The Halloween Wars crew travels across the U.S. to find the artists who have what it takes to compete. More aspiring Halloween warriors are looking to join the battle than ever before! The kitchen is set, and the judges are ready for 18 of the best pumpkin carvers and cake and sugar artists in the world. Before they ever set foot in the Halloween Wars kitchen, though, these gleefully ghoulish geniuses hone their crafts with dreams of victory and a $50,000 grand prize.
The Kitchen hosts are throwing a Friendsgiving party with inventive and casual Turkey Day dishes. Geoffrey Zakarian and Alex Guarnaschelli kick off the meal with a Toasted Mulled Cider Margarita and Baked Brie with Cranberry Chutney and Toasted Almonds. Sunny Anderson creates an all-new Easy Apple Stuffing Loaf, and Jeff Mauro makes Roasted Turkey and Root Vegetables. The hosts work together on a French Onion Soup Potato Gratin, and Katie Lee Biegel dishes out Mini Pumpkin Spice Latte Puddings.
The Kitchen is shaking things up with a new-school take on a good old-fashioned recipe swap! Each host shares a dish made in another's signature style, starting with Jeff Mauro's Short Rib Bourguignon Over Creamy Polenta. Sunny Anderson tosses Katie's Big Kale Caesar by Sunny, and Geoffrey Zakarian serves a classic Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato, Avocado Sandwich. Katie Lee Biegel hits the griddle with her Crunchy Orange French Toast, and Alex Guarnaschelli raises a glass of Pumpkin-Spiced Irish Coffee.
The Kitchen is sharing new twists on viewers' fall favorites with dishes like Sunny Anderson's Mini Meatloaves Cheat Sheet and Geoffrey Zakarian's Pumpkin, Bacon and Caramelized Onion Quiche. Jeff Mauro uses the fall-time favorite ingredient, apples, in an Apple Mug Pie. Katie Lee makes the viewers' pick for Miso Maple Root Vegetables, and cookbook author Samantha Seneviratne bakes a Maple Cream Pie. Finally, the hosts guess which fall trends their co-hosts are loving in a game of Kitchen Guess Who.
The hosts share the best make-ahead recipes and tips to get you ready for a delicious and relaxing Turkey Day Dinner. Maile Carpenter stops by with a look inside Food Network Magazine, including a peak at some of the most outrageous turkey trends. Then there's the ultimate time line to get your shopping in order and your fridge stocked, plus exciting dessert offerings and new recipes for your pumpkin fix. Plus, the hosts fess up and reveal their Thanksgiving short cuts.
Mary Berg works smarter, not harder with some kitchen relay meal prep that starts with a Tex-Mex Chicken skillet. While that one-pot meal is cooking, she throws some squash in the oven for her Pumpkin Walnut Cannelloni. This prep pulls double duty in pre-baking the components of her Seared Sausages with Veg and Polenta. The final stop in the kitchen relay combines all the remaining bits from the last three meals into a Leftover Sausage and Chicken Soup.
Two families return to GGG for more Flavortown fun in a three-round Thanksgiving family showdown. Guy Fieri has a member of each family pick from unidentified cans to determine the featured ingredient in their first meal, and then another family member must make a fall favorite using five pounds of ingredients. Finally, the last member of each family must flip a pumpkin pie into a savory Thanksgiving dish in a winner-takes-all final round and a shot at shopping Flavortown for up to $20,000.
Mmm … can you smell it? The sweet aroma of cinnamon rolls baking in the oven, or is it the pumpkin-spiced latte you're sipping? For the preheat, host Jesse Palmer asks the bakers to combine two of the fall season's best treats and make seasonal coffee drink cinnamon rolls. Then, the bakers roll right into the main heat with a fall-themed yule log that Jesse calls Thanksgiving Swiss Rolls. In the end, judges Carla Hall, Duff Goldman and Nancy Fuller decide which baker is rolling home.