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Peanut Shoppe employee Alyssa Brawley prepares a funnel cake on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. The Peanut Shoppe, located at 126 Capitol St., Charleston, is now offering funnel cakes each Friday from noon to 3 p.m.
Peanut Shoppe employee Alyssa Brawley shakes powdered sugar onto a funnel cake Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. The Peanut Shoppe, located at 126 Capitol St., Charleston, is now offering funnel cakes each Friday from noon to 3 p.m.
A fully cooked funnel cake is pulled from the fryer by Peanut Shoppe employee Alyssa Brawley on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. The Peanut Shoppe, located at 126 Capitol St., Charleston, is now offering funnel cakes each Friday from noon to 3 p.m.
Anitra Faucett walks out of the Peanut Shoppe, located at 126 Capitol St., in downtown Charleston, with a funnel cake on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. The Peanut Shoppe is now offering funnel cakes each Friday from noon to 3 p.m.
Peanut Shoppe employee Alyssa Brawley shakes powdered sugar onto a funnel cake Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. The Peanut Shoppe, located at 126 Capitol St., Charleston, is now offering funnel cakes each Friday from noon to 3 p.m.
You can find them at the fair, a festival and, now, on Fridays in downtown Charleston.
Funnel cakes have made their return to the Peanut Shoppe, at 126 Capitol St. from noon to 3 p.m. on Fridays. You can get the tangle of deep-fried batter topped with powdered sugar. The cost with tax comes to a little over $8.
Kandi Kimble, co-owner, said the Peanut Shoppe stopped selling funnel cakes in 2018. They were brought back for the store’s 75th anniversary last month.
Kimble is planning to sell the cakes every Friday, except during December, which is the shop’s busiest month because of Christmas snack tins and fundraisers. Last Friday, the line was out the door for funnel cakes and normal orders. By 2 p.m., 16 had been sold.
Peanut Shoppe employee Alyssa Brawley prepares a funnel cake on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. The Peanut Shoppe, located at 126 Capitol St., Charleston, is now offering funnel cakes each Friday from noon to 3 p.m.
A fully cooked funnel cake is pulled from the fryer by Peanut Shoppe employee Alyssa Brawley on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. The Peanut Shoppe, located at 126 Capitol St., Charleston, is now offering funnel cakes each Friday from noon to 3 p.m.
Customer Katie Farmer was making up for a missed opportunity.
“I was going to get one at the Apple Butter Festival in Chapmanville two weeks ago, and I didn’t get to go,” she said.
Rosie Hill works downtown and heard about Funnel Cake Friday from the sign outside the Peanut Shoppe. She already comes every Friday for peanuts but plans to add funnel cakes to her order.
Anitra Faucett walks out of the Peanut Shoppe, located at 126 Capitol St., in downtown Charleston, with a funnel cake on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. The Peanut Shoppe is now offering funnel cakes each Friday from noon to 3 p.m.
Jennifer Lopez comes to the Peanut Shoppe a few times a week to get nuts, specifically her favorite chocolate-covered cashews. She said it’s been a few years since she got a funnel cake.
She said the treat was "tasty," "crunchy" and "yummy."
“It’s one of the best ones I’ve ever had,” she said.
Ashley Perham is a city reporter. She can be reached at 304-348-1240 or aperham@hdmediallc.com.
