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Halloween Wars S15E01 (2025)
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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.
00:19To 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.
00:40While 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.
00:56I 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.
01:16Beware.
01:17We're about to plunge you into the depths of sweet and scary.
01:22Challenging your cake, sugar, and pumpkin carving skills in ways too frightening to imagine.
01:30I 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.
01:46Award-winning cake artist, design and decor guru, Shin Min Lee.
01:51My team.
01:52And flavor queen, chef, and author, Artie Sequeira.
01:59One by one, you'll be eliminated.
02:02Until the lone survivor wins $25,000 and the title, Halloween Wars Champion.
02:10Yeah.
02:11Team's poisonous perfection, under cakers, oven coven, and graveyard shift.
02:18You're our first victims.
02:21The rest of you, we'll see you next time.
02:25Bye, everybody.
02:26See you soon.
02:27Everybody is really talented.
02:29And there's a lot of competition.
02:31But we know that we have the skill to win this.
02:34Adult monsters are really good at being terrifying.
02:37But how do kid monsters learn those top shelf scare skills?
02:42They go to scare school, obviously.
02:45Yeah.
02:46In this first challenge, we want you to imagine how young monsters spent the best night of scare school.
02:52Uh-huh.
02:53Each 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.
03:06That's a lot to handle, so you'll each be getting one baking assistant to help you in any way you need.
03:12Yeah.
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.
03:25Granola bar.
03:26Oh, yeah.
03:27Oh, here we go.
03:28Chocolate milk.
03:29Middle school string cheese.
03:30What are you going to do with this?
03:31Our team name is Evan Coven.
03:32I'm David Smith.
03:33And carving pumpkins isn't just a hobby for me.
03:34I'm a multi-time world champion in ice carving and a zero-time pumpkin carving champion.
03:49Oh, middle school.
03:50What can you do with middle school?
03:51Kim is great.
03:52She is our sugar artist.
03:54We're not only both artists, but we're old school rockers.
03:57What'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.
04:05I think David has the middle school dance.
04:07Yeah.
04:08Like that arm...
04:09The Franken dance?
04:10Yeah.
04:11The story of our piece is the future bride of Frankenstein and Frankenstein himself.
04:15We all know that they inevitably get married, but this was their love at first sight moment.
04:20So 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 under cakers.
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 pump and carver.
04:39She's a mother.
04:40She's a grandmother.
04:41She's 67 and she's doing this.
04:43I'm like, girl, amazing.
04:45And Nails is a 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.
04:53What are they called?
04:54Marry go round.
04:55In our piece, the unruly gruelies 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.
05:07You can make a good Dracula?
05:08Yeah.
05:09All right. Excellent.
05:10Well, what kind of crazy things did we do in high school, but if we were monsters?
05:13What did monsters do?
05:14What, getting in trouble with the principal?
05:17Senior prank?
05:18Yeah.
05:19Our team is Poisonous Perfection.
05:21My name's Paulina Stovall and I'm a professional pumpkin carver.
05:24Karine 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.
05:49Okay, so elementary school.
05:51My kids are in elementary school.
05:53Yeah, mine too.
05:54Okay, perfect.
05:55All 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?
06:01Oh yeah.
06:02You need to show the scare school.
06:03The name of our team is Graveyard Shift.
06:06My 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.
06:17A Halloween parade.
06:18Yeah, because that's like part of the costume parade.
06:20Yes.
06:21For 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
06:27and then a werewolf superhero, too.
06:30It's going to be very difficult to do three characters,
06:32but we're really wanting to create something amazing for the judges.
06:35Graveyard Shift.
06:36Let's do this thing.
06:37Let's go.
06:38Come on.
06:39All right.
06:40Let's get some pumpkins.
06:42That one looks terrible, David.
06:43I can make anything good, Nils.
06:45Make anything good.
06:46Wah.
06:47There we go.
06:48Let's go.
06:49All right.
06:50So 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,
06:58so 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
07:08as well as the head of the monster plant.
07:11I'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.
07:22I'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
07:31and live the dream to be able to carve and sculpt full time.
07:35All right.
07:36This is ready for color.
07:38I have perfectly cooked isomalt 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
07:48that 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.
