Kalakand is a delicious traditional sweet famous in Northern India. Making it in the traditional way takes more time but tastes awesome. This kalakand made with milk, paneer, pista powder, flavored with kewra essence and cardamom powder. You can use it for your Diwali celebration or any other festivals.
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Coconut Ladoo
Coconut Ladoo is a delicious sweet and is made during festivals. Fresh shredded coconut cooked with milk, mava, sugar and flavored with cardamom and rose essence. It’s really quick and tasty sweet, which can be made on any occasion. In this recipe, i have used milk and mava powder but you can use condensed milk to make ladoos. This recipe includes two type of ladoos, one is plain and the other is beetroot. Adding beet into it gives it a beautiful color.
Lychee Ice Cream
Ice creams is everyone’s favorite, especially during summer! Lychee is an Asian fruit and is a seasonal sweet juicy small fruit which is available only during summer. Lychee ice cream is made from Lychee pulp, milk sugar and flavored with vanilla. Generally in India you can get Lychee ice cream in stores however making it fresh has it’s own awesome taste. 
Carrot( Gajar) Halva
Carrot (Gajar) Halva is one of the popular dessert prepared with milk, mava and carrots. This recipe is generally prepared using a dark red carrot which is available in India and it gives a beautiful color to the dish. I could not find the same carrot in US so used regular carrots. You could add little bit of beetroot to get a darker shade. It is a rich recipe and teases your taste buds if you are health freak. Occasionally its good to give a treat to yourself. Kids love this sweet.
Rasogulla
Mouthwatering Rasogulla is a famous Bengali sweet prepared from milk paneer and sugar. In Bengal, people welcome their guests with this delicious sweet. Bengali marriage ceremony is incomplete without rasogulla. It’s all time my family’s favorite sweet. For making rasogulla, we need fresh soft paneer, so we have to make it at home. Kneading process of paneer is very important for making soft and spongy rasogulla. The paneer balls are cooked into sugar syrup and flavored with rose essence and green cardamom powder. It’s a great dessert and tastes awesome.
Rasmalai
Rasmalai is most popular Bengali sweet made up of mainly Milk and Sugar as ingredients. This is mainly used as dessert however one can eat whenever you like. Sweet lovers would love this delicious sweet. The process is pretty simple however needs to be timed well at certain stages to get the right recipe.