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00:01Get ready for a spine-chilling showdown like no other.
00:07It's the only competition where the world's most talented cake and sugar artists join forces with elite pumpkin carvers.
00:15She's the pumpkin queen.
00:17Couldn't have picked a round one.
00:18Nope.
00:18To create hair-raising, devilishly delicious Halloween masterpieces.
00:23This dessert will haunt me for the rest of my life.
00:26This year, the competition's fiercer than ever.
00:29This is the one you gotta win.
00:31As first-time competitors fight to prove their worth.
00:34I cannot let my team down.
00:36Winning this would just set me apart from all of those other cake artists.
00:39While some familiar faces fight or redemption.
00:43Last year, I got real close.
00:45This year, we're gonna do it.
00:47With $25,000 on the line.
00:51I've let my team down.
00:54I'm back with a burning passion.
00:55I spent the last few years of my life training just for this moment.
00:59And I'm not about to let it go to waste.
01:01The spookiest season of Halloween Wars ever starts right now.
01:05Welcome to Halloween Wars.
01:15Beware teams, beware.
01:18We're about to plunge you into the depths of sweet and scary.
01:23Challenging your cake, sugar, and pumpkin carving skills in ways too frightening to imagine.
01:31I see many familiar faces.
01:33I see David Smith and I think, I remember watching him when I was 10 years old.
01:39And I just can't wait to just start competing.
01:43Those brave enough must face our judges.
01:45Award-winning cake artist, design and decor guru, Shin Min Lee.
01:51My team!
01:52And flavor queen, chef, and author, Artie Sequeira.
01:57One by one, you'll be eliminated.
02:01Until the lone survivor wins $25,000 and the title, Halloween Wars Champion.
02:09Team's Poisonous Perfection, Undercakers, Oven Coven, and Graveyard Shift.
02:18You're our first victims.
02:20The rest of you, we'll see you next time.
02:24Bye, everybody.
02:26See you soon.
02:27Everybody is really talented and there's a lot of competition, but we know that we have the skill to win this.
02:33Adult monsters are really good at being terrifying, but how do kid monsters learn those top-shelf scare skills?
02:42They go to scare school, obviously.
02:45In this first challenge, we want you to imagine how young monsters spent the best night of scare school.
02:52Each display must have at least two distinct, fully realized characters.
02:58You'll find your tasting element assignments, along with your mini-monster age group, tucked into a lunchbox back at your stations.
03:07That's a lot to handle, so you'll each be getting one baking assistant to help you in any way you need.
03:13Your seven hours start...
03:16Oh.
03:17Now.
03:18Let's go.
03:20We have our lunchbox.
03:21All right, what do we get?
03:22Oh.
03:23Oh.
03:24Elementary school.
03:26Granola bar.
03:27Oh, here we go.
03:31Chocolate milk.
03:35Middle school string cheese.
03:37What are you going to do with this?
03:38My team name is Oven Coven.
03:40I'm David Smith.
03:41Carving pumpkins isn't just a hobby for me.
03:44I'm a multi-time world champion in ice carving and a zero-time pumpkin carving champion.
03:49Middle school.
03:50What can you do with middle school?
03:51Kim is great.
03:52She is our sugar artist.
03:53We're not only both artists, but we're old school rockers.
03:56What's your most fond middle school memory?
03:59That dance.
04:00And Natalie's not only a superstar cake artist, she's also a super talented pastry chef.
04:04I think David has the middle school dance.
04:07Yeah.
04:07Like that arm.
04:09The Franken dance?
04:10Yeah.
04:10The story of our piece is the future bride of Frankenstein and Frankenstein himself.
04:14We all know that they inevitably get married, but this was their love at first sight moment.
04:19So we're in preschool, right?
04:21So are we in class?
04:22Oh, but wait.
04:23If it's Halloween night, are they going to be in school?
04:25Oh, so maybe we should have them out and about.
04:27Our team is the undercakers.
04:29We're all very different.
04:31I'm originally from Guyana, but I live in New Jersey.
04:34I am a content creator and a cake sculptor.
04:37Marguerite is the pumping carver.
04:38She's a mother.
04:39She's a grandmother.
04:40She's 67.
04:42She's doing this on like, girl, amazing.
04:45And Nails is the sugar artist.
04:47He's done this before, and he's very determined to take home the prize.
04:50So what do they have in a playground?
04:52They have those attorney things.
04:52What are they called?
04:53Merry-go-round.
04:54In our piece, the Unruly-Groolies has roamed the neighborhood, gathering fingers, bones,
05:00eyes, and blood.
05:01When they return to the schoolyard, they continue their reign of terror.
05:05You feel good with that?
05:06Yeah.
05:06You can make a good Dracula?
05:07Yeah.
05:07All right.
05:08Excellent.
05:10Well, what kind of crazy things did we do in high school, but if we were monsters?
05:13What do monsters do?
05:14What, getting in trouble with the principal?
05:17Senior prank.
05:19Our team is Poisonous Perfection.
05:21My name's Paulina Stovall, and I'm a professional pumpkin carver.
05:24Corrine is our cake sculptor, and Jamie is our sugar artist.
05:28She has made it to the finale twice, and she wants the third time to be the charm.
05:33What kind of monsters have things that they could, like, prank with?
05:36Like, mummies have all the wrapping, which is a lot like toilet paper.
05:39There you go.
05:40We are making a senior prank gone wrong.
05:43We're putting a spin on mummies that are TPing the principal's office.
05:47Okay, so elementary school.
05:51My kids are in elementary school.
05:53Yeah, mine too.
