Halloween Baking Championship Season 3

Complete season breakdown

Every episode and bake

Season three spans six episodes and consistently pairs a compact themed bake with a larger transformation challenge. Candy-filled cookies, witch pastries, edible brains, cream puffs, candy-bar flavors, and a glowing finale all appear; one original slime-filled cupcake adaptation brings the opening brief into a home kitchen.

1. Episode 1 · Hidden candy and slime

   Filled With Surprises

   Sep 25, 2017

   The season starts with two reveal bakes: candy must be sealed inside decorated cookies, and a gooey filling must escape from the main dessert when it is cut.

   • Preliminary heat

     Halloween candy-filled cookies

     Bake 12 decorated cookies around hidden candy and incorporate an assigned spooky theme into the design.

   • Main heat

     Slime-filled dessert

     Make any dessert with a gooey slime center that leaks out when cut, then add a small edible creature that appears to live in the slime.

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2. Episode 2 · Witches

   Bewitching Treats

   Oct 2, 2017

   Witch imagery shapes both rounds, from baked fingers and toes with a dip to larger character desserts completed by edible brooms.

   • Preliminary heat

     Witch fingers and toes

     Bake 10 witch-inspired fingers and toes and serve them with a complementary dipping sauce.

   • Main heat

     Witch dessert with edible broom

     Create a dessert that looks like a witch and include a separate edible broom in the presentation.

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3. Episode 3 · Brains and phobias

   It's All in Your Head

   Oct 9, 2017

   Teamwork is required to assemble matching halves of an edible brain before each baker interprets a common fear as an individual dessert.

   • Preliminary heat

     Two-part edible brain

     Working in pairs, make two separate edible brain halves that align as one seamless brain when brought together.

   • Main heat

     Phobia-inspired dessert

     Create a dessert based on an assigned common fear, such as rats, spiders, clowns, snakes, ghosts, or insects, and work cooked spaghetti into the design as Halloween worms.

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4. Episode 4 · Scream puffs and masks

   Sweet Screams

   Oct 16, 2017

   Classic cream puffs become character-driven scream puffs, then frightening masks provide the visual direction for the main desserts.

   • Preliminary heat

     Halloween scream puff

     Turn cream-puff pastry into a creepy character dessert based on an assigned Halloween subject.

   • Main heat

     Scary mask dessert

     Make a dessert modeled on an assigned frightening mask and incorporate one unpopular Halloween treat into the bake.

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5. Episode 5 · Candy bars and chocolate

   The Candyman Cometh

   Oct 23, 2017

   Recognizable candy-bar flavor profiles lead into death-by-chocolate desserts that must make unusual savory or spicy pairings work.

   • Preliminary heat

     Candy-bar-inspired dessert

     Create a dessert that captures the defining flavor and texture profile of an assigned chocolate candy bar.

   • Main heat

     Odd-pairing death-by-chocolate dessert

     Pair chocolate with an unusual assigned ingredient, such as cheese, jalapeno, beer, or fresh turmeric, and finish the dessert with an edible tombstone.

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6. Episode 6 · Glowing Halloween finale

   Extreme Halloween

   Oct 30, 2017

   The final begins with a full dessert-bar assortment and glowing centerpiece, then culminates in sculpted jack-o'-lantern cakes that light up.

   • Preliminary heat

     Halloween dessert bar with glowing centerpiece

     Produce three different creepy Halloween treats and arrange them around an edible centerpiece with a glowing effect.

   • Main heat

     Light-up jack-o'-lantern cake

     Create a championship-scale jack-o'-lantern cake with a working light-up presentation.

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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 1

Slime-Center Chocolate Cupcakes

Dark cocoa cupcakes filled with loose lime curd and capped with vanilla frosting so a bright green center spills out when the cake is cut.

Time

55 min

Makes

12 cupcakes

Level

Moderate

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Ingredients

• 150 g plain flour
• 45 g unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1/4 teaspoon fine salt
• 150 g caster sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 120 ml neutral oil
• 120 ml buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 120 g lime curd
• 1 to 2 drops green gel food coloring
• 100 g unsalted butter, softened
• 200 g icing sugar
• 1 tablespoon whole milk
• 12 small gummy worms

Method

1. Heat the oven to 180 C, or 160 C fan, and line a 12-hole muffin pan with paper cases.
2. Whisk the flour, cocoa, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt, and caster sugar in a large bowl.
3. In a second bowl, whisk the eggs, oil, buttermilk, and vanilla. Pour the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and stir just until smooth.
4. Divide the batter among the cases and bake for 18 to 20 minutes, until the tops spring back. Cool completely on a rack.
5. Stir enough green coloring into the lime curd to make it vivid. Cut a 2 cm-wide core from each cupcake, stopping before the base, and spoon in the curd. Trim the removed cake plugs and replace them over the filling.
6. Beat the butter until creamy, then gradually beat in the icing sugar and milk until fluffy. Pipe or spoon a ring of frosting around each filled center and add a gummy worm so it appears to emerge from the cake.

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

Do not overfill the cores; the curd should flow when cut without leaking through the paper cases.

Fill the cupcakes on the day they will be served for the cleanest crumb.

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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 3, listed alphabetically without result spoilers.

Season fact sources

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