 Aunt Selma's
Candy & Cookie Shoppe
By Bobbi Lee Hitchon
For the sweet-toothed who ever have visions of sugar-plums or want to take the board game Candy Land a bit more serious, Aunt Selma’s Candy and Cookie Shoppe in Mount Laurel is a dream destination.
“If you can dream it, we can make it,” says Pam Orris, 53, of Columbus, owner of the candy shoppe who prefers the title chocolatier.
Inside the cozy candy store nestled in the 711 shopping center on Creek Road, Orris carries everything from tiny chocolate pianos ($35) to six-pound cornucopia center pieces ($95) filled with various chocolate treats.
“Custom party favors for all of life’s sweet occasions,” says Orris. “We will do custom confections, period. The art of doing custom work has been lost. We are revitalizing it with handmade chocolates.”
Taking influences from daily life, Orris along with an seven-person creative team, work each day to develop innovative and unique confections for seasonal, traditional, life and even sporting events.
“We brainstorm,” says Orris. “We work as a team here and everyone comes up with ideas. If we see something, we try to make it out of chocolate or a confection to make something unique that you cannot find anywhere else.”
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