Duff Goldman welcomes talented bakers from across America for an unconventional baking and design competition where flavor is only the tip of the icing. In the first challenge, the four bakers must create Halloween-themed cakes that incorporate a surprise selection of candies and treats. Judges Waylynn Lucas and Pichet Ong send one baker home, and then the three remaining competitors have five days in their own home bakeries to design, bake and construct an elaborate Halloween-themed showpiece cake that transforms from good to evil through moving, shattering or even melting in front of the judges' eyes. The bakers return to the studio to assemble and present their cakes, and the judges consider flavor and execution before crowning the winner of the Halloween Cake-Off.
Hosts Jet Tila and Rosanna Pansino have some unconventional colors in mind as they challenge four talented cookie makers to give classic Halloween designs a makeover! Then, the cookiers face a huge undertaking as they dig up 3D cookie graveyards filled with creepy characters and bloody-good ingredients, including Amarena cherries, pomegranate seeds and blood oranges. Blood-curdling screams have been heard in the lab, especially when one lucky cookie maker escapes with the $10,000 prize and the title of Halloween Cookie Champion.
The nine competitors meet up with host Carla Hall, who challenges them to create Halloween candy croquembouche and incorporate an illusion. Carla and the other judges, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young, decide which competitors' creation earns the win.