Halloween Baking Championship

Monsters, Monsters, Monsters

The seven bakers create creepy bite-sized monster treats. Then, zombies attack as the bakers are faced with whipping up a dessert that makes the judges hungry for a bite.

Cravings From the Grave

For the pre-heat, mummy's 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.

Haunted Circus

The five remaining bakers head to a haunted circus to create a dozen scary clown cake pops. Then, the main heat moves to the freak show, as the bakers make frighteningly strange mashup desserts.

Spirits Rising

Four bakers get creepy when they bake up a tomb dessert before taking on a challenge inspired by the magnificent art of Mexico's Day of the Dead.

Ginger Dead House

For the grand finale, bakers have six hours to construct a spooky "ginger dead" house, and Duff Goldman stops by for a scary surprise. The most impressive house wins one baker the title of Halloween Baking Champion and $25,000!

Filled With Surprises

Eight bakers compete in creepy Halloween-inspired challenges that include candy-filled cookies and tasty treats that leak gooey slime when cut open.

Bewitching Treats

The seven remaining bakers must make witches' fingers and toes for the pre-heat. The witch theme goes a step further in the main heat when the bakers create desserts that look like witches.

It's All in Your Head

The six remaining bakers work in teams to create a left brain/right brain dessert before confronting their fears in a phobia-inspired challenge.

Sweet Screams

The five remaining chefs take the harmless cream puff to the next level to create "scream puffs" in the pre-heat before making scary mask desserts in the main heat.

The Candyman Cometh

The four remaining bakers attempt candy bar-influenced desserts in the pre-heat before facing death by chocolate in the main heat.

Extreme Halloween

The finale has arrived and the bakers must make three creepy treats for a spooky dessert bar and light-up jack o' lantern cakes for a chance to take home $25,000!

Hidden Halloween Horrors

The competition begins as the eight Halloween bakers weave spider web desserts with creatures trapped inside. Then wily witch hunter John Henson challenges the bakers to create melting desserts that reveal a Halloween item inside.

Fall Forward Desserts

Bakers make yam desserts that evoke classic scary movie cliches in the pre-heat challenge, then create a pumpkin patch out of mini bundt cakes in the main heat.

Best of Halloween Baking Championship

John Henson takes a sugar-fueled look back at some of the most outrageous moments and disgustingly delicious desserts of Halloween Baking Championship, including creepy-crawly critters, bloodiest baking and comedy of horrors.

Monster Mania

The bakers work together in the pre-heat to create a suspect sketch out of pate a choux to help catch a monster on the loose. Then, the monster is hungry for giant desserts in the main heat.

Hallowedding

The bakers get ready for Halloween wedding season with "petit horrors" for a bridal shower and creepy Halloween wedding cakes for a variety of scary couples.

Circus of Dread

Bakers take on the Circus of Dread with tarot card desserts for the fortune teller in the pre-heat challenge and creepy clown desserts in the main round.

Cranium Epicurean

The bakers enter the graveyard to bring skull desserts to life in the pre-heat challenge, then create cakes based on common nightmare themes for a chance at being crowed the Halloween Baking Champion.

Halloween Invasion

John Henson reveals 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.

Smells Like Halloween Spirit

In the pre-heat challenge, the seven bakers create spine-chilling desserts guided by spirits, such as bourbon and rum. Then they use fresh flavors and colorful decorations to bring old, dead desserts back to life in the main heat.

All Things Weird and Wonderful

The six bakers team up to create desserts in a 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.

Creepy and Crusty Creations

John Henson's host of "mummy" issues inspire the pre-heat challenge of creepy crepe cakes. 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.

Gravely Delicious Desserts

In the pre-heat challenge, the 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 win a spot in the finale.

A Haunting We Will Go

The three remaining bakers must first construct a "Ghostembouche," or ghostly version of a croquembouche tower. Then they face the final challenge of creating a bleeding zombie cake to win the title of Halloween Baking Champion.

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 before Carla and the judges give their verdict. Plus, the creepiest sweets are revisited and ranked.

Sweet Illusions

The nine competitors meet up with host Carla Hall, who challenges them to create Halloween candy croquembouche and incorporate an illusion. Plus, a recap of the fiercest battles features the creepiest sweets and most-ghoulish ingredients.

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.

Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down

The seven remaining bakers continue their journey through the haunted house to the creepy nursery. Host Carla Hall challenges the competitors to bake 3-D demon doll cakes with a diabolically assigned flavor.

The Devil Made Me Do It

In the devil's den, 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, to avoid the fiery pit of elimination.

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.

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.

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, where there's a serial killer taking out bakers one by one. The competitors tackle "cereal killer" pies and mega cakes to survive another week at camp.

Back from the Dead

John Henson welcomes some unexpected visitors at Camp Devil’s Food Lake to shake up the competition for the 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.

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.

Don't B-Negative

Host John Henson asks the seven remaining bakers to reimagine 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.

Dance Your Life Away

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 judges Stephanie Boswell, Carla Hall and Zac Young.

Peek-a-BOO

Five talented bakers have survived the Camp Devil's Food Lake killer. Host John Henson challenges them to make patterned roll cakes and frightening fault line cakes to impress judges Stephanie Boswell, Carla Hall and Zac Young.

Finale: The Killer Is ...

Host John Henson challenges the four finalists to bake using a hated ingredient. Then, the final three bakers battle it out for $25,000 and the title of Halloween Baking Champion.

Welcome to Hotel Henson

No body part is safe when host John Henson welcomes 12 Halloween hopefuls to Hotel Henson and asks them to create faces in pie. Then, it's "blood in blood out" as they impress judges Stephanie Boswell, Zac Young and Carla Hall with blood spatter cakes.

Croquem-boots

In honor of Hotel Henson guest Puss in Boots, the bakers turn a croquembouche into a "croquem-boots." Then, they redesign a dessert to represent methods of death, and two bakers must create cat-sized cakes that display the judges' last wish desserts.

Maze Madness

John Henson asks the bakers to update the hotel's signature hedge maze by teaming up to create hauntingly delicious maze cakes. If judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell can eat their way to the center, they'll be treated to a baked prize.

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 Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell smash desserts and dreams as they send one baker up to the 13th floor.

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 ​flambé classics. Then, the bakers have judges Stephanie Bowell, Zac Young and Carla Hall in stitches with realistic open wound cakes.

Eyes on the Prize

John Henson turns the bakers' worlds upside down with a challenge to make upside-down cakes without pineapple. Then, judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell see double when the bakers team up to create identical twin cakes that taste different.

We've Got Spirit

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

Cheers to the Newlydeads

For their final night, John Henson asks the bakers to create sweet and savory grazing boards in honor of a dearly departed couple. Then, Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young judge black wedding cakes to determine the Halloween Baking Champion.

Welcome to Henson & Sons Carnival

John Henson welcomes 12 bakers to the Henson & Sons Carnival, where they must layer a "tarot-misu" depicting the carnival's demise. Then, the bakers scare up a new mascot by designing creepy clown cakes for Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

Do-nut Ride This Carousel

John Henson challenges the bakers to make bloody filled doughnuts to commemorate an unfortunate accident. Then, the competitors mix joy and doom as they take Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young round and round on the creepiest carousel ever.

Fire-Breathing Pavlovas and Alien Oddities

Things heat up when John Henson tells an Australian fire eater's tale before asking the bakers to create flambéed pavlovas. Then, extraterrestrial oddities inspire alien head cakes with enough ooze to gross out Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

The Fantastic Fondante and Funhouse Hall of Mirrors

John Henson tells the story of the hall of mirrors ghost as inspiration for the bakers' Bloody Mary bar desserts. Then, the bakers work in teams to fuse two body parts together as Franken-cakes for judges Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

Heads Will Roll

The bakers dig deep with buried alive trifles honoring the carnival's failed escape artist. Then, John Henson shares the carnival's shrunken head wind chimes to encourage the bakers to think big with pies for Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

Sword Swallow Your Pride

The bakers make desserts designed to melt after hearing John Henson's torrid tale of the Human Ice Pop. Then, the bakers honor the sword swallower with a dessert that swallowed another dessert to impress judges Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

A Smashing Good Time

John Henson challenges the bakers to create torta della nonnas that honor the carnival's matriarch, the Tattooed Woman. Then, a smashed Strong Man inspires the bakers to smash their desserts in front of judges Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

Step Fright Up

John Henson commemorates the lost souls at Henson & Sons Carnival with flourless desserts. Then, the bakers craft new carnival attractions for the grand re-opening, where Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young will name the Halloween Baking Champion!