Samantha and Leslie are best friends, co-owners, and the same kind of person: the kind who watches Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Child's Play on a loop and then immediately wants to make something. They've always been makers — costumes, props, crafts, and above all, treats. The bakery is just what happened when two horror obsessions and two sets of busy hands shared one kitchen long enough.

They split the work the way best friends do — by instinct. Samantha names every batch after a final girl; Leslie runs the slow, patient, dangerous-to-rush caramel that makes the puffercorn what it is. Both of them decorate, both of them scheme, and both will absolutely talk your ear off about which sequel is secretly the best one.

Here's the part that makes this bakery different: they're two diabetic ghouls themselves. Sugar-free isn't a checkbox here — it's personal. Every item on the menu can be made sugar-free or reduced-sugar, and it'll be good, because they're the first ones eating it.

And Horror Ghouls isn't a gorefest. It's the cozy side of horror — the blanket fort, the glowing TV, the bowl of caramel puffercorn you defend with your life. Classic, nostalgic comfort bakes. The scary part is how fast they disappear.

SamanthaCo-Owner · Baker · Names Batches After Final Girls
LeslieCo-Owner · Baker · Keeper of the Caramel
Samantha and Leslie, co-owners of Horror Ghouls Bakery, smiling behind their treat table at a Yuma night market
On location — Yuma night market. Catch the next screening below.
Pairings From the Head Ghoul

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