Halloween Baking Championship Season 6

Complete season breakdown

Every episode and bake

Season six sends the bakers through a haunted house, with one large themed challenge in each of the first six episodes and two cakes in the finale. The eight documented briefs move from haunted houses and candy croquembouche to a vampire buffet, demon dolls, unusual ingredients, costumes, severed limbs, and floating cakes. One original home adaptation turns the season's beet challenge into chocolate cupcakes.

1. Episode 1 · Deepest fears in a haunted house

   Haunted Housewarming

   Sep 14, 2020

   The haunted-house journey begins in the foyer, where each baker translates a personal fear into a cake before a non-baking dagger game determines a competition reward.

   • Challenge

     Haunted house cake based on a personal fear

     Bake and decorate a haunted house cake that reveals the baker's deepest fear and tells that frightening story through the structure and details.

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2. Episode 2 · Halloween candy and edible illusions

   Trick or Treat Terror

   Sep 21, 2020

   The front porch supplies a trick-or-treat setting for tall choux towers flavored with Halloween candy and finished with a visual illusion.

   • Challenge

     Halloween candy croquembouche with an illusion

     Build a croquembouche around a Halloween candy flavor and incorporate an edible illusion into the finished tower.

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3. Episode 3 · A coordinated vampire feast

   Bloody Good Smorgasbord

   Sep 28, 2020

   In the cellar, pairs trade individual showpieces for a shared buffet of dark, bloody, and coffin-themed sweets fit for a vampire gathering.

   • Challenge

     Team vampire dessert buffet

     Work with a partner to produce a coordinated assortment of small desserts for a vampire buffet, balancing a cohesive display with distinct baked elements.

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4. Episode 4 · Demon dolls in the nursery

   Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down

   Oct 5, 2020

   The creepy nursery demands sculptural cake work as the bakers turn assigned flavors into freestanding evil dolls.

   • Challenge

     Three-dimensional demon doll cake

     Create a three-dimensional cake shaped and decorated as a demon doll while building the assigned flavor into the cake.

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5. Episode 5 · Devilish desserts from unlikely ingredients

   The Devil Made Me Do It

   Oct 12, 2020

   The devil's den tests flavor judgment by assigning ingredients more familiar in savory cooking, including sauerkraut, beets, tamarind paste, and canned tomato soup.

   • Challenge

     Devilish dessert with an unusual ingredient

     Make a devil-themed dessert that uses an assigned unusual ingredient such as sauerkraut, beets, tamarind paste, or canned tomato soup as a deliberate part of the flavor.

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6. Episode 6 · Wearable looks translated into cake

   The Costume Ball

   Oct 19, 2020

   A ballroom costume party becomes the semifinal assignment, with the remaining bakers creating cake versions of dramatic Halloween disguises.

   • Challenge

     Costume-inspired cake

     Design a cake that convincingly represents a Halloween costume, using cake structure and edible decoration to capture the outfit's recognizable features.

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7. Episode 7 · Surgical horror and cakes that appear to float

   The Doctor Will See You Now

   Oct 26, 2020

   The finale opens in a mad doctor's surgical room with severed anatomy, then asks the last bakers to engineer elevated cakes for the title.

   • Opening

     Severed limb cake

     Bake and sculpt a realistic severed-limb cake suited to the mad doctor's surgical room.

   • Final

     Floating cake

     Create a final cake with a supported design that makes the decorated cake appear to float above its base.

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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 5

Beet Chocolate Devil Cupcakes

Dark cocoa cupcakes made tender with beet puree, filled with raspberry sauce, and topped with chocolate frosting.

Time

57 min

Makes

12 cupcakes

Level

Medium

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Ingredients

• 180 g cooked beetroot, drained and roughly chopped
• 120 ml neutral oil
• 150 g granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 140 g all-purpose flour
• 45 g unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
• 120 g seedless raspberry jam
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 170 g dark chocolate, chopped
• 150 ml heavy cream
• 30 g unsalted butter
• 12 small red candy decorations, optional

Method

1. Heat the oven to 175 C, or 160 C fan. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper cases.
2. Blend the beetroot and oil until completely smooth. Whisk in the sugar, eggs, and vanilla.
3. In a second bowl, whisk the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Fold the dry ingredients into the beet mixture just until no dry streaks remain.
4. Divide the batter among the cases and bake for 19 to 22 minutes, until the tops spring back and a tester inserted away from the center comes out clean. Cool completely.
5. Warm the raspberry jam with the lemon juice until smooth, then cool. Cut a small core from each cupcake, spoon in about 2 teaspoons of jam, and replace a thin cap of cake.
6. Place the chopped chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl. Heat the cream until steaming, pour it over the chocolate, and leave for 2 minutes before stirring smooth.
7. Cool the ganache until thick enough to spread, then frost the cupcakes and add a red decoration if using.

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.

Use plain cooked beetroot rather than beetroot packed in vinegar.

Blend the beetroot thoroughly so it supplies moisture without leaving pieces in the crumb.

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Episode guide sources

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

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Full cast

Everyone recorded for Season 6, listed alphabetically without result spoilers.

Season fact sources

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