05:53Okay, perfect.
05:54All three of us are parents, so I think we all can relate to this elementary school theme.
05:59But they're going trick-or-treating.
06:00But how does that show school, right?
06:02I mean, they actually show the scare school.
06:03The name of our team is Graveyard Shift.
06:05My name is Kimberly Rivers.
06:07I'm a stay-at-home mom.
06:08I am the sugar artist.
06:10Willie Tuz will be our pumpkin carver, and Kat Campbell will be our cake artist.
06:14What if we do, like, a parade?
06:16A Halloween parade.
06:17Yeah, because that's, like, the best part of the costume parade.
06:19Yes.
06:20For our elementary school parade, we're going to have three characters.
06:23We have a ghost coming out of the window scaring a mummy ballerina, and then a werewolf superhero, too.
06:30It's going to be very difficult to do three characters, but we're really wanting to create something amazing for the judges.
06:35Graveyard Shift.
06:36Let's do this thing.
06:37Let's do it.
06:37Let's do it.
06:37Come on.
06:38All right.
06:40Let's get some pumpkins.
06:42That one looks terrible, David.
06:43I can make anything good, Nils.
06:44Let anything good.
06:46Wah.
06:47There we go.
06:48Let's go.
06:49All right.
06:49So I am starting one of the cushions for the chair.
06:53I'm going to use this big white pumpkin, because it's already a nice shape, so that'll allow me to get the curve for the padded chair look.
07:02For our senior prank at scare school, I will be making the principal's chair as well as the head of the monster plant.
07:11I'm just skinning it so I'm just skinning it so that we can get that leathery chair texture.
07:15I carved my first pumpkin by myself when I was five and never stopped since.
07:20It's always been a family tradition.
07:21I'm going to add some horns to the chair.
07:25Winning Halloween Wars would be something so great to take home to really help boost my business and live the dream to be able to carve and sculpt full time.
07:34All right.
07:35This is ready for color.
07:39I have perfectly cooked ice malt right here.
07:41I just put some purple in there.
07:42It's going to be a little like, ooh, spooky dookie.
07:44Our sugar artist, Jamie, is working on our poured sugar window that we're placing in the principal's office.
07:50Last season, I was here as a cake sculptor, which is definitely my big specialty.
07:55But I'm also a classically trained pastry chef, so today it's all about being the sugar artist.
08:00I really need to show them that I'm not just a cake sculptor.
08:05I can come in here and I can get some sugar done.
08:09I love it.
08:11Look at all the colors.
08:13That should be good.
08:14Shinmin, Artie.
08:16We're back.
08:16We're back.
08:17We're back.
08:18We're back.
08:19We have new teams, new scares, and it's all about the scare school.
08:24So what are we looking for?
08:26You know, because these are like little kids learning to be monsters,
08:29I'm looking for a little bit of cheekiness.
08:31Yeah, I think I want to get a really strong sense of place.
08:34Like the backdrop really needs to say school room.
08:37Yes.
08:37Or playground or something that really says school.
08:41All right, what are you working on first?
08:43Well, I want to start mixing the color for the buttercream.
08:46All right, excellent.
08:48I'm painting the entire background.
08:50Well, this is definitely what I know how to do.
08:52I mean, I've been doing it for so long.
08:54I've been mixing colors for makeup.
08:57I am originally from South America, Guyana.
09:00Art has been a part of me my entire life.
09:03I started by doing makeup for beauty pageants, weddings.
09:07Then I moved on to special effects because I really love gory makeup.
09:11I like having all the colors laid out so I can see everything and play around.
09:16So the under cakers have some stuff coming together with their preschool design.
09:19I really love the way that Tanisha is working.
09:23Yeah.
09:23That she's painting her pieces like an artist.
09:26She's using that buttercream like oil paint.
09:28Really, really cool, beautiful work.
09:29So I cannot wait to see how it comes together.
09:32We're going to start trying to pour this merry-go-round.
09:34For the merry-go-round, we're going to pour a 20-inch diameter sugar plate.
09:40Done a few shows before, been here.
09:42You know, been eliminated first.
09:44Got to the finale, didn't win.
09:46So that's why we're going to take some big risks and just really hope it all works out, you know?
09:52Ah, yeah.
09:53I did enough.
09:54Perfect.
09:55I put the silver dust in.
09:56It sort of gave it that metallic look.
09:59Right now I'm making like the head and the arms for the ghost.
10:04Our cake artist.
10:04Kat is responsible for all of our characters.
10:07She's creating the werewolf, the mummy, and the ghost as well.
10:10I'm using the chocolate to help keep the rice cereal treat together because we're going to have it up, like on an angle.
10:18Kat is very talented.
10:19Kat and I both have three kids.
10:21We're both stay-at-home moms, and we also have cake businesses in our homes.
10:24So we have a lot in common.
10:25We can kind of relate to how difficult it can be to have a business at home.
10:29It can be really tricky with kids and trying to multitask.
10:31Willie is making our mummy head.
10:35We will have a big skull at the top of the room, and we also will have the cowboy lasso made from pumpkin.
10:40This piece, I can cut all the pieces that I need from.
10:43One of the things that I have to do, it's a lasso.
10:46Perfect.
10:48All right, I'm starting the tasting.
10:50I've decided to take on the tasting so that Kat can focus on the characters.
10:54We have been assigned granola bar.
10:56I'm not a pastry chef.
10:57I'm just a stay-at-home mom, so I was trying to think of recipes that my kids like.
11:01We're going to add in some dried cherries to give it a really good punch of acid flavor,
11:05and we're hoping that's close enough to a granola bar for our judges.
