Halloween Baking Championship
Halloween baking competition.
Genre: Family, Reality-TV
Cast:Carla Hall , Zac Young , Stephanie Boswell , John Henson , Renee Loranger , Aaron Clouse , Sinai Vespie , Michelle Crisostomo Lee , Jonathan Elias , Michael Gaddy , Jeff Dunham , Sandra Lee , Damiano Carrara , Tamara Brown , Brian Bosch , Lorraine Pascale , Holly Braddock , Andrew Fuller
S1.E1 ∙ Trick or Treats
In the first Halloween Baking challenge, the bakers battle it out over the best creepy cupcakes and then kick it up in the second challenge with classic costume desserts.
S1.E2 ∙ Monster Mashups
The bakers spook the judges with their sculpted scary treats and then mash up flavors and themes to create devilishly delicious desserts.
S1.E3 ∙ Field of Screams
The bakers dig even deeper into their baking skills to make graveyard pumpkin desserts that are to die for.
S1.E4 ∙ Haunted House Party
The final four bakers take on a haunted house cake battle for the title of Halloween Baking Champion and the $50,000 grand prize.
S2.E1 ∙ Monsters, Monsters, Monsters
Season 2 begins with seven bakers taking on the challenge of creating creepy bite-size monster treats and an appealing zombie dessert.
S2.E2 ∙ Cravings from the Grave
The six remaining bakers are asked to make a mummy dessert using pre-made pie dough. Then, they must create a candy stuffed, wicked cake based on a Halloween icon.
S2.E3 ∙ Haunted Circus
Five bakers remain for the Haunted Circus challenge, in which they must create a dozen scary clown cake pops. Later, they take on a freak show theme, when making frighteningly strange mash-up desserts.
S2.E4 ∙ Spirits Rising
Four bakers remain for the challenge of making lamb desserts. Then, they take inspiration from Mexico's "Day of the Dead".
S2.E5 ∙ Ginger Dead House
A haunted tree gets filled with decorated Halloween cookies. Then, in the grand finale, there's just six hours for the bakers to construct a spooky "ginger dead" house.
S3.E1 ∙ Filled with Surprises
Eight bakers show off their decorating skills by creating Halloween candy-filled cookies; for the main heat, it's oozy fun with sublime slime desserts where bakers can make any treat but it must be filled with a gooey slime.
S3.E2 ∙ Bewitching Treats
Seven remaining bakers must make witches' fingers and toes and create a sauce to dip them in; the witch theme goes a step further, in the main heat, when the bakers must create desserts that look like witches, complete with edible brooms.
S3.E3 ∙ It's All in Your Head
Bakers work in teams and put their minds together to create the most outrageous and delicious left brain/right brain desserts; in the main heat, the bakers face their fears by using common phobias like insects and ghosts as inspirations for desserts.
S3.E4 ∙ Sweet Screams
Five remaining bakers take a light, sweet and utterly harmless dessert and head to the dark side; it's a main heat filled with frights, as the bakers make scary mask desserts to spook the judges; one baker is eliminated at the end of the round.
S3.E5 ∙ The Candyman Cometh
Four remaining bakers attempt to make desserts that taste like their favorite candy bars; bakers face death by chocolate and must create a dessert that combines chocolate with odd ingredients; one baker is eliminated.
S3.E6 ∙ Extreme Halloween
The remaining bakers must make a glowing edible centerpiece and three accompanying creepy treats for a dessert bar.
S4.E1 ∙ Hidden Halloween Horrors
Eight Halloween bakers weave spider web desserts with creatures trapped inside and wily witch hunter John Henson challenges the bakers to create melting desserts that reveal a Halloween item inside.
S4.E2 ∙ Fall Forward Desserts
Bakers make yam desserts that evoke classic scary movie cliches from chainsaws and hockey masks to bloody knives and creepy dolls; and turn a pumpkin patch into a "bundtkin patch" by creating a pumpkin patch out of mini bundt cakes.
S4.E3 ∙ Monster Mania
The bakers work together to create a 3-D suspect sketch out of pate a choux and monster-sized Halloween deserts like giant cupcakes, pies, cream puffs and more.
S4.E4 ∙ Hallowedding
The bakers are creating "petit horrors." And it's time for a Halloween wedding. Each happy couple -- vampire and troll, werewolf and mummy, skeleton and robot, witch and goblin, zombie and ghost -- gets a unique Halloween wedding cake.
S4.E5 ∙ Circus of Dread
The bakers are tasked with creating tarot card desserts featuring blood orange, fig or passion fruit; and then enter the Creepy Clown Hall of Fame where they create impressive desserts that will land one of them in the finale.
S4.E6 ∙ Cranium Epicurean
The final bakers enter the graveyard to bring skull desserts to life; and must create a championship-worthy nightmare cake based on common nightmare themes like falling, being chased or being visited by the dead.
S5.E1 ∙ Halloween Invasion
Eight bakers make scary skeleton desserts and conjure up monster-under-the-bed creations.
S5.E2 ∙ Smells Like Halloween Spirit
Seven bakers create spine-chilling desserts guided by spirits, such as bourbon and rum and use fresh flavors and colorful decorations to bring old desserts back to life.
S5.E3 ∙ All Things Weird and Wonderful
Six remaining bakers team up to create desserts that pay tribute to the iconic Addams Family -- scary on the outside and sweet on the inside.
S5.E4 ∙ Creepy and Crusty Creations
Five remaining bakers use classic fall ingredients to create jack-o'-lantern pies that are half scary and half sweet.
