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Winner: Jason Hisley (His advantage going into the "Main Heat" was being able to switch his card with another contestant, or switch two contestant's cards. He chose to switch his cowboy card with Audrey's pirate card.)

Main Heat: The contestants had to blindly pick a card that depicted a classic Halloween costume. They were tasked to create a dessert in 90 minutes that represented that costume.

Winner: Audrey Alfaro

Eliminated: Jennifer Petty

• Sherry Yard (Good Witch)
• Ron Ben-Israel (Pirate)
• Carla Hall (Bad Witch)

Winner: Erin Cooper (Her advantage was getting ten minutes of sous chef help from judge Sherry Yard.)

Main Heat: The contestants each picked two hollow apples from a prop tree; a red apple had a specific flavor and a green apple had a spooky theme. They were tasked to combine flavor and theme into a cohesive dessert, in 90 minutes.

Winner: Jason Hisley

Eliminated: Erin Cooper

• Sherry Yard (Empress Josephine)
• Ron Ben-Israel (1940s gangster)
• Carla Hall (1920s flapper)

Winner: Rudy Martinez (His advantage is revealed partway into the second round; picking and assigning extra ingredients to himself and his competitors.)

Main Heat: The contestants must create a graveyard themed pumpkin dessert. Halfway into the competition, Rudy's advantage is brought up. He gets first pick of a basket of mandatory extra ingredients. He takes candied ginger for himself then assigns dried cherries to Scott, cream cheese to Jason, walnuts to Ashlee, and raisins to Audrey.

Winner: Rudy Martinez

Eliminated: Audrey Alfaro

• Sherry Yard (Cleopatra)
• Ron Ben-Israel (Maharaja)
• Carla Hall (flamenco dancer)

Winner: Jason Hisley (There is no advantage given in this episode)

Main Heat: The final three contestants have 5 hours to create a haunted house cake.

Winner of $25,000: Rudy Martinez

Eliminated: Scott Breazeale and Jason Hisley

• Sherry Yard (Marie Antoinette)
• Ron Ben-Israel (Carnival dancer)
• Carla Hall (mermaid)

Special Guest: Duff Goldman (werewolf)

Winner: Michelle Antonishek (Her advantage was exclusive use of creepy molds and tools for the second round challenge)

Main Heat: The contestants had to make an edible zombie treat in 2 hours. They had to incorporate raspberries into their dessert. Mid-round twist is to incorporate sugar work.

Winner: Amy Strickland

Eliminated: Brad Rudd

• Carla Hall (Uncle Sam)
• Damiano Carrara (firefighter)
• Sandra Lee (monarch butterfly)

Winner: John Schopp (His advantage was being able to switch his tombstone with another contestant or switch two contestant's tombstones. He chose to switch Amy's "witch hat" with Michelle's "cauldron".)

Main Heat: The contestants each picked a little tombstone that had a theme written on the back. They had 2 hours to make a candy stuffed cake inspired by their respective Halloween themes. John got 'eyeball', Damien got 'crystal ball', Amy got 'witch hat', Michelle got 'cauldron', Tamara got 'skull', and Veronica got 'pumpkin'. After the switch, Amy got 'cauldron' and Michelle got 'witch hat'. Mid-round twist is to add lime curd representing slime.

Winner: Tamara Brown

Eliminated: Damien Bagley

• Carla Hall (zombie bride)
• Damiano Carrara (1950s greaser)
• Sandra Lee (Victorian vampire)

Winner: Michelle Antonishek (Her advantage is first choice of two characteristics/themes in the second round.)

Main Heat: The contestants each picked one stuffed spider and one stuffed alligator; all wearing tags with different characteristics and different creatures. They had 2 hours to combine both tag descriptions into an edible freak show creature. Michelle picked "fire-breathing" as her characteristic and "snake" as her creature. Tamara paired up "two-headed" "turtle". John paired up "sword-swallowing" "mermaid". And Veronica paired up "werewolf" "strongman". Mid-round twist is to add roasted peanuts.

Winner: Tamara Brown

Eliminated: No eliminations this episode because Amy Strickland left the competition.

• Carla Hall (Little Bo Peep)
• Damiano Carrara (gondolier)
• Sandra Lee ("winter")

Winner: Michelle Antonishek (Her advantage is access to Mexican ingredients for the main challenge)

Main Heat: The contestants have 90 minutes to make a confection honoring "Dia de los Muertos" (Day of the Dead). Mid-round twist is to incorporate habanero peppers into their desserts.

