Biki Bakes: Bikaner's Modern Bakery Brand Baking Desi Ghee Biscuits Without Palm Oil

Ask a Bikaneri what they eat with their evening chai, and you will hear about bhujia first. Keep listening, though, and a second answer keeps surfacing — a bakery that the city's younger crowd treats as its own little discovery. Biki Bakes is not a 100-year-old halwai with a brass signboard and a legend. It is something Bikaner did not have for a long time: a modern bakery brand that bakes the Indian way — desi ghee, no palm oil, and flavours built around the city's own palate.

I first came across Biki Bakes the way most good food finds happen — someone pressed a packet of their biscuits into my hand and said, "yeh try karo, fir baat karte hain." The biscuits did the talking. Crisp without being brittle, buttery without the greasy film that mass-produced cookies leave on your fingers, and seasoned the way Indians actually like their tea-time snacks — a little jeera here, a little atta there, real dry fruit where dry fruit is promised.

It turns out the city agrees. Biki Bakes holds a 5.0 rating on Justdial across 34 ratings, out of its shop on Veer Teja Marg in Gangashahar, Bikaner. Perfect scores from real customers don't happen by accident — they happen when a bakery treats small batches and honest ingredients as the whole business model. You can browse their full range on Biki Bakes' page on BiteBasket, and it now ships across India.

What Biki Bakes Is, and Why Bikaner Needed It

Bikaner is famous for things fried in kadhais — bhujia, papad, namkeen. Bakery, as a category, mostly meant either the big national biscuit brands or the unbranded tins from the neighbourhood mithaiwala. There was very little in between: nobody was baking small-batch, recognisably Bikaneri-flavoured biscuits and putting a brand name on the packet.

That's the gap Biki Bakes walked into — a new-generation bakery brand from Bikaner that decided the city's snack table deserved better than factory biscuits: biscuits baked the way Bikaner understands food, with desi ghee instead of palm oil, wheat atta where atta makes sense, and flavours like jeera and kesar that belong to this region's palate, not a European cookie template.

The philosophy is refreshingly simple. Everything is handmade in small batches and freshly baked — the desi ghee atta biscuits are listed quite literally as "handmade, palm oil free & freshly baked." Baking without palm oil is a cost decision, not a marketing line: desi ghee gives a biscuit a slow, rounded richness instead of the flat greasiness of palm oil.

The Range: Biscuits Worth Knowing by Name

Biki Bakes keeps its catalogue tight — around eleven products, all in the biscuit and cookie family, all baked with the same small-batch discipline. Here is the honest walkthrough of the ones that matter:

Desi Ghee Atta Biscuits — the everyday hero

This is the biscuit that tells you everything about the brand's thinking. Whole wheat atta instead of plain maida, bound with desi ghee, baked fresh in small batches. It is not trying to be a dessert; it is trying to be the biscuit you reach for with chai twice a day, and it succeeds. The texture is crumbly in the good way, and the ghee does the flavour work without any added essence. Grab the Desi Ghee Atta Biscuits (250gm) if you are a two-cup-of-chai-a-day person — this is built exactly for you.

Kesar Badam Pista Biscuits — the premium one

Where the atta biscuit is everyday, this is the one you open when guests come over. Kesar for aroma and colour, real badam and pista studded through the dough — these are handmade almond and pistachio cookies, not "dry-fruit flavoured" anything. The badam-pista combination is the closest thing to Bikaneri luxury in the biscuit world, and it reads well on a gifting tray too. The Kesar Badam Pista Biscuits (250gm) are the box I'd carry to a relative's house during festival season.

Naan Khatai — the Indian classic, done properly

Every bakery in India makes naan khatai; very few make it the way Biki Bakes does. Theirs has that signature cracked, domed top and the short, melt-in-the-mouth crumb that comes from proper ghee and patience rather than dough conditioners. The Naan Khatai (200gm) is the test I use for any new bakery: if the naan khatai dissolves before you need to chew, the baker knows what they're doing. This one passes.

Jeera Biscuits — for the savoury half of the family

Every household has the savoury faction — the ones who push the sweet biscuits aside and ask for something namkeen. The Special Jeera Biscuits (250gm) are for them: cumin seeds roasted into a crisp, lightly salty biscuit. No sugar crash, no compromise, and genuinely excellent with evening chai.

