Halloween Wars Season 15 Episode 1

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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. Couldn'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 for 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.

01:24Challenging 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.

01:42Those brave enough must face our judges.

01:46Award-winning cake artist, design and decor guru, Shin Min Lee.

01:51Hi team!

01:53And flavor queen, chef, and author, Artie Sequeira.

01:58Woohoo!

01:59One by one, you'll be eliminated.

02:02Until 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.

02:22Bye, everybody.

02:25Soon, soon.

02:27Everybody is really talented and there's a lot of competition, but we know that we have the skill to win this.

02:34Adult 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.

02:44In 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.

03:06That'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.

03:20You have our lunchbox?

03:21All right, what do we get?

03:23Oh, elementary school.

03:26Granola bar?

03:28Oh, yeah.

03:29Oh, here we go.

03:31Chocolate milk.

03:32Middle school string cheese.

03:37What are you going to do with this?

03:38Our 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.

03:49Oh, middle 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's dance.

03:59And 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 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.

04:38She's a mother.

04:39She's a grandmother.

04:40She's 67 and she's doing this on like...

04:43Girl.

04:44Amazing.

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?

04:51They 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?

05:18Our 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.

05:52Yeah, mine too.

05:53Okay, perfect.

05:54All three of us are parents so I think we all can relate to this elementary school theme.

05:59What, they're going trick-or-treating?

06:00How does that show school, right?

06:01Oh, yeah.

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.

06:09Willie Tuz will be our pumpkin carver and Kat Campbell will be our cake artist.

06:14What if we do like a parade?

06:15A Halloween parade.

06:16Yeah, because that's like, that's 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.

06:29It'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 go.

06:37Let's do it.

06:37Come on.

06:39All right, let's get some pumpkins.

06:42That one looks terrible, David.

06:43I can make anything good, Nils.

06:44Make anything good.

06:45There we go.

06:48Let's go.

06:49All right, so 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 that we can get that leathery chair texture.

07:14I 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 and live the dream to be able to carve and sculpt full-time.

07:34All right, this is ready for color.

07:37I have a perfectly cooked isomalt right here.

07:40I just put some purple in there.

07:42It's going to be a little lag.

07:43Woo, 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.

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.

08:13That should be good.

08:14Shinman, Artie, we're back.

08:16We're back.

08:17Yay.

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, I'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 or 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.

08:50But 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.

09:06Then 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's 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.

09:41Been here.

09:42You know, been eliminated first.

09:44Got to the finale.

09:45Didn'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 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.

10:03Our 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

10:15to 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, so we have

10:25a 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.

10:33Willie 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

10:39made 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.

10:49I'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.

11:05We'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

11:19it 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.

11:35Jamie is working on this awesome window, which she'll be painting on a spooky tree background.

11:47Oh.

11:51Oh.

11:52It has cracked here, here, here, everywhere.

11:57Oh, man.

11:58Like, it cracks, like, a lot.

11:59Oh, I need redemption.

12:01These little things are the things that the judges are going to notice, and then we can

12:06get 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, and

12:19I think it's perfect to highlight all of those things so it actually looks like it was supposed

12:25to be that way.

12:26Looks more like a mended window.

12:27Okay, good.

12:31Pretty, it's orange, it's Halloween, it'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.

12:38We're doing a middle school dance in scare school.

12:41I'm doing a ghost that's doing that thing.

12:44Dabbing.

12:45Dabbing?

12:45Dabbing.

12:46Whatever you teenagers call it these days.

12:48I started pumping, 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?

13:03He's boogieing.

13:04Perfect.

13:05All right, so I am getting ready to start the cheesecake.

13:08Our string cheesecake.

13:10So 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 apple 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.

13:29The string cheesecake here is getting ready to go into 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 that 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, but I'll make it with green apple.

13:55All 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, so 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 around it.

14:16Oh, cool.

14:17And when they bite into it, it's going to look...

14:19Slimy, slimy in their mouth.

14:22What's that, the caramel?

14:23Bloody elixir.

14:24But I'm going to do, 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 fuck out.

14:35So, scare school, we've got preschool, elementary school, junior high, and high school that we want to see in these designs.

14:43Yeah, and 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 awkwardness.

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.

15:16We're just adding a wood grain just to give it some personality, so it's not just a plain, boring floor.

