Rosette/ Sugar waffles

few months back i am looking for a recipe online and unexpectedly saw a video about the long forgotten favorite Kerala delicacy of my teenage years.

Achappam or challaguttulu- gulabi poolu in telugu.

after watching the video, i thought these are easy to make and saved it and searched online for the mold to buy but couldn't find it. so i put that thought to

"what to buy when i visit India list"  

and forgot about it.

recently my husband wants to go long drive on country side and 
visit balloon fest along the way. 
 
my son is ready, me and my daughter are back and forth and joined them at the last minute. like something inside guided me that i must go. so i did.

me and my son walking around the field and an old lady walking with Achappam in her hands!!!!

 i must be hallucinating, and thought, do i really wanted them that bad? 
i ask my son to make sure she really walking with them and to confirm i am not hallucinating.

He thought i lost my mind, 
 guess what!! i thought i did too kiddo, 
but he conformed she is walking with bag full of achppam!

enthusiastically i started walking the opposite direction where she is coming from and Bam!
At the rural Ohio, in a Balloon festival, i found Achappam but they call them sugar waffles!

 

they taste same, crunchy and semi sweet, awesome!
but in India they don't dust sugar powder on them.
if they make here, they sell molds too right, now i know the name sugar waffles and searched online again, but the original name is Rosette.
these pastries are Swedish and Norwegian origin. 

Rosette recipes are popular in the United States among families with Scandinavian ancestry.
 
what a small beautiful world we have as a human species. 
and what a coincidence is that!
that's why earlier i felt that i must go to festival at the last minute?
still unbelievable experience.

synchronicity at it's best.

{written by me}