Deepavali gift hampers in Coimbatore: From millet sweets to artisanal chocolates

Chocko Choza Chocko Choza’s pure Belgian Bliss box that comes with hand-filled couverture chocolates | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Chocko Choza takes is festive hampers seriously. A lot of thought goes into the offerings from the resto-café that was started as a small store selling single-origin chocolates in RS Puram in 2007 by P Dhivya and her husband S Anbuchelvan. “We bake the way we bake for our family,” say the founders, introducing this year’s Deepavali gifting options that includes a curated selection of chocolates, cookies, petites, loaves, and cakes.A highlight is The Master Piece Hamper Box that has their signature pure Belgian Bliss chocolates, 70% dark and milk chocolate bar, almond meringue jar, brownie cubes, crunchy cookies, and a 250gm butterscotch praline loaf. For the strictly-chocolate kind, there is the most-gifted Pure Belgian Bliss box that comes with hand-filled couverture chocolates in packs of four, eight, 12 or 15.The team has also come up with an artisanal chocolate box featuring orange pistachio, almond rose raisin, marzipan raspberry, and coffee cookie caramel, all of which come with house-made fillings. The Petites box has bite-sized cheesecakes, French macarons, cupcakes, and brownies, that come separately as well as an assorted collection.Chocko Choza’s loaf cakes are ideal to be couriered across India. These are moist with no icing and are hence best suited for long-distance friends. Customers can also choose from their array of celebration cakes and gourmet treats and can also put together their own hampers from the festive menu.Hampers can be hand-delivered across the city. Call 8220400100, visit www.chockochoza.com.Arockiya Adumanai Arockiya Adumanai’s millet laddu Deepavali hamper | Photo Credit: Special arrangement R Barani, who started Arockiya Adumanai along with her husband Dinesh in 2016, holds on to her principles of using only native ingredients even during the festive season. Her cooking venture focuses on brownies, laddus, among others made using whole wheat, native whole-grain millets, and traditional rice varieties, sweetened with jaggery. The venture was based in Palani until a year ago and Barani and her husband have now moved to Periyanaickenpalayam in the city where their factory is based. This year for Deepavali, she has introduced four sweet and savoury hampers.“The first one consists of an assortment of laddus,” she says, adding that this includes ragi, multigrain, kambu, cholam, urad dal, and dry fruits laddus, that come packed in a tin box. Arockiya Adumanaiis known for their millet cookies, which are part of another hamper. She also offers an elaborate sweet and savoury hamper option in which she has paired assorted laddus with 25gms of millet mixture. Then there is the millet museli hamper that has emmer wheat cocoa museli (100gms), bajra fruit and nut museli (100gms) and jowar seedy cinnamon museli (100gms) that comes in a festive hamper bag.Priced at ₹280 onwards. For details, visit them on Instagram @arockiya_adumanai, call 8870899661.Treat Factory The Treat Factory’s Ulaa Deepavali hamper | Photo Credit: Special arrangement CB Sowmya, a city-based home baker, is busy packing festive desserts in her custom pink boxes even as she speaks to us over phone. She comes up with something different every Deepavali. This year, she says she wanted to keep away from the usual assortment of traditional Indian sweets. “I wanted to let people go on a little trip around the world through my sweet box,” says Sowmya, who sells on a cloud kitchen called The Treat Factory. Her Deepavali hamper is called Ulaa, which means leisurely stroll. “It is inspired by desserts around the world, but with an Indian twist,” she says.The hamper has a Mysorepak blondie (US-inspired), kinder crunch brownie (Italy), rose milk macarons (France), whipped caramel truffle (London) and pista kunafa mawa laddu (Egypt). It comes as boxes of 10, 18, and 24. She also offers a Heritage hamper that has assorted cookies, kaju rocks, gooey cookies and three jars of chatpata makhana, apart from a fudge hamper with an assortment of her best offerings, and a gourmet cookie pie hamper.Another highlight this year, are gulab jamuns made in small batches, also available on her cloud kitchen. “These are made with real kova by my mother B Padmavati,” says Sowmya, adding with a laugh how people start asking about her mother’s jamuns even before her hampers make their appearance. “To me, they are the best jamuns in the world,” she says.Priced from ₹550 onwards. To order, visit the_treat_factory on Instagram, WhatsApp 8438756158