So cute! Every recipe looked amazing and just fitting to Halloween season or a 'spooky' night with your friends. Totally gonna recreate a few of them!

Big, big thank you to Cayla Gallagher, Skyhorse Publishing, and NetGalley for the privilege of being able to read and check out Ghost Food, a cookbook full of spooky Halloween recipes for parties, entertaining, and more. I will share my review to Amazon, Goodreads, and Barnes & Noble upon release. The cover is super cute, with a ghost treat pictured on the front, with the recipe and directions for making it inside. The recipes are divided into sections, with different Halloween themes: Haunted Mansion, Pumpkin, Witch's Coven, etc. I liked the structure which was clear and easy to read, with a picture of each item and then the ingredients needed listed, then the directions for the recipe. The pictures are adorable and provide a great reference picture for your treat making. There's a wide variety of recipes that can be made by different skill levels, and I think anyone hosting a Halloween party or entertaining for the holiday will find plenty of cute options inside to make for a spookily-themed refreshment table. I would definitely recommend this book to any fan of Halloween, entertaining, cookbooks, cute treats, etc. A lot of the recipes can be altered or added onto if you want to add different flavors or colors, even though the flavors and colors picked by Cayla Gallagher are definitely delicious and eye-catching. The little Pumpkin Pie Chocolate melts were so so adorable, along with many other treats inside!

This is an awesome book! It’s full of beautiful recipes, yet simple enough but guaranteed to impress!
I was so pleasantly surprised by the quality, quantity and originality of the content of this book.
Beautifully photographed, fun baking projects to do for kids and with kids.
These recipes are to be enjoyed all year round, not only for Halloween.
Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC of Ghost Food by Cayla Gallagher.

I absolutely loved this book. The pictures are vibrant and it's very easy to follow. I'm going to try a few of these recipes. Thank you for allowing me to read.

Ghost Food is a cute Hallowe'en themed recipe collection with recipes developed and curated by Cayla Gallagher. Due out 5th Aug 2025 from Skyhorse Publishing, it's 200 pages and will be available in hardcover and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout.

Exactly as advertised; Hallowe'en themed, heavy on cute, light on scary, and accessible for all-ages. Recipes are grouped "whimsically" into themed chapters: haunted mansion, pumpkin patch, creepy carnival, witch's coven, and vampire's lair.

Recipes are written with a title, but no real substantive description, followed by a bullet list sidebar with ingredients. Ingredient measures are given in imperial (American) units, followed by step-by-step prep directions. The author/publisher have included a metric conversion chart in the back of the book.

Most of the necessary ingredients will be easily accessible at any well stocked grocery store in North America. Nutritional information is not included.

The photography throughout is clear, bright, and in color. It's a nice collection of fun recipes and would be helpful for seasonal parties, potlucks, or sleepovers. It's not -aimed- at younger readers/cooks, but there are lots of recipes in the collection which could be made by youngsters with some supervision.

Three and a half stars. The lack of recipe descriptions and flavors is odd, but there are many really -cute- things to cook and enjoy.

It would be a good choice for public, school, or home library acquisition.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes

This is a fun Halloween-themed cookbook. I would recommend this to patrons looking for Halloween desserts. There are a few non-dessert recipes, but the vast majority are desserts. The designs are very clever - my favorite is the Mummy Pie.

There's some inconsistency in the photo quality. Some photos look very professional and some do not. There are a few dark designs photographed on dark backgrounds that make the designs very hard to see, such as the Black Cat Cookies.

Overall, a fun holiday-themed cookbook that patrons will enjoy.

I received a free copy of, Ghost Food, by Cayla Gallagher, from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This book is so good. I love desert and I love Halloween. This book has some great looking recipes for Halloween, like marshmallow ghosts, hugging ghost cookies, pumpkin hand pies, and lots more. This is a really good cookbook, for all ages.

