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The Worst Episodes of Halloween Baking Championship

Every episode of Halloween Baking Championship ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Halloween Baking Championship!

The country's top bakers battle it out to create Halloween's spookiest and most-irresistible treats. From spider cupcakes, cheesecake coffins and witch finger cookies to towering...
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Finale: The Killer Is ..." is the worst rated episode of "Halloween Baking Championship". It scored 5/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/25/2021. This episode scored 0.7 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Ginger Dead House".

  • Finale: The Killer Is ...
    5.0/1015 votes
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    #1 - Finale: The Killer Is ...

    Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/2021

    The four finalists face their fears when host John Henson challenges them to bake using a hated ingredient. The bakers must be brave, though, because the camp serial killer and judges Stephanie Boswell, Carla Hall and Zac Young will claim one more victim in a sudden death, leaving the final three to battle it out for $25,000 and the title of Halloween Baking Champion.

    Director: N/A

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  • Ginger Dead House
    5.7/1012 votes
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    #2 - Ginger Dead House

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/2016

    In the final pre-heat, the three remaining bakers must fill a haunted tree with decorated Halloween cookies. For the grand finale, the bakers have just six hours to construct a spooky "ginger dead" house. Special guest Duff Goldman stops by to put a fright into the bakers, then the most impressive house wins one baker the title of Halloween Baking Champion and $25,000!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Back from the Dead
    6.2/1014 votes
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    #3 - Back from the Dead

    Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/2021

    Host John Henson welcomes some unexpected visitors at Camp Devil’s Food Lake to shake up the competition for the remaining eight bakers. Then, it's all about teamwork making the scream work as pairs tackle creepy cookies from home and a mother of a blind cake bake. They'll have to bake like their lives depend on it if they want to survive judges Stephanie Boswell, Carla Hall and Zac Young.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Haunted Circus
    6.4/108 votes
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    #4 - Haunted Circus

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/2016

    Things are only getting spookier with just five bakers left in the competition, who must head to the haunted circus for the pre-heat and create a dozen scary clown cake pops. Then, the main heat moves to the freak show, as the bakers make frighteningly strange mash-up desserts.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Filled With Surprises
    6.4/1019 votes
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    #5 - Filled With Surprises

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2017

    Eight bakers show off their decorating skills by creating Halloween candy-filled cookies; for the main heat, it's oozy fun with sublime slime desserts where bakers can make any treat, but it must be filled with a gooey slime.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Spirits Rising
    6.6/109 votes
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    #6 - Spirits Rising

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/2016

    The four remaining bakers connect with the other side, baking up a tomb dessert for the pre-heat. Next, the bakers make a dessert inspired by the colorful artistry and spirit of Mexico's Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, in order to move on to the Halloween Baking Championship finale.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Doctor Will See You Now
    6.6/1013 votes
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    #7 - The Doctor Will See You Now

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/2020

    The final four bakers reach the last leg of their haunted house journey in the mad doctor's surgical room, where they face off to make severed limb cakes. Then, host Carla Hall challenges the competitors to reach new heights with floating cakes to impress her and the other judges, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young. The most successful baker wins $25,000 and is named Halloween Baking Champion.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Welcome To Camp Devil's Food Lake
    6.6/1017 votes
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    #8 - Welcome To Camp Devil's Food Lake

    Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/2021

    John Henson hosts as 10 bakers pay tribute to 1980s classic slasher movies at Camp Devil's Food Lake. The competitors tackle "cereal killer" pies and mega cakes to impress judges Stephanie Boswell, Carla Hall and Zac Young.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Extreme Halloween
    6.7/1012 votes
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    #9 - Extreme Halloween

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/2017

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Wizard of Labs
    6.7/1010 votes
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    #10 - Wizard of Labs

    Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/2024

    To celebrate 85 years of the wonderful Wizard of Oz, John Henson is in the lab's atmospheric chamber measuring the velocity of tornado desserts so that the bakers can honor Dorothy's rough trip to Oz. Then, the bakers visit the acid pit, where the spirits have been melting things. Inspired by those who have melted before, especially the Wicked Witch of the West, the bakers make melted witch desserts to appease the spirits, as well as judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fall Forward Desserts
    6.8/107 votes
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    #11 - Fall Forward Desserts

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2018

    In the Silence of the Yams pre-heat challenge, bakers make yam desserts that evoke classic scary movie cliches from chainsaws and hockey masks to bloody knives and creepy dolls. In the main heat, the bakers turn a pumpkin patch into a "bundtkin patch" by creating a pumpkin patch out of mini bundt cakes.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Smells Like Halloween Spirit
    6.8/1014 votes
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    #12 - Smells Like Halloween Spirit

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2019

    In the pre-heat challenge, the seven bakers create spine-chilling desserts guided by spirits, such as bourbon and rum. Then they use fresh flavors and colorful decorations to bring old desserts back to life in the Day of the Dead main heat.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Trick or Treats
    6.9/1018 votes
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    #13 - Trick or Treats

