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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...
00:11When in doubt, let's throw blood on it.
00:13I'm enjoying this more than I should be.
00:15...join forces with elite pumpkin carver.
00:18She's the pumpkin queen.
00:20Couldn't have picked a round one.
00:21Nope.
00:21To create hair-raising, devilishly delicious Halloween masterpieces.
00:26It's delicious. It's creative.
00:28This dessert will haunt me for the rest of my life.
00:31This year, the competition's fiercer than ever.
00:35This is the one you gotta win.
00:36As first-time competitors fight to prove their worth...
00:39I cannot let my team down.
00:41Winning this would just set me apart from all of those other cake artists.
00:45While some familiar faces fight for redemption.
00:48Last year, I got real close.
00:51This year, we're gonna do it.
00:52Tonight...
00:54We have a lot to prove.
00:55I feel like we might be the underdogs.
00:57Three new teams battle it out in our last qualifying round.
01:01I'm back with a burning passion.
01:03I spent the last few years of my life training just for this moment.
01:06And I'm not about to let it go to waste.
01:08To get one step closer to the title of Halloween Wars champions and $25,000.
01:15I have been sent home before on the first week, and I am not doing that again.
01:18This is just a nightmare.
01:20I'm not gonna give up.
01:21Halloween Wars starts right now.
01:30From keepers, terrifying trio, and wicked sculptors.
01:35If you want to escape today's battle alive and move one step closer to $25,000, you need to win over our judges.
01:44Award-winning cake artist, Shin Minley.
01:47Hi, guys.
01:47And chef and author, Artie Sequeira.
01:50Hi, everybody.
01:52In this first challenge, we want you to take a stab at a Halloween-style true crime.
01:59You'll each find a case file back at your stations.
02:02It contains assignments for your detective character, your victim, and a spooky location.
02:08Use your imagination to connect the dots and create a one-of-a-kind creature crime scene.
02:18Each display must have at least two fully realized distinct characters.
02:24For your tasting element, you're each getting the same assigned ingredients.
02:29Coffee and donuts.
02:30Yes.
02:31So excited.
02:33So it's up to you to make sure yours stands out.
02:37And a crack investigative team needs as much help as they can get.
02:41So you're each getting one baking assistant.
02:43In true crime, the first 48 hours are all that matters.
02:48Here, you get seven.
02:51And that time starts now.
02:55Let's take a look at our file.
02:57Okay, so ghost is the victim.
02:58So the Frankenstein must be the detective then.
03:00That's right.
03:01Yeah.
03:01Okay.
03:01Graveyard.
03:02Graveyard.
03:03Oh, that'll be so fun.
03:05All right, so we got zombie detective alien victim at the mall.
03:10I like the mall.
03:11Mall's kind of cool.
03:12I don't like the mall.
03:13You know, the perfume department, that always, like, weirded me out as a kid, just with the
03:17scents and everything.
03:19That's doable.
03:20We are the Crumb Creepers.
03:22My name is Anthony Pater.
03:23I am 22 years old, and I am an animator, and I love carving pumpkins.
03:27Vanna is our wicked cake artist, but also served in the military, and Jen is our lovely sugar
03:34artist.
03:34She works in tech, but she's a self-taught artist.
03:37She is precise, she is calculated, and she's ready to kill.
03:42Maybe it's corrosive.
03:43Maybe the alien is trying to, and it, like, burns her flesh.
03:47Our display is going to be a zombie detective trying to figure out why people have been dying
03:51at the local mall, and he learns from a dead alien victim that it's the perfume that's
03:57killing people.
04:00Okay, so we got a witch, and we have the clown.
04:02Oh, and a birthday party.
04:03And where else would you have a birthday party?
04:05Okay.
04:06Um, at a park?
04:07Yeah.
04:07Yeah.
04:08Okay.
04:09Our team is the Wicked Sculptors.
04:12I'm Emery Leanne Miller.
04:13I'm a sugar artist.
04:14This is my third time coming back for Halloween Wars.
04:18Our cake artist is Serena, and our pumpkin carver is Rebecca.
04:22She's a woodworker.
04:23She's a tattoo artist.
04:24She can do just about anything.
04:26Yep.
04:27And the witch.
04:28The witch.
04:28All right, witch.
04:28What's she doing?
04:29I see, like, film noir witch with, like, the purple trench coat.
04:34For our display, we want to have a clown at a birthday party that has fallen victim to
04:40another rival clown, and the witch is looking around at all the different clues that point
04:44to the perpetrator in the back.
04:47Yeah.
04:47Okay, she's crouched over.
04:49Okay, perfect.
04:51So how is the ghost killed?
04:54It's like, um, like a ghost-icide or something?
04:57Our detective is Frankenstein.
05:00The victim is the ghost, and the location is a graveyard.
05:03Maybe there's, like, a groundskeeper on the graveyard that-
05:06Oh, that would make sense.
05:07It is, like, no hauntings allowed.
05:09Our team is the terrifying trio.
05:13My name is Kylie Holt, and I am the cake artist.