11:08For our tasting element, we will be making monster jumbles.
11:11They will have granola and some marshmallow, some chocolate chips, and some dried cherries.
11:15We've decided to put it in the brick wall, hiding there,
11:18and the judges will have to pull it right off the wall and taste it.
11:24Teams, we're one hour in.
11:26You have six hours to go.
11:28What?
11:28Whoa.
11:29Oh, my gosh.
11:30We have so much to do.
11:31I'm painting the tree that's in the background behind the window.
11:34It's beautiful.
11:36Jamie is working on this awesome window,
11:39which she'll be painting on a spooky tree background.
11:47Oh.
11:51Oh.
11:53It has cracked here, here, here, everywhere.
11:57Oh, man.
11:57Like, it cracks, like, a lot.
11:59Oh, I need redemption.
12:01These little things are the things that the judges are going to notice,
12:04and then we can get cut for it.
12:07How do you feel about spooky cracked window?
12:09I can even paint some details and make it look super intentional.
12:11Yeah.
12:11Okay.
12:12I'm going to actually accentuate the cracks.
12:14I have this special edible luster paint, this beautiful shimmery blood red color,
12:20and I think it's perfect to highlight all of those things so it actually looks like it was supposed to be that way.
12:26Looks more like a mended window.
12:28Okay, good.
12:31Brody, it's orange.
12:32It's Halloween.
12:33It's Halloween.
12:34But we have to have the ghouls.
12:35Without the ghouls, there's no dance.
12:36So carve some of these ghouls up.
12:39We're doing a middle school dance in scare school.
12:41I'm doing a ghost that's doing that thing.
12:44Dabbing.
12:45Dabbing?
12:45Dabbing.
12:46Whatever you teenagers call it these days.
12:48I started pumping and carving season three, Halloween Wars, 12 years ago.
12:53I have not been to Halloween Wars in 12 years, so this is where it all began.
12:57So this is kind of personal.
12:59Like, want to have a trophy on the shelf.
13:01How's your ghoul going?
13:02He's boogieing.
13:04Perfect.
13:05All right, so I am getting ready to start the cheesecake.
13:08Our string cheesecake.
13:09So much going through my mind with string cheese.
13:12But I've worked for a lot of really high-end restaurants where I had to create the menu.
13:16For our tasting element, Natalie is literally making an edible eyeball with a bursting green
13:22apple center that our judges are going to be able to dip in bloody red caramel.
13:26These eyeballs will be decorations at the school dance hanging from the ceiling.
13:30The string cheesecake here is getting ready to go into the oven, but I used a lot of extra
13:34cheese.
13:35Quesadilla cheese, string cheese.
13:37Why are you so cheesy?
13:38Why are you so cheesy?
13:39You know what?
13:41It sounds great on paper.
13:42I hope she can pull it off.
13:43So I'm using a sphere mold with white chocolate that I'm just going to tap out and create a
13:48thin shell.
13:49Then I can fill the cavity with our goo.
13:52I'll make like the little popping boba, but I'll make it with green apple.
13:56All right, so I'm just going to strain out the apple because I want to have that slimy texture.
14:01And then I'm going to add sodium alginate and sugar to it.
14:04Now, does that like thicken up or something?
14:06Yeah.
14:06So as it cools, it's going to get more of like a jelly consistency.
14:10But since we want it to pop, when I put it into the calcium lactate, it'll create like a shell
14:16around it.
14:16Oh, cool.
14:17And when they bite into it, it's going to...
14:18It's slimy, slimy in their mouth.
14:22What's that?
14:22The caramel?
14:23Bloody elixir.
14:25But I'm going to do it like a cheese fondue.
14:27So I'm going to make caramel and I'm going to put string cheese in it.
14:30Does it melt?
14:31I have no idea.
14:32We're going to find out.
14:35So scare school, we've got preschool, elementary school, junior high and high school that we
14:41want to see in these designs.
14:43Yeah.
14:43And each group of those school kids has its own personality.
14:48Like preschool, they're dealing with separation anxiety from the parents.
14:51Elementary school, it's like, what am I going to do at recess?
14:54Like, you know, I think with both middle schoolers and high schoolers, you want that sense of
14:58awkwardness.
14:59So we want to maybe see that in their design.
15:01I'd love to see that.
15:04Okay, let's go do this big piece right here.
15:07I'm working on the backboard.
15:08We want it to look like an elementary school.
15:10So I'm using purple fondant for the wall and I am making our floor out of brown fondant.
15:15We want it to look like a hardwood floor.
15:17We're just adding a wood grain just to give it some personality.
15:19So it's not just a plain, boring floor.
15:21So this piece is one of the most important pieces for me because this is going to go
15:26on top of my building.
15:27To really bring out our scare school, Willie is creating a skull to go on the very top
15:31of our piece.
15:32Willie is also going to be carving our mummy head.
15:35In order to make it look like a mummy, I'm skinning this pumpkin.
15:38Very light to make it look like the strings for the mummy.
15:41My dad was a chef and he used to do small carvings with vegetables.
15:46And that's where the love of carving started.
15:49I am a single dad.
15:50My son is 18 years old.
15:52I introduced him to pumpkin carving.
15:54This motivated me to go win and show him everything that's possible.
15:59So I just got to be careful covering all the areas that I want.
16:01But I want to show the face.
16:05So what are you doing, Marjorie?
16:06I am carving this mummy's face and then I am going to start working on the bandages.
16:12Margu, she's from Canada.
16:14She's a mother, she's a grandmother, and she's also a retired graphic artist.
