Give your baking a wicked, whimsigoth twist with TheLittle Gothic Bakeshop, featuring sweet and savory treats with a gothic flair.

The Little Gothic Bakeshop showcases 50 spooky and inventive recipes from The Great British Baking Show star, Helena Garcia, who impressed the judges and audience alike with her creepy creations. Brewing with mystique, this cookbook is your go-to guide to easily transform ordinary recipes into macabre masterpieces, including devilishly delicious cakes, cookies, pastries, breads, desserts, and drinks. 

Covering Magical Beverages, Spooky Cookies and Candies, Ghoulish Breads and Pastries, To Die For Desserts, and Creepy Cakes, unleash your inner goth with recipes like: 

• Lavender Moon Milk
• Spiderweb Sandwich Cookies
• Vampire Blood Lollipops
• Flying Broomstick Focaccia Muffins
• Apple of My Cat Eye Hand Pie
• Scary Berry Lemon Tarts 
• Banana Slug Pudding
• Woodland Witch Trifle
• Cemetery Cake
• And more!

Step into the dark side of baking and discover recipes that are easy to make, fun and spooky to design, and delicious to consume. Whether you’re an everyday goth or Halloween-obsessed, TheLittle Gothic Bakeshop is filled with tricks and treats designed to bring some ghoulish fun to your baking repertoire!

"If you love creepy, scary, gothic, macabre Halloween things (or just in general), you must check out this recipe book."

"Brewing with mystique, this cookbook is your go-to guide to easily transform ordinary recipes into macabre masterpieces, including devilishly delicious cakes, cookies, pastries, breads, desserts, and drinks." 

"A great addition for libraries serving crafty bakers who are looking to add a bit more spookiness to their confections."

"Authored by the wonderfully creative Helena Garcia, who charmed audiences with her eccentric style and creepy creations on The Great British Baking Show (GBBO), this book is pure genius. This is a gorgeous, creative guide to baking with a whimsical, gothic flair. While many will love this book specifically for Halloween, you’ll find that these fun and creative recipes work year-round. Helena takes ordinary treats and transforms them into macabre masterpieces that are surprisingly simple to execute."

Author, baker, and television personality Helena Garcia was born in Spain. Due to her father’s job Helena lived in several cities across Spain, Madrid, Barcelona, Valladolid, and The Canary Islands before finishing high school in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.  After completing her studies there, she moved back home and started her degree in psychology in Salamanca. On her second year of university, she joined the Erasmus program and went to Leeds University where she finished her studies. She worked in several industries and went back to study interior design seeking to develop a career in a creative setting, which led to Helena being given the chance to take over a beautiful Victorian apothecary where she developed her own brand of fashion accessories and oddities.

Helena was one of the 2019 Great British Bake Off (also known as The Great British Baking Show) contestants and won the hearts of the nation with her eccentric style, spooky approach, and fun-loving personality. She has also appeared in several television shows, including the hit series What We Do in the Shadows, and she continues to write for national and international publications.

Obsessed with anything witchy, Helena's self-published book, Introduction to Witchery: A Magical Guide for Witches that Craft, is a go-to guide for crafty witches that covers a bit of history of witchcraft in Britain, a guide to magical plants, and plenty of craft projects and recipes to help you live like every day is Halloween. Her second book, The Wicked Baker, was released in 2020, followed by The Witch-Crafting Handbook in 2021 and The Book of Gingerbread in2023. Her first picture book, My Mummy, was also published in 2023.

Helena lives in Yorkshire with husband Will, daughter Flora, and rescue wolf-dog Kato.