Making everything from spider cupcakes to mummy macarons, seven of the country's top bakers will compete to create Halloween's spookiest confections on Halloween Baking Championship , premiering Monday, Oct. 5 at 9|8c. To survive this haunted competition, hosted by Richard Blais, contestants must prove their baking abilities and impress judges Ron Ben-Israel, Carla Hall and Sherry Yard. Only one winner will take home the grand prize of $25,000 and earn the title of Halloween Baking Champion.
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Inspired by mischief makers aboard a festive cruise, John asks the bakers to make Halloween hero and villain cakes to win a five-night cruise vacation; the bottom bakers must make desserts with a haunting attribute depicted in an edible mirror.
John Henson challenges the nine bakers to create reanimated taxidermy desserts to win $1,000. The bottom six bakers must create possessed pest desserts inspired by a demonic insect exhibit. In the end, one baker is eliminated.
John Henson challenges the nine bakers to create reanimated taxidermy desserts to win $1,000. The bottom six bakers must create possessed pest desserts inspired by a demonic insect exhibit. In the end, one baker is eliminated.
Host John Henson welcomes 10 bakers to the Museum of Unnatural History, where they'll face a gauntlet of ghouls and otherworldly wonders as they create sweet treats. The last baker standing wins the title of Halloween Baking Champion and $25,000!
Host John Henson welcomes 10 bakers to the Museum of Unnatural History, where they'll face a gauntlet of ghouls and otherworldly wonders as they create sweet treats. The last baker standing wins the title of Halloween Baking Champion and $25,000!
John Henson asks the bakers to make haunted grounds desserts to impress judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell; the final bakers must create a most feared demise cake to win $25,000 and the title of Halloween Baking Champion!
It's the semifinals, and in honor of Pennywise the Clown, John Henson asks the bakers to make desserts inspired by the monster that haunted them as a child; the bottom three bakers must fight to make it to the finale.
Creativity turns creepy as John Henson asks the bakers to craft a horrifying fusion of two beings into one spliced souls dessert; judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell decide which baker best captures the terror of transformation.
Henson asks the bakers to make cryptic message desserts that reveal an eerie dispatch from the other side. Judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell must decide who wins $1,000 for their mysterious missive and whose message now reads exit.
The final bakers take on two very difficult challenges inspired by the past, all leading up to a time-traveling monster mash.
John Henson catches a spirit in the X-ray room, and he wants the bakers to use its X-rays as templates for build-a-spirit desserts.
John Henson challenges the bakers with high-velocity tornado desserts; the bakers get gooey as they present judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell with melted witch desserts.
Inspired by the lab's umami-loving mummy, John Henson tasks the bakers with creating sweet mummy treats featuring umami ingredients.
John Henson pairs up the bakers into research teams; they create lab specimen-stuffed desserts, featuring tongues, eyeballs, noses and toes.
John Henson summons the spirit of Beetlejuice to help broker a deal with the lab's other spirits; to butter up the ghost, he asks the bakers to make black and white desserts and Shrinker treats that feature a tiny dessert atop a larger one.
Bakers explore Henson Labs' Chem Lab, where John Henson tasks them with creating broken glass desserts and sinister bubbling treats; Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell test their poison tolerance before sending one baker to the cryo-freeze.
John Henson commemorates the lost souls at Henson and Sons Carnival with flourless desserts; the bakers craft new carnival attractions for the grand reopening, where Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young name the Halloween baking champion.
John Henson challenges the bakers to create torta della nonnas that honor the carnival's matriarch, the Tattooed Woman. A smashed Strong Man inspires the bakers to smash their desserts in front of judges Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.
The bakers make desserts designed to melt after hearing John Henson's torrid tale of the Human Ice Pop. The bakers honor the sword swallower with a dessert that swallowed another dessert to impress judges Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.
The bakers dig deep with buried alive trifles honoring the carnival's failed escape artist; John Henson shares the carnival's shrunken head wind chimes to encourage the bakers to think big.
John Henson tells the story of the hall of mirrors ghost as inspiration for the bakers' Bloody Mary bar desserts; the bakers work in teams to fuse two body parts together.
John Henson tells an Australian fire-eater's tale before asking the bakers to create flambéed pavlovas; extraterrestrial oddities inspire alien head cakes with enough ooze to gross out Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.
