Halloween Baking Championship Season 2

Complete season breakdown

Every episode and bake

Season two runs five two-heat episodes built around monsters, candy, circus imagery, remembrance traditions, and edible haunted architecture. The final asks for both a decorated cookie tree and a large gingerbread structure; this guide also offers one original home adaptation of the earlier mummy pastry brief.

1. Episode 1 · Monsters and zombies

   Monsters, Monsters, Monsters

   Oct 3, 2016

   Small monster treats open the season before the bakers scale up to fully edible zombie desserts.

   • Preliminary heat

     Bite-sized monster treats

     Produce 12 small baked treats that each read as a creepy monster.

   • Main heat

     Zombie dessert

     Create an edible zombie-themed dessert featuring raspberry and an added sugar-work element.

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2. Episode 2 · Mummies and hidden candy

   Cravings From the Grave

   Oct 10, 2016

   Ready-made pastry is transformed into quick mummy treats, followed by cakes that hide candy beneath designs based on classic Halloween icons.

   • Preliminary heat

     Mummy pastry dessert

     Use prepared pie dough to make a fast dessert styled as a Halloween mummy.

   • Main heat

     Candy-stuffed Halloween-icon cake

     Bake a cake inspired by an assigned Halloween icon and conceal candy inside so the filling is revealed when the cake is cut.

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3. Episode 3 · Haunted circus

   Haunted Circus

   Oct 17, 2016

   The circus begins with clown cake pops and moves into a freak-show round where mismatched creatures and performance traits must become one dessert.

   • Preliminary heat

     Scary clown cake pops

     Make six cake pops decorated as distinct creepy clowns.

   • Main heat

     Freak-show mashup dessert

     Combine an assigned creature with a separate circus characteristic in one strange but cohesive edible creation.

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4. Episode 4 · Tombs and Day of the Dead

   Spirits Rising

   Oct 24, 2016

   A monster-tomb dessert leads into a colorful confection honoring the visual traditions associated with Dia de los Muertos.

   • Preliminary heat

     Monster tomb dessert

     Make a dessert that resembles a monster's tomb and incorporate funeral flowers into its final design.

   • Main heat

     Dia de los Muertos confection

     Create a dessert inspired by the color and artistry of Dia de los Muertos, with habanero added as the round's flavor twist.

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5. Episode 5 · Haunted cookies and gingerbread

   Ginger Dead House

   Oct 31, 2016

   The finalists decorate cookies for an edible haunted tree, then construct themed gingerbread houses in the season's longest and most structural bake.

   • Preliminary heat

     Haunted cookie tree

     Bake and decorate creepy Halloween cookies sturdy enough to hang from a decorative haunted tree.

   • Main heat

     Ginger dead house

     Construct a spooky gingerbread house based on an assigned structural theme and add a separate ginger-and-chocolate treat.

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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 2

Berry Mummy Hand Pies

Flaky rectangular hand pies with a thick mixed-berry center, narrow pastry bandages, and small candy eyes for a home-scale mummy bake.

Time

52 min

Makes

8 hand pies

Level

Easy

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Ingredients

• 2 sheets ready-rolled shortcrust pastry, about 640 g total
• 180 g mixed berry jam
• 1 tablespoon cornflour
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 large egg, beaten
• 16 small candy eyes
• 1 tablespoon icing sugar

Method

1. Heat the oven to 200 C, or 180 C fan, and line two baking sheets with baking paper.
2. Stir the jam, cornflour, and lemon juice together until no dry lumps remain.
3. Cut 16 rectangles, each about 7 by 11 cm, from the pastry. Set 8 rectangles on the prepared sheets and spoon a narrow strip of jam mixture down each center, leaving a 1 cm border.
4. Brush the borders with beaten egg and cover with the remaining rectangles. Press the edges with a fork and cut two small steam slits in each top.
5. Cut the pastry scraps into thin strips. Brush the tops lightly with egg, lay the strips across at different angles like bandages, and trim them level with the pie edges.
6. Bake for 20 to 22 minutes, until crisp and deeply golden. Cool for 10 minutes, then attach two candy eyes to each pie with a dab of thick icing made from the icing sugar and a few drops of water.

This is an original Baking Show Guide home adaptation, not an official show recipe or a contestant recipe.

Keep the filling away from the border so the layers can seal cleanly.

Add the candy eyes only after baking so they retain their shape.

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Episode guide sources

Challenge details verified 2026-07-14. multivu.com, foodnetwork.com, en.wikipedia.org.

Season result

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Full cast

Everyone recorded for Season 2, listed alphabetically without result spoilers.

Season fact sources

en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.