05:16My nickname is Smiley Kylie because I am always smiling.
05:19Kelly Shivery is our sugar artist, and she has been a paralegal for 30 years, but she also
05:25runs her own custom cake business.
05:27Michael Valoroso is a helicopter mechanic from Canada, and he is our pumpkin carver.
05:33I think I could probably do a ghost out of sugar.
05:35You think so?
05:36We decide to have the groundskeeper, a hunchback.
05:39He's got his ghost-begone spray, and he sees a ghost, and he sprays it.
05:44And Detective Frank N. Stein witnesses the whole thing, and we'll have fog everywhere.
05:49We should grab our materials.
05:52All right, now, let's go.
05:53Get your pumpkin.
05:53Let's go, let's go, let's go.
05:55Oh.
05:56Ah, pumpkin, pumpkin.
05:58Talk to me, baby.
06:00If it's heavier than it looks like it should be, it's a good one.
06:03It's light.
06:05Oh, yeah.
06:06It's perfect.
06:08Take this one.
06:10All right, judges, we are meeting three new teams today.
06:14We've got high expectations, and I am so excited for this challenge because I am a true
06:19crime junkie.
06:21I think this is cool because, you know, when it comes to Halloween, we think about being
06:25scared and monsters and being surprised.
06:28Yeah.
06:28But there's also a sense of mystery to Halloween, and I don't think that that's an aspect of
06:33this holiday that we think about enough.
06:35So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to prep this butternut squash for carving.
06:39I'm working on my zombie head.
06:41Two and a half years ago was my first time on the show, and I wasn't ready.
06:45I definitely think I had a lot to learn technically, artistically.
06:49I was on season 12 of Halloween Wars, and we got eliminated three rounds in.
06:53I'm back with a burning passion.
06:55I want to kill it.
06:56I want to prove that I'm an even better sculptor.
06:58I trained for this very specific moment.
07:00I sharpened my skills.
07:01I took classes.
07:02I traveled places.
07:04I spent the last few years of my life just for this moment, and I'm not about to let it
07:09go to waste.
07:10Archaic artist, Vanna gets to work on the tile floor.
07:13It's a bit of ivory modeling chocolate mixed with some brown, and it looks like I'm all-setting.
07:17I am excited to do Halloween Wars because I do like art that's more on the dark side,
07:23the blood, the guts, and stuff.
07:25So it comes natural to me to make it.
07:27Vanna served in the military.
07:29She started baking for her daughter, and she made a business out of it.
07:33She is driven.
07:34She's motivated.
07:35She is a natural-born leader, and she never steps down from a challenge.
07:38So, Anthony, I'm hoping to do the air-casted bottles.
07:42All right.
07:43Sounds good.
07:43These bottles are like champagne color.
07:46It's so pretty.
07:47Mm.
07:48Very French.
07:50Jen's got a big job ahead of her.
07:51She has to create all the perfume bottles on the shelves.
07:55Being here on Halloween Wars is awesome because my day job, I am a programmer.
08:00I don't get to use my art, so being able to do this and use my art is amazing.
08:06I went to school for art, and I don't use it.
08:08My mom's probably really upset about that.
08:11Although I probably make more money than I did as an artist.
08:14Jen works in tech full-time, and she even went to school to study graphic design so that
08:19she could combine her two passions, science and art.
08:23She's self-taught.
08:24She's passionate.
08:25Jen is here because she absolutely wants to prove that she can slay the competition.
08:29Okay, let's try this.
08:32I'm starting my sugar work.
08:34Because our setting is a birthday party, I want to do a blown sugar balloon animal.
08:38I have done this before several times, so I am coming back as a very experienced person,
08:44but I've never won.
08:45I'm not taking this lightly at all because Halloween Wars, in my opinion, is the ultimate competition
08:51that you can do ever, and to be able to hold that champion title, that is insane, and I
08:58really, really want that title.
09:01I'm hoping third time's a charm.
09:03The balloon animal is done, you guys.
09:05Yay!
09:07It's so cute.
09:08I'm working on the witch's head.
09:12Our cake artist, Serena, is starting on the detective witch.
09:16I am a first-generation Cambodian American.
09:20I was actually born in a refugee camp there, but I basically grew up in the United States.
09:25I am completely self-taught.
09:26I've always dabbled in the fine arts.
09:28I didn't really went far with it as she studied history and did pre-law because I always thought
09:33I'd be a lawyer.
09:33I've always had a form of imposter syndrome, but I believe that, you know, this art is
09:41something you can refine and work on and actually get good at to even compete in this sort of
09:48arena.
09:50The actual bounce house is going to be constructed of this white pumpkin that needs to have the
09:56bouncing children playing.
09:58I'm an artist by trade.
09:59I'm a woodworker professionally and a tattoo artist, but I'm now pumpkin carve as well,
10:06which has been a lot of fun because it just fits right in with many of the other mediums that I use
10:11already on a regular basis.
10:13I use a lot of excessively sharp woodworking tools.
10:17They come in really handy when you're doing stuff like this because they slice through the pumpkins
10:21as though they were butter.
