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Halloween Wars - Season 15 Episode 3 -
The Scary Square-Off
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00:01Get ready for a spine-chilling showdown like no other.
00:07The only competition where the world's most talented cake and sugar artists
00:12join 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.
00:34Winning this would just set me apart from all of those other cake artists.
00:37While some familiar faces fight for redemption.
00:40I have not been to Halloween Wars in 12 years.
00:42So this is kind of personal.
00:44And now...
00:45I want to show everybody I can do this.
00:47Sugar artists step up to the very first skill spotlight
00:50and push themselves to the breaking point.
00:53This is a really risky piece because if it breaks, there is no plan B.
00:57Who will survive to continue the fight for $25,000?
01:02Last year, I was eliminated on the Sugar Spotlight.
01:05I have to redeem myself.
01:07Oh no.
01:08Halloween Wars starts right now.
01:11Teams, here you are all together for the first time.
01:24Wondering who is gonna be the next victim.
01:28Of course, that's all up to our judges.
01:31Award-winning cake artist, Shin Min Lee.
01:34And chef and author, Artie Sequeira.
01:39Now it's time for our biggest challenge yet.
01:41We want you to imagine what might happen when Halloween's scariest monsters face off against each other.
01:48To match that mayhem, the flavors of your tasting elements will be in conflict too.
01:54You'll find assignments for your characters and the incongruent ingredients posted back at your stations.
02:02But that's not all.
02:03We're upping the stakes in this challenge with the skill spotlight.
02:08Each battle, one specialty.
02:10Cake, sugar, or pumpkin will have to put their creations front and center in your overall design.
02:17First up, the sugar artist.
02:23Every display must contain a major story element made entirely out of sugar.
02:30It's make or break time, sugar artists.
02:32Your team is counting on you.
02:34You've got seven hours.
02:36Let's get ready for a food fight!
02:46Go!
02:47Go!
02:48Go!
02:49Go!
02:50Go!
02:51It's the sugar spotlight, so I've got to do a lot of work.
02:53It has to be, like, front and center.
02:54We need to do, like, a sugar piece to highlight your sugar.
02:58I'm going to have the tasting element.
02:59I can handle that as well.
03:01You know, I should be focusing on sugar, but I'm going to take all of it.
03:05Our team is the Wicked Sculptors.
03:07I'm Emery Leanne Miller.
03:08I'm a sugar artist.
03:10This is my third time on Halloween Wars.
03:12Last year, I was eliminated on the sugar spotlight, so I'm not taking this lightly at all.
03:18Okay, and we have a werewolf.
03:20And a mummy.
03:21Okay.
03:22It's a dance-off.
03:23Oh, my God.
03:24Oh, that's so fun.
03:25Our cake artist is Serena, and our pumpkin carver is Rebecca.
03:29You know what, guys?
03:30I think with a werewolf, we need to have a moon.
03:32What if we did something that looks like a moon but isn't?
03:35What looks like a moon?
03:36I do need to do a lot of ice them all, so maybe like...
03:39How about a disco ball?
03:40Okay.
03:41Like, he thinks it's a full moon.
03:43Yeah.
03:44Okay.
03:45We land on the perfect dance floor at a nightclub, and the disco ball is transforming the werewolf.
03:52So, we have to make a swamp.
03:54Obviously.
03:55Yeah.
03:56My team name is Evan Coven.
03:57I'm David Smith, full-time pumpkin carver.
03:59I'm a multi-time world champion in ice carving.
04:02Kim is our sugar artist.
04:04Natalie's a professional cake artist.
04:06We've been assigned swamp monster versus a witch in axe throwing.
04:10You know how the swamp has that depth look in it?
04:13Yeah.
04:14How about I do some isomal, like, back here with some trees back here?
04:18Can you do a target out of sugar?
04:20I could do the target, the whole thing.
04:22The story's axe throwing, but we want to put a twist on it.
04:24So, we're definitely going to nail a bullseye, and then the witch nailing the swamp monster as her bullseye.
04:31Vampire versus goblin.
04:33Vampire versus goblin.
04:34Our team is the terrifying trio.
04:36This is our first time on Halloween Wars, and it means so much to us to be here.
04:42My name is Kylie Holt, and I am the cake artist.
04:45Kelly Shivery is a self-taught sugar artist, and Michael Valoroso is our pumpkin carver.
04:50Vampires, like, eat bloods.
04:52But then what would the goblin be eating?
04:54Insect.
04:55Oh yeah, insects.
04:56Like bugs, and centipedes, and beetles.
04:59We're going to make an eating contest between a vampire and a goblin.
05:05Can you do all these bugs out of Isomalt, though?
05:07Yeah, for sure.
05:08Yeah?
05:09We made a lot of mistakes last week.
05:10We are ready to prove to the judges that we belong here.
05:13We cannot be in the bottom.
05:14No, we cannot.
05:15Absolutely not.
05:16No.
05:17All right, let's go.
05:18So, we're doing MMA, Troll, and Reaper.
05:20Well, I think out of this, the Reaper has to win because he's death, right?
05:23Yes.
05:24Yeah.
05:25So, okay.
