Hosts Vivian Chan and Zac Young challenge three teams of bakers to design cakes inspired by the infamous fire breather. The bakers also have to make fiery sideshow sweets to accompany their cake displays.
Vivian Chan and Zac Young challenge the three teams of bakers to depict a dangerous snake charming gone wrong. Each team also must pair their jaw-dropping snake cake with a sideshow sweet treat that has a surprise inside.
The four competing bakers must beware of evil spells as Duff Goldman provides cursed ingredients like blood oranges, black garlic and forbidden rice in the first round challenge. One eliminated baker is haunted by their mistakes while the final three head to their home bakeries to construct elaborate showpiece cakes that transform from calm to cursed. Delicious demons and wicked monsters amaze the judges as they crown a winner.
Five bakers remain, and the creepy, dangerous doughnuts they whip up in the first challenge are a sight to be seen. Then, for the main challenge, the bakers dig even deeper into their baking skills with graveyard pumpkin desserts that are to die for. But one baker won't make it out alive.
Down to six bakers and it's time for a big, bad, monster mash. The bakers spook the judges with their sculpted scary treats and then mash up flavors and themes to create devilishly delicious desserts! But one baker's creepy concoction doesn't cut it and gets the axe.
For the pre-heat, the six remaining bakers must work in teams and put their minds together to create the most outrageous and delicious left brain/right brain desserts. In the main heat, the bakers face their fears by using common phobias like insects and ghosts as inspirations for desserts.
Things are only getting spookier with just five bakers left in the competition, who must head to the haunted circus for the pre-heat and create a dozen scary clown cake pops. Then, the main heat moves to the freak show, as the bakers make frighteningly strange mashup desserts.
For the pre-heat, the five remaining bakers take a light, sweet and utterly harmless dessert -- the cream puff -- and head to the dark side by creating "scream puffs." Next, it's a main heat filled with frights as the bakers make scary mask desserts to spook the judges. One baker is eliminated at the end of the round.
A group of talented bakers enter the fortune-telling tent at the Circus of Dread in the pre-heat challenge. The competitors are tasked with creating tarot card desserts featuring blood orange, fig or passion fruit. The bakers then enter the Creepy Clown Hall of Fame in the main heat where they create impressive desserts that will land one of them in the finale.
In the pre-heat, the seven remaining bakers must make witches' fingers and toes and create a sauce to dip them in. The witch theme goes a step further in the main heat when the bakers must create desserts that look like witches, complete with edible brooms. One baker is eliminated at the end of the round.