What to Watch: The Kitchen’s Halloween Party Shortcuts and Elvira on the Season Finale of Halloween Wars
Jason DeCrow, 2015, Television Food Network, G.P. All Rights Reserved
It’s time to start prepping for all of your Halloween festivities — and this weekend your favorite shows will have all the tricks, tips and recipes you’ll need. First up on Saturday, Ree Drummond is making a care package for her daughter that includes Brownie Cookies and Homemade Cheddar Crackers. Next, Nancy Fuller turns her farm into a haunted adventure complete with ghoulish treats. Then, The Kitchen co-hosts reveal the best crafts and tricks for your Halloween party, including two ways to transform apple cider donuts. After that, Patricia Heaton prepares a haunted feast including Tombstone and Coffin Grilled Cheeses and Zombie Punch. Then on Saturday night, Alfonso Ribeiro is going behind the scenes to find out how Hot Tamales, Dum Dums and Tootsie Pops are made.
On Sunday morning, Damaris Phillips is carving pumpkins while enjoying Roasted Chicken White Chili and Red Velvet Lava Cake. And on Sunday night, Guy Fieri challenges chefs to turn the main ingredients of lemon bars into a dinner on Guy’s Grocery Games. Next, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, helps decide which team wins Halloween Wars and the grand prize of $50,000. Then, Alton Brown has a new slate of sabotages planned for the chefs on Cutthroat Kitchen.
Ree sends a care package to her daughter Alex, who's away at college. Packed alongside ranch photos for a homesickness cure are Brownie Cookies, Homemade Cheddar Crackers, spicy Party Mix and Crazy Chocolate Bark.
It's Halloween and Nancy Fuller is pulling out all the freaky stops, turning her happy farm into a haunted adventure with some ghoulish treats: Cheesy Spider Dip, Meaty Bursting Intestines, Sweet Pumpkin Mousse, Bloodshot Buckeyes, and Black Death Fizzes to wash it all down.
It's a Halloween party in The Kitchen, starting with Sunny Anderson's Beefy Butternut Squash Chili and two ways to jazz up supermarket apple-cider doughnuts. Jeff Mauro makes a monstrous MacSagna, and the hosts have the perfect crafts and tips for your Halloween party. Plus, Geoffrey Zakarian has a Jack the Pumpkin cocktail, and the hosts take a terrifying touch test.
It's all treats and culinary tricks as Patricia prepares Tombstone and Coffin Grilled Cheeses, smoky Tomato Soup, Zombie Punch with Eyeball Ice Cubes, Spooky Salad with Blood Dressing and Candied Pretzel Parts.
We dare you to try to eat just one of these seriously tasty treats! Alfonso dives into Hot Tamales and their addictive cinnamon snap, Nathan's irresistible chili cheese fries and how Dum Dums lollipops got their name. Finally, find out about Annie Chun's flavor-packed Mini Wontons.
Join Alfonso as he explores foods with secret centers. From the gooey middle of the Mallo Cup to the creamy goodness of a peppermint cream or the surprisingly complex filling in a Mini Beef Wellington, Unwrapped 2.0 gets the inside scoop. We'll also try to finally settle how many licks it takes to get to the center of the iconic Tootsie Pop.
Damaris' sister Morgan lives in a neighborhood where they're crazy for Halloween, so she asks for Damaris' help carving up pumpkins, decorating her house and making sweet treats. Damaris rises to the occasion and creates a stunning Red Velvet Lava Cake, as well as Cornmeal and White Chocolate Biscotti to dip into a hearty Roasted Chicken White Chili.
Four chefs receive their first culinary curveball when they're told to make a stir-fry using only ingredients from even-numbered aisles. Next, they have to turn the main ingredients of lemon bars into a dinner. Then, the chefs must make their best dish featuring a collision of two international cuisines.
For the final battle, two teams — each made up of an expert pumpkin carver, cake decorator and sugar artist — go head-to-head to create terrifying and screamworthy displays of an undead dinner party. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, serves as the special guest judge and helps determine which team wins the $50,000 grand prize.
One chef takes Manhattan ... clam chowder, that is. Then, someone gets shell-shocked by an opponent. Finally, it's a cold, cold winter when one chef feels the heat.