05:26Our team is the Under Cakers.
05:28I'm originally from Guyana, but I live in New Jersey.
05:32I am a cake sculptor.
05:33Marguerite is the pumpkin carver, and Nails is the sugar artist.
05:36And since we gotta do sugar, let's make the weapon, let's make the big weapon sugar.
05:40And it's gotta be at the front.
05:41The big side can be the sugar, right?
05:43In our design, the Grim Reaper is on top of the troll, basically pulling him back with his side.
05:50We gotta get proportion right on this time.
05:51Like, our characters were too big, got away from us a little bit.
05:54Let's try to make sure it's really nice and tight.
05:56Yeah.
05:57Oh, wait.
05:58Oh, wait, guys, but it says pickleball tournament on top.
06:00Oh, pickleball.
06:01Okay.
06:02Our team is Poisonous Perfection.
06:04My name's Paulina Stovall, and I'm a professional pumpkin carver.
06:07Corrine is our cake sculptor, and Jamie is our sugar artist.
06:11She has made it to the finale twice, and she wants the third time to be the charm.
06:16So we've got our two main characters, but it's the sugar spotlight.
06:18Should I try making the net out of sugar?
06:21It's gonna be super risky, but I wanna make the net.
06:24Yep.
06:25So we are making Frankenstein and a zombie facing off at pickleball.
06:30Perfect.
06:31Let's do it.
06:32Let's go, let's go, let's go.
06:35Need this guy.
06:38Yeah, baby.
06:40We're doing a swamp monster versus a witch.
06:43I'm really excited about the swamp monster in particular.
06:46So this butternut squash should be perfect to mount on his shoulders, get something really creepy.
06:50I competed on Halloween Wars 12 years ago, so it means more than anything for me to get to the next round.
06:55This time, I'm going all out.
06:58That looks like my face every morning when I'm with my kids.
07:00I'm gonna start with my tasting element right away.
07:03Natalie is doing a lot.
07:05She's doing our tasting element, and she's also got to do this entire witch.
07:08The black licorice and then pairing it with the white chocolate is gonna be a challenge, but I'm super excited about it because I love black licorice.
07:15And I worked in restaurants as pastry chef, working with different flavors and being able to really create something unique.
07:22So our tasting element is going to be a swamp rock.
07:27We are going to incorporate black rice, and then we're gonna make it into rice pudding, and we're gonna add caramelized white chocolate.
07:33And I'm gonna incorporate some other flavors that taste like licorice, like fennel, and star anise.
07:39Almost looks like chocolate.
07:41I'm actually making the rock shell out of white chocolate.
07:44So when I unmold it, I'll just peel it off, and it's gonna look like a swamp rock.
07:48So I'm pouring, like, a backdrop here where it looks like perspective.
07:52And I'm making an isomole background.
07:55It goes deep into the swamp.
07:56With my sugar this week, I want to show some different techniques that no one else does.
08:00I like to paint and pour layers and show depth in my sugar.
08:04And this is a really risky piece because if it breaks, there is no plan B.
08:08Hopefully it hardens and it works.
08:13Okay, so we got chocolate and olive, which is really unique.
08:18I hate olives.
08:20But we have to not shy away from that.
08:22It's not my taste palette.
08:23It's the judges.
08:24So we're gonna have chopped up olives in a shortbread.
08:27As a pastry chef, it's really important for me to show people what I can do.
08:32I have over 60 food allergies.
08:34I can't eat most of what I make, and yet I learned to really take other people's taste palettes into consideration.
08:41I still make these amazing desserts.
08:44Because we have olives and we're also in a bar scene, I want to have a martini-inspired dessert.
08:50So I'm gonna be adding vermouth to the chocolate ganache.
08:54It's a sugar spotlight, so I gotta work on that as well.
08:57So I really need to get this shortbread out of the way.
09:00Let's go to the oven.
09:01Rebecca and Serena are tag teaming the characters.
09:05The last time, I got so bogged down with the detail of the character.
09:09So this time, we're actually gonna collaborate on a lot of different pieces and elements.
09:15I'm gonna be using the meat of the pumpkin to build out the legs of our werewolf.
09:20Last week, we won the competition, so this week, we're coming in hot.
09:24He, like, is a beast.
09:29Judges, I'm getting warmed up because this is a monster bash.
09:33Gotta get loose because this is the first time these teams are all together.
09:38Right? Like, I'm seeing bigger pumpkins, bigger pieces of sugar.
09:42And then the sugar spotlight.
09:43And then the sugar spotlight on top of that.
09:45Yeah.
09:46I'm getting big fight energy from everybody on this floor tonight.
09:49There we go.
09:50Could you go baller with a giant pumpkin?
09:53For our pickleball face-off, I'm gonna get started on the Frankenstein out of pumpkin.
09:58So I'm using a very large pumpkin so that I can make the back of Frankenstein's jacket and body.
10:05We're looking decently solid so long as I can get my Frankenstein put together in a timely manner.
10:10Nice.
10:11You're gonna use that for the zombie?
10:13Yeah.
10:14He already have a sinking skull.
10:17No zombie has a complete skull.
