Food Network Challenge

There goes the neighborhood! Santa Claus and his reindeer are out, and ghosts and goblins are in as a Christmas classic gets a Halloween makeover. The art of gingerbread building takes a giant leap forward as four pastry chefs build not only haunted houses, but a spooky slime-filled cave and a Spanish Galleon manned by skeleton sailors. Who knew something so sweet could be so...scary!

COMPETITORS:

Elizabeth Falkner
Owner and Executive Pastry Chef, Citizen Cake & Citizen Cupcake
San Francisco, Calif.
Assistant: Sara Cameron

Liv Hansen
Owner, The Riviera Bakehouse
Upper Nyack, N.Y.
Assistant: Kaye Hansen

Dawn Nemec
Pastry Chef, Just Cake
Monterey Bay, Calif.
Assistant: Marina Sousa

April Robinson
Pastry Chef, A Voce Restaurant
New York, N.Y.
Assistant: Ron Rosselli

Judges:

Steve Kopelman
Owner of Thrillvania and The Nest Haunted Houses
Terrell, Texas

Andrew Shotts
Owner, Garrison Confections
Providence, R.I.

Kerry Vincent
Wedding Cake Designer/Hall of Fame Sugar Artist
Tulsa, Okla.