10:23I want this tree to have a lot of gnarly texture and be like super bumpy and old and rickety and just
10:34full of character.
10:36I start making a beautiful textured modeling chocolate tree popping out of that backdrop.
10:42I have never been on Halloween Wars.
10:43I've done lots of competitions before.
10:45I won best in show in the Cake Artists of Utah competition.
10:50I've also had my work printed in several magazines.
10:53But Halloween Wars has been a bucket list show ever since I started watching it.
10:58This is just something special.
11:00And winning this would just set me apart from all of those other cake artists.
11:03What I'm doing right now is activating the yeast for our yeast dough.
11:08Kelly starts on the tasting element.
11:10We've decided on a yeast donut because when you think of donut, yeast donut is what most people
11:15think of.
11:16Our tasting element will be a raised yeast donut with an espresso coffee pastry cream and a raspberry
11:24dipping sauce.
11:25Proofing is when you have the dough, you have to let it rise in a warm place until it doubles
11:30in size.
11:30We know that this is a little risky, choosing this yeast-raised donut, but we have to stand
11:36out against the competition and make ours the best donut out there.
11:41Go big or go home.
11:43Wow, you're really moving there, Michael.
11:45Yeah.
11:46He's cruising.
11:46I'm too.
11:47We actually decide to push the envelope and do three fully realized characters.
11:53I'm going to do Frankenstein out of Cake.
11:55Kelly is going to do the ghost out of Isomalt.
11:57And Michael jumps right into carving the hunchback's head.
12:01I'm using this tool that I fabricated out of a bolt from a transmission of helicopter.
12:07By the way, I'm a full-time helicopter mechanic and pumpkin carving is my hobby.
12:11I saw TV shows like Halloween Wars and then tried to teach myself.
12:17And for me, Halloween Wars is the Olympic for pumpkin carvers and cake artists.
12:22Kelly and Michael have never done a competition like this.
12:25So we're kind of newbies together.
12:27And I feel like we might be the underdogs.
12:29So that means we have a lot to prove.
12:31I am a little nervous because here with Terrifying Trio, each one of them is taking a character.
12:36There will be a pumpkin character, a sugar character, and a cake character.
12:40It feels like everybody go to your corner and do your work and then we'll meet up at the end.
12:44And in our experience, that doesn't usually work out well.
12:48Right.
12:48Unless you're very communicative.
12:50What was that, Artie?
12:51What was that?
12:51I'm in my corner.
12:52I'm in my corner.
12:54Oh, I love it.
12:56Six hours.
12:57You have six hours left.
12:58Oh.
12:58Six hours.
12:59Six hours.
13:00Six hours.
13:00Dang.
13:03Anthony?
13:04Yeah.
13:04Our second leg and arm is done.
13:07While I'm carving, Vanna is working on the zombie body.
13:10It's fantastic to hear.
13:11I'm still on the head.
13:13After this, I can move on to a foot if you'd like.
13:14So that way we can just get that over with.
13:16Focus on the head.
13:16We'll figure it out.
13:17I was going to say, right now, I'm very early in locking.
13:19Oh, he looks so good.
13:20Is this looking okay for size?
13:21Um, well, you know we're 20-something inches tall.
13:25And so, we might need to go bigger.
13:31A little bigger?
13:32Yeah.
13:32I don't know if I can add on, so.
13:34No, don't.
13:35What about the flesh?
13:37That'll make him look bigger.
13:38Yeah, I can't add on to the squash, though.
13:40I was decently into the sculpt.
13:43And I'm thinking, what am I going to do now?
13:46Oh, I hate that we can't use them.
13:48We scaled everything.
13:53We realized this head, too small.
13:56And if it's too small, it won't be in proportion with the rest of the body.
14:00And I got to start over.
14:02I got to start all over.
14:04I'm so sorry, but you did that so fast.
14:06I know you can do it again.
14:07As the time moves forward and we're racing against the clock, we can't have this.
14:11I was so frustrated because I felt that my carving was off to a great start.
14:17Let me see what magic I can pull.
14:21What I'm doing now is I'm making sure that the eye sockets are properly receding to make a strong profile.
14:28I'm an animator by trade, and that comes with a lot of advantages.
14:32I have a great sense of movement.
14:34I have the ability to personify, to bring things to life that no one else can even visualize.
14:42Our zombie head.
14:43Benna, check this out.
14:44That is so good.
14:47Once I finish the head, I work on the feet of the zombie.
14:51I'm the youngest here.
14:52And it's so weird because I remember seeing some of my fellow competitors on TV when I was a kid.
14:58Being a young competitor, the advantage is I've got a fresh perspective on creativity, on artistry.
15:04I don't follow traditions, so to bring my own game is what sets me apart from everyone else.
15:10Toes are just another piece of butternut squash.
15:13Yeah, this is looking like a foot.
15:15We're going to do it.
15:15We're going to solve the crime in five hours.
15:18Five hours left.
15:19Let's go faster.
15:19Let's go faster.