Winner: Michelle Antonishek

Eliminated: John Schopp

• Carla Hall (warrior princess)
• Damiano Carrara (glam metal rocker)
• Sandra Lee (snow queen)

Winner: Tamara Brown (Her advantage is able to pick and assign themes in the second round)

Main Heat: The final three contestants have six hours to create a haunted gingerbread house specific to a structural theme. For winning the pre-heat, Tamara picked "Gothic Castle" and assigned "Cabin in the Woods" to Veronica and "Asylum" to Michelle. Mid-round twist is to add a ginger and chocolate treat to complement their house.

Winner of $25,000: Michelle Antonishek

Eliminated: Tamara Brown and Veronica von Borstel

• Carla Hall (Bollywood star)
• Damiano Carrara (gladiator)
• Sandra Lee (Cher)

Special Guest: Duff Goldman (tree creature)

Winner: Ray Vizcaino (His advantage was first pick of pre-determined flavors of "slime" for the next round. He chose raspberry.)

Main Heat: The contestants had to make a dessert filled with gooey "slime" in 2 hours. Mid-round twist is to create a little edible slime creature that lives in the dessert.

Winner: Jasmin Bell

Eliminated: Andrea Kratville

• Carla Hall (ghost bride)
• Zac Young (knight)
• Lorraine Pascale (witch)

Winner: Jessica Scott (Her advantage was exclusive use of special witch stencils and pre-made fondant for the next round.)

Main Heat: The contestants had to make witchy desserts in 90 minutes. Mid-round twist is to make an edible broom to accompany the witch confection.

Winner: Tyler Davis

Eliminated: Cliff Butler

• Carla Hall (Southern belle)
• Zac Young (vampire)
• Lorraine Pascale (Southern belle)

Winners: Jasmin Bell & Ray Vizcaino (Their advantage is not having to do the mid-round twist in the second round.)

Main Heat: : In total darkness, the contestants must get to the table and grab a container with a common phobia inside. They have 90 minutes to make a dessert inspired by the fear they chose (Jessica got "rats", Tyler got "spiders", Jasmin got "clowns", Jonathan got "snakes", Dina got "ghosts", and Ray got "insects"). Mid-round twist is to add "Halloween worms" (cooked spaghetti) to their dessert.

Winner: Jonathan Elias

Eliminated: Dina Melendez

• Carla Hall (clown)
• Zac Young (matador)
• Lorraine Pascale (ringmaster)

Winner: Jasmin Bell (Her advantage is a 10-minute head start.)

Main Heat: The contestants have 80 minutes to make a dessert based on a scary mask on a display. (Jasmin grabbed a werewolf mask, Jonathan got a devil mask, Jessica got a raven mask, Ray got a snake mask, and Tyler got a Day of the Dead mask). Mid-round twist is to pick a wrapped up, unpopular Halloween treat (apples, popcorn balls, or raisins) and incorporate one into their dessert.

Winner: Jessica Scott

Eliminated: Tyler Davis

• Carla Hall (Day of the Dead lady)
• Zac Young (Grim Reaper)
• Lorraine Pascale (mummy)

Winners: Jasmin Bell (Her advantage was going last in choosing odd chocolate pairings during the second round, and possibly stealing an ingredient duo from a fellow baker.)

Main Heat: The contestants had to incorporate odd chocolate pairings into "death by chocolate" desserts in 90 minutes. The chocolate pairings were revealed by choosing between four portraits. Since Jasmin won the pre-heat, she got to see the ingredients her three competitors unveiled and could take one of their choices or risk what was behind the label of the final portrait. She opted not to take anyone's chocolate combination. (Jessica got chocolate and Gouda cheese, Ray got chocolate and jalapeño, Jonathan got chocolate and beer, and Jasmin got chocolate and fresh turmeric). Mid-round twist is to make an edible tombstone.

Winner: Jasmin Bell

Eliminated: Ray Vizcaino

• Carla Hall (Medusa)
• Zac Young (Napoleon)
• Lorraine Pascale (London Mod girl)

Winner: Jasmin Bell (Her advantage is exclusive use of a cake flavor in the final round.)

Main Heat: The final three contestants have 5 hours to create light-up jack o' lantern cakes. For winning the pre-heat, Jasmin got to choose the cake flavor she'll use for her light up cake, and the other contestants weren't allowed to use that flavor; she chose chocolate.