John Henson challenges the four finalists to bake using a hated ingredient; the final three bakers battle it out for $25,000 and the title of Halloween Baking Champion.
Five talented bakers have survived the Camp Devil's Food Lake killer; John Henson challenges them to make patterned roll cakes and frightening fault line cakes to impress judges Stephanie Boswell, Carla Hall and Zac Young.
It's prom night at Camp Devil's Food Lake, and host John Henson puts the six remaining bakers in charge of the party snacks; a tsunami of terror claims one more victim from the competition with help from Stephanie Boswell, Carla Hall and Zac Young.
John Henson asks the seven remaining bakers to reimagine a classic dessert; the competitors tackle a trending cake design that must leave the judges' blood running cold if they want to survive another week.
The competition gets tougher at Camp Devil's Food Lake as the host challenges the bakers to make creepy cupcakes and a British classic.
The seven remaining bakers enter the creepy nursery; Carla Hall challenges the competitors to bake 3-D demon doll cakes with a diabolically assigned flavor.
For a vampire party, Carla Hall asks the eight remaining bakers to team up and create desserts to satisfy some bloodsuckers.
Carla Hall meets the nine remaining competitors on the frightening front porch, haunted by eternally disappointed trick or treaters; the bakers are challenged to create Halloween candy croquembouche with a stunningly sweet illusion.
Carla Hall encourages 10 competitors to reveal their deepest fears by baking haunted house cakes; then, the bakers compete in the dagger game, and the winner receives a reward that could be the difference between life and death in the competition.
Host John Henson instructs the three remaining bakers to construct a Ghostembouche, or ghostly version of a croquembouche tower; then they face the final challenge of creating a bleeding zombie cake for the judges.
The remaining four bakers go digging to create terrifyingly tasty grave-robber desserts; for the main heat, it's a night at the cemetery as the competitors sculpt marbled tomb cakes to impress the judges.
John Henson's mummy issues inspire the challenge of crepe cakes, and judges decide on the creepiest; in the main heat, the five remaining bakers use classic fall ingredients to create jack-o'-lantern pies that are half scary and half sweet.
The six remaining bakers team up to create desserts that pay tribute to the iconic Addams Family; the wonderfully creepy family is honored with dead velvet cakes, and the judges determine who's spooky enough to move on to the next round.
The bakers use fresh flavors and colorful decorations to bring old desserts back to life and impress the judges in the Day of the Dead main heat.
John Henson kicks off the competition by revealing all the skeletons in his family's closet to inspire the eight bakers as they make scary skeleton desserts; the main heat is monster madness as the bakers conjure up monster-under-the-bed creations.
Inspired by a skull man, the bakers enter the graveyard to bring skull desserts to life in the pre-heat; for the main heat, the bakers must create a nightmare cake based on common nightmare themes; the bakers must face their fears to come out on top.
Bakers enter the fortune-telling tent at the Circus of Dread in the pre-heat challenge; competitors are tasked with creating tarot card desserts; bakers then enter the Creepy Clown Hall of Fame in the main heat, where they create impressive desserts.
It's bridal season for Halloween lovers and since bridal showers often have petit fours, the bakers are creating petit horrors in the pre-heat challenge; in the main heat, each happy couple gets a unique Halloween wedding cake.
A monster has ransacked the kitchen and is on the loose; the bakers work together in the pre-heat challenge to create a 3-D suspect sketch out of pate a choux; the sketch helps puts the monster behind bars but now he's hungry for the main challenge.
In the ``Silence of the Yams`` pre-heat challenge, bakers make yam desserts that evoke classic scary movie cliches from chainsaws and hockey masks to bloody knives and creepy dolls; bakers create a pumpkin patch out of mini bundt cakes.
The remaining bakers must make a glowing edible centerpiece and three accompanying creepy treats for a dessert bar.
Four remaining bakers attempt to make desserts that taste like their favorite candy bars; bakers must create a dessert that combines chocolate with odd ingredients; one baker is eliminated.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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John Henson kicks off the competition by revealing all the skeletons in his family's closet to inspire the eight bakers as they make scary skeleton desserts; the main heat is monster madness as the bakers conjure up monster-under-the-bed creations.
The bakers use fresh flavors and colorful decorations to bring old desserts back to life and impress the judges in the Day of the Dead main heat.