10:20Karine is building our zombie at a rice cereal tree and modeling chocolate because it'll allow the zombie to have more motion,
10:26and that's definitely what we want to contrast our Frankenstein.
10:29Buddy, I'm gonna give you a little butt.
10:32Oh, my God, I love him so much.
10:34I've never really seen any pickleball paddle molds out there in the world, so I'm gonna create custom-shaped, like, bat-wing pickleball paddles out of poured sugar.
10:44Today's challenge is the sugar spotlight, so all eyes are gonna be on me.
10:50I've made it to the finals as a cake artist.
10:52We've lost twice.
10:53I really need to show them that I'm not just a cake sculptor.
10:58I can come in here and I can get some sugar done.
11:02In school, I was always the artist.
11:05I was never really in sports, so this is probably the closest that I'm ever going to get to really playing sports at any point in time.
11:13Got some beautiful wings.
11:15Six hours.
11:16Six hours left.
11:17What?
11:18Holy crap.
11:19What's our vampire's name?
11:21The Spang Freddy.
11:22That's it.
11:23The Spang Freddy.
11:24We have a vampire versus a goblin in an eating contest.
11:28I'm starting on covering the pillars in modeling chocolate, and I'm going to give them a nice wooden texture.
11:35I am creating a structure that is towering over all of the characters, and our vampire will be hanging down from the top.
11:44The airbrush color seeps down into all of the cracks and really brings out the texture of the wood grain.
11:50I used to want to be an astronaut, and then I was a math teacher.
11:54I may not have made it to space yet, but my cakes defy gravity.
12:00He's starting as a vampire.
12:02The vampire and the goblin's face are both made out of pumpkin.
12:07So right now, I'm doing the vampire head.
12:10Michael is a helicopter mechanic.
12:13He believes himself to be the fastest carver in the world.
12:16So, Michael.
12:17Yeah?
12:18Where did you learn from pumpkin carving?
12:19Salt thought.
12:20That's amazing.
12:21Kelly, have you seen this face?
12:23He's so believable.
12:24He's just like a real vampire.
12:26They're so cute.
12:27Got little legs.
12:29I'm going to make the table that's holding all the bugs they're eating.
12:33The eyes for our characters out of isomalt.
12:35It's the sugar spotlight, so we have to have sugar everywhere on our piece.
12:39Somebody's got to go home, and I just don't want it to be us.
12:42I love being a paralegal, but sugar is my passion.
12:46I'd like to show them that I have some versatility in the different kinds of techniques I can use.
12:52Right now, I'm making the glasses for the vampire to drink his blood out of.
12:59I think this will work.
13:01Got to make the red for the inside.
13:04And then I'll pour some red isomalt in it after it dries to make it look like a little good wine.
13:11Just a little too.
13:14Oh, we're having issues now.
13:17My glass is melting.
13:18Ouch.
13:19Not great.
13:21Shoot.
13:22A little too hot.
13:25Definitely don't have time for this, but it's a key piece of our story, so I've got to make it work.
13:31I'm making a new glass.
13:32I'm going to pour the stem as clear, but I'll pour the rest as red.
13:36OK.
13:37The fact that this is the sugar spotlight, definitely I was feeling more pressure today.
13:41I just want to, you know, show everybody that I can do this.
13:44Kelly is a self-taught sugar artist, and being here means so much to her.
13:50But we absolutely do not have any more time to do things a second or a third time.
13:57Everybody here is extremely talented, but I am too.
14:02Oh, holly freaking loo-ya.
14:05It worked?
14:06Yeah.
14:07Don't jinx me.
14:08I am starting with the troll's head.
14:12I'm trying to make him look creepy and troll-like.
14:15We have the Grim Reaper and a troll MMA fighting.
14:18Margaery is going to be making the troll completely out of pumpkin.
14:21She's putting a first layer of color on this guy.
14:25I'm building the Grim Reaper out of cake and rice cereal.
14:29OK, I'm going to go ahead and start covering this in chocolate.
14:32Last challenge, we were not on point with our proportions.
14:35We were at the bottom two.
14:37Those characters are too big, which makes the story hard to follow.
14:40Margaery?
14:41Yes.
14:42That's how big the head of your thing is going to be?
14:44Yes.
14:45There's a lot of anxiety because we had so much to prove based on our last challenge.
14:50Hopefully, the judges will appreciate the progress we've made.
14:54Oh, that looks awesome.
14:56You look so good.
14:57Oh.
14:58Like, I want to give it a little bit more curve, right?
15:00Yeah.
15:01Yeah.
15:02So I'm thinking something like that.
15:03Today, it's a sugar spotlight, so I'm going to show up and show out.
15:06We plan on making the weapons that the MMA fighters, the troll, and the Grim Reaper are using.
15:12I'm about to pour the Grim Reaper's scythe blade.
15:15I've been doing pastry for 19 years.
15:18I've done Halloween Wars twice.
15:20We had come in second, which was the best I had done.
15:24I'm going to do everything I can to win.
15:26I really want to show the judges that I can do some fine detail work with some really intricate
15:30pulling, and I want to show them that we can do a big piece front and center of this
15:33to show catcher.
