Top 5 Women Entrepreneurs Making and Selling Tasty Delicacies for Diwali in Ahmedabad
Enterprising Gujarati women are rocking with new creations to sweeten up this festival season
06 Nov, 2018 by Sonal KelloggThe long-awaited Diwali festival is here and everyone is geared up to have a great time with family and friends along with sweets, rangoli, new clothes, gifts and lots more but there can be no festivities without sweets in India. For a long time sweets have been the same each year but this is the age of innovation and in every area, we see so much of experimentation and innovation so naturally in the area of food too there has to be innovation whether it is the making, the ingredients or the presentation. Gujarati women are extremely enterprising so they will not let any opportunity go untapped. Many food entrepreneurs in Ahmedabad are offering different kinds of sweets with uncommon ingredients like the use of rose petals, Paan flavoured bonbons, wafer cookies, etc in sweets. Women in Ahmedabad are at the forefront of such efforts so we present you the best Diwali sweets being made by women food entrepreneurs in Ahmedabad
List of top 5 woman food entrepreneurs offering awesome sweets in Ahmedabad:
Bellezoe
Bella Shah has been making sweets, chocolates and confectionary for over a decade. Over the years, Ms Shah who started sweet making rather late in life but now she is fully committed to it and employs a large staff to make her sweets, chocolates and confectionaries. This year, she has come up with some new sweets which include Walnut Marzipan with Orange, Dry Fruits with Orange, Dry Fruits with Honey, Dates and Nuts with Wafer Cookies and many more such sweets. She operates from Haveli Bungalows in Drive-in area.
Price for 2: Rs 1000
This restaurant is located in Bodakdev area, behind The Grand Bhagwati Hotel. Run by Urja Patel and her husband Mihir, they have made thousands of kilos of sweets for this Diwali season which are being sold like hot cakes with corporate orders and people buying sweets from the restaurant. Their specialities include Date Pistachio, Cashew Rose and Kesar Badam Pista sweets.
Price for 2: Rs 1000
Saugaat
Saugaat is the baby of Swati Rangwani, a young woman who started all on her own to become a chocolatier three years ago and now she is well established in her business.
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Ms Rangwani has also embraced the whole range of sweets from chocolates to traditional Indian sweets for this festival time. Located in Satellite area, this year Saugaat’s specialities include Rose Mithai Truffles, Orange Pistachio Truffles, Paan Bonbons and Coconut Barfi Truffles.
Price for 2: Rs 1200
Shweta’s Chocolat
This chocolaterie is owned and operated by Shweta Raval who has in a span of just a few years built up a huge clientele for her eggless cakes and chocolates. She is known for her designer cakes and makes amazing designer cakes. She made a 75 kg Cake recently for the former chief minister of Gujarat Anandiben Patel. Her specialities this Diwali are Rajasthani Kalakand, Kesar Barfi, Chocolate Barfi and Mohanthal.
Price for 2: Rs 1400
Bake-a-licious
Owned and operated by Raina Nasra, Bake-a-licious comes out with delicious and innovative chocolates which are much appreciated by her clients. This Diwali she is offering sweets in very nice packaging. Her specialities are Diwali Cracker Chocolates, Whole Wheat Almond and Chocolate Chip Cookies, Chocolate Tarts with Almond, Cashews and Cranberry.
Price for 2: Rs 1200
Written By
A published author working on her second book, Sonal worked for many years as a journalist in The Indian Express, The Asian Age and DNA Newspaper where she regularly reviewed restaurants and wrote about food. She worked in Nairobi as a general manager of a group of restaurants in another era. She loves experimenting with food but is also known for her Biryanis and Kababs and even her baking skills. She likes travelling to little known places and if she finds quaint eateries it just makes the trip more fun. Currently based in Ahmedabad, she is happy with the growing awareness of gourmet food in the city.