Winner of $25,000: Jasmin Bell

Eliminated: Jessica Scott and Jonathan Elias

• Carla Hall (Nefertiti)
• Zac Young (king)
• Lorraine Pascale (golden goddess)

Winner: Steven Vargas Jr. (His advantage was pre-tempered chocolate going into the main heat.)

Main Heat: The bakers had 2 hours to create a dessert with a shell over it, so when it melts it reveals something creepy inside. The "something creepy" was determined by choosing blocks of ice that had something hidden inside. Lyndsy got 'bug eggs'. Brenda got 'tombstone'. Andrew got 'worms'. Cicely got 'brains'. Brian got 'skull'. Jamal got 'fingers'. Michelle got 'heart'. Steven got 'eyeball'. Mid-round twist is to add cayenne pepper to their dessert.

Winner: Lyndsy McDonald

Eliminated: Brian Fishman

• Carla Hall (neon hippie)
• Zac Young (garden gnome)
• Lorraine Pascale (zombie priestess)

Winner: Jamal Lake (His advantage was first choice of cake flavor in the second round.)

Main Heat: The bakers must create a pumpkin patch out of mini bundt cakes, in 90 minutes. Jamal's advantage was getting to choose a cake flavor that no other baker could use and he chose vanilla. Brenda's flavor was pumpkin. Lyndsy's flavor was spice cake. Steven's flavor was maple. Cicely's flavor was chocolate. Michelle's flavor was apple. And Andrew's flavor was ginger. Mid-round twist is to add an edible scarecrow.

Winner: Lyndsy McDonald

Eliminated: Andrew Fuller

• Carla Hall (Robyn Hood)
• Zac Young (Mozart's ghost)
• Lorraine Pascale (woodland fairy)

Winner: Jamal Lake (His advantage was first choice of dessert and theme in the next round.)

Main Heat: The bakers had 90 minutes to combine a type of dessert and a theme into a large, "monster-sized" confection. Jamal chose first: 'whoopie pie' and 'grave digger'. Brenda got 'cupcake' and 'demon'. Cecily got 'roll cake' and 'alien'. Michelle got 'cream puff' and 'freakshow'. Steven got 'pie' and 'jack-o-lantern'. Lyndsy got 'doughnut' and 'mad scientist'. Mid-round twist is to add sesame seeds into their desserts.

Winner: Jamal Lake

Eliminated: Cicely Austin

• Carla Hall (vintage ghost)
• Zac Young (life guard)
• Lorraine Pascale (Viking warrior)

Winner: Jamal Lake (His advantage was 10 minutes of help from Zac Young.)

Main Heat: The bakers had 2 hours to make a wedding cake for different monster pairings. Michelle got the 'skeleton & robot' couple. Lyndsy got the 'witch & goblin'. Jamal got the 'zombie & ghost'. Brenda got the 'vampire & troll'. Steven got the 'werewolf & mummy'. Mid-round twist is to add a special, flowery gift bag ingredient. Michelle had to add rosemary. Lyndsy had to add orange blossom water. Steven had to add elderflower. Jamal had to add lavender. Brenda had to add rose water.

Winner: Steven Vargas Jr

Eliminated: Brenda Villacorta

• Carla Hall (spirit animal)
• Zac Young (cupcake)
• Lorraine Pascale (ghost queen)

Winner: Michelle Honeman (Her advantage was assigning specially themed clowns to everyone in the second round.)

Main Heat: The bakers have 2 hours to bake a creepy clown dessert. Michelle chose "Fiery Freddy" (the torch juggler). She gave "Clumsy Carl" (who slips on banana peels) to Lyndsy. "Helium Hank" (the balloon animal maker) to Steven. And "One Wheeled Willie" (the unicycle rider) to Jamal. Mid-round twist is to deep fry one of four food items and add it to their dessert. Lyndsy had to fry peanut nougat bars. Michelle had to fry cheese curds. Jamal had to fry sandwich cookies. and Steven had to fry bacon.

Winner: Lyndsy McDonald

Eliminated: Steven Vargas Jr.

• Carla Hall (gumball machine)
• Zac Young (ice skater)
• Lorraine Pascale (Queen of Hearts)

Winner: Michelle Honeman (Her advantage was assigning the nightmare themes in the final round.)

