Cake Wars: Halloween

Jonathan Bennett welcomes four teams to the first of two qualifying rounds. Each team of cake, sugar and pumpkin artists must create a monster from a specific historical period before judges Shinmin Li and Aarti Sequeira decide which team is history.

Four new teams face off in the second qualifier, where Jonathan Bennett challenges them to depict the moment a person transitions into a horrifying Halloween monster. Judges Shinmin Li and Aarti Sequeira chose who moves on and who is left in the dust.

Jonathan Bennett tasks the remaining teams of cake, pumpkin and sugar artists with creating a scene showing what it would look like if a nightmare came to life, and judges Shinmin Li and Aarti Sequeira decide which teams will continue living the dream.

Jonathan Bennett challenges the teams to show the chaos that ensues when monsters go trick-or-treating. Each teams must highlight their pumpkin carver's skill to avoid Shinmin Li and Aarti Sequeira sending them home with an empty candy bag.

Jonathan Bennett asks the teams create delicious displays of a vampire on a date gone wrong. While the teams highlight their cake artist's skill with a tasting element, Shinmin Li and Aarti Sequeira decide who won't be getting a second date.

Jonathan Bennett challenges the semi-finalists to imagine what would happen when nature fights back -- using sugar! Judges Shinmin Li and Aarti Sequeira decide which two survivors will battle it out for the title of Halloween Wars champion and $25,000.

The final two teams create their largest displays yet: the spookiest hotels on Earth! It's up to Jonathan Bennett, Shinmin Li and Aarti Sequeira to decide who will check out with the Halloween Wars championship title and the $25,000 grand prize.