07:58So today, it's all about being the sugar artist.
08:01I 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.
08:12That should be good.
08:14Shinmin, Artie.
08:15We're back.
08:16We're back.
08:17We're back.
08:18We 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, I'm looking for a little bit of cheekiness.
08:31Yeah, I think I want to get a really strong sense of place.
08:33Mm-hmm.
08:34Like the backdrop really needs to say school room.
08:36Yes.
08:37Or playground or something that really says school.
08:40All right, what are you working on first?
08:43Well, I want to start mixing the color for the buttercream.
08:46All right, excellent.
08:47I'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.
09:16Yeah.
09:17So the under cakers have some stuff coming together with their preschool design.
09:20I really love the way that Tanisha's working.
09:22Yeah.
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, so I cannot wait to see how it comes together.
09:32We're going to start trying to pour this merry-go-round.
09:35For the merry-go-round, we're going to pour a 20-inch diameter sugar plate.
09:40I've done a few shows before, been here, you 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,
09:51you know?
09:52Ah, yeah.
09:53I did enough.
09:54Perfect.
09:55I'll put the silver dust in and sort of gave it that metallic look.
09:58Right now, I'm making, like, the head and the arms for the ghost.
10:03We're a 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.
10:17Kat 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.
10:33Willy 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.
10:47All 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. I'm just a stay-at-home mom.
10:59So 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, and the judges will have to pull it right off the wall and taste it.
11:24Teams, we're one hour in. You have six hours to go.
11:27What?
11:28Whoa!
11:29Oh my gosh, we 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, which she'll be painting on a spooky tree background.
11:45It has cracked here, here, here, everywhere. Oh man.
11:57Like it cracks like a lot. Oh, I need redemption.
12:01These little things are the things that the judges are going to notice, and then we can get cut for it.
12:06How do you feel about spooky cracked window? I can even paint some details and make it look super intentional?
12:11Yeah.
12:12Okay.
12:13I'm going to actually accentuate the cracks. I have this special edible luster paint, this beautiful shimmery blood red color, and 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. Okay, good.
12:31Pretty, it's orange. It's Halloween! It's Halloween!
12:34But we have to have the ghouls. Without the ghouls, there's no dance, so carve some of these ghouls up.
12:38We're doing a middle school dance in scare school.
12:41I'm doing a ghost that's doing that thing.
12:44Dabbing.
12:45Dabbing?
12:46Dabbing.
12:47Whatever you teenagers call it these days. I started pumping and carving season three, Halloween Wars, 12 years ago. I have not been to Halloween Wars in 12 years, so this is where it all began.
12:57So this is kind of personal. Like, I 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. Our string cheesecake. So 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
13:18making an edible eyeball with a bursting green apple center
13:22that our judges are going to be able to dip
13:24in bloody red caramel.
13:26These eyeballs will be decorations at the school dance,
13:28hanging from the ceiling.
13:29The string cheesecake here is getting ready to go
13:32into the oven, but I used a lot of extra cheese.
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
13:46that I'm just going to tap out and create a thin shell.
13:49Then I can fill the cavity with our goo.
13:52I'll make, like, the little popping boba,
13:54but I'll make it with green apple.
13:56All right, so I'm just going to strain out the apple
13:59because 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, so as it cools,
14:08it's going to get more of, like, a jelly consistency,
14:10but since we want it to pop,
14:12when I put it into the calcium lactate,
14:14it'll create, like, a shell around it.
14:16Oh, cool.
14:17And when they bite into it, it's going to...
14:18It's slimy, slimy in their mouth.
14:21What's that, the caramel?
14:23Bloody elixir.
14:25But I'm going to do it like a cheese fondue,
14:27so I'm going to make caramel,
14:28and 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,
14:38elementary school, junior high, and high school
14:41that we want to see in these designs.
14:43Yeah, and each group of those school kids
14:45has its own personality.
14:48Like, preschool, they're dealing with separation anxiety
14:50from the parents.
14:51Elementary school, it's like,
14:52what am I going to do at recess?
14:54Like, you know, I think with both middle schoolers
14:56and high schoolers, you want that sense of awkwardness.