15:34Okay.
15:35For the handle, we're going to pull some brown isomalt so it feels like a little bit of a
15:40gnarly piece of wood.
15:41Okay.
15:42Sweet.
15:43Perfect.
15:44You're looking at five hours on the clock.
15:47What?
15:48Five hours.
15:49Oh, we really got to move.
15:50Oh, yeah.
15:51I need all that bacon grease.
15:53Jamie is making the peanut butter mousse stuffed with a bacon caramel and covered in milk chocolate
15:59and wafer cookie pieces.
16:01Peanut butter can come off as salty, and bacon is really salty, so I've got to make sure that
16:06things are going to be balanced.
16:08Even my caramel smells like bacon, and it's delicious.
16:11I'm putting my dessert in my chocolate coating.
16:14I am unmolding my chocolate pickle balls.
16:17And what better place to put our tasting element than in the pickle balls?
16:21Pickle ball with dessert.
16:24That is incredible.
16:26Is that a new technique?
16:27There's a first time for everything.
16:29We have a mummy and a werewolf in a dance-off.
16:32I'm creating some furry texture for our werewolf's legs by layering up strips of pumpkin, and it's
16:40giving me this, like, nice furry effect.
16:42I try to keep things fresh and new by just always challenging myself, incorporating new techniques
16:48that other people aren't used to seeing.
16:50I went to school to be an art teacher, but stopped teaching about a year ago, and I work as a tattoo artist.
16:55The pumpkin fur, you can almost see it, you know, swaying in the breeze.
17:00There's movement.
17:01Yeah, it's really incredible.
17:02Out of pumpkin.
17:03Out of pumpkin.
17:04I love that these characters are literally half pumpkin for legs and then rice cereal for head and body, and they're just blending so well.
17:15I might have a crush on this werewolf.
17:17I know.
17:18That's got some size to it.
17:20That's some work.
17:21This is swamp monster versus witch.
17:24I decided to go with the fittest swamp monster you ever saw.
17:27I mean, this guy's ripped.
17:29Oh, look at that.
17:31Nils was the inspiration for this, man.
17:33Face, not the body, homie.
17:35Ouch.
17:36What's your theme, David?
17:38Beating you, bro.
17:39That's the theme.
17:40That's the theme.
17:41Bro, swamp monster, man.
17:43Oh, yeah?
17:44Feeling at home?
17:45Remember, we're friends, bro.
17:47What color you got in there?
17:49Green and then black.
17:50Years ago on Halloween Wars, we actually won an episode with a swamp monster.
17:54So I'm hoping to do the same.
17:56Look at the hair.
17:58Oh, I love that.
17:59And it's coming down because of gravity.
18:01Yes, that makes sense.
18:02And I love that you added the texture in right there.
18:04It looks so good.
18:06Okay, now I'm going to start on Goblin Head.
18:08I want my team to stand out by showing our gravity-defying designs and our attention to detail.
18:15I'm using, again, body nut squash because the thickness that I'm looking for.
18:21These small guys right here.
18:23It's fun.
18:24I love it.
18:25Those two faces are so developed already.
18:27I will say I'm hoping that we get some storytelling happening.
18:31They're not static characters standing next to this massive pile of insects.
18:36We need to make sure we convey it's an eating competition other than a banner that says,
18:41eating competition.
18:42Right.
18:43I'm going to be making a 3D disco ball that's going to light up on the top of our piece.
18:49But I need all the individual tiles.
18:52Last year, I was eliminated on the sugar spotlight.
18:56It's really important that I bring something the judges have never seen before.
19:00I don't want to embarrass my mom.
19:02She tells everybody I'm here.
19:03Yeah.
19:04Oh, she's proud.
19:05She bought me a cake decorating tool kit for my 19th birthday.
19:09So I'm here because of her.
19:11I'm going to create a disco ball attached to a mirror backdrop.
19:15Nice and hot and crystal clear.
19:18Once I pour it on the backboard, it is not coming off and there is no backup plan.
19:23Guys, we have a mirror.
19:25Ah!
19:26Woohoo!
19:27So I'm going to start working on her body.
19:30Okay.
19:31Natalie's making the witch's body.
19:32I work very well under pressure, especially out here in Vegas where I work for people with
19:37all the money that want something in 12 hours.
19:40I've done stuff most cake artists would think is impossible to do.
19:43I'm not going to take a ton of time to do it, but I'm going to make it look like it's like the puffy ruffle.
19:47She's a fashion witch.
19:49Yes.
19:50This will be the tree.
19:51I've got to put another layer of dark on top.
19:53And then when it dries, I can dust it up and then we can attach it.
19:57Kim is great.
19:58We're not only both artists, but we're old school rockers.
20:01I grew up very, very shy.
20:03I just spent all my time in the art room, just hung out there.
20:06I never talked to anyone.
20:07It was really quiet.
20:08Three years ago, I joined a band.
20:10My husband like beat percussion.
20:12So I go, okay, now I'm half lead singer.
20:15And we rock the house.
20:17The amount of ding dang time him has put into this backdrop layer upon layer to make it feel like woods.
