Halloween Baking Championship Season 10

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Every episode and bake

Season ten turns Henson Labs into a seven-episode experiment with fourteen documented challenges. Sugar glass, bubbling desserts, black-and-white sweets, shrinker illusions, candy-corn specimens, mutated toy cakes, umami mummies, skeletal candy-bar desserts, tornadoes, melted witches, X-ray spirits, portal entremets, gummy-heart dissections, and time-travel cakes all enter the lab. One original home adaptation uses miso in a mummy-themed dessert bar.

1. Episode 1 · Broken glass and a toxic chemical spill

   Laboratory Story

   Sep 16, 2024

   The Chemistry Laboratory opens with shattered sugar work, then the bakers turn an imagined toxic spill into desserts that appear to bubble.

   • Opening

     Broken-glass dessert featuring sugar glass

     Create a dessert inspired by the lab's smashed equipment and feature edible sugar glass as a clear part of the design.

   • Main

     Sinister bubbling toxic-spill dessert

     Make a dessert that appears to bubble or react as though it came from a toxic chemical spill.

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2. Episode 2 · Black-and-white flavors and distorted scale

   Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

   Sep 23, 2024

   A Beetlejuice-inspired palette limits the opening desserts before a shrinker experiment stacks a miniature dessert above an oversized version.

   • Opening

     Black-and-white dessert with matching ingredients

     Make a black-and-white dessert using ingredients that reinforce the two-color Beetlejuice-inspired palette.

   • Main

     Shrinker dessert with tiny and large scales

     Construct a scale-illusion dessert with a tiny dessert on top and a large version on the bottom.

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3. Episode 3 · Candy-corn specimens and mutated toys

   Mad Mutations and Transformations

   Sep 30, 2024

   Research teams use unusual candy-corn flavors in filled specimen desserts, then individual bakers transform cute stuffed animals into edible monsters.

   • Opening

     Team lab-specimen stuffed dessert

     In research teams, use an exotic candy-corn flavor in a filled dessert decorated as a lab specimen with a tongue, eyeball, nose, or toe.

   • Main

     Cute-to-creepy mutated stuffed-animal dessert

     Turn an adorable stuffed-animal subject into a dessert showing its transformation into a mutated monster.

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4. Episode 4 · Umami mummies and candy-bar skeletons

   Rotten and Forgotten Desserts

   Oct 7, 2024

   The Fermentation Lab supplies savory umami ingredients for sweet mummies, while the lab skeleton inspires desserts built around miniature Halloween chocolate bars.

   • Opening

     Sweet umami mummy dessert

     Create a mummy-themed sweet using an umami ingredient such as red miso, aged Parmesan, gochujang, or soy sauce.

   • Main

     Skeletal dessert using mini chocolate bars

     Use Halloween-size chocolate bars in a dessert whose decoration or structure depicts the lab skeleton's forgotten remains.

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5. Episode 5 · Wizard of Oz tornadoes and melted witches

   Wizard of Labs

   Oct 14, 2024

   The atmospheric chamber turns Dorothy's trip to Oz into a spinning-storm dessert before the acid pit demands sweets based on the Wicked Witch's melting end.

   • Opening

     Wizard of Oz tornado dessert

     Create a tornado-themed dessert that honors Dorothy's turbulent journey to Oz.

   • Main

     Melted-witch dessert

     Make a dessert depicting a witch melting into the lab's acid pit, with the melted effect central to the presentation.

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6. Episode 6 · Spirit X-rays and a portal to the underworld

   Otherworldly Treats

   Oct 21, 2024

   Monstrous X-ray images become templates for assembled spirits, then layered entremets open to reveal creatures escaping through an underworld portal.

   • Opening

     Build-a-spirit dessert from an X-ray template

     Use a monstrous spirit X-ray as the template for an assembled dessert that reproduces the figure's defining anatomy.

   • Main

     Portal entremet revealing an otherworldly creature

     Construct a layered entremet as a portal to the underworld and reveal a creature emerging from or hidden within it.

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7. Episode 7 · Dissected hearts and monsters from the ancient past

   The Past Comes Back to Haunt You

   Oct 28, 2024

   The finale begins with edible hearts made for dissection, then a time machine supplies historical monster subjects for the championship cakes.

   • Opening

     Dissection dessert with a gummy heart

     Create an anatomy-themed dessert containing a gummy heart that the judges can cut open and dissect.

   • Final

     Ancient-monster time-travel cake

     Bake a finale cake based on a monster from the ancient past, with inspirations including medieval vampires and early aliens.

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Inspired by the briefs

Bake it at home

These are original Baking Show Guide adaptations for a home kitchen. They are inspired by the challenge briefs, not the contestants' recipes or an official recipe from the show.

Inspired by Episode 4

Miso Caramel Mummy Bars

Chewy brown-sugar bars layered with white-miso caramel and finished with white-chocolate mummy bandages.

Time

1 hr 5 min

Makes

16 bars

Level

Medium

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Ingredients

• 170 g unsalted butter, melted and divided
• 220 g light brown sugar
• 1 large egg plus 1 egg yolk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 210 g all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
• 100 g granulated sugar
• 120 ml heavy cream, warmed
• 2 tablespoons white miso
• 140 g white chocolate, chopped
• 32 small candy eyes

Method

1. Heat the oven to 175 C, or 160 C fan. Line a 20 cm square pan with baking paper, leaving an overhang.
2. Whisk 120 g melted butter with the brown sugar, egg, yolk, and vanilla until glossy.
3. Fold in the flour, baking powder, and salt just until combined. Spread the batter evenly in the pan and bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until the edges are set and the center has no wet batter. Cool completely.
4. For the caramel, heat the granulated sugar in a small heavy saucepan over medium heat until it melts and turns amber. Remove from the heat and carefully whisk in the warm cream; the mixture will bubble strongly.
5. Whisk the remaining 50 g butter into the caramel, followed by the miso. Return to low heat for 1 minute if needed to dissolve any firm caramel, then cool until thick but spreadable.
6. Spread a thin layer of miso caramel over the cooled slab and chill for 20 minutes. Cut into 16 bars.
7. Melt the white chocolate gently. Drizzle it back and forth over each bar to resemble mummy bandages, then attach two candy eyes before the chocolate sets.

This is an original Baking Show Guide home adaptation inspired by the episode brief. It is not a contestant recipe and not an official Food Network recipe.

Caramel and steam can cause severe burns; use a deep saucepan and add the warm cream slowly with your hands clear of the rising steam.

White miso is mild enough to deepen the caramel without making the bars taste overtly savory.

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Episode guide sources

Challenge details verified 2026-07-14. foodnetwork.com.

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Full cast

Everyone recorded for Season 10, listed alphabetically without result spoilers.

Season fact sources

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