[wolf hauling]
I'm Zak Bagans and I've taken control of Halloween Wars.
Four teams have already fallen,
leaving just five teams to continue competing
in increasingly strenuous elimination challenges.
[Shinmin] This is a complete disaster.
[man] We didn't do all this hard work just go home
Until just one team is left standing to be crowned,
The Halloween Wars champions.
-[all] Whoa! -[Willy] Oh. Hey. Hey.
What in the world?
I'm scared.
[thunder rumbling]
[theme music playing]
Hey, judges.
Hello, teams.
-Hello. -Hey, Shinmin.
I'm curious, what scares you the most?
I'm afraid of what's under my bed.
Shoes?
[laughter]
For me, it's dolls.
My phobia was never more tested
and when I traveled to the terrifying island of the dolls in Xochimilco,
Mexico City.
This island was built on tragedy.
Tortured by guilt after not being able to save a drowning child,
a man spent 50 years accumulating dolls.
He believed were offerings to the girl he was powerles to help.
We witnessed dolls spontaneously start laughing at us.
-[dolls laughing] -[man] Oh, my God.
[Zak] A fire started on its own,
and I was even afflicted with a mysterious,
bruising and pain after handling a haunted doll.
[man] Oh, my God.
Doesn't it look like a little baby hand grabbing my arm?
It was my worst nightmare.
And now, I share that nightmare with you all so that it might inspire you.
[thunder rumbling]
[all screaming]
Oh, my God! Look that doll.
No!
[Shinmin] Are you kidding me?
[Aarti] Oh, my God!
Yeah, that got me.
It's get your blood pumping.
All right. Like Zak said, we all have that one thing
that frightens us to our core.
So I want you to envision a classically scary monster
and think about the one thing they fear the most.
And out of the Mexico City location,
Alan of the Dolls,
want you to use a traditional Mexican dessert as your flavor.
Things like caramel flan, horchata,
cinnamon churros, my favorit
Pan de elote or chili mango
All right, teams, you have seven hours. Let's get to it.
[woman] Yeah.
Oh. Okay, guys.
Dolls, eww. Not a fan.
-No. -No. So...
-Not cool. -What else scares you guys?
-Insects in general. -[Suzanna] Insects.
[woman] Creepy crawly things.
I don't like statues, like, gargoyle type. Nope.
Gargoyles will be good.
-Gargoyle. -Yeah.
They're guarding something,
so they need to be like up.
[Suzanna] Gargoyles are so scary that they're pu in places to ward away demon
[woman] Uh-huh.
[Suzanna] Well, maybe he could be, like, scared of spiders.
-[woman] Yeah. -[Suzanna] We definitely have to show that fear.
You cannot beat, like,
a freshly made churro like, that's the best.
I love how you say it too.
[both] Churro!
We have a cinnamon churro cake cover with a caramel buttercream.
Baked chipotle peanut crunc for that crispy churro texture.
[woman] Okay. Perfect.
The batter is ready,
so I'm getting ready to pour it.
Once that's ready,
I'll be using Suzanna cinnamon swirl.
[woman] This is brown sugar, butter,
cinnamon and a little bit of flour.
[Suzanna] Oh, that looks really pretty.
All right.
Go into the oven.
So how can a scary creature be afraid?
Obviously, I want the characters to look frightening,
but then I want to see the expression of fear on their faces.
Yeah.
[Shinmin] Drooped ears, hunched shoulders,
things that will bring a usually imposing character down.
[Aarti] Right.
When you think classics, you think vampires.
Let's do something like that.
And there are so many things to play off of because they're scared of a lot.
Our vampire would take the souls of children and put them in dolls.
The dolls finally get revenge by attacking
the vampire with garlic ligh and a stake in the heart.
[woman] Perfect size.
I'm gonna make like an old doll face.
[Reggie] It's so important that we show the judges that we're listening.
We have to make sure our display has a balance of all three of our works.
What I'm doing now is pouring the candy melts into this mold.
We're going to put this in the freezer and let it set.
[Reggie] The head of our vampire really has to be on point to sell this scene
There's nothing you can't love about a churro.
It's dough that's deep fried and rolled in cinnamon and sugar.
I'm going to do a cinnamon spice cake.