20:25It's a lot of time just for the backdrop.
20:28I'm kind of freaking out inside.
20:30Just wondering if it's going to work because if it breaks, it's totally over.
20:33We're done.
20:34Man, that is bad ass.
20:36Yeah.
20:37Man, kudos.
20:38Oh, my God.
20:39Is there a level?
20:40So it goes right on a ledge.
20:41Oh, gosh.
20:42Oh, gosh.
20:43Oh, gosh.
20:44Gentle.
20:45Gentle.
20:46Gentle.
20:47Oh.
20:48Yuck.
20:49Yeah.
20:50The vibrations on the board.
20:54Oh, gosh.
20:55Oh, gosh.
20:56And now we're at the point of no return.
20:57If we bump or shatter this thing in any way, then we're finished.
21:00There's no way to recover, frankly.
21:02All right.
21:03Oh, yeah.
21:04I mean, I know I wouldn't walk away from that.
21:06Is it holding?
21:07Yeah.
21:08Cool.
21:09Cool.
21:14We are going to be combining black pepper and blackberries.
21:17We are going to make a black pepper cake, and then we're going to make an Italian buttercream,
21:21which we will also hit with some black pepper.
21:24The trick is going to be have enough black pepper, but not enough to choke you.
21:27So black pepper and a dessert definitely sounds weird to me.
21:30And we're going to pour the blackberry compote in there.
21:33It is the goo bucket for the troll and grim reaper.
21:38Oh, it looks delicious.
21:40Smells good.
21:41Teams, we're looking at two hours left.
21:43Oh, my gosh.
21:44I am chopping these pecans for my tasting element.
21:46Our challenge was feta and honey.
21:49I decide to make baklava bites.
21:52Cut them into the shape of cute little bug carcasses in our eating contest.
21:57How much feta do you think I should add?
21:59It needs to taste like a lot of feta when we add the honey, so it needs to be really strong.
22:04My baklava recipe, it's a recipe I make all the time at home with my kids.
22:09Every stage of my baking, my kids will be in the kitchen begging for samples, and I want to incorporate feta into it.
22:16So you want a thin layer in between each of those sheets of phyllo dough and more butter.
22:22I'm cutting it into a teardrop shape and then cutting it in half so they look like discarded wing parts of the bugs.
22:29I hope the judges can taste that feta.
22:33How are you doing?
22:35Uh, I think I'm doing really good, so I'm about to pipe the net.
22:39Jamie is casting a net for our Frankenstein versus zombie pickleball court.
22:44Oh, hot.
22:46Hot on my fingers.
22:48Artie and Shinman have definitely seen me doing all my cake sculpting work, but they've never seen me as a sugar artist before.
22:55I am piping isomalt.
22:57It can be a more dangerous technique.
22:59I think you have to be super careful working with it, but I have to do it this way to get this lattice look of a net.
23:05There's no other way to do it.
23:07It's going to be a little risky, but it's the sugar spotlight.
23:10Done.
23:11That's what big dancers are called.
23:13They're b-boys.
23:14Oh.
23:15Oh, we've got tiles.
23:17Every dance floor needs a disco ball, so I'm going to create a domed disco ball with a light inside and really light up our scene.
23:25Okay, so I'm going to take my balloon with a little bit of water and some air in here, and we're just going to dip it to that hot, fresh ice malt.
23:34Emerly has gone to town with the sugar work, the disco ball.
23:38She has a ton of little isomalt squares that she's going to be piecing on there and painting them different colors.
23:44So hopefully it's going to read like a disco ball.
23:46This is the most important piece for my sugar spotlight.
23:49It cannot break because I don't have the time to do this again.
23:53Whoo-hoo-hoo.
23:54Okay, guys, you ready for this?
23:57Oh, my God!
23:58Yay!
23:59Yes!
24:00Okay, moving on.
24:01Okay.
24:02I'm doing the target now.
24:07We have to have this target because this is the story.
24:10This story is a swamp and axe throwing.
24:13So what I'm going to do is I'm going to put the one ring in, and I have to pour really careful and just get white just up to the level of the red that I already have that's about this deep.
24:22And hopefully that works.
24:24We got a target.
24:25Whoo-hoo!
24:26I'm going to build the axe on it and then hang it.
24:30First, I'm taking the hot isomalt and kind of cooling it down, and then it turns into a clay.
24:35Because this axe is the monster from the swamp, it's going to be kind of primitive.
24:41I don't want it to be like, you know, you went to a store and bought it.
24:45It doesn't look like it is yet, but these are going to be tiny people.
24:49Now we have the Grim Reaper and a Trill MMA fighting.
24:52Our backboard is going to look like the audience watching the fight.
24:55I'm painting the people out of buttercream, and Nails will be constructing the cage wires out of isomalt.
25:01I'm a fan.
25:02All right, just make sure you're lined up over there.
25:04Yep, looks good to me.
25:06I'm just about to lay up the back cages, so let's see what happens.
25:10All right, it's working.
25:12I am finishing putting the cages on the back.
25:15It looks good.
25:16All the characters got to get on.
25:17The casing element has to get on, and then the scythe has to get on.