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/2015

    The Halloween Baking Championship has come alive and seven of the country's best bakers compete in the sweetest trick or treat challenge. In the first challenge, the bakers battle it out over the best creepy cupcakes and then kick it up in the second challenge with classic costume desserts.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Cravings from the Grave
    6.9/108 votes
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    #14 - Cravings from the Grave

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/2016

    For the pre-heat, mummy's the word as the six remaining bakers are asked to make a Halloween mummy dessert using pre-made pie dough. Next, the bakers must create a candy-stuffed, wicked cake based on a Halloween icon.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bewitching Treats
    6.9/1013 votes
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    #15 - Bewitching Treats

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2017

    Seven remaining bakers must make witches' fingers and toes and create a sauce to dip them in; the witch theme goes a step further in the main heat when the bakers must create desserts that look like witches, complete with edible brooms.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • It's All In Your Head
    6.9/1011 votes
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    #16 - It's All In Your Head

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/2017

    Bakers work in teams and put their minds together to create the most outrageous and delicious left brain/right brain desserts; in the main heat, the bakers face their fears by using common phobias like insects and ghosts as inspirations for desserts.

    Director: N/A

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  • Bat in Black
    6.9/1013 votes
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    #17 - Bat in Black

    Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/2021

    The competition is only getting tougher at Camp Devil's Food Lake as host John Henson challenges the bakers to make creepy cupcakes and a British classic that is completely batty. Judges Stephanie Boswell, Carla Hall and Zac Young will determine who survives another week at camp.

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  • Mad Mutations and Transformations
    6.9/1013 votes
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    #18 - Mad Mutations and Transformations

    Season 10 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/2024

    Things keep turning into other things in the Research and Development Lab, and it's disturbingly delicious. John Henson pairs up the bakers into research teams, and they use exotic candy corn flavors as inspiration for lab specimen-stuffed desserts decorated with tongues, eyeballs, noses or toes. With elimination looming, the bakers serve judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell a mad menagerie of cutesy-to-creepy desserts by turning an adorable stuffy into a delicious, mutated monster.

    Director: N/A

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  • The Candyman Cometh
    7.0/1011 votes
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    #19 - The Candyman Cometh

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/2017

    Four remaining bakers attempt to make desserts that taste like their favorite candy bars; bakers face death by chocolate and must create a dessert that combines chocolate with odd ingredients; one baker is eliminated.

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  • Pavlovas and Alien Oddities
    7.0/1016 votes
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    #20 - Pavlovas and Alien Oddities

    Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/2023

    Things heat up when John Henson tells the tale of an Australian fire eater before asking the bakers to create charred and flambéed pavlovas. Then, a missing family member returns with extraterrestrial oddities that the bakers use to inspire alien head Charlotte royale cakes with enough ooze to gross out judges Carla Hall, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

    Director: N/A

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  • Creepy and Crusty Creations
    7.1/1011 votes
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    #21 - Creepy and Crusty Creations

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2019

    Host John Henson's "mummy" issues inspire the pre-heat challenge of crepe cakes. In the main heat, the five remaining bakers use classic fall ingredients to create jack-o'-lantern pies that are half scary and half sweet.

    Director: N/A

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  • Sweet Illusions
    7.1/1012 votes
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    #22 - Sweet Illusions

    Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/2020

    Host Carla Hall meets the nine remaining competitors on the frightening front porch, haunted by eternally disappointed trick or treaters. The bakers are challenged to create Halloween candy croquembouche with a stunningly sweet illusion to impress Carla and the other judges, Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young.

    Director: N/A

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  • Don't B-Negative
    7.1/1013 votes
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    #23 - Don't B-Negative

    Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/2021

    Host John Henson asks the seven remaining bakers to work their fingers to the bone reimagining a classic dessert. Then, the competitors tackle a trending cake design that must leave judges Stephanie Boswell, Carla Hall and Zac Young's blood running cold if they want to survive another week.

    Director: N/A

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  • Monster Mania
    7.2/107 votes
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    #24 - Monster Mania

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2018

    A monster has ransacked the kitchen and is on the loose! The bakers work together in the pre-heat challenge to create a 3-D suspect sketch out of pate a choux to help track him down. The sketch helps puts the monster behind bars but now he's hungry for the main heat challenge that involves monster-sized Halloween deserts like giant cupcakes, pies, cream puffs and more.

    Director: N/A

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  • All Things Weird and Wonderful
    7.2/1012 votes
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    #25 - All Things Weird and Wonderful

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2019

    The six remaining bakers team up to create desserts that pay tribute to the iconic Addams Family -- scary on the outside and sweet on the inside. During the main heat challenge, the wonderfully creepy family is honored with “dead velvet” cakes.

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