Egg yolk adds to the richness of the cake
and makes it a little bit more tender.
-All right, Hannah. -[Hannah] Yeah.
Which Mexican dessert did you choose?
[Hannah] I'm doing a cinnamon spice cake with a churro diplomat cream
It is made of pastry cream and whipped cream.
I'm making my own strawberry chili jam
[Aarti] Okay.
And then I'm going to have a spiced almonds drizzle crunch to mimic
the crunchy fried texture of a churro.
I want to bring some spice and show that, like,
I can do a little bit more than lady like cakes.
Ladies are spicy.
-Okay. Hello. -Oh, yeah.
There we go. I'm going to go to the oven.
I love cake.
[Willy] Nice.
This is part of my boulder.
[Jamie] We're going to do something straight from Mexico,
the Chupacabra.
But we've got the zombie ram
It's already dead. It's not like the Chupacabr can kill it.
So now the zombie is back for revenge.
Willie is going to be making this rocky hillside.
It's a lot of pumpkin.
[Beverly] Willie's going at it like the mad man.
-Woo hoo! -[Beverly] Whoa, Willie.
So far, so good.
The inspiration for my cake today is flan.
And when I think of flan,
I want to eat a dessert called Choco Flan.
I'm going to make a chocolate cake
with layers of a vanilla cream,
dulce de leche and dragee peanuts sprinkle with chili lime seasoning.
I have put literal whole cans of sweetened condensed milk inside of here.
I need to boil it for at least three to four hours
to turn it into dulce de leche.
That means I can't even start building my cake
until at least three and half hour into the competition.
And that might be really pushing it.
All right, going to the oven.
All right. Let's put some sugar.
[Jamie] Beverly is working on the sugar succulent.
[Beverly] I'm going to make them a bit more gothic thinner leaves.
They're really emaciated.
All right. Got all my tips.
Okay. Done.
It's a little elbow.
-[Shinmin] Hey, Andrea. -Hey.
What's going on your cake design?
We-- I am working on a three-headed dog right now.
[Shinmin] What's this dog's deepest fear?
A vacuum cleaner.
A va... [chuckles]
[Anthony] The lord of the underworld i trying to tidy out the place
So he pulls out his vacuum cleaner,
but the guard dog, he is scared out of his mind
and he's just running away.
-So the vacuum cleaner... -Yes.
...and you've got a hole.
Our Hades character is going to be head to toe pumpkin.
Wow!
[Anthony] I'm currently working on a vacuum cleaner
that's going to scare off our dog.
It's entirely made out of pumpkin.
[Cesar] Let me see.
Well, very nice. Very nice.
[Anthony] Thanks.
[Cesar] I'm gonna hurry.
Hot Carmel.
What I'm doing is the essence of camouflage
[Anthony] Cesar is preparin a Mexican vanilla cake,
soaked in flan,
caramel syrup with light caramel cream,
chilly mango salsa and a cinnamon sugar pepita crunch.
[Cesar speaking in foreign language]
Pastry Pirates, what's going on?
[Rudolfo] A lot is going on.
What are you going to make?
-[Tammy] Curse of the Mummy. -Yeah.
So, we're going to do a cat and a mummy running from the cat.
[Eddie] Ooh!
[woman] Egyptians really like cats
because cats ward off evil spirits.
We're going to have a cat with, like,
a little candle.
To try set him on fire as he's, like,
climbing up on a rope.
So this mummy is scared of a cat?
-Yeah. -I like that.
[indistinct]
[Rudolfo] So there's cinnamon cake.
[Eddie] I can smell the cinnamon.
Here we have the churros that are going to fry in a second.
[woman] Rudolfo decides to do a cinnamon cake layered with mini churros,
dulce de leche and a coconut pastry cream.
-[Eddie] I'm looking forward to this. -Okay.
[woman] Looking at the shape of the pumpkin
I actually realized I could this cat
or have one big piece of pumpkin,
which would actually be easi for me structurally.
[Rudolfo] Hey, I have a pumpkin in my milk.
[woman] You do?
[laughter] Sorry, guys.
It's gotta be a big kitty cat, but that's a good kitty cat.
Stay. Good pumpkin.
[Jamie] Back.
Wee!
For one layer of the cake,
I decided to make rigid peanuts.
