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Halloween Cookie Challenge: Meet the Competitors

Get to know the talented cookie masters competing to take home a trick-or-treat bag filled with $10,000.

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Justine Banks — Provo, UT

Justine is a home bakery owner from Utah. In the beginning stages of her business, she made cookies just for parties. However, after her cookies spread through word-of-mouth, she began making cookies for celebrities in Salt Lake City as well. When Justine is not baking, she is taking care of and spending time with her three little kids.

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Minh Bingham — Rochester Hills, MI

Minh is a home baker from Michigan. She works in aerospace and defense and is obsessed with Halloween, because she loves scary people! She started baking when she was a little girl, but Minh took up cookie decorating, because she wanted to do something special for her daughter when she was born. For Halloween, Minh likes making very realistic scary cookies. In fact, she has made cookies frightening enough to make her throw them away.

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Stephen Horner — Los Angeles

Stephen is a home baker from California, but when he’s not making cookies, he is an art assistant in the film and talent industry. He is known for painting on his cookies and doing unconventional designs. When people look at his cookies, Stephen wants them to see an array of different techniques and styles.

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Kyra Wright — Portland

Kyra is a custom cookie maker from Oregon. The artistic skills she gained from studying and working as a makeup artist translated very naturally into her cookie decorating. Typically, her cookies are cute and wholesome, but that doesn’t stop her from making scary and gruesome Halloween cookies.

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