Diwali 2025: A Food-Forward Gifting Guide For Your Diwali Celebrations
With Diwali round the corner, confusion about what to gift dear ones is natural. Making your gift-picking journey easier is this food-forward guide that will help you pick the best gift for your foodie family and friends.
As Diwali approaches, the decision about what to gift family and friends becomes a crucial and time-consuming one. With endless options available in the market, you are bound to find something better than what you chose during your last shopping spree. This is an endless process. To make things easier and reduce the stress of your festive season, here’s a food-forward guide to the best gifting hampers and boxes that will impress the recipients. From boxes featuring decadent desserts to coffee-related gifts for your caffeine-enthusiastic friends, here’s a curated Diwali gifting guide for you.
Manam Chocolate’s Diwali Gifting Collection
If you are looking for a gift for someone who enjoys well-crafted desserts, Manam Chocolate’s Diwali collection is a one-stop shop for all your gifting ideas. Select from a range of gift boxes featuring a variety of pastries, desserts, assortments, snacks, and cookies from our collection. If not more, you can pick your friends’ and family’s favourite treats from over 300 chocolate expressions crafted from fine flavour cacao beans grown in Andhra Pradesh’s West Godavari District.
Each dessert is packaged in a limited-edition box illustrated by Namrata Kumar, who captures scenes of celebration across cacao farms, fermenteries, and festive homes.
The collection includes Manam Diwali indulgence boxes with options to choose between 12, 24, and 64-piece assortments, as well as treat and tablet boxes, a Diwali dessert spread, a box of chocolate barks, and more.
Their pastry selection offers fresh entremets and cake slices. In contrast, their celebration cakes, available in flavours like The DMW, Dark Chocolate Raspberry, Hazelnut Coffee, Carrot and Apricot, and Coconut Lemon Custard, are great picks to elevate the celebrations.
The collection is available at Manam Chocolate’s flagship stores in Delhi and Hyderabad, or you could place your order on their website. Available for pan-India deliveries from October 1 to October 31.
Velvet Ribbon Collection By Foodstories
If you are looking for a gift that can be customised to the smallest detail for the receiver, then hampers and boxes from Foodstories’ Velvet Ribbon collection will make for the perfect gift for your family and friends. From ingredients to the ribbons used in the hampers, everything can be customised based on the recipient’s preference.
The collection features rare finds such as 12-year-aged balsamic, Iranian saffron, single-estate coffees, and wood-fired cashews, alongside small-batch Indian ghee and artisanal mithai from Foodstories’ kitchens.
Beyond hampers, the collection includes bento boxes, picnic baskets, artisanal thaals, and trays lettered by The Bombay Lettering Company. You can also choose their themed sets like the basket of fire, the longevity basket, and the matcha set, which will make for trendy gifts. Completing the assortment are bespoke tea cakes, confectionery, stuffed dates, and festive collaborations with artisans and foundations for diyas, torans, candles, and handcrafted potlis.
Sustainably packaged in jute, wicker, or acrylic baskets, The Velvet Ribbon embodies Foodstories’ motto of gifting as an embrace and an experience, where every unwrapping becomes a cherished memory.
These hampers and boxes are available on Foodstories’ website
Something’s Brewing’s Get Ready To Host Diwali Edit
Whether you are looking for a gift for your caffeine-addicted friend or wish to gift something unique, other than curated hampers or a box of chocolate, Something’s Brewing’s “Get Ready to Host” gifting edit offers the perfect picks for you. It is India’s first and largest home-brewing marketplace, offering a collection that will make your gifts truly stand out.
At the heart of the collection is the Budan one-touch coffee machine (priced at INR 13,999). It is a sleek 2-in-1 espresso maker compatible with both Nespresso capsules and freshly ground coffee, and is perfect for brewing espressos and cappuccinos at a single touch.
Also on offer is the Budan bolt ( priced at INR 11,999). It is a compact, high-performance machine that not only fits seamlessly into festive bar setups but also reminds the receiver of you every time they enjoy using it.
For those who enjoy gifting thoughtful bundles, the black brew bundle (priced at INR 2,499) combines the Budan moka pot (a stylish black sipper, indulgent truffle chocolates, coffee, and a candle, making it an all-in-one pack for you.
Completing the curation is Roasts of India (priced at INR 1,499), a tasting journey of single-origin coffees sourced from top Indian roasters.
You can order all these machines and packs from Something’s Brewing’s website.
Andaz Delhi’s Diwali Collection
This Diwali, Andaz Delhi, by Hyatt, presents a curated collection of gift hampers that make picking gifts for Diwali a seamless process. Each box is designed to include artisanal delights and gourmet treasures that will make Diwali celebrations even more special for you and the receiver.
The Happiness Hamper (priced at INR 950 + taxes) offers wholesome treats, including millet pops, masala seed mix, orange and hazelnut granola, a date-sweetened chocolate bar, date and peanut chikki, date honey, Moroccan mint tea, and a festive lamp.
The delight hamper (priced at INR 1,500 + taxes) combines indulgence with simplicity, featuring 12 handcrafted chocolates, 12 homemade Indian sweets, a festive lamp, and a greeting card.
The joy hamper (priced at INR 2,000+ taxes) balances flavour and elegance with masala millet pops, seed mix, granola, 19 assorted handcrafted chocolates, dark chocolate and sea salt waffle chips, chikki, assorted teas, and three vanilla-scented candles.
Finally, the euphoria hamper (priced at INR 8,500+ taxes) offers trail mix nuts, chocolates, granola, hazelnut spread or date honey, kaju katli, Mediterranean basil olive oil, dried mushrooms, gnocchi, gluten-free pasta, basil pasta sauce, olive oil crackers, teas, candles, and a festive garland.
Available at the Andaz Delhi festive desk until October 19 2025, or via telephone orders
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