Halloween Baking Championship

Halloween baking competition.

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

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Filled with Surprises

Mon, Sep 25, 2017

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.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Bewitching Treats

Mon, Oct 2, 2017

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.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ It's All in Your Head

Mon, Oct 9, 2017

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.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Sweet Screams

Mon, Oct 16, 2017

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.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ The Candyman Cometh

Mon, Oct 23, 2017

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.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Extreme Halloween

Mon, Oct 30, 2017

The remaining bakers must make a glowing edible centerpiece and three accompanying creepy treats for a dessert bar.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Hidden Halloween Horrors

Mon, Sep 24, 2018

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.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Fall Forward Desserts

Mon, Oct 1, 2018

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.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Monster Mania

Mon, Oct 8, 2018

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.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Hallowedding

Mon, Oct 15, 2018

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.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Circus of Dread

Mon, Oct 22, 2018

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.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Cranium Epicurean

Mon, Oct 29, 2018

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.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ Halloween Invasion

Mon, Sep 23, 2019

Eight bakers make scary skeleton desserts and conjure up monster-under-the-bed creations.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ Smells Like Halloween Spirit

Mon, Sep 30, 2019

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.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ All Things Weird and Wonderful

Mon, Oct 7, 2019

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.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ Creepy and Crusty Creations

Mon, Oct 14, 2019

Five remaining bakers use classic fall ingredients to create jack-o'-lantern pies that are half scary and half sweet.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ Gravely Delicious Desserts

Mon, Oct 21, 2019

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.

6Season 5

S5.E6 ∙ A Haunting We Will Go

Mon, Oct 28, 2019

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.

1Season 6

S6.E1 ∙ House of Haunts

Mon, Sep 14, 2020

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.

2Season 6

S6.E2 ∙ Sweet Illusions

Mon, Sep 21, 2020

The nine competitors create Halloween candy croquembouche and incorporate an illusion.

3Season 6

S6.E3 ∙ Bloody Good Smorgasbord

Mon, Sep 28, 2020

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.

4Season 6

S6.E4 ∙ Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down

Mon, Oct 5, 2020

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.

5Season 6

S6.E5 ∙ The Devil Made Me Do It

Mon, Oct 12, 2020

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.

6Season 6

S6.E6 ∙ The Costume Ball

Mon, Oct 19, 2020

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.

7Season 6

S6.E7 ∙ The Doctor Will See You Now

Mon, Oct 26, 2020

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.

1Season 7

S7.E1 ∙ Welcome to Camp Devil's Food Lake

Mon, Sep 13, 2021

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.

2Season 7

S7.E2 ∙ Back from the Dead

Mon, Sep 20, 2021

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.

3Season 7

S7.E3 ∙ Bat in Black

Mon, Sep 27, 2021

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.

4Season 7

S7.E4 ∙ Don't B-Negative

Mon, Oct 4, 2021

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.

5Season 7

S7.E5 ∙ Dance Your Life Away

Mon, Oct 11, 2021

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.

6Season 7

S7.E6 ∙ Peek-a-BOO

Mon, Oct 18, 2021

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.

7Season 7

S7.E7 ∙ Finale: The Killer Is...

Mon, Oct 25, 2021

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.

1Season 8

S8.E1 ∙ Welcome to Hotel Henson

Mon, Sep 12, 2022

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.

2Season 8

S8.E2 ∙ Croquem-boots

Mon, Sep 19, 2022

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.

3Season 8

S8.E3 ∙ Maze Madness

Mon, Sep 26, 2022

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.

4Season 8

S8.E4 ∙ Spoiled Rotten by Axe-ident

Mon, Oct 3, 2022

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.

5Season 8

S8.E5 ∙ FlamBakers and Open Wounds

Mon, Oct 10, 2022

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.

6Season 8

S8.E6 ∙ Eyes on the Prize

Mon, Oct 17, 2022

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.

7Season 8

S8.E7 ∙ We've Got Spirit

Mon, Oct 24, 2022

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.

8Season 8

S8.E8 ∙ Cheers to the Newlydeads

Mon, Oct 31, 2022

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.