14:59So we want to maybe see that in their designs.
15:01I'd love to see that.
15:02Okay, 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,
15:12and 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,
15:25because this is going to go on top of my building.
15:27To really bring out our scare school,
15:29Willy is creating a skull to go on the very top of our piece.
15:32Willy is also going to be carving our mummy head.
15:35In order to make it look like a mummy,
15:36I'm skinning this pumpkin, very light,
15:39to 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.
15:58So 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,
16:09and 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,
16:16and she's also a retired graphic artist.
16:18As a pumpkin carver, I like to shock my grandkids,
16:21and I love it when they just think I'm over the 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,
16:31and they're always telling me at Halloween,
16:33like, calm it down, Grandma.
16:34That's too scary.
16:35We don't like that, but 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.
16:47Ooh.
16:48What?
16:49Five hours.
16:50We got to go.
16:51Got to keep moving.
16:52So 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
16:58to just taste like chocolate.
17:00We have to make sure that this tasting element
17:02tastes like chocolate milk.
17:04What's that, Karine?
17:05The cookie dough.
17:06Crispy deliciousness?
17:07Yeah.
17:08We're making a candle-shaped chocolate vessel
17:10filled with a chocolate milk buttercream,
17:12a chocolate milk butter cake,
17:14and a brown sugar cookie crumble.
17:20Right now, I'm working on the mommy ballerina.
17:23Kat is creating our mommy ballerina out of cake.
17:26We've been given elementary age,
17:28so our mommy 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,
17:45and then I was watching Halloween Wars,
17:48and they just combined all these different techniques,
17:50like painting and sculpting.
17:51And I was like, wow, I can combine all those things
17:54and, like, make it my own and make people really happy.
17:59Currently, I am working on cutting bookshelves
18:01out of tempered chocolate.
18:03Our bookshelf needs to go together
18:05with a back panel, side panels,
18:07and five different shelves.
18:08So I'm gonna need to glue together
18:10every single little part,
18:11make sure it's super strong.
18:12This is not easy, and it is risky,
18:15because there's no armature.
18:16There's nothing other than chocolate on chocolate.
18:19This is just melted chocolate,
18:21but I've already gouged it
18:23with a bunch of little hash marks
18:25to give it more grippy texture.
18:27Jamie is skilled in many different mediums,
18:30and she brings a wealth of knowledge
18:32and 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.
18:41Ugh, I just wanted to work out this time.
18:45So, third time's a charm.
18:47I'm winning this year, and my team,
18:49we're gonna do it.
18:50Bookshelf?
18:51Awesome!
18:52Done?
18:53Yeah!
18:54Four hours left!
18:56Gotta pick it up.
18:57Pick it up.
18:58Oh my gosh, we have so much to do.
18:59I know!
19:00Okay, we are about to roll out
19:02our orange carpet for our monsters,
19:04so we gotta get this all set up
19:05so that we can get everything all staged.
19:07I'm feeling spread thin,
19:09multitasking a lot,
19:10trying to figure out the base right here,
19:12also doing the tasting,
19:13and I'm a sugar artist,
19:14and I haven't started sugar at all.
19:16And I'm getting very, very nervous about it.
19:21I know I'm gonna...
19:22Are you gonna 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,
19:31and they're doing that iconic
19:33elementary school Halloween parade.
19:35I see a lot of work on the,
19:37sort of the ground covering,
19:39it looks like.
19:40Yeah, yeah.
19:41I wish that I saw more, honestly,
19:42in terms of character.
19:43I'm concerned that it's starting
19:45to look a little empty.
19:46Oh gosh, you're doing great.
19:47You gotta get started on your sugar.
19:49I know.
19:50I'm finally getting the opportunity
19:51to start my sugar work,
19:52which is what I'm here for,
19:53and I can't wait to show the judges
19:55what 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
20:04and our bugs, our spiders and cockroaches.
20:06Oh, it's creepy.
20:07I'm making some witch shoes
20:09to go on our witch that's crashing into the wall.
20:11We're gonna just be gnarly, twisty, curvy, just fun.
20:15I'm a stay-at-home mom,
20:16making a huge sacrifice to be here.