15:20Now I'm modeling Frankenstein's head out of rice cereal treat.
15:25For our display, Frankenstein is spying on the groundskeeper hunchback from behind a gravestone.
15:32I'm actually not a born baker.
15:34Like a lot of bakers say, I was baking when I was a little girl in the kitchen.
15:39That was not me.
15:40I was a dancer all my life, and I also actually wanted to be an astronaut.
15:46And so I went to college to become an astronaut and pursue that dream.
15:51But I was miserable, and so I came home to be a stay-at-home mom.
15:55That's when I started baking, mostly for my kids.
15:59And I just fell in love with art that you can actually eat.
16:02And it's really nice that I get to use that background in math and science
16:07from trying to become an astronaut in my cake design.
16:10I like the kneeling Frank, though.
16:12He looks like he's about ready to propose to the future Mrs. Frankenstein.
16:16Will you marry me?
16:20How are you doing?
16:21I'm just working on final details for the expression
16:24because I want her to really be focused on the magnifying glass.
16:29I'm watching Serena work on this witch for now three hours,
16:32and I'm not seeing much progress happen.
16:34So we need to let her know that it's time to stop with the fine details.
16:38Hey, Serena.
16:39Yes.
16:39Is it possible for us to hold off on painting for a while
16:43just because we don't have the body made all the way?
16:46Serena was going to do the torso of both of our characters,
16:50and I'm really getting worried that she's not going to be able to move on.
16:53Don't think about this as something that you need to be perfect on either.
16:57Yeah, I know.
16:57Like, it looks amazing as is already.
17:00I'm an A-type personality perfectionist,
17:02so it's really hard for me to step away from a piece,
17:04and especially when details matter at the core of the piece itself.
17:09I still have a lot of work to do on the body,
17:11but once this is set, this will go by a lot faster.
17:13Watch out for flying pumpkin.
17:17Our clown head is pumpkin.
17:19I'm not a pumpkin carver by trade.
17:21I've only been at it about three years,
17:23but I do feel like I need to kind of prove myself
17:26and show that I can, like, run with the big dogs
17:29and make a name for myself in the pumpkin carving world.
17:32So that's kind of the goal, by being here.
17:35So this is my first time airbrushing pumpkin.
17:38It's really important to be careful while you're doing this
17:40because once the color's down, there's really no coming back from it.
17:48So we have a body that's done.
17:50That is absolutely what I want to hear.
17:52Vanna begins work on the zombie detective
17:55trying to solve the mystery at the local mall.
17:58I am making pants legs, and I'm using modeling chocolate
18:02because it holds its form easier than fondant.
18:05I am tearing up the zombie's clothes
18:09because he's a zombie and everything about him is decaying.
18:12Vanna completes the zombie body,
18:14and she's getting to work on the alien now.
18:16I would say my artistic style, my strength is in sculpting.
18:19I cannot draw.
18:21I never could draw.
18:22I was failing art class.
18:24Somehow, I just kind of figured it out,
18:26and I like color and shading
18:27because that helps to add depth and dimension.
18:32This team is in great shape.
18:34In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb here
18:36and say they are in the best shape of all the teams
18:39at this moment.
18:40That's not even out.
18:41That's like for sure.
18:42For sure, for sure.
18:43I'm so scared to say it because I don't want to jinx them,
18:46but I see two characters almost fully realized on their display,
18:51and that is huge right now.
18:54Hurry up.
18:55You've only got four hours left.
18:57Four hours.
18:58Oh, my gosh.
18:59Okay, okay.
18:59Four hours.
18:59Come on.
19:00Come on.
19:01So right now, I'm deconstructing the pumpkin that I took
19:04to make the hunchback body.
19:07After finishing the hunchback's head,
19:10Michael jumps right to carving the hunchback.
19:11Michael has built an armature,
19:13and he is putting large chunks of pumpkin on the structure.
19:18So right now, I'm having a problem
19:20on how I'm going to stick all this pumpkin on my structure.
19:24The pumpkin Michael used is just too thin,
19:27and there are big gaps all over the body.
19:30We came up with a solution.
19:31I'm going to use modern chocolate
19:34and glue it together on the pumpkin,
19:37and hopefully this will solve my entire problem right here.
19:43This is the first time I've been doing modeling chocolate.
19:46Michael, he's carved this beautiful pumpkin head,
19:49but he didn't realize that modeling chocolate
19:52doesn't stick to pumpkin.
19:54Pumpkin is about 75% water.
19:56You know, he's experimenting for the first time
19:58on this competition, and I'm really scared for him.
20:00Kelly, I'm going to redo this character.
20:02I agree. It looks really messy.
20:05Exactly. I'm just going to get one pumpkin
20:07and try it again.
20:08Okay.
20:08So now he scraps the pumpkin and starts from scratch.
20:13But at this point, I'm a little bit nervous
20:16about what's going to happen in the competition.
20:18Not going to give up.
20:20They've had a really terrifying time, honestly.
20:23They have.
20:23I feel really bad for them.
20:25Yeah, I think of all three teams,
20:27the terrifying trio is probably the most behind.
