[2] The show centers around Christine McConnell, an artist and baker who lives in a mansion full of monsters and ghosts.
Accompanied by Rose, Rankle, and Edgar, McConnell loves to create morbid-looking desserts like gingerbread haunted houses, caramel spiders and bones made of pretzel sticks, peanut butter and white chocolate.
[citation needed] McConnell, who already had a large following on Reddit and Instagram, pitched the show to Netflix and Brian Henson.
[4] Following the success of Julie's Greenroom, which had been released in early 2017, Netflix expressly wanted the Jim Henson company to produce the show.
The show received critical praise for the mixture of retro styling and Gothic aesthetic, use of puppetry, and quirky charm of the series,[7] while pointing out that lack of directions, unfamiliarity with some of the specialist materials used, and the elaborate construction of the creations would mean making them was beyond most home cooks.