Name: Circus of Dread
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 25 min

Inspired by a skull man, the bakers enter the graveyard to bring skull desserts to life in the pre-heat; for the main heat, the bakers must create a nightmare cake based on common nightmare themes; the bakers must face their fears to come out on top.

Halloween Baking Championship

Cranium Epicurean

Bakers enter the fortune-telling tent at the Circus of Dread in the pre-heat challenge; competitors are tasked with creating tarot card desserts; bakers then enter the Creepy Clown Hall of Fame in the main heat, where they create impressive desserts.

Circus of Dread

It's bridal season for Halloween lovers and since bridal showers often have petit fours, the bakers are creating petit horrors in the pre-heat challenge; in the main heat, each happy couple gets a unique Halloween wedding cake.

Hallowedding

A monster has ransacked the kitchen and is on the loose; the bakers work together in the pre-heat challenge to create a 3-D suspect sketch out of pate a choux; the sketch helps put the monster behind bars, but now he's hungry for the main challenge.

Monster Mania

The competition begins with a difficult pre-heat as the eight Halloween bakers weave spider web desserts with creatures inside; wily witch hunter John Henson challenges the bakers to create melting desserts that reveal a Halloween item inside.

Hidden Halloween Horrors

John Henson takes a sugar-fueled look back at some of the most outrageous moments and disgustingly delicious desserts, including creepy-crawly critters, bloodiest baking, spine-tingling ingredients, comedy of horrors and top 10 judges' costumes.

Best of Halloween Baking Championship

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The country's top bakers battle to create spooky, irresistible desserts; the baker that impresses the judges most will be crowned champion and take home the grand prize.

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