Overview
- Shops and patisseries across Mumbai and Pune are selling contemporary modaks—including chocolate pinata, Biscoff cheese, marzipan and motichoor‑chocolate mashups—to offer shoppers ready-made gifts and party treats.
- Traditional ukadiche modak, the steamed rice‑flour sweet filled with coconut and jaggery that is central to Ganesh Chaturthi, continues to be widely made and featured in step‑by‑step recipes for home cooks.
- Chef Ranveer Brar has promoted a savory Maharashtrian modak curry as an alternative preparation, adding a spicy, tangy option to the usual sweet repertoire.
- Two Brothers India Farms has announced a fried modak product and said it planned an Amazon listing before the festival, a move that reporters described as a pre‑festival retail push rather than a confirmed long‑term rollout.
- Bakers say customers commonly buy both traditional and novelty modaks, with pieces priced from roughly ₹45 each to specialty boxed offerings, showing festival commerce supports experimentation without replacing customary prasad.