16:18As a pumpkin carver, I like to shock my grandkids and I love it when they just think I'm over
16:22the top.
16:23Because what are we doing if we're not just having fun, right?
16:25But they don't like anything like this.
16:27They don't like anything scary.
16:29To be honest, my grandkids are kind of wimpy.
16:30And they're always telling me at Halloween, like, calm it down, Grandma.
16:34That's too scary.
16:35We don't like that.
16:36But I don't.
16:37I just tell them they have to buck up.
16:38And it's Halloween.
16:40It's got to be scary, right?
16:42That's awesome.
16:44Teams, only five hours left.
16:46Five hours to go.
16:47Oh, five hours.
16:49We got to go.
16:49Got to keep moving.
16:50So I'm starting on my tasting element.
16:54The first part is going to be a cookie.
16:56We don't want the tasting element to just taste like chocolate.
16:59We have to make sure that this tasting element tastes like chocolate milk.
17:03What's that, Karine?
17:04The cookie dough.
17:05Crispy deliciousness?
17:06Yeah.
17:07She will be making a candle-shaped chocolate vessel filled with a chocolate milk buttercream,
17:12a chocolate milk butter cake, and a brown sugar cookie crumble.
17:20Right now I'm working on the mummy ballerina.
17:23Kat is creating our mummy ballerina out of cake.
17:26We've been given elementary age, so our mummy needs to look like a second or third grader.
17:31I'm, like, so excited to be on the show.
17:33Like, I've been watching since season one.
17:36Halloween Wars got me started in the cake world.
17:39Being here means so much to Kat.
17:41She has the opportunity to make her family proud.
17:44I was in art, and then I was watching Halloween Wars, and they just combined all these different techniques,
17:50like painting and sculpting, and I was like, wow, I can combine all those things and, like, make it my own and make people really happy.
17:59Currently, I am working on cutting bookshelves out of tempered chocolate.
18:03Our bookshelf needs to go together with a back panel, side panels, and five different shelves.
18:08So I'm going to need to glue together every single little part, make sure it's super strong.
18:12This is not easy, and it is risky, because there's no armature, there's nothing other than chocolate on chocolate.
18:19This is just melted chocolate, but I've already gouged it with a bunch of little hash marks to give it more grippy texture.
18:27Jamie is skilled in many different mediums, and she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our team,
18:33because she's been on Halloween Wars before.
18:35Last year, I got real close.
18:38The first season I did, I also got real close.
18:42I just wanted to work out this time.
18:45So, third time's a charm.
18:47I'm winning this year, and my team, we're going to do it.
18:51Bookshelf.
18:51Awesome.
18:52Done.
18:53Yeah.
18:54Four hours left.
18:56Gotta pick it up.
18:57Pick it up.
18:57Oh, my gosh, we have so much to do.
18:59I know.
18:59Okay, we are about to roll out our orange carpet for our monsters.
19:04So, we've got to get this all set up so that we can get everything all staged.
19:07I'm feeling spread thin, multitasking a lot, trying to figure out the base right here, also doing the tasting.
19:13And I'm a sugar artist, and I haven't started sugar at all.
19:16And I'm getting very, very nervous about it.
19:20I know I'm going to, are you going to be at a place you can help?
19:23I haven't even started anything.
19:24Yeah, okay.
19:25So, why don't we just put it on the board?
19:27This is just going way too fast.
19:29Graveyard Shift has elementary school, and they're doing that iconic elementary school Halloween parade.
19:35I see a lot of work on the, sort of, the ground covering, it looks like.
19:40Yeah, yeah.
19:40I wish that I saw more, honestly, in terms of character.
19:43I'm concerned that it's starting to look a little empty.
19:46Oh, gosh, you're doing great.
19:47You've got to get started on your sugar.
19:49I'm finally getting the opportunity to start my sugar work, which is what I'm here for.
19:53And I can't wait to show the judges what I have to bring to the table.
19:56I am making a tiara for our ballerina.
19:59We have windows and candles.
20:01We have alphabet letters to go on.
20:03So, I'll be pouring our letters and our bugs, our spiders and cockroaches.
20:06Oh, it's creepy.
20:07I'm making some witch shoes to go on our witch that's crashing into the wall.
20:11We're going to just be gnarly, twisty, curvy, just fun.
20:15I'm a stay-at-home mom, making a huge sacrifice to be here.
20:18I try to up my game and do the best that I can and really prove that I can do that.
20:23Because we are using a lot of molds for the bugs and things, I really want to show the judges that I can do the pulling part of Isomold as well.
20:29Tell me when you're ready for the shoes to go on.
20:30So, we have mandarin oranges, our tasting element, and I'm actually really stoked.
20:35When I was growing up, my dad actually had a little mandarin orange grove in at our house.
20:40So, I've been eating mandarin oranges forever.
20:42I really like to win one, you know, for me and everybody that works for me and the city and all that stuff.
20:47And especially my dad this time, he passed away a few months ago, and he was always really proud of this.
20:52So, I'm going to really try to, like, take it home.
20:54So, this dessert's a nod to him.
20:57We're going to make an orange creamsicle cream cheese-style cake with a little bit of caramelized sugar on top.
21:03It's going to look like an actual book.
21:06All right, we've got to lose some of the syrup so it's not too sweet.
21:09But we're also going to cut in some fresh mandarin's for a little bit more body because these guys tend to fall apart.
21:14And we're going to bake them whole into the cake so it'll be like you're eating oranges.
21:18But since it's a mandarin orange cake, we want it to be in the cake.
