There's something about Halloween that makes people want to eat food that looks like squishy eyeballs, rotting brains and bloody hearts.
"People like to be scared," said Jennifer Hickman, night manager at Titusville's Caffe Chocolat, 304 S. Washington Ave.
The eatery and sweets store is offering trick-or-treat gift baskets, chocolate suckers in the shapes of ghosts and pumpkins and the most popular item of the moment, chocolate coffins. They fit into your hand and open to reveal hard candy inside. In downtown Melbourne's Railroad Emporium, the Tin Roof Popcorn Co., 924 E. New Haven Ave., Suit 106, Melbourne, sells treats such as pumpkin pie popcorn parfaits, fudge apples -- including the death by chocolate variety -- and spooky, popcorn-filled bags shaped hands with candy corn for fingernails.
"It puts you in the spirit for the holiday, kind of just reminds you of being a kid," owner Sheri Taylor said of the scary treats.
Recreate that feeling at home with the following spooky recipes.
