From locally sourced artisanal mithai to the best luxurious chocolates around the world — here’s how you can add a touch of jazz to your Diwali gift hampers this year!
It’s Diwali season and there is an all-pervasive heady festive fragrance. Whichever corner of the country you’re in, it’s hard to not sway with the joyous spirit of festivities. Like every year, you’re likely looking for an extra bit of sheen — perhaps something a touch different — to up your Diwali gifting game. Naturally, your Diwali gift hampers must also keep up with the changing times, and the gamut of companies offering a variety of delicacies this year is hardly limited. From handmade mithai to the best luxurious chocolates and kitchen goodies — here’s your lowdown for some of the best Diwali gift hampers and ideas for 2022!
1. Patasa
Palak Panchal’s venture is offering a host of gift boxes this Diwali, including a handmade artisanal mithai box that costs Rs 875. It also offers a number of varying handcrafted chocolate boxes, priced onward of Rs 825. You may order their Diwali gift hampers directly via Instagram.
2. Ooni ovens by Pizza Pro
Going beyond the usual gift hampers is Pizza Pro’s range of pizza ovens, which you may gift to a budding chef — or even yourself — this Diwali. The Ooni pizza ovens from Pizza Pro start at Rs 32,999, and also come in a wood fired variant. For every pizza lover, this could be one of the most enduring, and endearing, gifts ever!
3. Artisante
Fancy yourself a special box of chocolates this Diwali? Artisante’s curated Diwali gift hampers this festive season offer you signature chocolate gift boxes, ranging from tasting boxes at Rs 1,560 to the flagship boxes at Rs 2,550.
4. Yauatcha x Papa Don’t Preach
The one with a touch of luxury, Yauatcha and Papa Don’t Preach bring to the fore a specially crafted gift box that includes a celebratory dash of colour, added to the zing of traditional taste that Yauatcha is famous for. From macarons like lychee and lime, and salted caramel and apple, to the rose and raspberry petit gateau, the celebratory gift hamper is one for all dessert lovers.
5. Sequel x Noon
The Sequel and Noon collaboration brings two worlds of experimentation and traditionalism together in a dessert hamper. This Diwali gift hamper includes locally sourced yet modern delicacies such as besan ladoos with amaranth chikki, brown rice and gram flour chakli, and a host of other goodies to make your Diwali perfect.
6. Cremeitalia
Cremeitalia’s Diwali gift hampers are all about cheese — giving you literally the perfect platter to savour various types of the most loved cheese in the world. You get burrata, cream cheese, mascarpone, and Fiordilatte cherry cheese served on a platter, in what could be an unconventional yet highly appreciated gifting idea.
7. Noto
Want to go the old school route this Diwali? Noto’s gift hampers offer not only an old school take, but also a healthy one by going the eternal, old school halwai route. Savour items like malai pedas, motichoor laddoo,s and roshogollas in your Diwali gift hampers this season — and what makes the deal sweeter is how you can personalise your hamper to your taste.
8. Yogisattva
One for those with a vegan dietary preference, Yogisattva’s plant-based mithai menu does not skimp on delicacies in any manner. Available across the price band between Rs 349 and Rs 2,499, the Diwali gift hampers here can include vegan takes on the traditional kaju katli, kesar badam peda, dark chocolate truffle,s and khajur-pista rabdi, among other items.
9. The Gift Studio
As the name would tell you, The Gift Studio’s USP lies in them allowing you to curate your Diwali gift hampers with an assortment of multiple festive favourites. From its entry level hamper at Rs 1,299 that offers chocolates, mixed dried fruits, a scented candle, and a festive incense, to the flagship celebration trunk at Rs 7,599 — the range of choices and customisations is plentiful.
10. Truffle & Co
If you fancy yourself a chocolate truffle, the choices are endless for you at Truffle & Co’s Diwali gift hamper gallery. You get selections like single malt truffles — which infuse dark chocolate with 18-year-old single malt whiskey and dust it in cocoa powder, to a ‘birthday cake’ truffle — with an eggless dark chocolate fudge cake centre, and dark chocolate and confetti on the outer shell.
11. Studio Coppre
Studio Coppre, which seeks to revive India’s heritage crafts and help the livelihoods of artisans across the country, is offering handcrafted metalware through its Diwali gifting ideas. Customers may choose from their ‘Kaju Diwali Tealight’ or the ‘Karanji Diwali Tealight’ in copper, with brass cast motifs. They also offer a minimalist Mithai Tray, with beautiful hand-beaten indentations on the copper, some floating Rangoli, and Kolam tealights.
12. Health In A Jar
Pallavi and Jhanvi Ajmera’s Delhi-based Health in a Jar is offering a variety of dips, spreads, desserts, and accompaniments this festive season. Their gifting ideas claim to offer a gourmet experience of healthy snack-able items, beyond the chocolates and candles — ones that would last beyond the festive season, too.
13. Phool
Kanpur based Phool has chosen a nostalgia theme for their Diwali boxes this year — with a nostalgia box finished in artwork reminiscent of old-school comics. Apart from their incense cones built of natural ingredients, there’s a small version of their plantable patakha and a bunch of other festive goodies designed for Diwali! They also have a naturally-sourced puja samagri box that comes with all the goods that you might need for your Diwali puja.
14. Native Tongue
Native Tongue and its specialised take on spreads and jams are also available as Diwali gift hampers this year. Choose among eight hampers this Diwali, which can be customised as per your liking. From the premium nut butter hamper, to the Diwali hamper of six that comes with rangoli and stencil and flavours such as Peanut Butter with Byadagi Chilli, Salted caramel Sauce and Strawberry Preserve With Kerala Vanilla and more such — this one’s an offbeat choice to make.
15. Idam
A print and design studio founded by textile and graphic design wizards Ghazal Bawa and Nayanika Bhatla, Idam offers homeware and accessories designed in contemporary and traditional Indian aesthetics. This Diwali, they have on offer a bespoke festive collection where you can include the ‘Gulrukh’ embroidered runners and table mats, or go for the minimalistic ‘Gulaab’ collection. They have also curated multiple gifting options with handcrafted stoneware vases–created by ‘A Clay Story’.
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