15:22So this piece is one of the most important pieces for me, because this is going to go on top of my building.

15:27To really bring out our scare school, Willie is creating a skull to go on the very top of 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, very 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, and 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, but 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.

16:12Margie, 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 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, and they're always telling me at Halloween, like, calm it down, Grandma.

16:34That's too scary.

16:35We don't like that, but I don't.

16:36I just tell them they have to buck up, and it's Halloween.

16:39It's got to be scary, right?

16:42That's awesome.

16:44Team's 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.

16:55We don't want the tasting element to just taste like chocolate.

17:00We 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.

17:16Right 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, so our mommy needs to look like a second or third grader.

17:30I'm, like, so excited to be on the show.

17:33Like, I've been watching since season one.

17:36The Halloween 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

17:49techniques, like painting and sculpting.

17:51And I was like, wow, I can combine all those things and, like, make it my own and make people

17:56really happy.

17:56Currently, 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.

18:16There'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

18:25to give it more grippy texture.

18:27Jamie is skilled in many different mediums, and she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience

18:32to our team because 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.

18:41I 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.

18:50Bookshelf?

18:51Awesome.

18:52Done?

18:53Yeah.

18:55Four hours left.

18:55Gotta pick it up.

18:56Pick it up.

18:57Oh, my gosh.

18:58We have so much to do.

18:58I know.

18:59Okay, we are about to roll out our orange carpet for our monsters.

19:03So 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

19:11doing the tasting.

19:12And 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...

19:21Are you going to be at a place you can help?

19:23I haven't even started anything here.

19:24Yeah, okay.

19:25Okay.

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

19:34Halloween parade.

19:35I see a lot of work on the sort of the ground covering, it looks like.

19:40Yeah.

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.

19:47You'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,

20:25I 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.

20:30Okay.

20:31So, we have mandarin oranges, our tasting element, and I'm actually really stoked.

20:34When 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.

20:41I'd 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 a 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.

21:05All right, we've got to lose some of the syrup so it's not too sweet, but we're also going to cut in some fresh mandarins 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.

21:17As soon as 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.

21:28Only three hours to go.

21:33Dark cookies.

21:35Karine 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.

21:56Through the freezer.

21:56So 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.

22:07We still have our two mummies to create and put on.

22:11I'm thinking that we should just get those characters.

22:15I'm going to be immediately jumping onto characters.

22:18I'm going to bust out an arm with you.

22:19Oh, yeah.

22:20Okay, I'll take a little bit of that.

22:23Hey, how's it going?

22:25Good.

22:25I'm sorry.

22:26I know you're stressing you out.

22:27Don't apologize.

22:28This is my comfort zone.

22:29Let's do it.

22:30Okay, good.

22:31Karine 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.

22:42You got this, guys.

22:45Come on.

22:46Yep.

22:46Let's keep going.

22:47Keep going.

22:48As far as time goes, you got a lot on your plate.

22:50Are 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.

22:57So just keep me posted.

22:59Keep me posted.

22:59Yeah.

23:00My character is Dracula.

23:01I'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.

23:30This 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.

23:37We got to run.

23:38Oh, boy.

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.

24:05They'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 supersized 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.

24:18Make 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, trying to kind

24:37of 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 and

24:46put 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?

24:54Yeah, have 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.

25:07So 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 him onto our scene.

25:15She'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.

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.

26:02But 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.

26:09Yeah.

26:10But 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.

26:18Right 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.

26:42But I'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 at this point.

26:58So we're going to have to can one.

27:00Doing 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.

27:08There 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.

27:19Okay, yes.

27:20We're bored.

27:20Wow.

27:21Yeah, we definitely need to step it up.

27:24I 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

27:34and how maybe we're lacking a little bit since we had to take away our werewolf character

27:38and 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.

27:48Put little monsters, little thing that we can add 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.

28:09And I think it's because they actually placed more elements in the back of the right side of the display

28:16where that wolf character would have been.

28:17Right.

28:18So 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.

28:26Now I'm scared.

28:27Now I'm scared.

28:29You guys start looking for touch-ups.

28:30I'm going to get the desserts in the book and then we're going to go from there.

28:33Time to fly, time to fly.

28:37Okay, so 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 a for sure done.

28:43We want to put our tasting element in a book because they're at school.