Main Heat: The final three contestants had 5 hours to make cakes inspired by common nightmare scenarios. Michelle chose "being visited by the dead". She assigned "falling" to Lyndsy, and "getting chased" to Jamal. They also had to include a smoke element via dry ice.

Winner of $25,000: Lyndsy McDonald

Eliminated: Jamal Lake and Michelle Honeman

• Carla Hall (80s pop star)
• Zac Young (unicorn)
• Lorraine Pascale (dreamy genie)

Preliminary Heat: The contestants were asked to make skeleton-inspired sweets that illustrated a story about their skeleton's "dark secret".

Winner: Karl won; his advantage in the Main Heat was first choice of monster type.

Main Heat: The contestants had 2 hours to create a dessert shaped like the monster under the bed. Twist: They had to make pillowy marshmallow cream from scratch and incorporate it into the dessert.

Winner: Jessica

Preliminary Heat: Contestants created desserts based on a randomly selected bottle of spirits (such as orange liqueur) and the spirit guide on its label (such as an angel or mythical creature).

Winner: Julie won; her advantage was first choice of "dead" dessert in the Main Heat.

Main Heat: The contestants each picked a "dead" old dessert. Their challenge was to revive and modernize their dessert and decorate it in a Day of the Dead style, in 2 hours. Twist: Contestants had to create 3D edible flowers and incorporate them into their dessert.

Winner: Pete

Preliminary Heat: In a promotion for the animated film The Addams Family, the bakers were paired in teams to create one cohesive dessert featuring jackfruit that was scary on the outside but sweet on the inside, like the members of the Addams family themselves. The partners were: Julie & Jocelyn, Jessica & Pete and Sheldon & Karl.

Winner: Karl & Sheldon won the advantage to choose characters last in the Main Heat. They had the option to trade characters with those who did not win.

Main Heat: Each contestant chose a door, revealing an Addams Family character. The selected characters were: Julie: Pugsly, Jocelyn: Grandma, Jessica: Gomez, Pete: Morticia, Karl: Uncle Fester, Sheldon: Wednesday. The bakers were asked to create a "dead velvet" cake that looked like their character, with a coloring randomly picked from options in an urn. Twist: The bakers had to incorporate either a snake, eyeball, or spider snack into the dessert.

Winner: Julie

Preliminary Heat: Contestants had 90 minutes to create a mummy-themed creepy crepe cake, and incorporate a preservative ingredient.

Winner: Pete won. He had first choice of ingredient in the Main Heat and picked cream cheese.

Main Heat: The contestants were asked to make their very best pumpkin pie and decorate it with a face that had a scary half and a sweet half. Additionally they were given a classic fall ingredient such as raisins, dulce de leche, cream cheese, cranberries, or pomegranates. Baking time was 2 hours. Twist: The bakers had to include pumpkin seeds, received raw.

Winner: Karl

Preliminary Heat: Each contestant dug up a grave to get an underground ingredient: sweet potato, carrot, beets, or fennel. They had 90 minutes to make graverobbing-themed desserts.

Winner: Julie won; she got first choice of flavor in the Main Heat. She picked maple.

Main Heat: The bakers had 2 hours to make a tomb-shaped marble cake that was marbled inside and out and included a required flavor: maple, ginger, cinnamon, or cardamom. Twist: The bakers chose obituary cards and had to customize their cake to the person described. Peter: Plumber, Karl: Archeologist, Jessica: Mortician, Julie: Chemist who blew himself up in a lab.

Winner: Pete

Preliminary Heat: The bakers had 3 hours to make a "ghostembouche", a ghostly croquembouche.

Winner: Peter won. In the Main Heat, he could choose his "bleeding" body part, as well as choose for the other two contestants.

Main Heat: The final three contestants had 5 hours to create a zombie cake. The cake was required to have a bleeding effect that happened during judging: a bleeding heart, a hemorrhaging brain, or eyes that seep blood. Pete picked the brain and gave Karl the heart and Jessica the eyes.

Winner of $25,000: Karl

Main Heat: In the grand foyer of the haunted house, host Carla Hall asked the 10 competitors to bake haunted house cakes that revealed their deepest fears.

Treat: The competitors had to incorporate balsamic vinegar to their cakes.

Trick: The competitors had to add a working door to their haunted house.

Mini-game: There were 10 fake daggers hidden throughout the kitchen. Whoever found the most daggers by the end of the bake won a special prize. Brian won the reward: a Time Dagger which gives 5 extra minutes for any bake.

