice (murmur) in low flame to prevent them from getting burnt. Find out the full recipe here at Murmura Laddu. Puffed Rice Sweet. Quick and Healthy recipe. (sonalichoudhury.com)

Ingredients that we need to prepare these Murmura laddus. Puffed Rice Sweet.

• Puffed Rice (Murmura) 3 cups
• Jaggery (Gur) 3/4 cup
• Clarified butter (Ghee) 1 teaspoon
• Water 2 tablespoons

Quality of the Jaggery used.

When cooking and melting jaggery, make sure to use the right quality of jaggery. The type or quality of jaggery that I used for this recipe is in powdered form and can be found in any local grocery store, especially Indian grocery stores. Some jaggery melts on its own, but I added some water to melt it down as it turned out soggy but did not melt after being cooked for a while. So, make sure to check which quality of jaggery you are using. You might not need to add any water if it melts on its own, so please check that while you try preparing this sweet.

Murmura Laddu is a traditional Indian Sweet Laddu made from Puffed Rice and Jaggery that is served throughout the winter months. It is just as popular as Chikki/Ladoo and is enjoyed by both young and old.

Tips:

• For a crispy and fresh garnish, use Murmura that is crispy and fresh. If it is not crispy or is mushy, dry roast it in a skillet for a couple of minutes to eliminate the moisture.
• When mixing Murmura with Jaggery syrup, you can add roasted sesame seeds or any other nuts.
• You can adjust the size of Mamra Ladoo to your liking.
• Alternatively, quickly spread the murmura and jaggery syrup mixture onto a greased dish after mixing. Cut out into the desired shape by flattening it with the base of a small bowl. Or simply prepare balls.
• If you add extra water while rolling mamra laddu, it will become soggy.

11) Milk Cake sweet/dessert recipe

Milk Cake is a popular Indian dessert that is simply delicious and easy to make. It requires time and patience, but it’s worth trying. The grainy texture (Danedar) gives it a gorgeous look and awesome taste. You can make this dessert with just three common ingredients. To make it, you need to simmer milk on low heat until it reduces to 1/3 of its original volume. Then, add an acidic agent such as lemon juice to curdle the milk and create a grainy texture. After that, add sugar to sweeten, thicken, and form a cake-like mixture that’s formed into a log, chilled, then sliced into smaller pieces. The recipe is simple and quick to prepare, taking only 15 minutes of hands-on time! Enjoy this popular Indian sweet for Diwali or any Indian-themed celebration! Find the full recipe here at Milk Cake Recipe. Danedar. Made with 3 common ingredients. (sonalichoudhury.com)

Milk Cake, also known as Danedar, is a popular Indian sweet dish that is made by cooking milk slowly over low heat. To achieve the granular texture, the milk is curdled and cooked until all the water dries up. Since it is made entirely of milk, it is also known as milk cake.

Kalakand can also be prepared in another way by first preparing paneer or chenna and then cooking it with milk. The paneer is grated and then mixed and cooked with milk. You can find the recipe for this variation below.

Ingredients needed to prepare Milk Cake Recipe. Danedar.

• Milk: 7 cups (full cream)
• Sugar: 3/4 cup
• Lemon juice: 3 to 4 teaspoons of (more or less as required to curdle the milk)
• Clarified butter (ghee) 1 teaspoon (optional)

12) RAJBHOG. Kesar Sweet

Rajbhog, also known as Kesar Sweet, is a famous sweet from Bengal that is easy to prepare at home and simply delicious. To make this sweet, you need milk, saffron (kesar), vinegar (or lemon juice), sugar, cardamom, semolina (sooji), and optional orange food color. First, curdle the milk by adding vinegar or lemon juice. Then, prepare chenna from the curdled milk and mix it with saffron, cardamom, and orange food color. Mash it up using your hands until it’s soft and smooth to touch. Shape it into a round softball and fill it with hand-crushed pistachios or any dry nuts of choice. Rajbhog infuses the goodness of the ancient Indian spice of saffron into the regular rasgulla. It is basically a spongy and soft rasgulla with a flavor of kesar and a center filled with some dry nuts that give it a unique texture and flavor.

Rajbhog Sweets made at home