20:18I try to up my game and do the best that I can
20:20and really prove that I can do that.
20:22Because we are using a lot of molds
20:24for the bugs and things,
20:25I really wanna show the judges
20:26that I can do the pulling part of Isomold as well.
20:29Tell me when you're ready for the shoes to go on.
20:30Okay.
20:31So we have mandarin origin, our tasting element,
20:33and I'm actually really stoked.
20:35When I was growing up,
20:36my dad actually had a little mandarin orange grove
20:38in at our house,
20:40so I've been eating mandarin oranges forever.
20:41I'd really like to win one, you know, for me
20:43and everybody that works for me
20:44and the city and all that stuff,
20:46and especially my dad this time.
20:48He passed away a few months ago,
20:50and he was always really proud of this,
20:51so I'm gonna really try to, like, take it home.
20:54So this dessert's a nod to him.
20:57We're gonna make a orange creamsicle cream cheese-style cake
21:01with a little bit of caramelized sugar on top.
21:03It's gonna look like an actual book.
21:05All right, we gotta lose some of the syrup
21:07so it's not too sweet,
21:09but we're also gonna cut in some fresh mandarins
21:11for a little bit more body
21:12because these guys tend to fall apart,
21:14and we're gonna bake them whole into the cake
21:15so it'll be like you're eating oranges.
21:17As soon as it's a mandarin orange cake,
21:19we want it to be in the cake.
21:22If you're gonna say it's something,
21:23it better taste like it.
21:25Okay.
21:26We're going to the oven.
21:27You ready?
21:28We're good.
21:30Only three hours to go.
21:33Dark cookies.
21:35Karine is still working on our candle tasting element.
21:39So I'm gonna 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
21:48and then cake
21:49and a brown sugar cookie crumble in the middle,
21:53and then, like, roll them out and freeze it.
21:56Go to the freezer.
21:57So far, we've completed our backboard
22:00and our bookcase as well as the chair is done.
22:03I just have to paint it.
22:05I'm a little concerned about the two characters.
22:07We still have our two mummies to create and put on.
22:11I'm thinking that we should just get those characters.
22:15I'm gonna be immediately jumping onto characters.
22:18I'm gonna bust out an arm with you.
22:20Oh, yeah.
22:21Okay, I'll take a little bit of that.
22:23Hey, how's it going?
22:25Good.
22:26I'm sorry. I know you...
22:27Don't apologize.
22:28This is my comfort zone.
22:29Let's do it.
22:30Okay, good.
22:31Corrine has so much on her plate already,
22:33but we realize there's no mummies.
22:35Jamie says I need to step in and help with these mummies.
22:38You wanna start, like, just smearing on chunks
22:40while I get some rolled out to cover the body faster.
22:45You got this, guys. Come on.
22:46Yep.
22:47Let's keep going. Keep going.
22:48As far as time goes, you got a lot on your plate.
22:51Are you gonna be okay?
22:52Because I'm gonna get through
22:53and I'm gonna step onto whatever we need, okay?
22:54Yeah, yeah.
22:55And I know when you're done,
22:56you're gonna come over and, like, help too, so...
22:57You're good.
22:58But just keep me posted.
22:59Keep me posted.
23:00Yeah.
23:01My character is Dracula.
23:02I'm making him from cake and rice cereal.
23:05So when I'm sculpting,
23:06I usually like to just start with a small round head
23:09and then go in with my modeling chocolates
23:11to just build up the cheekbones.
23:13Growing up in Guyana, 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.
23:25We have to move the merry-go-round
23:26because we need to get the characters on it.
23:29Oh.
23:30This merry-go-round can't break
23:32because 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 gotta run.
23:39Oh, boy.
23:40Keep it moving.
23:41Where do you want them?
23:42I would say as close to that thing as you can.
23:44Cut. Go.
23:46I think the underkakers,
23:48that'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
23:54that they know how to handle the weight of larger characters.
23:57Yeah.
23:58But their characters are actually just way too big.
24:00Yeah.
24:01What do you think?
24:02How does that look?
24:03They're just big is really what it, you know,
24:04the scale-wise, they're big.
24:05They're too big.
24:06I mean, they're all just big,
24:07but we just gotta go with what it is, right?
