Renee Loranger

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

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 challenges the nine competitors to create Halloween candy croquembouche and incorporate an illusion; judges Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young decide which competitors' creation earns the win.

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.

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.