21:22If you're going to say it's something, it better taste like it.
21:25Okay, we're going to the oven.
21:27You ready?
21:27We're good.
21:30Only three hours to go.
21:33Dark cookies.
21:35Kareen is still working on our candle tasting element.
21:39So, I'm going to dust that in chocolate real quick.
21:42Is that your cookie that smells so good?
21:44Yeah.
21:45She's managed to layer chocolate French meringue buttercream and then cake and a brown sugar cookie crumble in the middle.
21:53And then, like, roll them out and freeze it.
21:56To the freezer.
21:57So far, we've completed our backboard and our bookcase as well as the chair is done.
22:03I just have to paint it.
22:04I'm a little concerned about the two characters.
22:06We still have our two mummies to create and put on.
22:11I'm thinking that we should just get those characters.
22:15I'm going to be immediately jumping onto characters.
22:18I'm going to bust out an arm with you.
22:19Oh, yeah.
22:20Okay.
22:21I'll take a little bit of that.
22:23Hey.
22:23How's it going?
22:25Good.
22:25I'm sorry.
22:26I know you.
22:27Don't apologize.
22:28This is my comfort zone.
22:29Let's do it.
22:30Okay, good.
22:31Kareen has so much on her plate already, but we realize there's no mummies.
22:35Jamie says I need to step in and help with these mummies.
22:38You want to start, like, just smearing on chunks while I get some rolled out to cover the body faster.
22:44You got this, guys.
22:46Come on.
22:46Yep.
22:46Let's keep going.
22:47Keep going.
22:48As far as time goes, you got a lot on your plate.
22:51Are you going to be okay?
22:52Because I'm going to get through and I'm going to step onto whatever we need, okay?
22:54Yeah.
22:55Yeah.
22:55And I know when you're done, you're going to come over and, like, help, too.
22:58But just keep me posted.
22:59Keep me posted.
23:00My character is Dracula.
23:02I'm making him from cake and rice cereal.
23:05So when I'm sculpting, I usually like to just start with a small round head and then go in with my modeling chocolates to just build up the cheekbones.
23:13Growing up in Ghana, I've always been very artsy.
23:16I really love just making my favorite characters come alive.
23:19I think that's my biggest strength in this competition.
23:24We have to move the merry-go-round because we need to get the characters on it.
23:28This merry-go-round can't break because it's a centerpiece of this.
23:33It's the main part of the sugar.
23:35We need to get everything on our board.
23:38We got to run.
23:38Oh, boy.
23:39Keep it moving.
23:40Where do you want them?
23:41I would say as close to that thing as you can.
23:43Cut.
23:44Go.
23:44I think the underkickers, that's the only team where I feel like it's a little too full.
23:51I love that they came in big.
23:53And I love that they're showing us that they know how to handle the weight of larger characters.
23:57Yeah.
23:57But their characters are actually just way too big.
24:00Yeah.
24:00What do you think?
24:01How does that look?
24:02They're just big is really what, you know, the scale-wise, they're big.
24:05They're too big.
24:05I mean, they're all just big.
24:07But we just got to go with what it is, right?
24:09Yeah.
24:10Maybe they got super-sized because it's Halloween.
24:12I don't know.
24:12You're looking at two hours to go.
24:15What?
24:16Let's go.
24:17Let's go.
24:17Keep moving.
24:18Keep moving.
24:18Make some progress on everything.
24:20I'm going to start on the mummy head.
24:21Paulina, I'm going to come and work next to you and just copy what you're doing so that
24:24our faces look similar.
24:25We want to make sure that these mummies look nearly identical, have really good expressions.
24:31So Jamie and I are sculpting the two mummy heads together side by side.
24:36Trying to kind of get the shading to match what the modeling chocolate would look like.
24:41I think it's turning out amazing.
24:43And I would love it if you could paint my face also and put a lot of those same like
24:47depths and highlights and things like that.
24:49Yeah.
24:50Okay.
24:51Um, heads are ready.
24:53Should we have him turning like this?
24:54Yeah.
24:55Have him turn towards the judges if you can.
24:57Like that.
24:57Yeah?
24:57Yeah.
24:58So right now I am building the dress to our bride of Frankenstein.
25:04We're making their middle school dance in Scare School.
25:08So lucky for our team, Kim and Natalie are both going to tackle these characters together.
25:11Natalie's going to work on the bodies, Kim's going to work on the heads, and then they're
25:14going to marry them onto our scene.
25:16She's coming.
25:16What I'm going for with the faces is I want them to look like the monsters and want them
25:20to look like middle school, but I also want them to have character.
25:23Her makeup is going to be rough on purpose because they're middle schoolers and awkward.
25:29Frankenstein getting his little square head.
25:31Right.
25:32I use a different color modeling chocolate to make Frankenstein's face have pimples on
25:38it.
25:38I put a little pinkish kind of color and then a little, a few little white dots on some
25:42of them.
25:43So oven coven, I am oven lovin'.
25:46I mean, that one character that's on the display right now is breathtaking.
25:50Yeah.
25:50When a character is split between two artists, it usually makes us a little nervous because
25:56we're like, are you guys speaking the same language?
25:58And I'm loving that Kim seems to be picking up what Natalie put down.
26:03But I don't know that I'm getting middle school dance party yet.
26:06Okay.
26:06Right.
26:07It's outside.
26:08There are these spooky trees in the background.
26:09But until those characters hit that display, I'm not getting dance party.
26:14This will hold in a little bit.
26:16It just needs to stiffen up and harden.
26:19Right now I'm using like a burlap texture to get the mummy's wrap job.