24:09Yep.
24:10Maybe they got supersized because it's Halloween.
24:12I don't know.
24:13You're looking at two hours to go.
24:15What?
24:16Oh, God.
24:17Let's go. Let's go.
24:18Keep moving.
24:19Make 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
24:22and just copy what you're doing
24:24so that our faces look similar.
24:25We want to make sure that these mummies look nearly identical,
24:29have 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, and I would love it if you could paint my face also
24:46and put a lot of those same, like, depths and highlights and things like that.
24:49Yeah?
24:50Okay.
24:51Um, heads are ready.
24:53Should we have him turning like this?
24:55Yeah, have him turn towards the judges if you can.
24:57Like that, yeah?
24:58Yeah.
24:59So right now I am building the dress to our Bride of Frankenstein.
25:04We're making their middle school dads 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,
25:14and then they're going to marry them onto our scene.
25:16She's coming.
25:17What I'm going for with the faces is I want them to look like the monsters.
25:20I want them to 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 it.
25:38I put a little pinkish kind of color and then a little, a few little white dots on some of 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.
25:51When a character is split between two artists, it usually makes us a little nervous.
25:55Yeah.
25:56Because we'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.
26:07Right.
26:08It's outside.
26:09There are these spooky trees in the background.
26:10Yeah.
26:11But until those characters hit that display, I am 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.
26:28Yeah.
26:29It's even more beautiful now.
26:30I'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.
26:36But I'm going to get through it because I don't want to let you guys down.
26:40It 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?
26:51We can.
26:52We have to.
26:53I'm doing three characters and I just think it's just too much for me to do at this point.
26:58So 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.
27:12I have so much to do.
27:14Oh my gosh.
27:15Everybody else's is so multidimensional.
27:18What else can we add?
27:19Oh my gosh.
27:20Okay, yes.
27:21Poor board.
27:22Wow.
27:23Yeah, we definitely need to step it up.
27:25I know I got to add more.
27:26I 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 in their different pieces
27:35and how maybe we're lacking a little bit since we had to take away our werewolf character and we need to add some more things.
27:41Luckily, Willie comes to the rescue.
27:43This 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 add to our piece.
27:53So I am making a couple candles to go like sconces on the wall.
27:58So I'm creating a light inside and I'll cover the back as well.
28:01And we have the candle kind of melting down.
28:04Let's talk about graveyard shift.
28:06I think that their whole display is finally looking more balanced.
28:10And I think it's because they actually placed more elements in the back of the right side of the display where that wolf character would have been.
28:18Right.
28:19So I think they really thought out how to fill up that space.
28:2230 minutes on the clock.
28:24Oh my gosh, we have so much to do.
28:26I know.
28:27Now I'm scared.
28:28That's bad.
28:29Now I'm scared.
28:30You 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.
28:35Time to fly.
28:36Time to fly.
28:37Okay.
28:38So I'm going to go on to the book.
28:39We're going to get the tasting elements on because that has to be otherwise that's a for sure done.
28:43We want to put our tasting element in a book because they're at school.
28:47So Nils 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 inside.
28:57We're going to do this.
28:59Let's go.
29:00Come on.
29:01Come on, baby.
29:02Go, go, go.
29:03Behind you, Tanisha.
29:04I got to get in here.
29:05Sorry.
29:06Perfect.
29:07All right, cool.
29:08Looks old and crickly.
29:09I 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 is still a lot on everyone's plates, so we really have to push hard.
29:21So 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 when we put it in.
29:31I'm going to get some sugar pulling.
29:33Jamie 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.
30:02Ten minutes.
30:04Ten minutes left.
30:06Okay, 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.
30:14And we'll just stack them up.
30:15And we'll have it so that the judges can just grab one of the bricks and just eat it right off the wall.
30:21We're almost there.
30:22I got to get the eyeball on too.
30:26What I really love, and I've never seen this before, they're dangling their tastings from the very top of their display.
30:32Yeah.
30:33And it looks like it's literally hanging on a string.
30:35Yeah.
30:36Which is very appropriate because it's string cheese.
30:37Oh!
30:38Right?
30:39Oh, I get it.