S5.E5 ∙ Gravely Delicious Desserts
Remaining four bakers go digging to create terrifyingly tasty grave-robber desserts. Then for the main heat, it's a night at the cemetery as the competitors sculpt marbled tomb cakes to impress the judges to land a spot in the finale.
S5.E6 ∙ A Haunting We Will Go
Three remaining bakers construct a ghostly version of a croquembouche tower. Then they face the final challenge of creating a bleeding zombie cake. When the bloodbath is over, the survivor is named Halloween Baking Champion.
S6.E1 ∙ House of Haunts
The 10 competitors meet host Carla Hall and get their first challenge: haunted house cakes. Then they play the dagger game for the chance at a key reward.
S6.E2 ∙ Sweet Illusions
The nine competitors create Halloween candy croquembouche and incorporate an illusion.
S6.E3 ∙ Bloody Good Smorgasbord
For a vampire party in the spooky cellar, Carla Hall asks the eight remaining bakers to team up and create desserts for a buffet to satisfy the bloodsuckers' appetites.
S6.E4 ∙ Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down
The seven remaining bakers continue through the haunted house to the creepy nursery. The challenge is to bake a 3D demon doll cake with a diabolically assigned flavor to be judged by Carla, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.
S6.E5 ∙ The Devil Made Me Do It
In the devil's den, the six remaining bakers must make a weird dessert using unusual ingredients, such as sauerkraut, beets, tamarind paste and canned tomato soup. The competitors must go all out to impress the judges.
S6.E6 ∙ The Costume Ball
Carla Hall invites the five remaining bakers to a party in the haunted ballroom, where they must create impressive costume cakes for a spot in the finale.
S6.E7 ∙ The Doctor Will See You Now
The final four bakers face off to make severed limb cakes in the mad doctor's surgical room. Then, host Carla Hall challenges the competitors to reach new heights with floating cakes to win $25, 000 and be named Halloween Baking Champion.
S7.E1 ∙ Welcome to Camp Devil's Food Lake
John Henson hosts as 10 bakers pay tribute to 1980s classic slasher movies at Camp Devil's Food Lake and compete for a chance to take home $25,000. The competitors tackle "cereal killer" pies and mega cakes to impress the judges.
S7.E2 ∙ Back from the Dead
Host John Henson welcomes some unexpected visitors to shake up the competition for the remaining eight bakers. Then, it's all about teamwork making the scream work as pairs tackle creepy cookies from home and a mother of a blind cake bake.
S7.E3 ∙ Bat in Black
The competition is only getting tougher at Camp Devil's Food Lake as host John Henson challenges the bakers to make creepy cupcakes and a British classic that is completely batty.
S7.E4 ∙ Don't B-Negative
The seven remaining bakers work their fingers to the bone re-imagining a classic dessert. Then, the competitors tackle a trending cake design that must leave the judges' blood running cold if they want to survive another week.
S7.E5 ∙ Dance Your Life Away
It's prom night at Camp Devil's Food Lake, and the six remaining bakers in charge of the party snacks. As they learn more about the serial killer, a tsunami of terror will claim one more victim from the competition.
S7.E6 ∙ Peek-a-BOO
Five talented bakers have survived the Camp Devil's Food Lake killer, and host John Henson challenges them to make patterned roll cakes and frightening fault line cakes. The bakers will have to kill the cake game to get past the judges.
S7.E7 ∙ Finale: The Killer Is...
The four finalists face their fears when challenged to bake using a hated ingredient. The judges claim one more victim, leaving the final three to battle it out for $25,000 and the title of Halloween Baking Champion.
S8.E1 ∙ Welcome to Hotel Henson
The competition begins with a deliciously difficult pre-heat as the eight Halloween bakers weave spider web desserts with creatures trapped inside. In the main heat, wily witch hunter John Henson challenges the bakers to create melting desserts that reveal a Halloween item inside.
S8.E2 ∙ Croquem-boots
First, the bakers turn a croquembouche into "croquem-boots" before redesigning an old school dessert to represent a method of death. Finally, two bakers must create cat-sized cakes that display the judge's last wish desserts.
S8.E3 ∙ Maze Madness
John Henson asks the bakers to update the hotel's hedge maze by teaming up for a supersized challenge of hauntingly delicious maze cakes. A supersized challenge becomes a double elimination as two bakers are sent to the 13th floor.
S8.E4 ∙ Spoiled Rotten by Axe-ident
The bakers face decay when host John Henson challenges them to make moldy desserts that incorporate fermented ingredients. Then, judges smash desserts and dreams as they send one baker packing up to the 13th floor.
S8.E5 ∙ FlamBakers and Open Wounds
John Henson turns up the heat when he asks the seven remaining bakers to set their desserts on fire by reinventing flambe classics. Then, the bakers have judges in stitches with realistic open wound cakes, and one baker is eliminated.
S8.E6 ∙ Eyes on the Prize
John Henson turns the bakers' worlds upside down with a challenge to make upside-down cakes without pineapple. Judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell see double when the bakers team up to create identical twin cakes that taste different.
S8.E7 ∙ We've Got Spirit
John Henson asks the remaining five bakers to bake desserts based on classic cocktails. Then, the bakers must face their fears by frightening judges with sets of entremets that represent their worst nightmares.
S8.E8 ∙ Cheers to the Newlydeads
The bakers celebrate by creating sweet and savory grazing boards in honor of a dearly departed couple. Then, the judges are invited to the deadliest wedding of their lives when the final bakers create three-tiered black wedding cakes.