It's a candied nut.
And you stir, stir, stir, so you don't burn them.
[Beverly] Don't burn your nuts.
[Jamie] I'm adding a spicy, sour Mexican seasoning.
-[Aarti] Jamie? -[Jamie] Yes.
Aarti, how are you?
What Mexican dishes your cake based on?
I've been inspired by flan.
-What? -Yeah.
Flan is good, right.
Flan is delicious, but as a cake?
But we're changing it up a little bit.
So we've got chocolate cake.
We've got vanilla cream and dulce de leche caramel.
Okay. So how are you using this chili lime seasoning?
[Jamie] So, the chili lime seasoning is going to go onto my dragee peanuts.
Okay.
-Here's the thing to me. -[Jamie] Yes.
Does it feel like you have too many elements in your cake?
Because when I think about flan,
I don't think about chili lime peanuts.
Well, this is just changing it up,
making it a whole new experience.
I'm just concerned that this is going to take it off the path of flan.
When I think about flan,
I don't think about chili lime peanuts.
I'm just concerned that this is going to take it off the path of flan.
[Jamie] After describing my flavor to Aarti,
she's not going to think that it really tastes like flan,
but she will think it's delicious.
I think it's going to be good.
I mean, you've got choco flan with an accent of chili lime dragee nuts,
like you can't go wrong.
Let's see.
[Janira] Look how beautiful this came out.
[woman 2] Oh, that's awesome.
[Suzanna] Okay, so, Janira,
now I'm going to make a spider out of an ube potato.
-[Janira] Ooh. -So these are naturally purple.
I really like using nature to my advantage.
Plus, look how beautiful that color is.
So I took the pomegranate seeds,
and then I stuck them in,
so that's going to be the spider face.
-[Janira] Oh, my God. That looks so cool. -Cool, huh?
We picked the thing to be scared of.
I had eight eyes, eight legs,
so it's a little bit time consuming.
They kind of shake. Eww. Look at that.
[thundering rumbling]
-Woo! -Four hours left, you guys.
-I have had enough scares for today. -It's not nice.
[Hannah] Perfect. They look good.
-They're nice and done. -[Janet] That looks beautiful.
So right now, I'm going to start on my strawberry chili jam.
In my strawberry chili jam,
I'm going to have fresh jalapenos,
the zest of one lemon and also the juice.
And I'm just going to let this keep cooking down.
It's going to taste so good.
So right now, I am mixing up the streusel.
So it's just almond flour, regular flour,
brown sugar, a little bit of spices,
and you just add butter until it turns into a dough.
Crumble it up on a sheet pan, pop it in the oven,
and it turns into crunchy goodness.
All right.
I will be back in about 20 minutes.
-Can I just mention... -[Aarti] Yeah.
...that Janet is carving an amazing face today.
[Eddie] There we go.
-[Shinmin] Yes, we've been waiting for this. -Yes.
[Shinmin] And it looks awesome.
It's so finely detailed, the lips are like,
perfectly puckered.
I can just stare into the soul of this pumpkin.
I'm working on the main character,
which is the cat.
It's going to be all made of pumpkin.
All one giant piece.
Just about to finish up the face of this guy.
Maybe another half hour, guys.
That's pretty good.
Right, and there's a cat.
That'll so good.
I'm gonna do mango chili salsa, okay.
I want to take a little chili spices,
a little tequila, a little sugar.
I don't do simple.
[Andrea] There we go.
We're going to have three dog heads today.
And what I really wanted to do was give
each one a different expression,
like they had their own personality.
They'll have their tongues hanging out.
They won't be able to decid which way they're going.
They're just going to try to get away.
So I'm hoping I have enough time to put lots of little wrinkl
into the face so that the details are not lost.
Cesar, I'm going to need those eyes.
[Cesar] Okay.
This is the underworld.
So who else would be there, but Hades himself.
He's trying to vacuum,
but that does not please his dog too much.
The team that I'm worried about is a Eerie eats.
[Aarti] Yeah.
I have 100% confidence that if they had all the time in the world,
we would see incredible stuff from them.
-Mm-hmm. -[Edwards] Yeah.
But at this point, they don't have the luxury of time
to get themselves together.