Main Heat Winner: Renee

Main Heat: On the haunted house's front porch, the 9 competitors were asked to make Halloween candy croquembouche illusions. The task was to create the illusion of Halloween candies spilling onto a croquembouche tower. Additionally, they were each given a bag with the candy they needed to use and their theme.

Treat: The contestants had to use canned pumpkin somewhere in the croquembouche.

Trick: Add a 3D edible fence or railing to surround the croquembouche.

Winner: Aaron

Main Heat: In the spooky cellar, bakers were assigned in teams of two. Each team member was responsible for creating three different vampire-themed baked goods to form a cohesive vampire buffet in three hours. Team W: Renee and Aaron, Team X: Tamara and Michael, Team Y: Holly and Brian, Team Z: Michelle and Sinai

Treat: Each baker had to incorporate (naturally sweet) black garlic in one of their desserts.

Trick: Each team had to bake an edible coffin in which to display some of their desserts.

Winner: Sinai and Michelle

Main Heat: In the creepy nursery, bakers were challenged to make a 3D demon doll cake in three hours.

Treat: Contestants had to run and grab a jar of baby food from Carla, that then had to be incorporated into the cake so the judges could actually taste it.

Trick: Contestants had to make an accessory: baby shoes, blanket, bib, brush, bow, bowtie, or silver spoon.

Winner: Renee

Main Heat: In the Devil's Den, contestants had to make desserts decorated like the devil himself. Each baker had to use one of the devil's favorite ingredients: sauerkraut, beets, tamarind, spinach, Parmesan cheese, or canned tomato soup.

Treat: The bakers had to incorporate Fresno chiles somewhere in the dessert.

Trick: The bakers had to include a fire element in the dessert.

Winner: Aaron

Main Heat: In the haunted ballroom, the competitors were asked to bake a costume cake based on an outfit which they assembled from a variety of costume pieces.

Treat: The bakers had to incorporate rum into their cake.

Trick: The bakers had to add an edible jewelry decoration.

Winner: Renee

Pre-Heat: In the mad doctor's surgery room, the four remaining bakers were asked to create a realistic severed limb cake. Aaron and Renee had the best cakes, leaving Sinai and Michelle to compete in a Sudden Death elimination challenge.

Sudden Death Challenge: Sinai (with Renee as sous chef) and Michelle (with Aaron as sous chef) had make a goblin-themed dessert. Sinai was not allowed to use wheat flour, while Michelle was not allowed to use eggs. Sinai won the challenge, and Michelle was eliminated.

Main Heat: In the séance room, the bakers were asked to make floating cakes, each themed around a different ghost who had met a grisly demise.

Treat: The bakers had to crack open and use whole coconuts.

Trick: The bakers had to add an edible In Memoriam card to their cake.

The Thriller: John asked the bakers to make a "cereal killer" pie featuring the camp's serial killer. Each baker chose a breakfast cereal as a required ingredient.

Winner: Nicole won, earning the advantage to swap her required ingredient with another competitor's in the next challenge.

Eliminated: Paul

The Killer: The bakers had to make large cakes at least 10 inches (25 cm) tall depicting "what lies beneath the lake." They were also randomly assigned a blood-red ingredient.

Winner: Adina

John resurrected two past contestants to enter the competition: Jocelyn Jung from season five and Renee Loranger from season six.

The Thriller: In teams of two, the bakers made cookies with a surprise filling, themed around a care package from a monstrous "mommy".

Winners: Jocelyn and Renee. They gained the advantage to re-assign their opponents' teams in the next challenge.

The Killer: The bakers made a cake portrait of the killer's mother, including meringue and a featured spice. The teams of two separately made halves of the portrait, depicting a light and dark side.

Winners: Megan and Sherelle

Sudden Death: The bottom two teams (Anirudh, Ashley, Adina, and Nicole) had to make "severed hand" hand pies with preserved meat as the featured ingredient. Judged individually, the two lowest ranked bakers were eliminated.

The Thriller: The bakers made pull-apart cupcakes themed around dismembered body parts.

Winner: Megan won; her advantage was to delay her opponents by forcing them to "trick-or-treat" with John.

The Killer: The bakers made bat-themed Battenberg cakes with randomly assigned black-colored ingredients.

Winner: Megan and Adina (tie)

The Thriller: The bakers were asked to make "terror-misu", non-traditional tiramisu with ladyfingers that looked like fingers.

