Halloween Baking Championship
Season 12
20266 episodes
Episode 1
The Museum of Unnatural History
Sep 14, 20261h 25m
John Henson asks 10 bakers to make nutty desserts expressing spooky Halloween memories. Judges Stephanie Boswell, Aarti Sequeira, and Zac Young pick the winner of $1,000, and the top three bakers are safe. The remaining bakers make hideous mask desserts.
Episode 2
Into the Wild
Sep 21, 20261h 25m
John Henson challenges the nine bakers to create reanimated taxidermy desserts to win $1,000. The bottom six bakers must create possessed pest desserts inspired by a demonic insect exhibit. In the end, one baker is eliminated.
Episode 3
Halloween Haunts
Sep 28, 20261h 25m
Inspired by mischief makers, heroes, and villains aboard a festive cruise, host John Henson asks the bakers to make Halloween hero and villain cakes to win a five-night cruise vacation. Judges Stephanie Boswell, Aarti Sequeira, and Zac Young pick the top three bakers to be safe, and the bottom bakers must make magic mirror desserts with a haunting attribute like melting, screaming, or oozing depicted in an edible mirror. The least successful baker is eliminated.
Episode 4
Who's Ruining Your Ruin?
Oct 5, 202645m
Every baker's life is on the line today in a single challenge. Host John Henson asks the bakers to create a dessert that resembles an assigned classic ruin and represent the monster who haunts it, such as crumbling castle and vampire, old amphitheater and zombie actor, or Stonehenge and demon druids. Judges Stephanie Boswell, Aarti Sequeira, and Zac Young pick the winner to receive $1,000, and one baker goes home.
Episode 5
Doll Trouble
Oct 12, 20261h 25m
No one is safe! Host John Henson challenges the remaining six bakers to face off in head-to-head matchups to create demon doll desserts, either Paris-Brest, baked cheesecake, or Swiss roll. Bakers with the same type of dessert face off, and the winner of each matchup is safe. Judges Stephanie Boswell, Aarti Sequeira, and Zac Young pick the overall challenge winner to receive $1,000, and the least successful baker is eliminated.
Episode 6
Masters of the Macabre
Oct 19, 20261h 25m
In the semifinal haunted heat, host John Henson asks the bakers to create macabre oil painting desserts inspired by creepy masterpieces depicting subjects like drooling hounds of hell, a screaming banshee, and a ghost child. Then, the bottom three bakers take on witchy desserts with edible candles to keep their flame alive in the competition. Judges Stephanie Boswell, Aarti Sequeira, and Zac Young send the least successful baker home.