I've never done a full head to toe figure before in my life.
I'm definitely trying to up my game.
So my chupacabra is going to be standing here.
His back is going to be all arched up
and made out of cake and his head is going to be like,
"Oh dang.'' Scared at what's coming.
I have got to layer my rice cereal head
with a thick layer of modeling chocolate
so that I can make all kinds of details all over him.
I got to make sure that our Chupacabra looks like he's about to poop his pants,
because this is the scariest thing
he's ever seen in his entire life.
Oh, yeah.
-Love it. -Okay.
[Willy] I just took a little bit of red food coloring on the guts.
[Shinmin] Oh, that's gross, Willie.
[Willy] It gonna be a zombie.
So we got to have so much blood on it.
I'm so curious. What is going on up there?
That is the inside of our zombie goat.
Oh, it's pumpkin.
Yeah.
We're gonna try to utilize all the pumpkins in our structure.
Oh, I love that.
Are you worried at all,
that it's a giant mound of pumpkin?
[Willy] Yeah. The weight of it is definitely a challenge.
Show us what you got, Willie.
Thank you.
-[Jamie] Oh, that looks good. -[Shinmin] Oh, look at that.
[Willy mimicking goat]
Tammy, I smell something burning.
Do you have anything on?
-No, I have nothing on. -U-ha.
I know, I smell it, too.
I don't know where it's coming from.
-Yeah. Me, too. -Bev, do you smell that?
-Something burning? -Yeah.
[Hannah] Oh, my Lord.
It burned.
Oh, the oven was too hot.
I'm gonna have to redo this.
[groans]
Streusel is dead.
[Janet] What?
-[Hannah] Yeah. -[Janet] It's burning here.
[Reggie] It's going to catch on fire.
[Hannah] Take two.
This one better not burn.
I do not have time to make it again.
Uh!
[woman] Suzanna had so much to do.
She's going to pipe chocolate webs.
It's only like strings of chocolate.
It needs to be very steady so it can hold the spider standing up.
We have smaller ones and we have the big ones.
[Janira] Awesome.
She's also making chocolate spiders.
She has to pipe in the virtual legs,
which is very time consuming.
[Suzanna] These are going to be cayenne pepper,
black widows spicier and deadlier.
[Janira] You start stacking the cake now.
We have a layer of the churro cake
and it has that beautiful cinnamon swirl that Suzanna had made.
There we go.
I'm covering it with a very thick layer of the caramel buttercream.
That will get sprinkled with the chipotle peanut crunch.
[thunder rumbling]
Uh-Oh!
Now what?
I don't know what it is about dolls.
I mean, I've interacted with all kinds of ghosts and demons,
but dolls just freak me out the most.
Saw those eyes?
For me, Eddie, if you wouldn't mind,
let's brighten up things a bit.
Maybe make these displays a little more festive.
What?
No, I don't like where this is going.
All right, so we want you to have a little bit of fun.
So I want you to make the cake...
...a pinata cake.
-[gasps] -[Edwards] Yeah.
So that when we cut into it,
all the Halloween treats fall out.
-Got it? -Okay.
[Edwards] You all look confused. This is supposed to be fun.
Isn't that just exciting?
I think it would be cool, though,
to do an egg sack because it's like we put the egg sack in there.
-[Janira] Yeah. -It's got to be egg.
Three different types of spider balls.
[Janira] Yeah, just mix them all together.
[Janira] I've done a pinata cake before,
and I know you have to stuff the sprinkles in there to give
that wow effect when you cut into it.
[Suzanna] There we go.
[Janira] Let's get some buttercream in.
[Andrea] I say we just get the Mexican colors,
the yellow, the purple, the green, the orange,
-like the day of the dead. -[Cesar] Yeah.
And get those sprinkles and fill it up.
Hello, Cesar.
You're making your cake right now.
-[Cesar] Yes, ma'am. -[Aarti] What are these?
[Cesar] So these are Pepita seeds with a little cinnamon.
I like it. What's your plan for the pinata part?
Put it in the freezer. We're going to chill down a little bit,
then we're a punch out the center
and then we're going to put all the sprinkles right there into the cake.
You're freezing it so you can get a clean cut.
-It's does a nice clean cut. -Okay. All right.