Winner: Renee won; her advantage was to pick the candy of her choice in the next challenge.

The Killer: The bakers made blood drip cakes with a flavor profile inspired by blindly picked Halloween candy.

Winner: Guillermo

The Thriller: To celebrate prom night at camp, bakers were asked to create a dozen deadly doughnuts with an added baked element.

Winner: Guillermo won; his advantage was a second chance to choose a flavor profile in the next challenge.

The Killer: Reenacting the blood-soaked prom scene in Carrie, John asked the bakers to make a tsunami cake: a cake with a reservoir of liquid frosting that would cascade when released. It also had to contain flavors from a blindly picked dessert.

Winner: Ashley

The Thriller: The bakers were tasked to make patterned roll cakes that included chocolate.

Winner: Adina won. Her advantage was the first pick of liquor in the next challenge.

The Killer: The bakers made fault line cakes that illustrated the evil inside the camp killer. They were also required to incorporate a flavored liquor.

Winner: Guillermo

The Thriller: The bakers had 90 minutes to create a dessert inspired by campfire smores. They had to use an ingredient they most feared baking with: Renee had sauerkraut, Megan had black garlic, Adina had rosemary, and Guillermo had gelatin desserts.

Winner: Adina won; her advantage in the Killer challenge was exclusive use of a filling: mousse, curd, or jelly.

Sudden Death: As the lowest ranked in the Thriller challenge, Megan and Guillermo entered an elimination bake-off. They had to make pumpkin desserts with a fresh, modern flavor but the appearance of a rotten pumpkin.

Eliminated: Megan

The Killer: In the final challenge, bakers had five hours to make a tiered or carved cake at least 24 inches (61 cm) high depicting the mind of the killer. It had to be topped with a gooey brain tasting element.

The Thriller: John introduced his hotel's bellhop service, giving competitors suitcases containing body parts. The bakers were asked to make a pie topped with a human face to match the body part they found.

Winner: Maricsa won the advantage of first and exclusive choice of bloodstain pattern in the next challenge.

The Killer: Inspired by the hotel's former maid and her encounter with a bloody bathroom, the bakers had to make a sponge cake with at least four layers and decorated with an assigned bloodstain pattern.

Winner: Lauren

The Thriller: In a promotion for the film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, John asked the bakers to make a "croquem-boot," a croquembouche shaped like a boot. Each baker was assigned a type of flavored cream to use in their filling.

Winner: Blayre won and got first pick of chocolate in the Killer challenge. Marcus was the lowest ranked and was sent to a sudden death bake-off.

The Killer: Inspired by the hotel's former pastry chef, John asked the bakers to make a "Death by Chocolate" sachertorte themed around a cause of death. Each baker had to use a particular variety of chocolate.

Winner: Lauren won the challenge. Jill was the lowest ranked and was sent to a sudden death bake-off.

Sudden Death Challenge: Marcus and Jill were asked to make cupcakes themed around the judges' costumes and their "last wish" desserts that they would want with a last meal. Marcus chose Stephanie (mint chocolate chip sundae and Pizza Rat costume); Jill chose Carla (lemon meringue pie and fortune teller costume).

The Thriller: In a challenge themed around the hotel's former gardeners and their creepy hedge maze, the bakers were randomly paired in teams and given four hours to create a 3D hedge maze cake. In a twist, the bakers had to add fresh herbs into the cake.

Winner: Jill and Kristi won the Thriller challenge and were safe from elimination.

The Killer: The bakers were asked to create a dessert representing a prize in the center of the maze. This was an individual challenge which occurred concurrently with the team challenge.

The Thriller: Inspired by the hotel's room service, John asked the bakers to make a dessert that resembled rotten food. The bakers had to feature a fermented ingredient: yogurt, kefir, pickled strawberries, balsamic vinegar, miso, soy sauce, kombucha, or sauerkraut.

Winner: Maricsa won and gained ten extra minutes in the Killer challenge.

The Killer: Inspired by the hotel's former caretaker (who liked to smash holes in doors), the bakers were asked to make smashable desserts with an outer shell and a surprise inside.

Winner: Alexey

The Thriller: Inspired by a suspicious fire in the hotel, the competitors were asked to make a flaming dish using the flavors of classic flambé desserts.

Winner: Zac won the challenge. His advantage was first pick of the twist ingredient in the next challenge.

