With my vegetarian and now vegan son, we eat a lot of Indian foods. We have a favorite spot that offers a lunchtime buffet, all vegetarian and it turns out that it is rated Kosher so we have a wide variety of families that go there. Now that son is vegan we don't go there very often, the ghee takes it out.
Anyway, most people don't have ovens in hot climates and so there are fewer of what we think of as traditional cookies, but there are a lot of sweets some of which are very easy to make.
I think the Ladoo or Sandesh from here would be very easy and in everyone's comfort zone.
https://www.easycookingwithmolly.com...ssert-recipes/
There are many of them that use cream of wheat! The place I go to usually has cubes, cold, flavored with rose water. But when I did a search using "cream of wheat indian dessert" I got this one, it appeals to me --
https://sukanya-keralaiyer.blogspot....sari-also.html