About My Mithaiwala

My Mithaiwala is a home for traditional Indian sweets — mithai — written for people making them far from where they grew up. Every recipe is built for a kitchen abroad: ingredient swaps you can actually find, both US-cup and metric measures, and honest notes on what each sweet should look, smell and feel like at every stage.

A mithaiwala is the maker and seller of sweets — a fixture of every Indian celebration from Diwali to a wedding to a Tuesday that simply needed a ladoo. This site is our small version of that shop.

How we work

Every recipe here is written and reviewed for people making these sweets far from where they grew up: real measures you can follow, ingredient swaps you can actually find, and honest notes on what each sweet should look, smell and feel like at each stage. We publish on a deliberate, modest cadence — accuracy and usefulness over volume.

How these recipes are made

We draft each recipe with the help of an AI writing tool, then a person reviews and edits every one before it is published — for accuracy, for voice, and for whether the method actually works. Nothing goes up unread. We publish once or twice a week because that is how much we can properly check.

Most hero photographs are AI-generated illustrations of the finished sweet, and we say so rather than letting you assume otherwise. Where you see a caption crediting our own shop, that is a real photograph from the original My Mithaiwala kitchen in Mumbai — the sweet as we actually made it.

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