This is the perfect book for anyone who loves Halloween, fun spooky things, and/or hosting. The theme of adorable spooky recipes of all kinds is well-rounded with this cookbook. The recipes are easy to follow with a reasonable number of ingredients and clear step-by-step directions.

I would like to see some description on the recipes - what is the flavor profile, and why should I be excited about adding this to my themed menu? Those little recipe blurbs go a long way in helping me decide what I want to bake without having to fully analyze an ingredients list.

I am a Halloween is all year person. It’s always been my favorite holiday. These recipes are adorable! Most are on the cute not creepy side. There are so many great ideas and I appreciate all the decorating instructions.

As a self-proclaimed Halloween foodie, I was thrilled to see a cookbook devoted entirely to this theme! I really appreciated the organization of the recipes by theme—it’s such a practical touch, especially for someone like me who has planned many a themed Halloween dinner.

While I would have liked to see nutritional information included with each recipe, I understand that it’s not necessarily a priority for most people indulging in festive treats. This isn’t a health book, after all.

Some recipes were expected (meringue bones, anyone?), but the majority were impressively creative. There were several unique ideas I hadn’t encountered before—Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls, Sugar Skulls, and 3D Marshmallows?! Yes, please! I also appreciated the alternative suggestions for less-common kitchen tools, like edible ink pens, which make the recipes more accessible.

That said, I would have loved to see more savory options. The book leans heavily toward sweets, which doesn’t quite make a complete Halloween dinner. To be fair, the cover does specifically highlight sweet treats—so I can’t say I wasn’t warned!

All in all, this is a delightful little book that I can see myself returning to every Halloween season. I just wish it had a few more savory recipes to round out the meal.

Thank you to NetGalley and Skyhouse Publishing for the privilege of receiving this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is so cute!
Shure it depends on decoration and quite a few molds but the results are just so adorable.
Definitely will try some of these next Halloween.
I appreciate the instructions on how to make sprinkles and candy eyes yourself. Also it's nice to see that all recipes are complete on the page and I don't have to flip to the back or front for parts of them.

I received a copy of this eBook from netGalley for a honest review.

This is one of the best Halloween baking books I've come across. And I always pick up the Halloween cook/baking/decorating books. There are lots of options for kids and adults to celebrate this holiday. Cute and scary. I will be getting this one for myself to entertain with.

This was super cute and fun to flip through and I can’t wait to try some of these out for fall! The recipes seemed easy enough to follow for someone who is familiar with baking.

I would have liked a little bit of description of what the recipes were, like what to expect. Is this going to be a vanilla cake? Pumpkin flavored? It just kind of lists out the ingredients and the directions— which is fine. I just would like to have a little blurb about what to expect for each recipe for when I’m looking for a specific taste/flavor.

Overall I’m eager to try some of these out! And the ideas and designs were very fun!

Ghost Food - 75 Spooky, Fun, and Frightening Halloween-Inspired Sweet Treats is a cook book I will be grabbing come the holiday season.

I have always wanted to make my own marshmallows and the fact that this book has "Marshmallow Ghosts" and it broken down into 7 ingredients with 10 steps it makes me confident in trying!!

The "Haunted Cake" is adorable and definitely my jam, where Halloween can be fun and cute and doesn't always need to be spooky. As well as the "Halloween Cookie Cake" which I think would be a hit at any party!

My 5 year old daughter wants to make the "Hugging Ghost Cookies" as she says they are super cute! And my 8 year old son wants to make the "Strawberry Ghosts" probably because he adores strawberries.

An all around perfect cook book for the Halloween season!

if you are like me and you like spooky themed things year round, then you'd understand why I picked this up in April. These are the types of recipes I make year round.

