Deepavali Gifts: Dried Fruit, Nuts and Boxes for the Open House
Two things get bought for Deepavali: enough to keep the bowls filled while the house is open, and one good box to carry to somebody else's door. Dried fruit and nuts do both — shelled pistachios, crimson red walnuts, figs and apricots keep for weeks, need no reheating, and sit beside the murukku and the trays of sweets already going between homes rather than competing with them. The dried fruit and nut lines fill the bowls at home; the three gift boxes and the bakes with gift packaging are what you carry out of the door, from the Family Snack Box up to a sharing box built for a whole afternoon of visitors.
Boxes, already put together
Packed to order and priced below the sum of their parts.
What to actually buy
For the door — one thing, presented, and looked at in front of other guests. The Singapore Gift Box is the one to carry to a colleague, a client, or an aunt you only visit once a year. The Family Snack Box is the tier you take to three houses in one afternoon, and the one to repeat when you are buying for a team. The Festival Sharing Box is for the household that is hosting and wants one large thing sitting on the table all day. Where a bake has a "with Gift Packaging" variant, that is the one to send; keep the plain tin for your own kitchen.
The traditional core. The dry-fruit box is the gift here, and the lines this catalogue does properly are walnuts, pistachios, figs and apricots. Imperial Red Walnuts with Red Packaging arrive crimson and already in the colour of the season, with nothing to re-dress. Premium Shelled Pistachios go straight into a bowl with no shells for anyone to clear. Organic Soft Dried Figs and Organic Soft Dried Apricots read as the older, more considered gift, which is why they are what you send to a senior relative or a client. Prosperity Treasure Mix covers the mixed-box job, in 250g and 500g.
For the house — the bowls you keep refilling. Treasure Mix is the everyday bowl that empties and gets topped up through the day. Tropical Dried Sliced Mangoes tend to go first with children in the house. Dried Cranberries, Apple Juice Infused are infused with apple juice rather than dusted with sugar — sweet, but not one more tin of sweets on a table that already has several. If you are hosting, take Prosperity Treasure Mix in 500g rather than 250g; the bowls empty faster than you plan for. For a bake that sits on this table on its own terms, Cashew Dreams — cashew is the nut people expect at Deepavali.
If you are buying for Indian colleagues and you are not Indian. A dried fruit and nut box is the standard gift; nobody will read it as a guess. Red, gold, yellow, orange, maroon and green are the colours of the season — black and white are not. We do not claim dietary or religious certifications we do not hold, so if the household keeps a strict vegetarian kitchen, ask us about the specific bake on WhatsApp 6585191990 before you send it, or stay with the plain dried fruit and nut lines, which are the simplest thing to be sure about. Hand the gift over with your right hand, or with both.
Or build your own
One box for the door, weight for the house
Start with the boxes: The Singapore Gift Box for a colleague or a client, the Family Snack Box for the houses you are visiting, the Festival Sharing Box if you are the one hosting. Then fill the bowls from Dried Fruits, Fruit Mix and Organic — Imperial Red Walnuts with Red Packaging, Premium Shelled Pistachios, Treasure Mix, Organic Soft Dried Figs.
Before you order
What do people actually give for Deepavali?
I am not Indian and I am buying for my team. How do I not get it wrong?
How much should I buy if I am the one hosting an open house?
Can I order for a whole office, or send several gifts at once?
When should I order, and what about the holiday weekend?
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Dried Fruits & Nuts
Apple-juice infused cranberries, golden raisins, red walnuts, pistachios and ready-made fruit and nut mixes.
Organic & Pantry
Organic soft dried figs, apricots, plums and mulberries, plus Australian rolled oats.
Tarts
Pineapple tarts, Nutella tarts, Biscoff tarts, Cashew Dreams and Ants Nest, baked in small batches.
Chinese New Year gifts
Nobody goes visiting empty-handed, and there will be more than one house.
Hari Raya gifts
Two different orders come off this page at Raya.
Corporate gifts
Corporate orders here come in two shapes: one box each for a whole office at a controlled cost per head, or a small number of heavier boxes going to named clients.