A South Jersey candy shop is celebrating a century of sweetness.
The fourth-generation family-owned shop started in 1920 with the present-day owner’s grandfather making caramels out of his basement and selling them from a wagon and then a Model T Ford.
He’d drive around town selling the individually wrapped caramels for a penny apiece.
Aunt Charlotte’s Candies is now in a former feed store on N.
Maple Avenue in Maple Shade.
It’s run by the founder’s granddaughters and great-grandson and it still stays true to that original caramel recipe.
The candy makers believe the chocolate is a key to longevity and they all eat dozens of pieces a day.