Top 5 Tri-Color Dessert Recipes to Celebrate This Republic Day
Written by jheelum basu | January 20, 2026
Republic Day celebrations are just around the corner. And in India, it is an occasion of immense significance. While the celebration centers on parades, flag hoistings, and patriotic songs, it also features culinary delights that reflect the day's spirit. While the Indian flag is hoisted across all important places, the colors of the Indian tricolor also appear in sweets and desserts.
Making tricolor desserts on Republic Day is simply nothing but a heartfelt way to express love for the country. On this day, regional recipes blend with national symbolism through the tricolor. While carrots, saffron strands, or saffron food coloring are used to create the saffron color, pistachio powders or green food colorings are used for the green color. While traditional sweets like barfis, rasgullas, and kheer are still prepared, modern desserts like cakes and mousses are also finding their place on the menu.
The Tradition Of Making Tricolor Desserts
Every year, the Republic Day celebrations bring in the age-old tradition of making tricolored sweets and desserts. The simple tradition symbolizes patriotism, national pride, and unity, incorporating the saffron, white, and green colors of the Indian flag. While the colors of the flag introduce the patriotic flair to celebrations, the tricolor desserts also foster a sense of unity, which is at the very heart of the occasion.
1. Tricolor Mousse
As the name suggests, the tricolour chocolate mousse is a layered, creamy, soft dessert that typically resembles the Indian flag. Made with white chocolate, whipping cream, fresh cream, vanilla essence, and food coloring, this dessert delivers a sense of comfort and familiarity with every bite.
The luxuriously creamy dessert is assembled like the Indian tricolor. The green mousse forms the base, the white mousse the middle layer, and the top layer features saffron mousse. This visual alignment with the Indian flag is the primary appeal of the dessert, making it relevant on this day.
2. Tricolor Kulfi
On Republic Day, a tricolor kulfi can be made by layering three distinctly colored kulfi bases. While the first one should be green-colored, the middle one should be plain white, and the top layer should be saffron or orange -colored to represent the Indian flag.
To make the tricolor kulfi, first prepare the base with sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, heavy cream, powdered sugar, and cardamom powder until smooth, and divide the whole base into three equal parts. Now, to create the colored layers, mix orange food color or a few strands of saffron with one part. Keep the second part of the plain white and add some pistachio powder or green food color to the third layer. Assemble the layers accordingly into kulfi molds and freeze until solid.
3. Tricolor Cake
To make a tricolor cake for Republic Day, one may prepare a batter for three vanilla sponge cakes and divide it into three equal parts. Use flour, butter, sugar, vanilla essence, eggs, and baking powder for the cakes. Add the orange and green food coloring to two separate portions of the batter, then bake all three cakes. Once out of the oven, the three cakes can be assembled according to the color distribution of the Indian flag. Additionally, one may prepare orange, white, and green buttercream frostings to cover the assembled cakes. To create the Ashk Chakra, sprinkle blue sprinkles on the cake.
4. Tricolor Kheer
In India, no special occasion is complete without a bowl of thick, pudding-like kheer. The traditional Indian dessert made with rice, sugar, milk, spices, saffron, and dry fruits is almost indispensable when it comes to any celebration. To give it a tricolored twist, one may divide the kheer into three parts. Add saffron to one part to create the orange layer. Add some powdered pistachios to the other part. To create the tricolor, place the layers side by side and top with crushed nuts and raisins.
5. Tricolor Rasgulla
To make rricolor rasgulla for Republic Day, first prepare the dough with regular traditional chenna (paneer) by curdling milk, straining it, and kneading it into a smooth dough. Next, divide the dough into three parts. Add saffron food color to one part, green food color to another part, and leave one part white. Now, shape these into small balls and cook them in boiling sugar syrup until spongy. Once done, soak the sponge balls in their respective colored syrups before serving.
Conclusion:
This Republic Day, make sure the dessert buffet also represents the true spirit of the day. Try these easy and simple tricolored desserts at home and celebrate the occasion.