Creativity turns creepy as John Henson asks the bakers to craft a horrifying fusion of two beings into one spliced souls dessert; judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell decide which baker best captures the terror of transformation.
It's the semifinals, and in honor of Pennywise the Clown, John Henson asks the bakers to make desserts inspired by the monster that haunted them as a child; the bottom three bakers must fight to make it to the finale.
John Henson asks the bakers to make cryptic message desserts that reveal an eerie dispatch from the other side. Judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell must decide who wins $1,000 for their mysterious missive and whose message now reads exit.
John Henson asks the bakers to make haunted grounds desserts to impress judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell; the final bakers must create a most feared demise cake to win $25,000 and the title of Halloween Baking Champion!
John Henson asks 10 bakers to make nutty desserts expressing spooky Halloween memories. Judges Stephanie Boswell, Aarti Sequeira and Zac Young pick the winner of $1,000, and the top three bakers are safe. The remaining bakers make hideous mask desserts.
The six remaining bakers team up to create desserts that pay tribute to the iconic Addams Family; the wonderfully creepy family is honored with dead velvet cakes, and the judges determine who's spooky enough to move on to the next round.
Host John Henson instructs the three remaining bakers to construct a Ghostembouche, or ghostly version of a croquembouche tower; then they face the final challenge of creating a bleeding zombie cake for the judges.
John Henson's mummy issues inspire the challenge of crêpe cakes, and judges decide on the creepiest; in the main heat, the five remaining bakers use classic fall ingredients to create jack-o'-lantern pies that are half scary and half sweet.
The remaining four bakers go digging to create terrifyingly tasty grave-robber desserts; for the main heat, it's a night at the cemetery as the competitors sculpt marbled tomb cakes to impress the judges.
John Henson pairs up the bakers into research teams; they create lab specimen-stuffed desserts, featuring tongues, eyeballs, noses and toes.
John Henson catches a spirit in the X-ray room, and he wants the bakers to use its X-rays as templates for build-a-spirit desserts.
Inspired by the lab's umami-loving mummy, John Henson tasks the bakers with creating sweet mummy treats featuring umami ingredients.
The final bakers take on two very difficult challenges inspired by the past, all leading up to a time-traveling monster mash.
Ten bakers explore the spooky Henson Laboratories, where mad scientist John Henson tries to appease the lab's haunting specters with sweet treats. At the end of the experiment, one baker will win the Halloween Baking Champion title and a $25,000 prize!
Host John Henson welcomes 10 bakers to the Museum of Unnatural History, where they'll face a gauntlet of ghouls and otherworldly wonders as they create sweet treats. The last baker standing wins the title of Halloween Baking Champion and $25,000!
John Henson challenges the nine bakers to create reanimated taxidermy desserts to win $1,000; the bottom six bakers must create possessed pest desserts inspired by a demonic insect exhibit. In the end, one baker is eliminated.
John Henson challenges the nine bakers to create reanimated taxidermy desserts to win $1,000. The bottom six bakers must create possessed pest desserts inspired by a demonic insect exhibit. In the end, one baker is eliminated.
John Henson tells an Australian fire-eater's tale before asking the bakers to create flambéed pavlovas; extraterrestrial oddities inspire alien head cakes with enough ooze to gross out Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.
John Henson tells the story of the hall of mirrors ghost as inspiration for the bakers' Bloody Mary bar desserts; the bakers work in teams to fuse two body parts together.
John Henson challenges the bakers to create torta della nonnas that honor the carnival's matriarch, the Tattooed Woman. A smashed Strong Man inspires the bakers to smash their desserts in front of judges Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.
The bakers dig deep with buried alive trifles honoring the carnival's failed escape artist; John Henson shares the carnival's shrunken head wind chimes to encourage the bakers to think big.
John Henson commemorates the lost souls at Henson and Sons Carnival with flourless desserts; the bakers craft new carnival attractions for the grand reopening, where Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young name the Halloween baking champion.
The bakers make desserts designed to melt after hearing John Henson's torrid tale of the Human Ice Pop. The bakers honor the sword swallower with a dessert that swallowed another dessert to impress judges Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.
Inspired by mischief-makers aboard a festive cruise, John Henson asks the bakers to make Halloween hero and villain cakes to win a five-night cruise vacation; the bottom bakers must make desserts with a haunting attribute depicted in an edible mirror.
