The customer names that Hannah writes on the white board include Betsy Crane and someone with the surname Quirk, both character names in another Hallmark Mystery movie series, Petits meurtres sur le campus (2019), Mystery 101: Words Can Kill (2019) and Mystery 101: Playing Dead (2019), respectively.
Sheriff Metzger is an homage to the same Sheriff Metzger in the Murder She Wrote series.
The series was changed from "Murder She Baked" when a new production company took over. They felt it would be more viable in order to tie in with other Hannah Swensen books; there are 28 books in total.
In La Recette du Crime (2015), which this movie series follows, the town is named Eden Lake. In this series, it is named Lake Eden.