The BEST episodes of Halloween Baking Championship

Every episode of Halloween Baking Championship ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Halloween Baking Championship!

John Henson hosts the country's top bakers as they battle it out to create Halloween's spookiest and most-irresistible treats. From spider cupcakes, cheesecake coffins and witch finger cookies to towering confections of terror, these bakers must prove their skills to judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell to land the $25,000 prize and the title of Halloween Baking Champion!

Last Updated: 10/4/2025Network: Food NetworkStatus: Continuing
Circus of Dread
star
9.00
19 votes

#1 - Circus of Dread

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/2018

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.

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Fall Forward Desserts
star
8.77
13 votes

#2 - Fall Forward Desserts

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2018

In the 'Silence of the Yams' pre-heat challenge, bakers make yam desserts that evoke classic scary movie cliches from chainsaws and hockey masks to bloody knives and creepy dolls.

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A Haunting We Will Go
star
8.65
17 votes

#3 - A Haunting We Will Go

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/2019

Host John Henson instructs the three remaining bakers to construct a "Ghostembouche," or ghostly version of a croquembouche tower. Then they face the final challenge of creating a bleeding zombie cake for judges Carla Hall, Katie Lee and Zac Young. When the bloodbath is over, the survivor is named Halloween Baking Champion!

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Engrossed with Ghosts
star
8.57
7 votes

#4 - Engrossed with Ghosts

Season 11 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/2025

Host John Henson has a close encounter with a ghost that inspires ghostly transformation desserts, and one supernatural sweet scares up $1,000 after impressing judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell. But the bottom three bakers aren't so lucky, and they must dig into their personal histories and create a ghost dessert based on an actual ancestor. In the end, the judges are met with their toughest decision of the series yet.

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Cranium Epicurean
star
8.53
15 votes

#5 - Cranium Epicurean

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/2018

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.

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Gravely Delicious Desserts
star
8.47
19 votes

#6 - Gravely Delicious Desserts

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/2019

John Henson hosts as the remaining four bakers go digging to create terrifyingly tasty grave-robber desserts. Then for the main heat, it's a night at the cemetery as the competitors sculpt marbled tomb cakes to impress judges Carla Hall, Katie Lee and Zac Young to land a spot in the finale.

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It's All In Your Head
star
8.41
22 votes

#7 - It's All In Your Head

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/2017

Bakers 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.

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Creepy and Crusty Creations
star
8.39
18 votes

#8 - Creepy and Crusty Creations

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2019

Host John Henson's "mummy" issues inspire the pre-heat challenge of crepe cakes, and judges Carla Hall, Katie Lee and Zac Young decide on the creepiest. In the main heat, the five remaining bakers use classic fall ingredients to create jack-o'-lantern pies that are half scary and half sweet.

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FlamBakers and Open Wounds
star
8.33
12 votes

#9 - FlamBakers and Open Wounds

Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/2022

John asks the seven remaining bakers to set their desserts on fire by reinventing flambé classics; the bakers have the judges in stitches with realistic open-wound cakes.

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For Doom the Bell Tolls
star
8.30
10 votes

#10 - For Doom the Bell Tolls

Season 11 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/2025

In this bloody terrifying premiere, host John Henson welcomes 10 bakers to the worst vacation rental of all time, a haunted mansion, with a gift basket of fruit ... that is dripping blood. For their first frightening challenge, the bakers must depict their number one Halloween fright and make it pump edible blood. Judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell determine which pulsing sweet treat wins $1,000. Then, the bottom three bakers must bake for their lives by creating witch symbol desserts designed to ward off evil spirits in the house. In the end, one baker is eliminated.

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Bewitching Treats
star
8.30
27 votes

#11 - Bewitching Treats

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2017

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.

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Halloween Invasion
star
8.27
26 votes

#12 - Halloween Invasion

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2019

John Henson kicks off the competition by revealing all the skeletons in his family's closet to inspire the eight bakers as they make scary skeleton desserts. The main heat is monster madness as the bakers conjure up monster-under-the-bed creations.

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Cheers to the Newlydeads
star
8.25
8 votes

#13 - Cheers to the Newlydeads

Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/2022

For their final night at the hotel, John Henson asks the bakers to celebrate by creating sweet and savory grazing boards in honor of a dearly departed couple. Then, judges Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young are invited to the deadliest wedding of their lives when the final bakers create three-tiered black wedding cakes. Only one baker can be crowned Halloween Baking Champion and stay at Hotel Henson ... forever.