25:22Cool, it's coming.
25:23Okay.
25:24Okay.
25:25All right, yep, we're on.
25:27We managed to get Frankenstein attached, but I still need to paint this whole guy and make his head.
25:34Paulina.
25:35Yeah.
25:36Head.
25:37We only have like an hour and 20.
25:40Now's the point that we need to decide whether or not we have to completely change plans.
25:43Like, do we need to bust out a Rice Krispie treat head to throw on him?
25:48Yes.
25:49Yes.
25:50Good.
25:52Okay, let's do it.
25:53We decide that it's going to be faster to do a Rice cereal treat and modeling chocolate Frankenstein head
25:57than it will be for me to carve it.
25:59And Karine steps in to do Frankenstein's head as fast as she can.
26:03Last challenge, I needed help to make her head at the last minute, and this time I'm the one who's making it.
26:08Once we get everything on there, it'll start to look really nice.
26:11It's going to start to come together.
26:13It looks good.
26:14Teams, it's a fight to the finish.
26:17One hour left.
26:18We're moving.
26:19We got one hour.
26:20We got one hour.
26:21We got to go.
26:22I'm about to do something really cool.
26:23I really want to have one of the martini glasses shattering the mirror on the backdrop.
26:28So before we put it up, I'm going to break the mirror.
26:35I'm trying to give the effect of smashing glass from the chaos of the dance-off.
26:40Guys, it worked.
26:41Yay!
26:42Let's get it up.
26:43Everything is secure.
26:44Walk around the pumpkin.
26:46Got it?
26:47Yeah.
26:48Okay.
26:51Okay.
26:52Backdrop just at the top surface, if that's possible.
26:56So, like, not below this.
27:01Oh, no!
27:06Okay.
27:07What else can we do?
27:08I'm thinking when sugar breaks, sugar takes a long time to reconstruct.
27:21There is absolutely no chance that she can repair or create something similar.
27:25Let's pivot.
27:26Let's try something I've never done before.
27:28The plan is to still make this a disco ball and to still make it domed.
27:35And we'll see how that turns out.
27:38I'm adding some texture to it so it still has those squares.
27:41And then I'm just going to lay it on top of a dome pan while it's warm.
27:46Okay, guys.
27:47We're going to have to try this now.
27:49I got this.
27:50I got this.
27:51I got this.
27:52I got this.
27:53I got this.
27:54Okay.
27:55How did she turn that around so quickly?
27:59That is amazing.
28:00Just hold this.
28:01That is your job right now.
28:02Just hold that.
28:0330 minutes on the clock.
28:05There's a pumpkin behind you.
28:07Go to your right.
28:08To your right.
28:09To your right.
28:10Right there.
28:11I'm worried about the color palette.
28:13Now that we've placed the two characters, I loathe the color palette.
28:18The faces are orange, the backdrop is orange, and everything is just melting together.
28:23We are going to add some color to the characters to try and brighten it up and see if we can fix it.
28:28Paint the shadows.
28:30Paint the shadow.
28:31We are not getting sent home today.
28:33All the sugar is made.
28:35I just don't want to put it on until we get done with this.
28:38Oh my gosh.
28:39Now let's get the rest of the stuff on.
28:41We got to go fast.
28:43Yeah.
28:44Okay.
28:45I'm getting my bucket for the tasting element.
28:48So what we have here is a black pepper pound cake, and we've got black pepper buttercream,
28:53and we're going to pour all of the blackberry compote in there, so when they cut it, it all runs out.
28:58Once you're done airbrushing, I'm going to put the scythe in and glue it together, okay?
29:03Okay.
29:04Okay.
29:05I'm going to start putting sugar stuff on here, so please nobody bang it.
29:09I have to put on the paddles.
29:11We have to put balls all over everything.
29:13Cool.
29:14Nice.
29:15We're good.
29:16Okay.
29:17We need to start getting some other stuff.
29:18I think it's going to be good.
29:19Just don't bump anything.
29:20Oh.
29:21Oh.
29:22Oh.
29:23Oh my God.
29:24What happened?
29:25Can you fix the axe with a torch?
29:26A little torch?
29:27Hey, don't worry.
29:28Don't worry.
29:29Don't worry.
29:30We can fix it with a torch.
29:31You can fix it with a torch.
29:32I'll stand there and hold it for the last 30 minutes.
29:42My axe got broken.
29:43It got knocked and broken off, and now I'm trying to remake it.
29:47Thing is, you can't use freeze spray or anything like that because that cracks isomal.
29:52I'm just worried about the paint because I'm not sure how that's going to react.
29:55Not sure.
29:56It's going to.
29:57It's going to work.
29:58It's going to work.
29:59It's going to work.
30:00Is there any details?
30:01Step back and see if there's any details we should be concerned about right now.
30:05I've done a lot of competitions.
30:07You learn to compartmentalize.
30:09I will cry later when I don't go home.
30:14I spent so much time on that first disco ball, and I put off a lot of other things that were
30:19important, like the martini glasses and the tasting element.
30:22And now everything is piling on me.
30:24This is the sugar spotlight.
30:26I've let my team down.
30:28Okay.