There were some positives and some negatives with this book. I was able to read it as an ARC, but if I were a consumer and I purchased this, I would definitely be disappointed with some areas. I will start with my constructive criticism: the biggest one being a lack of description for recipes. Most of the recipes included have zero description about the flavor profile or anything else a baker would include. For example in most recipe books it would start with the title of the dish, like mocha brownies, and then the description would be something like "these gooey, delicious brownies are always a crowd pleaser and the best part is they're very easy to make." Instead what you will find in this book is a vague title like Mummy Cake and then it goes straight into the recipe. Well, what flavor is the cake? Now I have to try and figure it out based on the ingredients, and that's a pain.
Also, this may be nitpicky, but the section titles sometimes made no sense and weren't relevant to the dishes. There's a section called Creepy Carnival and there's nothing about it that screamed carnival to me.

Positives: you will have a large plethora of Halloween themed recipes to try all in one book. If you're a Pinterest user like I am chances are you have a board already dedicated to sweets you want to make, but I like the convenience of having it all in one place here. Also, there's a conversion chart in the back, and the index is sometimes sorted by ingredient or dessert type which is useful.

Overall I sadly cannot say I recommend buying this book when I found it so frustrating that there was no flavor profile or description for most recipes. I do not want to have to sift through the ingredient list to know what kind of cake I'm making, and flavor is just as important as decor. But as a library book or something, it would definitely be helpful for recipe and decoration ideas.

Thank you so much to Netgalley for providing me with an ARC 👻

Nothing extraordinarily profound in this book—all things that I’d seen elsewhere for the most part, but it was a really cute compilation! Go Halloween!

What a fun book this is! If you didn’t guess from the cover and title, with chapter titles like Haunted Mansion, Pumpkin Patch, Creepy Carnival, Witches Coven, and Vampire’s Lair, this is a book full of Halloween treats.

Many of the recipes are good for people who are beginning cooks and bakers and some are for people who are quite accomplished in the kitchen. The book is full of fun ideas and recipes. There are even cookies that are out of the ordinary, and great for the season, but no harder to make than any other cookies. The book also has a recipe for the beloved pumpkin spice, and autumn sprinkles. And you know those creepy eyes that you can buy at craft stores? You can make them yourself!

All kinds of treats that are reincarnated to be special for Halloween, like Halloween Rice Krispy Treats, Halloween Popcorn Balls, Monster Fudge, Rainbow Caramel Apples, Zombie Candy Apples. But what about Worm-Filled Birthday Cake? Hmm. Not for me.

This book is great for people who want some out-of-the ordinary Halloween treats for their friends and family.

Ghost Food features a collection of 75 different Halloween-themed recipes. They all fall into the sweet treat category. In this book you'll find classics like the Graveyard Pudding, and original recipes like the gothic Haunted House cake.

This cookbook contains straightforward recipes without fluff divided into five different parts. The pictures look absolutely gorgeous, Pinterest worthy. I used to spend hours searching for recipes just like these on social media, and I would have loved to have a book like this. Everything in one place. There is a cohesive colour theme all throughout and the candy eyes are another way the recipes all tie together. Bonus points for including a recipe to make these eyes yourself.

Ghost Food is perfect for you if you enjoy making your own Halloween-themed sweet treats. This book features recipes suited to serve at a Halloween or birthday party, or general horror themed event. They're also perfect if you just want to make yourself a fun treat or if you want to challenge yourself to make something beautiful and spooky.

I absolutely can't wait for fall! There are just so many adorable recipes to try.
Thanks to NetGalley, the author, and Skyhorse Publishing | Skyhorse for this ARC.

Ghost Food by Cayla Gallagher is a fantastic Halloween themed cookbook that feels like it was created with a lot of care and love. The fact that there’s 75 recipes in this one book is lovely, and they all have detailed, easy to follow instructions and the yummiest, cutest looking pictures of the final spooky products! I like how there’s 5 different sub sections within the cookbook for different kinds of spooky (haunted mansion, pumpkin patch, creepy carnival, witch’s coven and vampire’s lair).

FYI, I will absolutely be making a Halloween charcuterie board this October.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing the eARC in exchange for my honest review.