Halloween Baking Championship is an American cooking competition show that premiered on Food Network on October 5, 2015. Like its sister show, Holiday Baking Championship, it’s a seasonal program that runs for a few weeks (in this case, the month of October) and aims to crown the best baker of spooky, creepy desserts.
Each episode has two rounds. The first round is the “Preliminary Heat” where the bakers are first told of their themes and get varying cook times (anywhere from 30 minutes up to 2 hours) to create a small pastry (usual cookies or small cakes). The person who wins the first round gets an advantage going into the next round, and aren’t told until after the second round is announced (and sometimes they’re not told until the middle of cooking in the second round). The advantage varies by episode (Ex: exclusive use of a certain baking mold/ingredient or first choice of a specific theme).
The second round is called the “Main Heat” and the contestants get a considerably longer time to bake than the “pre-heat” (in the final round of the final episode they’re given several hours to make a large confection). This larger dessert must fit a new theme presented (usually in the same vein as the pre-heat theme). The winner of the “Main Heat” advances to the next episode. One baker is eliminated every episode except for the last one. In the finale it’s down to the final three or four contestants competing in a winner-take-all final round. The winner gets $25,000 and a spot In Food Network Magazine in season 4-5.
Unlike its sister show, Holiday Baking Championship, the panel of judges has changed consistently throughout the series (with the exception of Carla Hall).
The first season was hosted by Richard Blais with chefs Carla Hall, Ron Ben-Israel and Sherry Yard serving as judges. The second season saw Carla Hall as the only returning chef/judge. She was joined by Food Network personality Sandra Lee and Damiano Carrara to help judge, and Comedian Jeff Dunham as the host. For seasons three through five, the show was hosted by John Henson. Lorraine Pascale and Zac Young joined Carla Hall as judges for the third and fourth seasons, while Katie Lee replaced Pascale for season five. For the sixth season Carla Hall returns not only as a judge but as the show’s host, accompanied by Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell as judges. John Henson will later return to host season 7 in 2021.
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Halloween Baking Championship Season 10 Episode 03 Description Mad Mutations and Transformations John Henson pairs up the bakers into research teams, and they cobble together lab specimen-stuffed desserts. With elimination looming, the bakers serve judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell a mad menagerie of cutesy-to-creepy desserts. Email Halloween Baking Championship All […]
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Halloween Baking Championship Season 10 Episode 04 Description Inspired by the lab’s umami-loving mummy, John Henson tasks the bakers with creating sweet mummy treats that feature umami ingredients. Then, it’s “bone appetit” for judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell as the bakers craft skeletal desserts. Email Halloween Baking Championship All Seasons […]
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Halloween Baking Championship Season 10 Episode 05 Description Wizard of Labs To celebrate 85 years of the wonderful Wizard of Oz, John Henson challenges the bakers with high-velocity tornado desserts. Then, the bakers get gooey as they present judges Carla Hall, Zac Young, and Stephanie Boswell with melted witch desserts. Email Halloween Baking […]
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Halloween Baking Championship Season 10 Episode 06 Description Otherworldly Treats John Henson catches a spirit doing some imaging in the X-ray room! The films the spirits have been taking of themselves are monstrous, and John wants the bakers to use these X-rays as templates for build-a-spirit desserts. Then, the bakers enter the lab basement where the portal […]
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Halloween Baking Championship Season 10 Episode 07 Description The Past Comes Back to Haunt You 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 […]
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Halloween Baking Championship Season 9 Episode 04 Description The Fantastic Fondante and Funhouse Hall of Mirrors John Henson tells the story of the ghost in the funhouse hall of mirrors as inspiration for the bakers’ Bloody Mary bar desserts. Then, the magician known as the Fantastic Fondante puts on a show as the bakers work […]
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Halloween Baking Championship Season 9 Episode 03 Description Fire-Breathing Pavlovas and Alien Oddities 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 […]