20:29It's not coming together?
20:34The pumpkin that I get, still tending.
20:37It's okay.
20:38I'll think of something else.
20:41This is not going to work.
20:43We do not have any more time
20:45to do things a third time.
20:47This is just a nightmare.
20:52Okay.
20:53Goodness.
20:54Right now, I'm still in trouble
20:57of making his entire body out of pumpkin.
21:01So now I have my last result,
21:03which is using rice, cereal,
21:06aluminum foil, and modeling chocolate.
21:09I have to make it work.
21:10I am feeling a little bit disappointed
21:14that we had to scrap the pumpkin
21:16because I was really looking forward
21:18to having that pumpkin piece on our display.
21:21But we've created a story
21:23that has to have that hunchback in there.
21:26We just need to make sure we get a character done.
21:28I feel a little bit confident
21:29compared to the two that I just tried a while ago
21:32and used this one as our piece.
21:35Three hours on the clock.
21:36Three hours.
21:36I am making my pate-a-shoe dough,
21:41which is basically the same process as a cruller.
21:45I'm really feeling the pressure
21:47to make our tasting element stand out
21:49from all the others
21:50because we all have coffee and donuts.
21:52Gotta let that cook on the outside first.
21:54We are at a birthday party outdoors
21:56and we have a picnic table.
21:59So I'm thinking of making a hamburger.
22:02I'm making a curl brew burger.
22:04We have a pate-a-shoe bun.
22:07Our patty is a sea-salted caramel espresso ganache.
22:10And for the cheese,
22:12we have a fried wonton wrapper
22:14dipped in cinnamon sugar.
22:16So I am making one of my favorite recipes,
22:18which is a sea-salted caramel chocolate ganache.
22:21I think chocolate and coffee is amazing together.
22:24Once I've brought my ganache together,
22:26I start adding coffee concentrate
22:28to really incorporate that flavor.
22:30Oh, I can smell the coffee.
22:31I also want to dip my pate-a-shoe in a coffee glaze.
22:38Okay, let's assemble some boigos.
22:41This is my hamburger bun made out of pate-a-shoe.
22:44I am filling it with a sea-salted caramel espresso ganache.
22:48Emily's really going for it.
22:49Then she's going to use wonton wrappers
22:51that she deep fries to look like cheese
22:53that's on the inside of it.
22:55That's something we've never seen on Halloween Wars.
22:57That's gonna be some serious crunch, too.
22:58I need these burgers to come to life
23:01just a little bit more.
23:02So I want to add a little razzle-dazzle,
23:05some sesame seeds right on top.
23:08And there we have it, burgers.
23:10The tombstone needs to be fairly thick.
23:12Oh, yeah.
23:13Kelly is working on the giant tombstone
23:16that Frankenstein will be hiding behind.
23:18And our third character, the ghost.
23:21I don't do this full-time as a living.
23:23Been a paralegal for almost 30 years.
23:25I love being a paralegal, but sugar is my passion.
23:30And I want to prove that I can hang with everybody else
23:34who is a professional.
23:35So I feel like I need to go above and beyond to show that.
23:42It's really important that I show them
23:44that I have some versatility in the different kinds of techniques
23:48I can use and the different kinds of pieces I can make.
23:53Look at that!
23:54I can get molded a little bit.
23:55That looks awesome.
23:57Kelly, you're doing great.
23:59Hey, Serena, how's your witch coming?
24:02Witch is good.
24:05I just need to add a few more details.
24:09Serena is working on the witch right now.
24:11We'll tell you, Serena gives good face.
24:13Like, the face on that witch is amazing.
24:16But that's all that's done right now.
24:18She really needs to start working on the other elements.
24:21She needs to finish the body on the witch,
24:23and she needs to create the other clown.
24:25We definitely need both the witch and the clown on our board,
24:28or else the story doesn't make any sense.
24:30And we could go home for that.
24:32Two hours left!
24:34What do you need help with, Serena?
24:35I am a little bit behind on her details on the head,
24:39so I can use some help on the torso.
24:40If you can help me just finish the bottom portion of the witch,
24:46it'd be awesome.
24:47I have been sent home before on the first week,
24:49and I am not doing that again.
24:50We're going to be a team.
24:51I can help you out.
24:52I can do some cake.
24:54Thank you so much.
24:55Of course.
24:56Thank goodness the team rallied together,
24:58and they were tag-teaming both characters.
25:00I'm not going to fault the witch for her taking so much time,
25:03because I love the chin,
25:04and I am a sucker for a good jawline.
25:07That witch has a fantastic jawline.
25:08So sorry, guys.
25:09You don't be sorry.
25:10No, you're fine.
25:11You're good.
25:12You're good.
25:13You're great.
25:13The witch body is almost done.
25:15Yay!
25:16Look, the clown, he's going to have a nice little pot belly,
25:20so he's going to be pretty easy to put together.
25:22We'll have two bodies to go with the faces.
25:25Emerly turned around and said, how can I help?
25:27That's really great.
25:29Emerly has been here several times before.