30:40Two minutes remain.
30:41Got it.
30:42Two minutes, guys.
30:43We got to move.
30:44Oh, my gosh.
30:45It's okay.
30:46Let's go.
30:47Let's go.
30:48Oh, crap.
30:49Go, go, go.
30:50Start adjusting any little things.
30:51No more big things.
30:52Just little things.
30:53Can we try to hang any banners without writing on them really quick?
30:57Well, can you write fast?
30:58I'm not a fast one.
30:59I can.
31:00Ladies, we have got this.
31:01This place needs to be decked out.
31:02Toilet paper to the max, but still show all the details.
31:05Ten.
31:06No.
31:07We got to go.
31:08Nine.
31:09Come on, guys.
31:10Finish strong.
31:11Eight.
31:12Start piling the desserts on here.
31:13Seven.
31:14I am hurrying.
31:15Six.
31:16Okay, we're freaking out.
31:17Five.
31:18Oh, my God.
31:19Four.
31:20Three.
31:21Just don't break anything.
31:22Two.
31:23You want your hat?
31:24Yes, my hat.
31:25One.
31:26Time's up.
31:27Good job.
31:28I got him.
31:29I got him.
31:30Poisonous perfection.
31:35On to our high school monster.
31:37What did you make for us?
31:39Our display is senior prank gone wrong.
31:42They decided to go to the principal's office.
31:45But what they didn't know was that the principal had 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.
31:58Glass window in the back, which is sugar.
32:00Sweet potato, mummy head.
32:03The rest is cereal tree.
32:05And 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.
32:17When 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.
32:24But 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 backboard,
32:36then 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.
32:49And 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.
33:03It 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.
33:19Purposely make it a little runny.
33:21Then 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.
33:30I think we're doing good.
33:31Under Cakers.
33:32Pitch 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,
33:41they decided to go back to 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.
34:04Me neither.
34:05The 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 a school playground
34:16and we're losing all of the clues that told us that it was a school playground.
34:20I don't really see that display that well.
34:23Nils, 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.
34:43Now 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.
34:58Pull it open.
34:59I'm so scared of messing it up.
35:00Oh.
35:01I have to see.
35:02Oh my gosh.
35:03It was so beautiful.
35:04It 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.
35:29Class dismissed.
35:32Two high fives.
35:35They're rolling out the orange carpet for the Halloween parade at Skeleton Elementary.
35:41And 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.
36:02Willie, 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.
36:30Like, 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.
37:09I 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?
37:22I'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.
37:28What do you think?
37:31What do you think?
37:32I bet they didn't get the story.
37:34Yeah.
37:35We all know that Frankenstein and his future bride were destined to be married.
37:40So we bring you back to scare school where it all started with 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.
38:29A 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.
38:43Oh my gosh.
38:45Wow.
38:46We made a bloody caramel cheese fondue elixir for you to dip the eyeball in.
38:52I 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.
38:59It 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.
39:20Appreciate it.
39:21We asked 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.
39:40Poisonous perfection.
39:41Congratulations.
39:42Oven Coven.
39:43There were some amazing details on your display and we're giving you a pass.
39:57That leaves under cakers and graveyard shift.
40:01You get an A for really showing the age of these preschool monsters, but 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.
40:16Graveyard shift.
40:18Willy, you are the valedictorian of pumpkin carving.
40:22But 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.
40:38Graveyard shift.
40:39I'm sorry.
40:43Nice.
40:44We'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.
40:52We're not ready to go home.
40:53I'm especially not ready to go home.
40:55Poisonous perfection.
40:56Oven Coven.
40:58And under cakers.
40:59Congrats.
41:00You all passed scare school.
41:06Next time.
41:07Boom.
41:08Boom.
41:09Let's go.
41:10Three more teams face off in our final qualifying round.
41:12I'm the youngest here.
41:14I'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.
41:32Sugar.
41:33I 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.
41:47Come on.
41:48I'm not so sure it was a good idea.
41:50Who will carve out a win?
41:51I cannot let my team down.
41:53And who will be haunted by defeat?
41:55Whoa.
41:56Oh my God.
41:57Oh no.
41:58The wizard fell.
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