Torrone dei Morti di Benevento
Campania — Benevento province, All Souls' Day (2 November) tradition
Chocolate torrone from Benevento eaten on All Souls' Day (2 November) — a dark chocolate log filled with hazelnuts, almonds, and dried fruit, different in character from the white honey-and-nut torrone of the north. The Beneventano version is made by melting dark chocolate with sugar, combining with toasted hazelnuts (Nocciola Campana IGP) and dried figs or dates, pouring into rectangular moulds, and setting at room temperature. No cooking beyond the initial chocolate melt; no nougat structure. It is a chocolate confection shaped like a mortuary tablet (hence 'dei morti' — of the dead), eaten as part of the Day of the Dead ritual.