25:31She knows what teamwork involves.
25:33This is something, if they get through,
25:35obviously Serena cannot repeat this,
25:37because they got lucky this time.
25:40They may not be so lucky the next time.
25:42Because clown shoes are already kind of shaped like butternut squash anyways,
25:45to just kind of cut one at a diagonal,
25:48leaving the larger section of the butternut squash,
25:50and just shaving down the rest of it,
25:53and then took a little piece of pumpkin for the sole,
25:55and now I've got clown shoes on my guy.
25:59So coffee and donuts, you know, that's what we're doing,
26:01so I'm going to start on our donut batter.
26:03I'll do our filling later.
26:05Coffee and donuts is just a perfect combination,
26:08but how do we set ourselves apart?
26:10I'm making the crumb for our crumb cake right now,
26:13and it's a very messy job.
26:15For our tasting element,
26:16we have landed on a New York-style coffee crumb cake.
26:19We're going to have a coffee-infused dipping cream in there as well.
26:23Cake is in the oven.
26:24We're building chocolate boxes to put our tasting in,
26:27and they're going to be perfume boxes,
26:28so we're going to have stacks of those on the display as well.
26:31So you pour chocolate in
26:32and kind of make sure it's up the sides,
26:34and then dip it out,
26:35and you just have to go and repeat a couple times
26:38until you get a nice coating on it.
26:40The really cool thing is that
26:42if the judges want more of the ganache that comes with it,
26:44they have to dip it in the pus of the melting alien.
26:48So Jen is making the dipping cream
26:50with coffee extract as well as espresso powder.
26:56Uh-uh.
26:57Too strong.
26:58It's a little too strong.
27:00See, I like it.
27:01It's too...
27:02It's...
27:03It's so pungent.
27:08Um...
27:09I don't think I wouldn't risk it.
27:12To start all over?
27:13Mm-hmm.
27:13We need to come up with a solution ASAP
27:21because if we don't do anything about it right now,
27:23we're going home.
27:25I think I taste the coffee.
27:29It's not all the power, the whole dessert.
27:31She wants me to redo it.
27:34We don't agree on the flavor.
27:36She thinks it's too strong.
27:37I think it's okay.
27:38No, I don't think it tastes good.
27:39There's a bit of back and forth
27:43about how to proceed with the tasting elements.
27:45Do you think it's coffee strong enough?
27:47Actually, I toned it down with powdered sugar
27:49and, um, I don't taste it as much.
27:52So whatever you got to do, do it.
27:55And you're going to be great at it, Jen.
27:56We need to get more cream cheese.
27:58So that last one didn't taste like we wanted it.
28:00I hope that Vanna is right
28:03because Jen is going to start over completely.
28:06We may not need the extract.
28:08I don't know if that's it or it was just too much.
28:10But I would taste it every step of the way
28:12because you can put it in, but we can't take it out.
28:16I didn't.
28:20Ooh, it's good.
28:21Okay, wait.
28:21I can't taste it.
28:22We're getting close.
28:23Okay.
28:23I feel like if we use actual brewed coffee,
28:25we could get it.
28:26So we put regular coffee in,
28:31and so that's going to give us our coffee flavor now
28:33instead of the extract, which was a little too strong.
28:36I love it.
28:37That's the one.
28:37We finally got that coffee flavor.
28:39We want it.
28:40Mm-hmm.
28:41That was a good idea.
28:42Our coffee filling is going in our perfume boxes
28:45and in our pus on the alien.
28:47You want more green or is that good enough for you?
28:49That works.
28:49Okay.
28:50Okay, thank you so much.
28:52This is pus.
28:54Yes, I am creating a blister
28:56using modeling chocolate that will be poppable.
29:00So right now I am layering our tasting element.
29:04So I first put in the toasted hazelnut,
29:07and then I'm cutting up the little rectangles
29:10of the coffee cake.
29:13In one hour, we will find out who done it.
29:15Come on.
29:16Oh, my God, we can't.
29:17Really?
29:17Seriously?
29:18Oh, my gosh.
29:19One hour, one hour, one hour, one hour, guys.
29:21No, no, no, no, no.
29:22I'm putting Frankenstein on the board.
29:23Okay.
29:24Michael, I think we're ready for the hunchback.
29:26Hunchback?
29:26Okay.
29:29So I'm starting on the pastry cream now
29:31for the doughnut filling.
29:33I'm going to pour this espresso into the pastry cream.
29:36Kelly is working on our tasting element.
29:39A raised yeast doughnut filled with an espresso pastry cream.
29:42And the tasting element is the cobblestone path
29:45through the graveyard.
29:46The proofing turned out great, so I'm ready to go.
29:49I want the doughnuts to be as fresh as possible.
29:53And it is considerable risk to make a yeast doughnut
29:55because of the time involved.
29:57Kelly, how can I help with the tasting element?
29:59Then we need to fill the doughnuts.
30:01Fill the doughnuts?
30:03Okay.
30:03Filling the doughnuts, I'm getting a little bit nervous.
