Halloween Baking Championship

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.