26:24Let's talk about this ballerina coming to life with graveyard shift.
26:28It's even more beautiful now.
26:29I'm just a little nervous because that's all we see.
26:32Hey, Kat, how are you feeling about your ballerina?
26:34I've been better.
26:35Yeah.
26:35But I'm going to get through it because I don't want to let you guys down.
26:39It just took me so much longer than I thought.
26:43I'm not feeling good on time because I'm behind.
26:47I'm not on schedule at all.
26:49We're skipping werewolf, right?
26:50We can.
26:51We have to.
26:52I was doing three characters and I just think it's just too much for me to do it.
26:58At this point, so we're going to have to can one.
27:01Doing full bodies, it's a lot more than what I'm used to.
27:04They are having trouble with time management.
27:06I'm worried that their space is going to look very empty.
27:09There is another character, but it's kind of like a ghoul coming out of the backboard.
27:13I have so much to do.
27:14Oh my gosh.
27:16Everybody else's is so multidimensional.
27:18What else can we add?
27:19Oh my gosh.
27:20Okay, yes.
27:20For a board.
27:21Wow.
27:22Yeah, we definitely need to step it up.
27:25I know I got to add more.
27:26Yes, I know I got some sugar pieces we can definitely throw on there.
27:29I'm looking around at the other team's displays and I'm realizing how much detail they have
27:33in their different pieces and how maybe we're lacking a little bit since we had to take away
27:38our werewolf character and we need to add some more things.
27:41Luckily, Willie comes to the rescue.
27:42This is a little sign that we're going to do.
27:46I'm going to carve the name of the school, put little monsters, little things that we can
27:51add to our piece.
27:52So I am making a couple candles to go like sconces on the wall.
27:57So I'm creating a light inside and I'll cover the back as well.
28:00And we have the candle kind of melting down.
28:03Let's talk about graveyard shift.
28:05I think that their whole display is finally looking more balanced.
28:09Mm-hmm.
28:10And I think it's because they actually placed more elements in the back of the right side
28:15of the display where that wolf character would have been.
28:18Yeah.
28:18Right.
28:18So I think they've really thought out how to fill up that space.
28:2330 minutes on the clock.
28:24Oh my gosh.
28:25We have so much to do.
28:26I know.
28:26Now I'm scared.
28:28No, that's bad.
28:28Now I'm scared.
28:29You guys start looking for touch-ups.
28:31I'm going to get the desserts in the book and then we're going to go from there.
28:34Time to fly.
28:34Time to fly.
28:37Okay.
28:37So I'm going to go on to the book.
28:39We're going to get the tasting elements on because that has to be.
28:41Otherwise, that's for sure done.
28:42We want to put our tasting element in a book because they're at school.
28:47So Nails is making a book made out of rice cereal.
28:51We're going to have pages made out of wafer paper and we're going to have the little desserts
28:56inside.
28:57We're going to do this.
28:58Let's go.
29:00Come on.
29:00Come on, baby.
29:01Go, go, go.
29:02Behind you, Tanisha.
29:03I got to get in here.
29:04Sorry.
29:05Perfect.
29:07All right, cool.
29:07Looks old and crickly.
29:08I am starting on the plant's head, you guys.
29:12Our high schoolers did not expect that the principal had a monster plant.
29:16There's still a lot on everyone's plates, so we really have to push hard.
29:20So right now, I'm cutting a tongue for our monster plant out of sweet potato.
29:25So I'm trying to shape it so that it could lay in the mouth well, but also be very sturdy
29:30when we put it in.
29:31I'm going to get some sugar pulling.
29:34Jamie is making the sugar teeth for our plant head.
29:37She is also pulling sugar leaves.
29:39Paulina, good for plant leaves?
29:41Yeah, some reaching over the pot and then some tall standing ones.
29:46We also need to finish our tasting.
29:48We're going to dip things real soon.
29:51I'm dipping the candles.
29:53They're going to be wonky candles.
29:56Right now, I'm trying to make some cute little flames for our candles.
30:00This is looking good.
30:01Looking good.
30:03Ten minutes.
30:04Ten minutes left.
30:07Okay, so we have our tasting element.
30:09We are planning on making this the brick wall up on the side that's not finished yet.
30:14We'll just stack them up and we'll have it so that the judges can just grab one of the
30:18bricks and just eat it right off the wall.
30:21We're almost there.
30:22I've got to get the eyeball on, too.
30:27What I really love, and I've never seen this before, they're dangling their tastings from the very top of their display.
30:32And it looks like it's literally hanging on a string, which is very appropriate because it's string cheese.
30:37Oh, I get it.
30:40Ten minutes remain.
30:41Two minutes, guys.
30:42We've got to move.
30:42Oh, my gosh.
30:44It's okay.
30:45Let's go.
30:45Let's go.
30:45Let's go.
30:45Let's go.
30:46Oh, crap.
30:47Go, go, go.
30:48Start adjusting any little things.
30:50No more big things.
30:51Just little things.
30:53Can we try to hang any banners without writing on them really quick?
30:56Well, can you write fast?
30:57I'm not a fast person.
30:58I can.
30:59Ladies, we have got this.
31:00This place needs to be decked out.
31:02Toilet paper to the max, but still show all the details.
31:04Ten.
31:06No.
31:07We've got to go.
31:08Nine.
31:08Come on, guys.
31:09Finish strong.
31:10Eight.
31:10Start piling the desserts on here.
31:11Seven.
31:12I am hurrying.
31:13Six.
31:13Okay, we're freaking out.
31:14Five.
31:14Oh, my God.