30:06It's crucial to get them right the first time
30:08because we don't have time to restart.
30:10So I'm going to do a chocolate glaze in one bowl
30:13of vanilla glaze in the other.
30:14And then I'm just going to marble.
30:17This marble is looking really cool.
30:19They look just like cobblestones.
30:21How are you feeling?
30:23I don't know.
30:24I'm like, I think we're going to go home.
30:26I don't know.
30:26No, no.
30:27Look at the rest of our piece.
30:28I know.
30:29As I'm covering the witch,
30:30the fondant is drying a lot faster than I had expected.
30:33I wish I hadn't spent so much time on the face.
30:36I'm going to work on the fondant, if you don't mind.
30:38Because this is really rough.
30:39We're going to make a fondant paste.
30:41We're going to fill in the cracks with that paste, okay?
30:43Our fondant that we use for the body,
30:47unfortunately, is very wrinkly.
30:49It has elephant skin, and that is not good.
30:52So we need to refine this piece a little bit more.
30:54So instead of peeling it off and trying again,
30:56what I'm doing instead is just making a fondant paste.
30:59So I'm taking leftover fondant,
31:01adding water to it until it's a nice paste consistency,
31:04and I am filling in the cracks with that.
31:07This is my third time on Halloween Wars,
31:09so I know a lot of what the judges are looking for.
31:12If we show the switch to the judges,
31:15then we're not going to make it to the next round.
31:17So I had to step in.
31:19You like that better?
31:20Yeah, yeah.
31:21Okay, it's better than what it was.
31:24That's good.
31:25Ten minutes left.
31:26Wow.
31:27Keep getting in high gear.
31:29Michael, ghost coming in.
31:30Okay.
31:32Kylie?
31:32What?
31:33Sorry, Sabian.
31:33Making the grass right now.
31:34Okay.
31:34I am coloring the grass to cover the graveyard ground out of shredded wheat.
31:40Yeah, and we've got to put the cobblestones, too.
31:42Very stressed.
31:43Obviously, we were very ambitious, too ambitious,
31:46but I think we're going to get everything on the board.
31:49Oh, yeah.
31:57Anthony, we've got to speed that paint up.
31:59We're cooking.
32:01We're coming together.
32:02Here we go.
32:04Oh, look how cute.
32:05Oh, dude.
32:07Ten.
32:08Nine.
32:09Okay, where else do I need to clean up?
32:10Right here?
32:11Eight.
32:11Keep pushing.
32:12There we go.
32:12Seven.
32:13Fix his wrist.
32:14Six.
32:16Five.
32:17Four.
32:18Fabric in the hand.
32:19Three.
32:19Just shove it in.
32:20Two.
32:21Don't mess with it.
32:22One.
32:23Hands on the displays.
32:24Oh, my gosh.
32:24Oh, my gosh.
32:26Nice job.
32:27That's the most stress I've ever had in my entire life.
32:36From Creepers, describe your perfect true crime.
32:40Our dead detective Wargrave has been trying to crack the code as to why people have been mysteriously dying at the local mall.
32:48Upon investigation, he discovered that the local perfume department has its fragrances laced with a corrosive, toxic acid.
32:57He's figured out the mystery, but unfortunately it's too late for our alien from planet Zero.
33:04Wow.
33:04No hesitation.
33:06I'm going to need a minute.
33:07That was so good.
33:11So good.
33:11That was amazing.
33:13There are so many beautiful things to look at.
33:16You created like 150 perfume bottles back there made of sugar.
33:20They are all perfection.
33:22Jennifer, the closing on the detective, Vanna, I really love how you created a very perfect finish, but then went in there and gave us the tears and the tatters.
33:33Now, I feel like if I had like a better finesse in the design, I think there's still a way to give us a more smooth appearance so that it's more believable that half of it has been like corroded with acid.
33:48Pay attention to your color.
33:50The floor looks a little bit like the unfinished wood board.
33:53I have to talk about your carving, Anthony.
33:57The face on that zombie is incredible.
34:01His feet are incredible.
34:04While I think that the story is very clear here, you need some dark.
34:08You need some shadow.
34:09You know, I could really go for some coffee and donuts.
34:12Why don't you tell us about your tasting element?
34:14So our tasting element is actually in the perfume boxes.
34:17We made you a coffee cake donut with some spice in it and then a cream cheese coffee filling.
34:24And also a little bit more for you to pick out of the alien to squeeze on your treat.
34:31Ew!
34:32Ew!
34:33Oh!
34:34In the pusses, we eat the puss?
34:38Yeah.
34:42Wow.
34:43It is so cheeky and grody that you would take something so elegant and so refined and then gross us out to the max by putting puss all over it.
34:54It's funny.
34:55It's cheeky.
34:55I love it.
34:56Beautiful spices in here.
34:58What I'm missing is the coffee.
35:04This cake, I can definitely taste the spices.
35:07I can definitely taste the roasty nuts that are in here.
35:11If you snuck more of that coffee puss in here, we would definitely get the coffee more.
35:17Because right now, I just do not taste any coffee.