28:46So Nails is making a book made out of rice cereal.

28:50We'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.

28:58Let'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.

29:04Perfect.

29:06All right, cool.

29:07Looks old and crickly.

29:08I am starting on the plant's head, you guys.

29:11Our 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.

29:33Jamie 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.

29:50I'm dipping the candles.

29:53They're going to be wonky candles.

29:54At least right 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 bricks

30:18and just eat it right off the wall.

30:21We're almost there.

30:21I've 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.

30:32And it looks like it's literally hanging on a string.

30:34Yeah.

30:35Which is very appropriate because it's string cheese.

30:37Oh.

30:37Right?

30:38Oh, I get it.

30:40Two minutes remain.

30:41Two minutes, guys.

30:42We've got to move.

30:42Oh, my gosh.

30:44It's okay.

30:44Let'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.

30:58Ladies, we have got this.

31:00This place needs to be decked out.

31:02Toilet paper to the max, but still show all the details.

31:06Ten.

31:06No.

31:06We've got to go.

31:08Nine.

31:08Come on, guys.

31:09Finish strong.

31:09Eight.

31:10Start piling the desserts on here.

31:11Seven.

31:12I am hurrying.

31:12Six.

31:13Okay, we're freaking out.

31:14Five.

31:14Oh, my God.

31:16Four.

31:17Three.

31:17Just don't break anything.

31:19Two.

31:19You want your hat?

31:20Yes, my hat.

31:20One.

31:21Time's up.

31:22Here's y'all, guys.

31:24Good job.

31:25I got him.

31:26I got him.

31:28Poisonous 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, 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 head, the

32:02rest 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 backboard,

32:36then we would know immediately that we are in a high school office.

32:39So 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 French 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.

33:18Purposely make it a little runny.

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?

33:28Okay.

33:29I think we're doing good.

33:30I think they do.

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,

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.

33:54And 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 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.

34:24Nils, 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.

34:46Now, 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?

34:56Yep.

34:57I'm so scared of messing it up.

34:58Nope, you're good.

34:58Oh.

35:00Oh my gosh.

35:02It was so beautiful.

35:06It is so smart that you kept the segments intact and then left them in the cake,

35:12as opposed to just harvesting the juice, giving me that full mandarin orange experience.

35:18I love the entire experience.

35:21This tasting is just texture galore.

35:23Really thought out.

35:25Good for you.

35:26Nils, this is the best book I ever read.

35:30Class dismissed.

35:32Too high-fives.

35:33They're rolling out the orange carpet for the Halloween parade at Skeleton Elementary and Spike, our mischievous cowboy ghost, is excited to wreak havoc on his classmates.

35:47Willie made this amazing pumpkin, the witch legs are pumpkin, and 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, and it's perfection.

36:09Kimberly, you have a lot of really fun sugar work on there, and this character, it's beautiful.

36:15I love her body positioning.

36:16I 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, and 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 Jumbo, 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.

37:07Yeah, 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.

37:19How often do you make this for your kids?

37:21I've made it, like, four or five times.

37:23Oh.

37:23I'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?

37:32I think they didn't get the story.

37:34Yeah.

37:34We 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 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.

37:50We 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.

38:35It also 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.

38:45Oh.

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.

38:56There'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

39:10looking 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.

39:20We ask you all to imagine what trouble the terrifying tykes of scare school might get into on Halloween

39:29night.

39:30One team gave new meaning to the phrase nightmare child.

39:34The winner of this first challenge is Poisonous Perfection.

39:44Congratulations.

39:45Oven Coven, there were some amazing details on your display, and we're giving you a pass.

39:54That leaves Under Cakers and Graveyard Shift.

40:00Under Cakers, you get an A for really showing the age of these preschool monsters, but those

40:07characters are too big, and they cover up that beautiful backboard and the amazing sugar work

40:13on that merry-go-round, which makes the story hard to follow.

40:17Graveyard Shift.

40:18Lily, 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.

40:28Unfortunately, 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.

40:54Poisonous Perfection, Oven Coven, and Under Cakers.

40:59Congrats.

41:00You all passed Scare School.

41:05Next time...

41:07Boom.

41:07Boom, let's go.

41:08...three 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.

41:22If 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, sugar...

41:34I need to show them I can get some sugar.

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