Honey Oats Biscuits — the morning one

Oats and honey, baked into a 250gm pack that works as a breakfast accompaniment rather than a dessert. The Honey Oats Biscuits are lighter in sweetness than the rest of the range, with the oat texture giving them a chew that the crumbly ghee biscuits don't have. A solid pick for anyone who wants something filling at 7 in the morning.

Falahari Biscuits — the vrat-smart one

Here is a detail that made me respect this brand's understanding of its own city: Biki Bakes makes falahari biscuits for fasting days. In Bikaner, vrat eating is a serious, year-round habit — not just a Navratri thing — and finding genuinely good falahari snacks beyond the usual kuttu puri is hard. Their namkeen falahari biscuits fill that gap. (We covered vrat-friendly snacking in detail in our Navratri 2026 festive snacking guide — these are exactly the kind of biscuits it points to.)

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The No-Palm-Oil Difference, Explained Honestly

Every BiteBasket-adjacent brand we have covered — from Girdharilal to Bishanlal — gets asked the same question, and Biki Bakes answers it the same way: no palm oil. Let me be honest about why that matters and what it doesn't mean.

Palm oil is the commercial bakery industry's favourite fat because it is cheap, stable and flavourless — and flavourless is precisely the problem in a biscuit. Desi ghee carries its own aroma, and it browns during baking in a way that gives biscuits their characteristic shortness and aftertaste. When a biscuit is baked in ghee, you don't need half the artificial flavouring that factory biscuits rely on. That is why Biki Bakes' ingredient choice is a taste decision first and a health positioning second.

It is not magic, and I won't pretend a biscuit becomes health food because it skipped palm oil. But the difference is real and immediate: bite a desi-ghee biscuit and a palm-oil one side by side, and you will never ask why the good one costs a little more.

How to Actually Enjoy These: Small Serving Notes

Biscuits need no recipe, but a few pairings are worth mentioning because Bikaneri biscuit culture is really chai culture:

• The 5 pm test. Naan khatai or jeera biscuits with hot adrak chai — Biki Bakes' versions survive two dunks without disintegrating, which means they're baked right.
• The guest tray. One row of kesar badam pista, one row of atta biscuits, arranged on a brass plate. Nobody asks what brand it is — they ask where it is from.
• The office drawer. Honey oats biscuits beat the vending machine every time — the 250gm pack is a reasonable week if you're disciplined.
• The vrat dabba. Keep the falahari biscuits separate from everything else during fasting days — they are the difference between a dull vrat and a comfortable one.
• The gift angle. A biscuit hamper with two or three Biki Bakes varieties, wrapped simply, reads more thoughtful than another box of generic mixed dry fruit.

Bikaner's Bakery Moment

Something worth saying plainly: Bikaner is famous for what it fries, but its baking story is only just beginning. Brands like Biki Bakes matter because they prove the city can build food businesses on quality and honesty rather than only on legacy — a new-generation bakery earning a perfect rating on the strength of small batches and desi ghee.

Forty years from now, someone may write about a bakery that started in Gangashahar and became a Bikaner institution. Every sign — the ratings, the repeat buyers, the ingredient discipline — suggests Biki Bakes is baking its way toward that story.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Biki Bakes a Bikaner brand?

Yes. Biki Bakes is a bakery brand based in Bikaner, Rajasthan — its shop is on Veer Teja Marg in Gangashahar, Bikaner-334001, specialising in handmade biscuits and cookies baked fresh in small batches.

Are Biki Bakes biscuits made without palm oil?

Yes — the range is palm oil free. The biscuits are baked with desi ghee, which is the main reason for their distinctive buttery flavour and crumbly texture.

Which Biki Bakes biscuit should I try first?

Start with the Desi Ghee Atta Biscuits for everyday chai, or the Kesar Badam Pista Biscuits if you want the premium dry-fruit version. Naan khatai lovers should go straight to their naan khatai — it is the best single-biscuit test of the bakery's skill.

Does Biki Bakes make falahari (fasting) biscuits?

Yes, they make namkeen falahari biscuits specifically for vrat (fasting) days — a thoughtful option for Bikaner's year-round fasting calendar.

Where can I buy Biki Bakes biscuits online?

BiteBasket ships the full Biki Bakes range across India — order from the Biki Bakes manufacturer page or browse the wider bakery collection.