Halloween Baking Championship Season 7

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Every episode and bake

Season seven stages a slasher story at Camp Devil's Food Lake. Across seven episodes and fifteen bakes, the competitors make cereal pies, camp cakes, paired cookies, portrait cakes, body-part cupcakes, Battenbergs, terror-misu, blood-drip cakes, doughnuts, tsunami cakes, patterned rolls, fault-line cakes, and a three-round finale. One original home adaptation draws on the documented terror-misu brief.

1. Episode 1 · Cereal killers and the dangerous camp lake

   Welcome to Camp Devil's Food Lake

   Sep 13, 2021

   The camp opens with pies built around breakfast cereal before oversized cakes depict the monstrous waters of Devil's Food Lake.

   • Opening

     Cereal killer pie

     Create a pie inspired by a breakfast cereal and present it with a sinister cereal-killer design.

   • Main

     Devil's Food Lake mega cake

     Build a large cake that portrays the frightening waters and lurking danger of Camp Devil's Food Lake.

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2. Episode 2 · Creepy home cookies and a blind team portrait

   Back from the Dead

   Sep 20, 2021

   Returning bakers join the campers for a paired cookie assignment, followed by a blind collaboration in which two cake halves reveal opposite sides of the camp mother.

   • Opening

     Paired creepy cookies from home

     Work in pairs to create creepy cookies that draw on the bakers' home styles while reading as a coordinated set.

   • Main

     Blind good-and-evil mother portrait cake

     In teams, make separate cake halves without seeing the partner's work, then join them into one portrait showing the good and evil sides of the mother character.

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3. Episode 3 · Creepy anatomy and bat-patterned British cake

   Bat in Black

   Sep 27, 2021

   Pull-apart cupcakes form gruesome body parts before the bakers give the precise checkerboard of a Battenberg cake a bat-inspired makeover.

   • Opening

     Body-part pull-apart cupcakes

     Arrange and decorate cupcakes as a recognizable creepy body part, with the individual cakes forming one pull-apart design.

   • Main

     Bat-themed Battenberg cake

     Bake a Battenberg cake with a clean internal pattern and decorate the British classic around a bat theme.

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4. Episode 4 · Terror-misu and bloody drip cakes

   Don't B-Negative

   Oct 4, 2021

   A classic Italian dessert becomes terror-misu, then the blood theme carries into a contemporary drip-cake assignment.

   • Opening

     Terror-misu

     Reimagine tiramisu as a frightening plated or layered terror-misu while retaining the identity of the classic dessert.

   • Main

     Blood-drip cake

     Create a polished drip cake whose glaze and decoration make the finished cake look chillingly blood-soaked.

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5. Episode 5 · Prom-night doughnuts and tsunami cakes

   Dance Your Life Away

   Oct 11, 2021

   The camp prom starts with spooky doughnuts, then unstable-looking tsunami cakes release a dramatic flood of icing around gruesome designs.

   • Opening

     Killer prom doughnuts

     Make decorated doughnuts suited to a deadly camp prom, combining a clear horror concept with a finished fried or baked doughnut.

   • Main

     Terrifying tsunami cake

     Construct a tsunami cake whose removable collar releases a flowing glaze and reveals a frightening central design.

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6. Episode 6 · Patterns hidden inside and faults exposed outside

   Peek-a-BOO

   Oct 18, 2021

   The semifinalists first reveal Halloween imagery in sliced roll cakes, then expose a decorated inner band through the split surface of fault-line cakes.

   • Opening

     Patterned peek-a-boo roll cake

     Bake a rolled cake with a deliberate Halloween pattern that remains clear on the finished sponge.

   • Main

     Frightening fault-line cake

     Make a fault-line cake with a visible decorated band breaking through the outer finish and use the effect for a frightening design.

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7. Episode 7 · Feared ingredients, sudden death, and the killer's mind

   Finale: The Killer Is ...

   Oct 25, 2021

   Four finalists confront ingredients they dislike, the bottom pair face a cream-puff sudden death, and the final three build tall cakes depicting the serial killer's mind.

   • Opening

     Fear dessert using a hated ingredient

     Turn a personally hated ingredient into a composed dessert that makes the difficult flavor feel intentional.

   • Sudden death

     Gooey-filled cream puff

     The bottom two bakers create cream puffs with a gooey filling, and only the stronger bake advances to the title round.

   • Final

     Tall cake depicting the mind of the killer

     Build a tall tiered or carved finale cake that visualizes what is inside the camp killer's mind.

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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

Blood Orange Terror-misu Cups

Individual espresso-soaked ladyfinger desserts layered with orange mascarpone cream and a sharp blood orange sauce.

Time

43 min

Makes

6 cups

Level

Easy

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Ingredients

• 240 ml strong brewed espresso, cooled
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 18 crisp ladyfingers
• 250 g mascarpone, cold
• 240 ml heavy cream, cold
• 55 g confectioners' sugar
• Finely grated zest of 1 orange
• 180 ml blood orange juice
• 35 g granulated sugar, for the sauce
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch
• 1 tablespoon cold water
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• Unsweetened cocoa powder, for finishing

Method

1. Stir the espresso with 2 tablespoons sugar and the vanilla until the sugar dissolves, then leave it to cool completely.
2. Combine the blood orange juice and 35 g sugar in a small saucepan. Bring to a simmer and cook for 3 minutes.
3. Stir the cornstarch and cold water together, whisk the slurry into the juice, and simmer for 1 minute until glossy. Stir in the lemon juice and cool completely.
4. Beat the mascarpone, cream, confectioners' sugar, and orange zest on low speed until combined, then on medium speed until the mixture holds soft peaks. Do not overbeat.
5. Break the ladyfingers to fit six 240 ml serving glasses. Dip each piece quickly in the espresso and place a layer in each glass.
6. Add a layer of mascarpone cream and a spoonful of blood orange sauce. Repeat the ladyfinger, cream, and sauce layers, leaving streaks of red sauce visible at the sides.
7. Cover and chill for at least 4 hours. Dust lightly with cocoa just before serving.

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.

This egg-free mascarpone filling avoids the raw eggs used in some traditional tiramisu recipes.

Dip the ladyfingers briefly so the layers soften without becoming watery.

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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 7, listed alphabetically without result spoilers.

Season fact sources

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