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Heads Will Roll
star
8.25
12 votes

#14 - Heads Will Roll

Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/2023

The bakers dig deep to make buried alive trifles honoring the carnival's escape artist who went to an early grave. Then, John Henson shows the bakers the carnival's wind chimes, which look eerily like some of the missing family members' heads, and asks them to make shrunken head pies for judges Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

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Extreme Halloween
star
8.20
15 votes

#15 - Extreme Halloween

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/2017

The three remaining bakers must make a glowing edible centerpiece and three different creepy treats for a spooky Halloween party dessert bar. In the final challenge the bakers must create Jack-O-Lantern cakes that light up. Only one winning baker will carve out the title of Halloween Baking Champion and take home the grand $25,000 prize!

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We've Got Spirit
star
8.20
15 votes

#16 - We've Got Spirit

Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/2022

The bakers are tasked with creating desserts based on classic cocktails, and scaring the judges with entremets that represent their worst nightmares.

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Eyes on the Prize
star
8.15
13 votes

#17 - Eyes on the Prize

Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/2022

John turns the bakers' worlds upside down with a challenge to make upside-down cakes without pineapple; the judges see double when the bakers team up to create identical twin cakes that taste different.

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This Bold House
star
8.13
8 votes

#18 - This Bold House

Season 11 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/2025

Host John Henson discovers a dead body in the refrigerator, and he turns out to be an organ donor. The bakers make organ donation desserts to honor the deceased, and one baker wins a cool $1,000. Then, the bottom three bakers take on demonic forces by making "when household items attack" desserts in the form of a possessed toaster, haunted handheld vacuum and demented old TV. In the end, judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell decide which baker is eliminated.

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Sweet Illusions
star
8.11
9 votes

#19 - Sweet Illusions

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/2020

The nine competitors meet up with host Carla Hall, who challenges them to create Halloween candy croquembouche and incorporate an illusion. Carla and the other judges, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young, decide which competitors' creation earns the win.

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Laboratory Story
star
8.11
19 votes

#20 - Laboratory Story

Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/2024

Ten bakers explore the Chemistry Laboratory at Henson Labs, where the safety rating is negative 35. Lately, the spirits who haunt the lab have been demolishing all the beakers and petri dishes, so host John Henson leans into this devastation and tasks the bakers with creating broken glass desserts that feature sugar glass. Then, there's been a horrible spill in the Chem Lab, so John has a little fun with it and asks the bakers to create sinister bubbling desserts inspired by the toxic mess. Judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell test their poison tolerance before sending one baker to the cryo-freeze.

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The Doctor Will See You Now
star
8.07
14 votes

#21 - The Doctor Will See You Now

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/2020

The final four bakers reach the last leg of their haunted house journey in the mad doctor's surgical room, where they face off to make severed limb cakes. Then, host Carla Hall challenges the competitors to reach new heights with floating cakes to impress her and the other judges, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young. The most successful baker wins $25,000 and is named Halloween Baking Champion.

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Welcome to Henson & Sons Carnival
star
8.07
14 votes

#22 - Welcome to Henson & Sons Carnival

Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/2023

Host John Henson welcomes a dozen bakers to the Henson & Sons Carnival, where they're ready for the ride of their lives. First, they must layer a "tarot-misu" depicting the carnival's untimely demise. Then, the bakers scare up a new carnival mascot by designing creepy clown cakes for judges Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

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Sweet Screams
star
8.00
17 votes

#23 - Sweet Screams

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/2017

Five remaining bakers take a light, sweet and utterly harmless dessert and head to the dark side; 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.

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The Costume Ball
star
8.00
15 votes

#24 - The Costume Ball

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/2020

Host Carla Hall invites the five remaining bakers to a party in the haunted ballroom. For a spot in the finale, the competitors must create impressive costume cakes that will dazzle Carla and the other judges, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

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Peek-a-BOO
star
8.00
10 votes

#25 - Peek-a-BOO

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/2021

Five talented bakers have survived the Camp Devil's Food Lake killer, and host John Henson challenges them to make patterned roll cakes and frightening fault line cakes. The competitors will have to kill the cake game to get past judges Stephanie Boswell, Carla Hall and Zac Young.

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