35:20Oh my gosh.
35:22From Creepers, we don't want to contaminate the crime scene.
35:25Thank you very much.
35:26We're going to leave.
35:27Back up slowly, ladies.
35:28Thank you very much.
35:58I love this backdrop.
35:59I love the colors that you chose there.
36:01I also really love that you guys used this wheat cereal to create the grass.
36:06It looks so realistic.
36:08The butternut squash face and the hands, great job sculpting that, Michael.
36:14But I think that you struggled with the body, didn't you?
36:17That's right.
36:18I can see it's a little bit rough.
36:20I love this color palette.
36:22I think it's mysterious, which is what we really want when it's a true crime.
36:27When it comes to telling the story, there are a couple of things that I don't think are working.
36:30Here's the problem.
36:31You've got your two sort of secondary characters being way taller than your main character, the victim.
36:38The other thing I'll say is that in terms of the way that you guys work together, everybody went to their corners.
36:42One of the goals of Halloween Wars is that you guys are so simpatico and working so well together that we can't tell what's what.
36:51What did you make for us today?
36:53The tasting element is our cobblestone pass.
36:57We have a fried yeast donut filled with an espresso pastry cream and a marble glaze.
37:03I'm going to be up all night.
37:10The texture is completely spot on.
37:12Because you fried it, it's got a really nice crisp around the edge.
37:16It is pillowy soft on the inside.
37:19Maybe if you can add just a touch of salt to this because it is quite sweet.
37:23Yeah, I mean, we asked for coffee and donuts and you gave us coffee and donuts.
37:26The fact that you took that risk of making yeast donuts in competition in seven hours, hats off to you, darling.
37:33Terrifying trio.
37:35Great job.
37:37Good job, good.
37:38I loved your tasting element so much.
37:41Good job.
37:41Wicked sculptors, lay out your case.
37:44Well, a story as old as time.
37:47Friends who become rivals.
37:48Jiggles up at the top finds out that Jiggles has been stealing his act.
37:54And he seeks revenge, leaving clues along the way after the dastardly deed.
38:00Nothing scares me more than a bounce house.
38:02I'm always afraid to be trapped in one.
38:05Rebecca, I've got to tell you that it is a rare moment when a shoe steals the show.
38:11And for me, those shoes are everything.
38:15There is beautiful carving here.
38:17Design-wise, it's so great how that leg is hanging off of the display.
38:21It's just a great little touch that really draws us in.
38:24So, well done.
38:26This is a very dynamic piece.
38:29Serena, I want to talk to you specifically because I get you.
38:33As an artist, when you are competing in a competition like this with your teammates, you have to check in.
38:39You have to look up.
38:40And you have to see if everything is fitting well.
38:42And if you had done that, I think you would have seen that the coloring on the witch needed some shading.
38:49So, what are we eating?
38:50I made a pate-a-choux, which is very similar to a cruller.
38:54So, I have a sea-salted caramel espresso ganache.
38:57And we also have wafer paper that looks like the cheese.
39:01And that has a little bit of cinnamon sugar on it.
39:03And then the top is a coffee glaze.
39:06I make cakes in the shape of other objects all the time.
39:10But this is getting to me.
39:12It is so cute.
39:13It really looks like a burger.
39:15I also love that you've added the wonton wrapper because it adds such a lovely crunch.
39:22I get the bitterness of the coffee.
39:24I get even the bitterness of that salted caramel, the chocolate.
39:28The only thing for me is that the pate-a-choux itself is a little dried out.
39:32Right.
39:34Thank you, James.
39:35It's so good.
39:37Oh, my gosh.
39:40We asked you all to imagine the ultimate Halloween Wars homicide.
39:46One team killed.
39:48And the judges ended up murdering their coffee and donut treats.
39:53The winner of this challenge is...
39:58Wicked Sculptors.
40:02Oh, my God, you guys.
40:08Terrifying Trio and Crumb Creepers.
40:11Both of your crime scenes made great headlines.
40:15But unfortunately, neither one was the perfect crime.
40:19Terrifying Trio.
40:21We love how you fought to finish despite some early obstacles.
40:24And you were able to deliver a very full display.
40:27But the story isn't clear at first glance.
40:30And your finishes are a bit rough.
40:33And Crumb Creepers.
40:34There are real spotlights of beauty on this display.
40:37But the color on the shelves and the floor made the overall display feel flat.
40:42And while beautiful, your coffee and donut treat was missing some caffeine.
40:47Unfortunately, the team going home today is...
40:52It's awful to go home so early, but any experience to use my artistry is an opportunity to grow, to learn, and to nurture my skills.
41:09Wicked Sculptors and Terrifying Trio.
41:15Congratulations.
41:16You both survived.
41:18We'll see you soon.
41:20This season on Halloween Wars.
41:22If we don't get the cake character on, we're going home.
41:25This stuff is all craziness.
41:26With $25,000 at stake, the surviving teams will have to push the limits of cake...
41:32No!
41:33Sugar...
41:33I need to show...
41:34I need to show you soon.
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