Holiday Goddess Gemini 2025 Recipe: Silver Barfi/Burfi
This Mercury-ruled sign is blessed with the quicksilver qualities of gemini thinking: witty, nimble, fast. Mercury was the wing-footed Roman god of communication, commerce, messages, eloquence, travelers, and trickery.
The natives of Gemini are mercurial in nature: this is defined in the dictionary as ‘subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind’. But more positively, air-ruled Geminis are flexible and adaptable in their thinking: they are known as a mutable sign, unlike the fixed signs of Aquarius, Taurus, Scorpio and Leo. Anyone with a predominance of third house planets also displays these qualities.
Barfi is a fudgy Indian sweet, served at festivals, often topped with edible silver leaf. This is an easy recipe, and a chance to experiment working with silver. Geminis love learning and have a magpie-like curiosity of anything new and shiny.
Silver Barfi/Burfi
Serves 10
Ingredients
- 1 tsp neutral vegetable oil for greasing
- 125 g ghee
- 250 ml whole milk
- 500 g full milk powder
- 100 g icing sugar
- pinch saffron, ground
- pinch sea salt
- 100 g pistachio nibs
- gold or silver leaf
Instructions
- Grease the baking tin
- In a medium pan on a low heat, mix the ghee and the milk and simmer until hot. Do not let it boil.
- Add the milk powder and the sugar, beating until smooth.
- Add the saffron and cook until it reaches 118C.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared tin. Press the pistachio nibs into the top of the barfi.
- Allow to set for a couple of hours then press the gold or silver leaf on to the top of the barfi.
- When completely cool, cut into squares or diamonds. Serve with tea or chai.