The Killer: Inspired by a mad doctor who once resided in the hotel, the bakers were tasked with baking a cake that looked like an open wound. In a twist, the bakers had to add cured meat to their dessert.

Winner: Blayre

The Thriller: Inspired by portraits with moving eyes, the bakers were asked to make eyeball upside-down cakes. Pineapple was not allowed.

Winner: Alexey won, gaining the advantage to choose the teams in the next challenge.

The Killer: The bakers had to make cakes themed around the ghostly twin girls who haunt Room 222. Paired in teams of two, each baker's cake had to be visually identical to their teammate's, but with different flavors. In a twist, teams had to incorporate classic flavor combo ingredients.

Winner: Blayre and Kristi

The Thriller: Inspired by the hotel's former barkeeper, the bakers had to make a boozy eclair with the flavors of a "scary" cocktail: dark and stormy, skeleton key, last word, widow's kiss, or zombie.

Winner: Lauren won, earning first choice of the twist ingredients in the next challenge.

The Killer: The bakers were tasked with making a trio of mirror glazed entremets, a layered dessert of jellies, mousse, and cake. The entremets had to depict the baker's worst nightmare. In a twist, bakers had to incorporate old Halloween candies into their dessert.

Winner: Jill

The Thriller: Inspired by a deadly wedding, the bakers were asked to create two grazing board items, one sweet and the other savory. The items had to be themed around the head and heart, and each competitor was given a type of cheese as a featured ingredient. Although this was initially presented as an elimination challenge, the judges decided not to send anyone home because all the competitors performed well. No advantage was awarded.

The Killer: In the final challenge, the bakers were given five hours to make a black wedding cake for a dead bride and groom. They were randomly assigned a theme: gothic, antique, masquerade ball, or roaring twenties.

Preliminary Heat: John had the Halloween bakers make "tarot-misu", a tiramisu with a story inspired by a randomly assigned tarot card theme and an Italian flavor.

Winner: Ryan McCord (His advantage in the next challenge was to pick a carnival snack that no one else could use.)

Main Heat: The contestants were tasked to make evil clown cakes. The twist was to incorporate circus snack food into their cakes.

Winner: Ryan McCord

Preliminary Heat: Inspired by the tale of John's cousin Jesse who got slashed while working at the donut stand, the bakers had to make bloody donuts.

Winner: James Cox (His advantage was picking a cake flavor no one else could use… He chose ube.)

Main Heat: The contestants were tasked to make carousel cakes, with one side showing the joy of the carnival and the other side showing the horror. The twist was to make a carousel cookie topper. NOTE: In an unfortunate turn of events, Chad Conklin left the competition due to illness; however an elimination still took place.

Winner: James Cox

Preliminary Heat: To honor the circus's fire eater, John has the bakers create flambéed pavlova desserts with selected types of red fruit.

Winner: Hollie Fraser won the advantage of being exempt from the twist in the next challenge.

Main Heat: The contestants are asked to make alien brain charlotte royale cakes with selected green ingredients and an oozing slime effect. The twist was to add freeze-dried green vegetables.

Winner: Hollie Fraser

Preliminary Heat: John tasked the bakers to create desserts inspired by Bloody Mary, with her normal appearance on a large cookie and the reflection of her monstrous form in a dessert bar tray bake.

Winner: Hollie Fraser. Her advantage was first pick of teammate in the next challenge.

Main Heat: The contestants were paired into teams of two to create "Frankenstein" cakes by fusing together two body parts (arm/hand, foot/leg, nose, ear, and tongue). The mid-round twist was to incorporate an unusual mashup into their cakes (peanut butter and basil, coconut and tomato, lime and rosemary, or thyme and grape jelly).

Winners: James Cox and Ryan McCord

Preliminary Heat: Bakers had to make a trifle depicting a person who was buried alive. They had to include an ingredient that grows underground, choosing from ginger, turmeric, beets, carrots, sweet potatoes, and fennel.

Winner: Hollie Fraser won, gaining first pick of dried fruit in the main challenge.

Main Heat: The competitors made pies with shrunken heads on top and including dried fruits as ingredients. They chose from golden raisins, dried peaches, dried apricots, dried figs, dried dates, and currants. The twist required the bakers to make flavored gelatin eyeballs to top their pies.

