Molly Yeh is hosting her brunch club with a fun Halloween theme that includes cute costumes and frighteningly good food. She makes saucy Cyclops Shakshuka Focaccias, Apple Pancakes with crispy caramelized edges, salty and cheesy Munster Monster Hash Brown Fingers and, for dessert, Matcha Macaroon Monsters that shine with sweetness!
Giada De Laurentiis hosts a Halloween open house for neighborhood trick-or-treaters and their parents. She decorates the living room and kitchen to look like a haunted house and creates a frightful menu for her guests that includes Coconut Bones, Green Chicken Finger Sandwiches, Witches' Brooms and Here's Looking at Boo Treats.
In a spook-tacular Halloween cook-off our chefs start out with some pumpkin bowling to determine the frightening ingredients in their daring dish. Next, competitors rummage through some creepy clearance carts to find ingredients to make a dish that won't make the judges' skin crawl. In the final round, chefs must use the red light special to make their best offal dish.
Halloween is a big deal to Patricia Heaton, so her co-stars Brock Ciarlelli, Charlie McDermott, Jen Ray and Eden Sher from The Middle are over to get the party started. It's all treats and culinary tricks as she prepares Tombstone and Coffin Grilled Cheeses, smoky Tomato Soup, Zombie Punch with Eyeball Ice Cubes, Spooky Salad with Blood Dressing and Candied Pretzel Parts.
In a Halloween-themed competition, the four chefs face ingredient baskets packed with nods to horror movies, which guest judge and actor Rose McGowan knows well. A cringeworthy surprise in the appetizer basket brings to mind a startling plot twist in a classic scary scene featuring maggots. The entree ingredients -- liver, fava beans and Chianti -- are inspired by one of the creepiest quotes in movie history, and a bubbling cauldron is a nice touch in the final basket.
Anne Burrell and Michael Symon are back with more thrills, chills and grills as four ghoulishly disastrous Worst Cooks recruits return to boot camp for Halloween redemption. The recruits once again face their fears in the kitchen and tackle terrifying ingredients. With coaching from Anne and Michael, they create a spooktacular feast for a panel of culinary experts. Will their meals be a deadly delight or a graveyard fright? The winning team will walk away with a $5,000 kitchen upgrade and culinary redemption.
Four one-of-a-kind cooks have dressed up for Halloween in the Chopped Kitchen, and the judges are eager to see what a drag queen, a witch, a medieval re-enactor and a bloody-faced warrior will cook for them using a wild collection of appetizer ingredients! Some frightening sights in the second basket turn out to be pretty nice picks for a pork tenderloin entree, and a spiky fruit and clever cookie-crumb creation are two of the ingredients that the final competitors get to scare up a dessert.
Iron Chefs Geoffrey Zakarian and Alex Guarnaschelli face off against chefs Spike Mendelsohn and Marcel Vigneron in this spooky trick-or-treat battle. Judges are Audra McDonald, Josh Elliott and Donatella Arpaia.