Haunted houses, ghostly pumpkins and edible eyeballs make for a Halloween thriller, when five top cake teams gather for an intense cake and candy competition. Elaborate cakes, some weighing 80+ pounds, must impress a panel of tough judges with their delectable craftsmanship and creative use of candy decorations.
COMPETITORS:
Cheryl Lew
Owner, Montclair Baking
Oakland, Calif.
Bronwen Weber
Executive Chef, Frosted Art Bakery & Studio
Dallas, Texas
Duff Goldman
Owner, Charm City Cakes
Baltimore, Md.
Norman Davis
Owner, The Sweet Life
Annandale, Va.
Carol Murdock
Owner, Classic Cakes
West Hartford, Conn.
Ho-Ho-Hike! When the weather turns icy, the magical folks who live at the North Pole love gathering together to play winter sports. Hosts Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson ask four competitive cookie makers to tackle making two winter sports cookies. One cookie maker will suffer the agony of defeat, while another will advance with an advantage for the next round. After a big game, the merry residents of the North Pole gather in the town's gazebo to socialize, so the cookie makers craft their own towering 10-foot tall Christmas gazebos complete with classic pitched roofs. Their cookies will have to incorporate comforting drinks perfect for sipping at social occasions, like peppermint mocha, pumpkin spice, chai or apple cider. The cookie maker who creates the gazebo most worthy of the North Pole's town square will paint the town red with $10,000 and the Golden Ornament.
The Kitchen is celebrating fall, using the best ingredients of the season, starting off by sipping homemade Pumpkin Spiced Lattes with Maile Carpenter from Food Network Magazine, then Katie cooks up a delicious Prosciutto-Wrapped Halibut for a fancy fall dinner. Mo Rocca helps Geoffrey make Short Rib and Spinach-Stuffed Raviolis. Then Apples are reinvented with clever recipes including a killer Apple Chip Nacho smothered in Chocolate and Peanut Butter Sauce.
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Roasted Tomatillo and Apple Salsa
This Challenge gives the heart-pounding excitement of a horserace a Food Network twist. Five Guinness World Records are on the line inside the home of movie magic, Universal Studios, and not one, but two competitors are going head to head in each event to see who can flip, carve, crack, peel or scoop their way into the record books. From pumpkins to pancakes, onions to oysters, you've never seen food move this fast!
COMPETITORS:Ice Cream
Mitch Cohen More Dough Corp. Bayshore, N.Y.
Thomas Majoch Burlington, Vt.
Onions Jeffery Hall National Onion Labs Swainsboro, Ga.
Sherise Jones Idaho-Eastern Oregon Onion Committee – Marketing Director Boise, Idaho www.bigonions.com
Oyster Shucking
Patrick McMurray Starfish Oyster Bed and Grill Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Scott Stiles - Present US Champion San Antonio, Tex.
Pancakes Mike Cuzzacrea Lockport, N.Y. www.thepancakeman.net
Steve Hamilton Owner of Chris Cakes Louisburg, Kans.
Pumpkin Carving Stephen Clarke Havertown, Penn.
Russ Leno Sleepy Hallow Everett, Wash. Fastest Foods
Judges:
Stuart Claxton Guinness World Records New York, N.Y.
Steve Jayson Universal Resorts