30:29Tasting element.
30:30Tasting element.
30:31Do you have anything else you need to do?
30:33Two minutes.
30:34Two minutes on the clock.
30:35Pushing all the way until the end.
30:36Careful, careful, careful.
30:37It's going to work.
30:38I know it is.
30:39I'm querying it in.
30:40Don't put a lot.
30:41Just a little bit.
30:42Don't push.
30:43Does the vampire need to be holding a bug too?
30:44No.
30:45I'm adding the tasting element right now.
30:48Ten.
30:49Just be super careful when you're painting him.
30:50Nine.
30:51Come on.
30:52Hustle, bustle.
30:53Eight.
30:54Seven.
30:55Bow it out some.
30:56Six.
30:57Barely a touch.
30:58Five.
30:59We've got to keep going.
31:00Come on, come on, come on.
31:01That's good.
31:02Three.
31:03Is this enough?
31:04Yay!
31:05We're done.
31:06Oh, my God.
31:07Oh, my God.
31:08It's so good.
31:09That is a wedding piece.
31:12I don't know.
31:13We'll see.
31:14We'll see.
31:15Oven Coven, tell us what you did.
31:27So our crazy big swamp monster took the first throw.
31:31He nailed bullseye.
31:32Witches don't play fair.
31:34The swamp monster, the hand, the logs, their carved pumpkin and butternut squash.
31:40The witch, cake, rice cereal treat.
31:42And Kim made all the crazy sugar work with the bullseye, the axe, the killer backdrop.
31:47You took a big risk, Kim, putting the majority of your sugar in the back of your piece.
31:55And I think it paid off.
31:57It is so effective.
31:58It draws your eye in.
32:00And it has this feeling of being plucked right out of those old swamp movies.
32:06David, you are one of the best pumpkin carvers we have here.
32:10You are so deft in creating these textures.
32:13I just see so much lively movement to your piece.
32:17You guys are getting better and better at telling your story.
32:20What did you make for our tasting element?
32:22Black licorice and white chocolate were our ingredients.
32:24Today we made for you swamp rocks.
32:27Swamp rocks!
32:28Yeah!
32:29It is layered with a black licorice forbidden rice rice pudding with a caramelized white chocolate ganache.
32:36And then a brown butter sponge cake.
32:39I really love that you use the forbidden rice in here.
32:42Because it added this interesting chewy texture.
32:45And I can taste the licorice loud and clear.
32:48You caramelize your white chocolate, which gives it this sort of nuttiness that's also echoed in your brown butter cake.
32:54So this is a very intelligent dessert.
32:58Appreciate it.
32:59We have our zombie Neo, who is totally into pickleball.
33:07Frankenstein is a little too stiff to compete.
33:09The sugar work, the amazing net that Jamie made, as well as the paddles and the pickleball is chocolate.
33:17Jamie, I love that you went for it.
33:19And you piped piping hot sugar.
33:22Great job.
33:23And the fact that they are able to stand up straight and secure, that's a big, big risk.
33:27And you did it.
33:28But with Frankenstein, in order for us to believe that's Frankenstein's monster, I want to see like stitching around the face.
33:34You did such a great job of contrasting the zombie's fluidity with Frankenstein's rigidity.
33:42It's just hilarious.
33:45What are we tasting today?
33:46The ingredients that we got were peanut butter and bacon.
33:50Inside of the pickleballs, we have peanut butter mousse with a chewy caramel made with bacon fat,
33:56surrounded with crispy, salty bacon, and rolled in milk chocolate and crispy wafer pieces.
34:02I think this is a very balanced bite.
34:05I get salt.
34:06I get sweet.
34:07The teeny, tiniest little bacon bits I've ever had in my life.
34:12They sort of pop.
34:13And so you get these teeny little explosions of salt as you take bites.
34:17I love that the peanut butter is so smooth and silky because peanut butter is also really thick.
34:23It gives you that sort of smack-a-roo sensation to the mousse.
34:27These flavors are well-rounded.
34:29Hey!
34:32Great job, guys.
34:37Winston the werewolf and Murgatroyd the mummy.
34:39Walking into the club, seeing the disco ball drop, Winston confuses it as the moon and transforms.
34:47The pumpkin components are Winston's legs and Murgatroyd's face and ribs.
34:54The cake is Winston's abs.
34:57And sugar components are the martini glasses as well as the disco ball and the mirror behind the bar.
35:03Ladies, I just want to commend you on these super strong characters.
35:08The abs on the werewolf.
35:10They are popping.
35:11Absolutely stunning.
35:12My heart was breaking for you, Emerly, but I can't believe you pulled out another disco ball.
35:17And it's almost a happy accident because this one is thinner and the light was able to come through it better.
35:22So it actually reads more as a disco ball.
35:25As soon as you look at this, you know it's a dance off.
35:28The pumpkin fur.
35:29There's so much movement to it.
35:31So much texture.
35:32Emily, this is not your strongest sugar work.
35:35Let's just say it.
35:38Emily, I think it would have been helpful to fill up the space a little bit and just to do something different other than martini glasses.
35:45There are moments that really work here and then there are moments that feel a little disappointing.
