How to make edible rakhis (Yes, you can eat them!)

If food is something that you and your brother bond over with late-night online orders or sneaky trips to the nearest café, then edible rakhis should be your go-to choice in 2025. Instead of the traditional beads and stones, these rakhis can include your brother's favourite treats such as candies, chocolates or even cookies. Additionally, unlike the thread-based rakhis that are removed from the hand a few days later, your brother can just eat the edible one.

These are 5 edible rakhi recipes you must try for Raksha Bandhan 2025.

Marzipan rakhi


You will need fondant, white chocolate, dark chocolate, 2 tbs oil, a few drops of food-grade colours and some pearl balls for decoration. With the help of food colouring, create some colourful fondants and set them aside. Melt both white and dark chocolate with oil, spread it on parchment paper and let it set. With the help of cutters, make different shapes of the fondant and the chocolate. Now make colourful straps from the fondant and assemble the rakhi with shapes of chocolate and fondant. Top off the rakhi with pearls.

Khoya rakhi
Take some khoya and cook it with sugar over a flame until it reaches a burfi-like consistency. Add food colouring to the mixture and shape it in different forms to make small spheres and strips. Decorate it with colourful pearls.

Dried fruit figs and cherry rakhi


If a no-cooking rakhi is in your mind, then take some satin ribbon and tie a knot. Thread the dried figs through the knot, and at the centre of it, place a candied cherry.

Halwa in a chocolate cup rakhi
Make halwa, an Indian traditional, auspicious dish. Now, melt some chocolate and make it into a cup by freezing it in the shape. Add the halwa to the cup and below it, stick a thread by melting some chocolate and spreading it between them.

Energy bar rakhi


You will need some jaggery, oats, peanut butter, chia and sunflower seeds. In some melted jaggery, add the rest of the ingredients to create a thick mixture. While it is warm, take a thread and mould it in the shape of an energy bar around it so that the thread is inside it. Freeze it overnight and tie the edible rakhi to your brother's wrist the next day.