Malai x The Chutney Life Diwali Ice Cream Dessert Collection
Ships Nationwide in U.S.
Not eligible for shipping to CanadaCelebrate Diwali with a joyful and flavorful frozen dessert collection created by Malai and The Chutney Life’s Palak Patel. This special lineup blends nostalgic Indian favorites with playful, modern twists, inspired by the sweets cherished growing up and the flavors craved today.
From layered ice cream cakes infused with classic mithai to kulfi pops inspired by beloved childhood candy bars, each dessert is crafted to be shared, savored, and celebrated.
Started in 2015 by Pooja Bavishi, Malai Ice Cream uses ice cream as a delicious blank slate to showcase the familiar flavors of her childhood – warm spices and aromatic flavors like ginger, nutmeg, cardamom, and saffron. Malai means “cream of the crop,” and is a fitting name for Pooja’s ice cream creations, which draw inspiration from globally-sourced ingredients to create unexpected twists on classic ice cream flavors. Pooja crafts her small-batch artisanal ice cream by hand, creating totally unique and satisfying flavors.
This package includes
- 1 Cardamom Banana Bread Ice Cream Cake – Inspired by Palak’s fan-favorite Cardamom Banana Muffins, this festive ice cream cake features a spiced banana bread base, layered with Malai’s signature cardamom ice cream, and finished with a golden muffin crumble.
- 1 Coconut Burfi Ice Cream Cake – This one’s for the coconut lovers—and an ode to Palak’s coconut obsession! This celebratory cake layers Malai’s coconut and rose ice creams with soft coconut cake and a crown of traditional coconut burfi.
- 1 Carrot Halwa Ice Cream Pint – Inspired by gajar ka halwa this flavor has become a tradition of its own at Malai. Slow-cooked carrots, simmered in ghee and cardamom, are folded into creamy ice cream for a scoop that’s rich, spiced, and full of warmth.
- 4 Peanut Butter Chocolate Kulfi Pops – Creamy kulfi swirled with spiced peanut butter (star anise and a hint of cayenne), studded with crunchy peanut chikki, half-dipped in rich chocolate, and topped with more chikki for extra crunch.
- Each cake measures approx. 4" and serves 4 people
- Items ships frozen with dry ice.
- Dry ice may dissipate in transit, product may thaw.
- Do not remove dry ice with bare hands.
- Upon arrival, store items in the freezer for up to 6 months.
- Cardamom Banana Bread Ice Cream Cake – Whole Milk, Flour, Cane Sugar, Cream, Banana Puree (Banana, Cane Sugar, Lemon Juice), Non Fat Milk, Cream Cheese (Pasteurized Milk And Cream, Whey Protein Concentrate, Salt, Carob Bean Gum, Xanthan Gum, Cheese Culture), Inverted Sugar Syrup, Grapeseed Oil, Light Brown Sugar (Cane Sugar, Molasses), Butter (Cream, Natural Flavor), Vanilla Extract (Water, Cane Alcohol, Cane Sugar, Vanilla Bean Extractives), Flaxseed, Cardamom, Tapioca Starch, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Salt Contains: Wheat, Dairy
- Coconut Burfi Ice Cream Cake – Whole Milk, Cream, Cane Sugar, Flour, Coconut, Non-fat Milk, Cream Cheese (Pasteurized Milk And Cream, Whey Protein Concentrate, Salt, Carob Bean Gum, Xanthan Gum, Cheese Culture), Coconut Puree (Coconut Milk, Inverted Sugar Syrup), Inverted Sugar Syrup, Grapeseed Oil, Natural Extract From Coconut (Contains Alcohol), Natural Thickeners: Maize Starch, Tragacanth & Xanthan Gums), Rose Water, Flaxseed, Tapioca Starch, Salt, Natural Food Color (Beet Powder, Tapioca Starch), Baking Powder, Cardamom, Salt Contains: Wheat, Dairy, Coconut
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Kulfi Pops – Sweetened Condensed Milk (Milk, Sugar), Evaporated Milk (Milk, Dipotassium Phosphate, Carrageenan, Vitamin A Palmitate), Heavy Cream, Peanut Butter (Peanuts, Salt), Chocolate (Cocoa Mass, Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Soy Lecithin, Natural Vanilla Flavoring), Coconut Oil, Salt, Star Anise, Cayenne, Peanuts, Jaggery, Ghee (Clarified Butter), Powdered Sugar (Granulated Sugar, Cornstarch), Salt Contains: Dairy, Peanuts, Coconut, Soy
- Carrot Halwa Pint – Whole Milk, Cream, Cane Sugar, Non-fat Milk, Carrots, Cream Cheese (Pasteurized Milk And Cream, Whey Protein Concentrate, Salt, Carob Bean Gum, Xanthan Gum, Cheese Culture), Ghee (Clarified Butter), Inverted Sugar Syrup, Cardamom, Tapioca Starch, Salt Contains: Dairy
Aromatic Flavors and Unexpected Twists in Ice Cream
Aromatic Flavors and Unexpected Twists in Ice Cream
Chef Pooja Bavishi has been obsessed with flavors since she was a kid. As an adult, that passion become her profession, when she founded Malai, a small-batch artisanal ice cream company in 2015. Malai means "Cream of the crop," and is a fitting name for Pooja's ice cream creations, which draw inspiration from globally-sourced, whole ingredients and aromatic spices to create unexpected twists on classic ice cream flavors.
As a little kid, aroma was always at the forefront for Pooja, who's memories of being small and sniffing her parents' spicy masala chai tea were evocative enough to transform the memory into an ice cream flavor. Pooja uses ice cream as the perfect blank slate to showcase the familiar flavors of her childhood - warm spices like ginger, nutmeg, cardamom, and saffron. Now, Pooja crafts all the ice cream by hand for these totally unique and satisfying flavors.
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