35:50What'd you make for us to eat today?
35:52It was chocolate and olive.
35:54So what I have here is a vermouth noir shortbread frizz.
36:00The vermouth to me is so inspired.
36:04It gives it this sort of minerality that makes the olive make sense and for some reason makes the chocolate make sense.
36:13I don't understand it.
36:15This shortbread is so airy.
36:18When you bite into it, it just crumbles apart immediately.
36:21It's leaning very savory, but I really like that.
36:26They liked chocolate and olives.
36:29What?
36:30Come on.
36:31Hopefully that saves us.
36:34All of the monsters of Transylvania have gathered to witness the eating competition between a vampire and a goblin.
36:42We've created our characters out of cake, rice cereal treats with a pumpkin head.
36:47This table up here is made completely from isomalt, as are all of the bugs on the table and the sugar glasses up front.
36:55Kelly, I know today is the sugar spotlight and you definitely gave us a lot of sugar, but they're very small pieces.
37:02And when you're using a mole to form all these bugs, think about cleaning the edges for us to really read the shape of the bugs.
37:10I commend you for seeing a problem that there was too much orange and trying to fix it.
37:15The thing to me is I don't think we're getting the sense that these guys are competing against each other by eating as much as possible.
37:21Some sense of movement I think would have really served your piece.
37:25What's your tasting element?
37:26Our ingredients were feta and honey.
37:28Today we have for you a mini baklava bite layered with chopped pecans and feta and then topped with a honey sauce.
37:38You've got three baklava snobs standing in front of you.
37:43And this is very good.
37:45You managed to get a really light, crispy baklava made in such a teeny tiny bite without overwhelming it with that honey syrup.
37:54My bite, it was absolutely perfect.
37:56The first sensation I got was crunch.
37:59And it just felt like disgusting, like I was biting into a bug.
38:04Terrifying trio. Thank you.
38:06Thank you. Thank you guys.
38:08Yeah, see my stuff is too small.
38:10Hopefully we can move to the next one.
38:14Welcome to the largest fight night of the year for the monster world.
38:17The number one contender, the terrible troll, is fighting the reigning champion, the grim reaper.
38:22For the terrible troll, he's made of all pumpkin.
38:25The reaper is made of cake.
38:27The backboard is painted with buttercream.
38:30And the cage is made of sugar.
38:32And the weapons are also made of sugar.
38:34You totally captured the energy and the excitement of an MMA night.
38:39The sugar work is front and center.
38:41Gorgeous pumpkin carving from you, Margie, on that troll head.
38:45One thing though, you hid the foot in the back behind the grim reaper.
38:50It looks like this goblin does not have a body.
38:53Tanisha, this fabric is so smooth.
38:58And where we have the rips, you went in there and you gave us intentional beautiful rips.
39:03What's our tasting element?
39:04Blackberry and black pepper.
39:05So what we've brought to you today is the mop-up bucket from the previous rounds.
39:09A black pepper pound cake layered with a black pepper buttercream and blackberry compote.
39:15I love that this cake is super moist.
39:17I think that it's the addition of the blackberry that really helps pull in some of the savoriness of the cracked pepper that you have in there as well.
39:25When I first took a bite of this cake, I was like, nope, don't taste it.
39:28And then I felt the heat very gently start to tickle the back of my throat.
39:33I really like it.
39:36Good job.
39:37Fafa.
39:38We asked you to imagine all sorts of monsters in a series of scary square offs.
39:46One team delivered an epic fight on Halloween night.
39:51The winner of this challenge is...
40:00Oven Coven.
40:01Yeah!
40:02Oven Coven.
40:03Oven Coven.
40:04Oven Coven.
40:05Oven Coven.
40:06Oven Coven.
40:07Oven Coven.
40:08Unfortunately, terrifying trio and wicked sculptors.
40:14The judges felt your work was the weakest.
40:18Terrifying trio.
40:19The anti-gravity vampire is very impressive.
40:23But the characters are not interacting with each other or the food.
40:27And this is supposed to be an eating competition.
40:30Wicked sculptors, the way that you were able to blend the disciplines of cake and pumpkin was amazing.
40:37With the spotlight on sugar, there were definitely mistakes made that affected the visual impact of the piece.
40:44Unfortunately, the team going home tonight is terrifying trio.
40:57I'm sorry.
40:58I am extremely disappointed.
41:03It means so much to me to be a Halloween Wars.
41:07It was like a stab to the heart.
41:09I don't know what I feel.
41:22Congratulations to the rest of you.
41:23You're all moving on.
41:24But we have a second chance and this is really going to push us to work even harder.
41:29We'll see you next time.
41:31Good night.
41:32Next time on Halloween Wars.
41:35In the skill spotlight today, the pumpkin carvers.
41:39I'm going to carve the biggest Frankenstein that Halloween Wars has ever seen.
41:43We almost went home in the sugar spotlight.
41:45So this week we need to come back strong.
41:47We can't attach the limbs until he's on the board.
41:50It doesn't need to be attached.
41:51She's doing twice the work that she normally has done.
41:55If we go home, I'm going to feel like it's all on my head.
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