Here is a sweet which is prepared across south India during Harvest Festival in the month of January called as " Shankranti " sometimes also called as " Pongal ". During this time you can find this sweet sold in local markets especially in South India. But traditionally this is a sweet done at home with family members. It is a fun activity for the kids to watch the sweet being done and even participate. In the home often it is done in the proper traditional way with the right ingredients and technique, and the final outcome and the taste of the sweet done this way will far surpass any store counterparts. It is locally called as "Sakkare Acchu" in Kannada and called as Panchadara Chilakalu in Telugu language and so on. In some parts they make mould it in solid shapes as shown above which is around 2-5 inches in size. Whereas commercially sold ones are done in much larger hollow shapes, and in the form of animals, birds, especially in the form of Parro