Aaron Clouse

The 10 competitors get their first challenge: haunted house cakes and play the dagger game for the chance at a key reward.

The nine competitors have to feature an illusion in their candy croquembouche.

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.

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 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.

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.