Halloween Baking Championship

Down to six bakers and its time for a big, bad, monster mash. The bakers spook the judges with their sculpted scary treats and then mash up flavors and themes to create devilishly delicious desserts! But one bakers creepy concoction doesnt cut it and gets the axe.

The final four bakers take on a haunted house cake battle for the title of Halloween Baking Champion and the $50,000 grand prize!

For the pre-heat, mummys the word as the six remaining bakers are asked to make a Halloween mummy dessert using pre-made pie dough. Next, the bakers must create a candy-stuffed, wicked cake based on a Halloween icon.

The four remaining bakers connect with the other side, baking up a tomb dessert for the pre-heat. Next, the bakers make a dessert inspired by the colorful artistry and spirit of Mexicos Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, in order to move on to the Halloween Baking Championship finale.

Eight bakers show off their decorating skills by creating Halloween candy-filled cookies; for the main heat, its oozy fun with sublime slime desserts where bakers can make any treat, but it must be filled with a gooey slime.

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.

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.

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.

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 to help track him down. The sketch helps puts the monster behind bars but now hes hungry for the main heat challenge that involves monster-sized Halloween deserts like giant cupcakes, pies, cream puffs and more.

A group of talented bakers enter the fortune-telling tent at the Circus of Dread in the pre-heat challenge. The competitors are tasked with creating tarot card desserts featuring blood orange, fig or passion fruit. The bakers then enter the Creepy Clown Hall of Fame in the main heat where they create impressive desserts that will land one of them in the finale.

John Henson kicks off the competition by revealing all the skeletons in his familys 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 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. During the main heat challenge, the wonderfully creepy family is honored with “dead velvet” cakes.

The remaining four bakers go digging to create terrifyingly tasty grave-robber desserts. Then for the main heat, its a night at the cemetery as the competitors sculpt marbled tomb cakes.

As their nightmare begins in the grand foyer, host Carla Hall encourages the 10 competitors to reveal their deepest fears by baking haunted house cakes. Then, the bakers compete in the dagger game for a reward that could be the difference between life and death in the competition judged by Carla, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

Descending into a spooky cellar is enough to make any bakers blood run cold, and blood is always on the menu for a vampire party. Host Carla Hall asks the eight remaining bakers to team up and create desserts for a vampire buffet to satisfy the bloodsuckers appetites as well as Carla and the other judges, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

In the devils den, host Carla Hall challenges the six remaining bakers to conjure up a devilish dessert using unusual ingredients, such as sauerkraut, beets, tamarind paste and canned tomato soup. The competitors must get creative to avoid the fiery pit of elimination and impress Carla and the other judges, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

The final four bakers reach the last leg of their haunted house journey in the mad doctors surgical room, where they face off to make severed limb cakes. Then, host Carla Hall challenges the competitors to reach new heights with floating cakes to impress her and the other judges, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young. The most successful baker wins $25,000 and is named Halloween Baking Champion.

Host John Henson welcomes some unexpected visitors at Camp Devil’s Food Lake to shake up the competition for the remaining eight bakers. Then, its all about teamwork making the scream work as pairs tackle creepy cookies from home and a mother of a blind cake bake. Theyll have to bake like their lives depend on it if they want to survive judges Stephanie Boswell, Carla Hall and Zac Young.

Host John Henson asks the seven remaining bakers to work their fingers to the bone reimagining a classic dessert. Then, the competitors tackle a trending cake design that must leave judges Stephanie Boswell, Carla Hall and Zac Youngs blood running cold if they want to survive another week.

Five talented bakers have survived the Camp Devils Food Lake killer, and host John Henson challenges them to make patterned roll cakes and frightening fault line cakes. The competitors will have to kill the cake game to get past judges Stephanie Boswell, Carla Hall and Zac Young.

No body part is safe when host John Henson welcomes 12 Halloween hopefuls to check into Hotel Henson and asks them to do a little detective baking by creating faces out of pie. Then, its "blood in blood out" as they try to impress judges Stephanie Boswell, Zac Young and Carla Hall with blood spatter cakes.

John Henson asks the bakers to update the hotels signature hedge maze by teaming up for a supersized challenge of hauntingly delicious maze cakes. If judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell can eat their way to the center, theyll be treated to a baked prize. A supersized challenge becomes a double elimination as two bakers are sent to the 13th floor.

John Henson turns up the heat when he asks the seven remaining bakers to set their desserts on fire by reinventing ​flambé classics. Then, the bakers have judges Stephanie Bowell, Zac Young and Carla Hall in stitches with realistic open wound cakes, and one baker is gutted when theyre eliminated from the competition.

Bottoms up as John Henson asks the remaining five bakers to create lighting in a bottle by baking desserts based on classic cocktails. Then, the bakers must face their fears by frightening judges Stephanie Boswell, Zac Young and Carla Hall with sets of entremets that represent their worst nightmares.

Host John Henson welcomes a dozen bakers to the Henson & Sons Carnival, where theyre ready for the ride of their lives. First, they must layer a "tarot-misu" depicting the carnivals untimely demise. Then, the bakers scare up a new carnival mascot by designing creepy clown cakes for judges Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

Things heat up when John Henson tells the tale of an Australian fire eater before asking the bakers to create charred and flambéed pavlovas. Then, a missing family member returns with extraterrestrial oddities that the bakers use to inspire alien head Charlotte royale cakes with enough ooze to gross out judges Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

The bakers dig deep to make buried alive trifles honoring the carnivals escape artist who went to an early grave. Then, John Henson shows the bakers the carnivals wind chimes, which look eerily like some of the missing family members heads, and asks them to make shrunken head pies for judges Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

John Henson challenges the remaining bakers to create torta della nonnas that honor the matriarch of the Henson & Sons Carnival, the Tattooed Woman. Then, a mysterious swap smashes the Strong Man, which inspires the bakers to smash their desserts in front of judges Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

Ten bakers explore the Chemistry Laboratory at Henson Labs, where the safety rating is negative 35. Lately, the spirits who haunt the lab have been demolishing all the beakers and petri dishes, so host John Henson leans into this devastation and tasks the bakers with creating broken glass desserts that feature sugar glass. Then, theres been a horrible spill in the Chem Lab, so John has a little fun with it and asks the bakers to create sinister bubbling desserts inspired by the toxic mess. Judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell test their poison tolerance before sending one baker to the cryo-freeze.

Things keep turning into other things in the Research and Development Lab, and its disturbingly delicious. John Henson pairs up the bakers into research teams, and they use exotic candy corn flavors as inspiration for lab specimen-stuffed desserts decorated with tongues, eyeballs, noses or toes. With elimination looming, the bakers serve judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell a mad menagerie of cutesy-to-creepy desserts by turning an adorable stuffy into a delicious, mutated monster.

To celebrate 85 years of the wonderful Wizard of Oz, John Henson is in the labs atmospheric chamber measuring the velocity of tornado desserts so that the bakers can honor Dorothys rough trip to Oz. Then, the bakers visit the acid pit, where the spirits have been melting things. Inspired by those who have melted before, especially the Wicked Witch of the West, the bakers make melted witch desserts to appease the spirits, as well as judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell.

The final bakers take on two very difficult challenges inspired by the past -- all leading up to a time-traveling monster mash! In the Dissection Lab, John Henson works on some gross anatomy, and he asks the bakers to create desserts with gummy hearts that will be "dissected" by judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell. Then in the Quantum Physics Lab, John hops into a time machine and journeys to the ancient past for inspirations like medieval vampires and early aliens for time travel cakes. The best baker heads into the future with the Halloween Baking Championship title and the $25,000 prize!