{"id":301866,"date":"2026-10-07T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301866\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T21:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:00:08","slug":"shane-confectionery-kicks-off-spooky-season-with-haunted-chocolates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301866\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Confectionery Kicks Off Spooky Season With Haunted Chocolates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Philly ghost stories are getting transformed into gourmet treats at one of America\u2019s oldest candy shops.<\/p>\n

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The Haunted Philadelphia chocolate assortment at Shane Confectionery \/ Courtesy of Shane Confectionery<\/p>\n

With the Halloween season now fully underway, the creepy cats over at Shane Confectionary are releasing another limited-edition, Halloween box of seasonally-themed candies. Last year, they did a whole thing based around \u201cthe folklore, landscape and history\u201d of the Pine Barrens<\/a>, featuring pine truffles, sassafras sugar cookies, and a bonbon inspired by everyone\u2019s favorite cryptid, the Jersey Devil. This year, they\u2019re bringing it back home with a box called Haunted Philadelphia, which is based on local paranormal experiences and some favorite legends. And they\u2019ve spent months getting it ready.<\/p>\n

Look, any city that\u2019s been around as long as Philadelphia is bound to have a few ghosts knocking around. There are some well-known local legends, like\u00a0 the ghost of the bride who burned to death at City Tavern<\/a>, or the faceless man from Fort Mifflin<\/a>. But the crew from Shane also wanted to find some lesser-known stories to celebrate (in confectionery form), so early in the year they put out a call for local folks with some serious, Poltergeist-level ghost stories they wanted to get off their chest. And Philly, as always, delivered.<\/p>\n

So now we have a box of 14 treats \u2014 one pair each for seven different stories, which will all be collected in a zine included with the box. Like last year, they\u2019re trying to keep things mysterious by staying mum on the details of what ghost stories are being used, but I can tell you that their candy interpretations include everything from a black cherry heart and a pecan and mango cat\u2019s eye to a beer truffle made with Founders KBS stout, a vanilla fondant fire extinguisher and a sparkling champagne p\u00e2te de fruit with popping sugar \u201cin honor of a phantom party.\u201d Along with the chocolates and their stories, each box also contains a beeswax ghost candle made by Philadelphia Bee Co.<\/a> and the suggestion from Shane is to gather some friends, turn off all the lights, light the candle, and share the candies while reading the stories that inspired them.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s box will run you $65. Pre-orders run between now and October 8th, with pickups and delivery available between then and October 20th. You can order yours here<\/a>. There will also be 60 boxes available for in-store purchase, but odds are they\u2019re going to go very fast.<\/p>\n

Oh, and if you happen to have a ghost story of your own you\u2019d like to share, Shane is leaving the submission form open on their site<\/a> in hopes of gathering more tales of Haunted Philadelphia for next year\u2019s box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News Philly ghost stories are getting transformed into gourmet treats at one of America\u2019s oldest candy shops. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-301866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}