Lonavala chikki
Lonavala chikki is a chikki, named after Lonavala a town in Pune district of Maharashtra India. Its genesis lay in a sweet called gud dani/ guddani/ gurdani made from jaggery, ground nuts and ghee, sold by The Real Maganlal Agarwal from his sweet meat shop in Lonavala, this was packaged by railway authorities and sold to train travellers between Lonavala and Mumbai, encouraged by this Agarwal renamed gud dani "Maganlal Chikki" however it became and continues to be called Lonavala chikki.
Another source attributes Bhimraj Agarwal with having invented it as guddani that he sold to workers who laid the railway tracks along the Khandala ghat. The chikki has been described as "hard, brittle and crisp, light brown in colour with a definite gloss", also as a "nutty nougat confectionery."Geographical indication
A 2010 news story reports of attempts to obtain Geographical Indication registration for the chikki.