Winners: Ryan McCord

Preliminary Heat: The bakers had to make a blondie enclosed in a chocolate skull shell. To serve, they poured a warm ganache to melt the skull and reveal the blondie underneath. They had to include a Sno Cone syrup. The options were cherry, blue raspberry, grape, pina colada, and lemon lime.

Winner: Stacy won, gaining an extra 10 minutes in the main challenge.

Main Heat: Inspired by a sword swallower, the bakers made a dessert inside another dessert and topped with an edible sword. The twist involved adding an ingredient that would soothe a sore throat. The choices included honey, ginger, chamomile, lemon, and peppermint.

Winners: Hollie and James

Preliminary Heat: The bakers were asked to create a torta della nonna with a citrus flavor and decorated with a monster tattoo design.

Winner: Hollie won, gaining exclusive use of a type of chocolate in the next challenge.

Main Heat: The bakers had to create a smashable dessert in a chocolate sphere, filled with a sauce and a baked element. The sphere was presented to the judges by being smashed onto their table from a height. The twist required the addition of walnuts, almonds, pumpkin seeds, or roasted chickpeas.

Winners: Hollie

Preliminary Heat: The bakers made black flourless flower desserts including a required black ingredient. The options were seaweed, black sesame seeds, and black pepper. James chose seaweed (to the surprise of no one), Ryan picked black sesame seeds, and Hollie chose black pepper.

Winner: Hollie won, gaining the advantage to assign each baker's theme in the final challenge.

Main Heat: The bakers had to make a cakescape showing a new attraction at the carnival. They had to pick from a funhouse, a two-headed dragon, and a hall of lost souls. Hollie chose the funhouse and picked the dragon for James and the hall of lost souls for Ryan.

The Thriller: In a challenge themed around the chemistry lab, John asked the bakers to create a dessert featuring edible broken laboratory glassware.

Winner: Aaron won, receiving an "Immunity Potion" protecting him from elimination in the main challenge.

The Killer: The contestants were tasked with making a dessert themed around toxic sludge. The dish was required to include a dry ice mist effect and bubble-shaped components.

Winner: Joel

The Thriller: In a challenge themed around the titular poltergeist in the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice movie, contestants were assigned black and white desserts using black and white ingredients.

Winner: Joel won, receiving an "Immunity Potion" protecting him from elimination in the main challenge.

The Killer: The contestants were assigned a big dessert with a small one on sitting on top of it, as an ode to the Shrinker characters in Beetlejuice.

Winner: Thierry

The Thriller: In teams of two, the bakers made a stuffed dessert shaped like a body part and using a flavor profile from a chosen variety of candy corn.

Winners: Aaron and Manny won, both receiving immunity from elimination.

The Killer: Inspired by animal plushies and the tale of a "cuteness potion" gone wrong, the bakers made desserts showing a cute creature mutated into a monster.

Winner: Lillian

The Thriller: The bakers had 90 minutes to make an "umummy" dessert with a mummy theme and a savory umami ingredient.

Winner: Thierry won, gaining immunity from elimination.

The Killer: The bakers had 2 hours to make a skeleton-themed dessert featuring a randomly picked Halloween candy flavor profile and a required dessert technique.

Winner: Aaron

The Thriller: In a promotion for the 85th anniversary release of The Wizard of Oz, the bakers were given 90 minutes to make tornado-themed desserts decorated with a piece of lab equipment.

Winner: Manny won, gaining immunity from elimination.

The Killer: The bakers had 2 hours to make a dessert inspired by the Wicked Witch of the West and her melting scene, featuring an oozing green element.

Winner: Joel

The Thriller: In a "Build-A-Spirit" challenge, the contestants had 90 minutes to make desserts inspired by x-ray charts with a monster's body shape, favorite food, and activity.

Winner: Lillian won. With immunity no longer in play, Lillian's advantage in the Killer challenge was to swap her creature type with another contestant.

The Killer: The bakers had two and a half hours to make entremets depicting a portal to the underworld. They were assigned a type of creature which they had to sculpt emerging from the portal.

Winner: Hollie

The Thriller: The bakers had two and a half hours to make a dessert that looked like a dissected creature and included a gummy or gelatin heart.

Winner: Manny won, gaining the advantage to assign the themes in the final challenge.

The Killer: Inspired by a time machine, the bakers had five hours to make a cake featuring an assigned time period and monster: medieval vampires in Romania (Manny), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Joel), ancient werewolves (Hollie), and early aliens in ancient Egypt (Aaron).

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