31:16Four.
31:17Three.
31:18Just don't break anything.
31:19Two.
31:19You want your hat?
31:20Yes, my gosh.
31:20One.
31:22Time's up.
31:22Here's y'all, guys.
31:24Good job.
31:25I got him.
31:25I got him.
31:26I got him.
31:26I got him.
31:26Poisonous perfection.
31:36On to our high school monster.
31:38What did you make for us?
31:39Our display is senior prank gone wrong.
31:42They decided to go to the principal's office, but what they didn't know was that the principal
31:47had his guard plant on duty.
31:50The plant is made out of beautiful sugar leaves, a pumpkin head and tongue.
31:56The chair is pumpkin, glass window in the back, which is sugar, sweet potato, mummy
32:02head, the rest is cereal tree, and modeling chocolate for the second mummy.
32:08There is spectacular pumpkin carving here.
32:11That tongue looks like it's moving.
32:14I love that the chair is almost its own character.
32:16When I look at this, there are so many big elements here.
32:20It's this shy of being too full, so just watch out for that.
32:23But what I think really makes it work is a simple color palette.
32:28Now, because they have monster faces, I can't tell the age group.
32:31So if you gave us a hint, like monster high or something like that just written on the
32:36backboard, then we would know immediately that we are in a high school office.
32:40So you guys got chocolate milk.
32:42Why don't you tell us what you made for your snack?
32:44It is a butter vanilla cake baked with chocolate milk in it.
32:48And there's also a milk chocolate French meringue buttercream.
32:52And what goes better with milk than cookies?
32:55So we have a butter brown sugar crunch cookie layer inside of it.
33:00I love how this looks.
33:02It's beautiful.
33:02It looks like it belongs in this tableau.
33:07I think that the cookie in here is such a good trait.
33:10It just adds that crunch.
33:12I can taste the chocolate milk for sure.
33:14I wanted something that texturally also reminds me of chocolate milk, purposely make it a little
33:20runny.
33:20Then it would be like, ah, there's the chocolate milk.
33:24Poisonous perfection.
33:25Thank you very much.
33:28What do you think?
33:29Okay.
33:29I think we're doing good.
33:30Under Cakers, pitch us your preschool monster.
33:34These two are known as the Unruly Ghoulies.
33:37And as soon as they got their buckets of bones and fingers and blood, they decided to go back
33:42to their favorite place, the school playground.
33:44Unruly Ghoulie number one is made of all pumpkin.
33:47The vampire number two is made of cake, rice cereal treats, modeling chocolate fondant.
33:52The back is painted with assortments of buttercream.
33:55And the merry-go-round is sugar.
33:57Never in my life have I wanted to pick up and cuddle a ghoul.
34:01No.
34:02But these are so stinking cute.
34:04The color is beautiful.
34:06The backdrop is stunning.
34:08Beautiful work, Tanisha.
34:09Like, really, really gorgeous.
34:11I think my sadness here with this display is that you need to communicate that this is
34:15a school playground, and we're losing all of the clues that told us that it was a school
34:19playground.
34:20I don't really see that display that well.
34:24Nils, your sugar work, especially with this poured sugar in the merry-go-round, really gorgeous.
34:29What I want you to focus on is proportion.
34:32These two characters really covering most of your display.
34:35This gorgeous background that's giving us the sense of environment is also covered.
34:39I would love to see them interact with this merry-go-round, but it's being covered.
34:47Now, your ingredient was mandarin oranges.
34:49Tell us what you made.
34:50So what I made for you today was a caramelized mandarin orange creamsicle cake.
34:55Open the cover.
34:56Really?
34:57Yep.
34:57I'm so scared of messing it up.
34:58Oh.
35:01Oh my gosh.
35:02It was so beautiful.
35:05It is so smart that you kept the segments intact and then left them in the cake, as opposed
35:13to just harvesting the juice, giving me that full mandarin orange experience.
35:19I love the entire experience.
35:21This tasting is just texture galore.
35:24Really thought out.
35:25Good for you.
35:26Nils, this is the best book I ever read.
35:30Class dismissed.
35:32Two high fives.
35:33They're rolling out the orange carpet for the Halloween parade at Skeleton Elementary.
35:40And Spike, our mischievous cowboy ghost, is excited to wreak havoc on his classmates.
35:48Willie made this amazing pumpkin.
35:50The witch legs are pumpkin.
35:52And then we have sugar for her shoes.
35:54The ghost is rice cereal treat.
35:56The mummy is cake and rice cereal treat.
35:59And the head is pumpkin.
36:01Willie, I love watching you work because you are the fastest pumpkin carver I've ever seen.
36:07And it's perfection.
36:09Kimberly, you have a lot of really fun sugar work on there.
36:13And this character, it's beautiful.
36:15I love her body positioning.
36:17I love the clothing.
36:18I just feel like there's something missing from the story.
36:21To me, it looks a little bit unfinished.
36:23You guys did such a great job of going, nope, cut this thing.
36:28Nope, we're going to cut this thing.
36:29Like, you just were very flexible.
36:32And I think that that is the ticket.
36:34To me, the story here gets a little bit lost.
36:36I don't quite get what the interaction is between the two of them.
36:40Now, you had granola bars.
36:41What did you come up with for a tasting element?
36:43We came up with Monster Jumble, which is kind of a twist on a oatmeal chocolate bar.
36:48So it has the oatmeal, and then we decided to add marshmallows and also a fruity element of dried cherries.
36:53I bet you this makes an amazing lunch snack.
36:56I love the fact that you added the sour cherries.
