Kelly’s Kandy & Nuts

Best fresh made in store chocolate pretzels, awesome selection, can’t help loving this place

I said it in 2011, and I say it now: Woohoo — this IS as good as it gets! I’m pretty sure most of their stuff in made in-​house. Their chocolate covered pretzels are my favorite, except at St. Patty’s day and then the Irish Potatos are, and then at Easter — OMG Coconut Cream Dark Chocolate Eggs!!! I’m a dark chocolate freak and they Anyone who loves chocolate will die for it. They have a bin full of broken milk-​chocolate pieces they sell cheap. I don’t even want to try their fudge. I looks too good. This is a big store (for a candy store) and they have lots of gift items and balloons too. I highly recommend this place. Not center city prices, but center city quality (and more!)

We recently went joy-​riding through the treasures of Philly burbs, and popped a U-​y to stop in at this candy delight.
Have you ever seen Pippi Longstocking? There’s a scene where she take a handful of gold to a BonBon shop and all the kids in the town get all the candy they want, walking out with armfuls of licorice strings, lollipops, cotton candy, jellybeans…
This is how I felt that day.
Now, I’ve been to my fair of confectioners, and this day I was looking for candy to stock up for an upcoming candy party. Kelly’s Kandy had a very special feeling to it… it didn’t have EVERYTHING, but what it has is fresh, unique, and inexpensive. I LOVE their Valentine’s options right now, from small boxes of specialty chocolates, to mounds of festive bulk ju ju hearts, red hots, etc. Fudge runs only $ 8 /​pound, which I haven’t seen anywhere in years!
Some special assets to Kelly’s Kandy would be the molded chocolates… theres a wall of adorable novelties (such as Snow White and Spiderman) for 1.50 — 3.00, and you can custom order special designs. She also has FABULOUS 3D heels! Like those fancy ones people collect as knick knacks, but made of chocolate and decorated with ribbons and rock candy. It was a shoe-​in for a Valentine I have in mind ;)
This would be a great place for wedding favors, as they have pearled carton-​fillers for $ 8 /​pound, and truffles galore. I also really loved a bin of shoestring licorice that looked homemade — in a good way.
I spent an awesome $ 37 dollars that day and left like Willy Wonka… and some wonderful swirl lollipops will be my featurette at my party:)

Kelly’s is a great old school candy shop. I come here only about twice a year; Easter and Christmas goodies! My favorites are the jelly beans, which I could easily house an entire bag of, and those yummy little gummy fruit slices. Remember them? The ones covered in sugar? Yummmm! They even have chocolate covered bacon.

Their double dipped mints are the BEST. My mother in law always gets them for me

A great shop that’s been around for years. Kelly’s has a good selection of home made candies and fudge, as well as candy in bulk. They even have some fresh roasted nuts too. It’s not a big store, but it has that old fashioned feel, and smell, to it.
My favorite, by far, is their chocolate covered pretzels. The pretzels are of the thin type, nice and salty, with a good coating of chocolate. They sell them by the pound, but I like to buy the 2lb bags of broken or pieces. It’s the same price as the pound, but 2x as much.