Many Indian desserts are fried foods made with sugar, milk or condensed milk. Ingredients and preferred types of dessert vary by region. In the eastern part of India, for example, most are based on milk products. Many are flavoured with almonds and pistachios, spiced with cardamon, nutmeg, cloves and black pepper, and decorated with nuts, or with gold or silver leaf.

Combination of flour, sugar, nuts, legumes, and dairy or khoya which is a semi-solid dairy product made by slowly boiling milk until it thickens. Also include classic Indian spices such as cardamom, nutmeg, cinnamon, rose water, or saffron.