36:58It definitely brings, like, a level of brightness to it.
37:01At the same time, I think it still feels like a lunch snack.
37:04The entire bite is just a little bit too heavy.
37:08Yeah, I agree.
37:08I don't feel like we've taken the granola bar and transformed it into something else.
37:13You've taken the granola bar and made a very good version of a granola bar.
37:17My kids would love this.
37:20How often do you make this for your kids?
37:21I've made it, like, four or five times.
37:23Oh.
37:24I'll have to say that you're not a regular mom.
37:26You're a ghoul mom.
37:27Oh, God.
37:30What do you think?
37:31What do you think?
37:32That they didn't get the story.
37:34Yeah.
37:35We all know that Frankenstein and his future bride were destined to be married.
37:39So we bring you back to scare school where it all started.
37:42With a proper middle school monster bash.
37:45Frankenstein's bride is cake and modeling chocolate and Frankenstein as well.
37:49Cauldron is made out of pumpkin.
37:51We have an amazingly crafted sugar-blown eyeball.
37:56I love all the details on your characters.
37:58My favorite really are the ruffles in the dress, the movement in that fabric.
38:02I love the fact that you have all these eyeballs hanging from the top there.
38:05Just so creepy, but a really fun decorative touch.
38:08I love the way that you guys play with color, with light and dark, so that your characters really feel like they have their own spotlight.
38:16These guys are meant to be middle schoolers.
38:18I wish you did a little bit more to convey that they're middle school.
38:21That made them feel younger, even maybe a flush in the cheek.
38:25So your assigned ingredient was string cheese.
38:28Tell us what you made.
38:30A white chocolate eyeball that's filled with string cheesecake.
38:35Also has a bursting, but also slimy green apple center.
38:40The tendons on it are actually string cheese.
38:42I'm so scared.
38:44Oh my gosh.
38:45Oh.
38:45Wow.
38:46Wow.
38:47We made a bloody caramel cheese fondue elixir for you to dip the eyeball in.
38:53I didn't get the cheese in the very start.
38:55It did come towards the end.
38:57There's a little bit too much caramel.
38:58It really overwhelmed the flavor of the cheese.
39:02It's delicious.
39:03It's creative.
39:05It's interactive.
39:06The whole thing is eating rather sweet, which is not what you're looking for when you're looking for a cheese or a string cheese inspired dish.
39:14This dessert will haunt me for the rest of my life.
39:17Well done.
39:18Thank you so much.
39:19Thanks, guys.
39:19Appreciate it.
39:21We ask you all to imagine what trouble the terrifying tykes of scare school might get into on Halloween night.
39:30One team gave new meaning to the phrase nightmare child.
39:35The winner of this first challenge is...
39:39Poisonous perfection.
39:45Congratulations.
39:49Oven Coven, there were some amazing details on your display and we're giving you a pass.
39:56That leaves under cakers and graveyard shift.
40:00Under cakers, you get an A for really showing the age of these preschool monsters.
40:06But those characters are too big and they cover up that beautiful backboard and the amazing sugar work on that merry-go-round, which makes the story hard to follow.
40:17Graveyard shift.
40:18Lily, you are the valedictorian of pumpkin carving.
40:21But it's hard to understand the story here because the characters aren't interacting at all.
40:29Unfortunately, the team not graduating in this Halloween war is...
40:37Graveyard shift.
40:39I'm sorry.
40:43Nice.
40:43We've worked so, so hard to get here and sometimes you don't succeed, but either way you learn and you grow.
40:49That was so close.
40:51We're not ready to go home.
40:53I'm especially not ready to go home.
40:55Poisonous perfection, Oven Coven, and under cakers.
40:59Congrats.
41:00You all passed scare school.
41:05Next time.
41:07Boom.
41:07Boom, let's go.
41:08Three more teams face off in our final qualifying round.
41:12I'm the youngest here.
41:13I've watched Halloween War since I was nine years old.
41:17This is potentially a life-changing opportunity for me.
41:20And then the battle kicks into overdrive.
41:23If we don't get the cake character on, we're going home.
41:26This stuff is all craziness.
41:27With $25,000 at stake, the surviving teams will have to push the limits of cake.
41:33No.
41:34Sugar.
41:34I need to show them I can get some sugar done.
41:38And carve pumpkin.
41:39Pumpkin all day.
41:40Pumpkin all day, every day.
41:41All the way to the breaking point.
41:43Something this big sounded really good on paper.
41:46But at this point...
41:46Come on.
41:48I'm not so sure it was a good idea.
41:49Who will carve out a win?
41:51I cannot let my team down.
41:52And who will be haunted by defeat?
41:55Whoa.
41:55Oh, my God.
41:56Oh, no.
41:57The wizard fell.
41:58Oh, my God.
41:59Oh, my God.
42:00Oh, my God.
42:00Oh, my God.
42:01Oh, my God.
42:01Oh, my God.
42:01Oh, my God.
42:01Oh, my God.
42:02Oh, my God.
42:03Oh, my God.
42:03Oh, my God.
42:03Oh, my God.
42:04Oh, my God.
42:04Oh, my God.
42:05Oh, my God.
42:05Oh, my God.
42:06Oh, my God.
42:07Oh, my God.
42:08Oh, my God.
42:09Oh, my God.
42:10Oh, my God.
42:11Oh, my God.
42:12Oh, my God.
42:13Oh, my God.
42:14Oh, my God.
42:15Oh, my God.
42:16Oh, my God.
42:17Oh, my God.
42:18Oh, my God.
42:19Oh, my God.
42:20Oh, my God.
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