[Cesar] Okay.
I'm a little nervous that they still have a lot to do,
but I love the flavors of Cesar's cake.
That sounds delicious.
It's going to be difficult here.
[Aarti] Rudolfo's cake already has a lot of different elements.
Cinnamon cake, dulce de leche here.
And the churros that I fried.
Coconut pastry cream.
I know what to do. I know what to do.
Inside, I'm going to put a ganache.
Rodolfo over at Pastry Pirates.
He's concerned that his pastry filling will make the sprinkles wet.
So he's coated the inside with ganache,
so there's, like, a barrier so that when you cut out,
they won't get caught up in the pastry filling.
I think that's brilliant.
All right, so I have the pinata ready to go.
My dulce de leche is done.
So these cans of sweetened condensed milk had to throw them
into the blast chiller to get them as cold as possible.
After boiling for three and a half hours... Yay!
Beautiful caramel color.
We got to talk about this twist.
-[Beverly] All right. -[Willy] All right.
I'll cut a core down the middle of it and load it with sprinkles.
[Willy] Oh, okay. Okay.
Got to make it a big hole.
I have chocolate cake.
I have vanilla cream, dulce de leche,
and I'm adding on my chili lime dragee peanuts.
Look how cute they are. They're the tiniest bombs I've ever seen.
[Zak] Hello.
Two hours.
-Two hours? -This is why I don't like you.
Okay, so twist.
How exciting.
The only thing we need to make sure
is when you cut into this cake that
-all of that goodness spills out. -Yeah.
Squad Ghouls here,
Reggie is sculpting a vampire,
so they're going to make sure that the colors
of the inside pinata elements
are going to come out looking a little bit bloody.
That's smart.
[Reggie] I' just building up the skull to bring this vampire to life.
We're really trying to show terror in his face,
so I can always cut back.
Oh, yeah, I don't know exactly that's a vampire.
I've got so much more to do
but I think it's finally coming to a place where I'm happy with it.
[Hannah] He is quite angry.
That looks good.
[Reggie] That's what I'm talking about.
[woman 1] This is the gelatin mixture
that I will be coating the wafer paper in for the gargoyle wings.
Hmm.
I'm just creating the skeleton and then when it dries,
it'll naturally have the contour of the wing shape.
All right. This wing is ready to get set up.
Yes, perfect.
This has plenty of rock on it.
[woman1] Monique, is you gon make a post
out of pumpkin bricks.
I do feel like I'm kind of a construction worker, but I like it.
I'm gonna be using a butter cream grout for these guys.
-What do you think? -[woman1] That looks amazing...
-You like it? -[woman1] ...Monique. Oh, my goodness.
-Oh, my goodness, I love it. -Isn't that crazy.
I am sculpting the gargoyle face.
I like to start with the eyes and work my way out.
I'm going to definitely keep the wide eye look.
This is a mixture of modeling chocolate and fondant.
It's creating like this dry, crumbly look,
which is kind of like the concrete look that we're going for anyways.
Oh, my goodness. Yeah.
So, this butternut squash,
it's a perfect shape for a nice Canopic jar
just to hold the mummy's organs.
I just have to be a little bit more careful of it being hollow.
So, I'm trying to just go slowly and carefully 'cause I don't want to tear through.
All right.
We got Eddie, we got Aarti,
now, for Shinmin.
The actual shape that I'm after is kind of like an hourglass shape.
[woman 2] Tammy is working o our sugar urns for the floor of this design
Most urns have, like, a curvature to them.
The best way to get the curvature is doing the blown piece.
I'm putting two of the blown pieces together,
which look like that.
Then I put the little accents on it.
Instead of pouring the ice mold, I'll actually be pulling
and pressing it into the molds
and immediately putting it on the piece.
-[Rudolfo] Wow, that gold. It's beautiful. -Thank you.
[Andrea] I'm making its collar.
All right.
Teeth are in, tongue is in, dog is done.
[Anthony] I'm ready to put the shoulder, bicep and forearm on.
I'm trying to make a perfect
skeletal lord of the underworld in head to toe, pumpkin.
Okay.
-[Andrea] Is that an arm? -It's an arm.
It's an arm okay. Yeah.
Look we just got to find a way to get these suckers on.
It's a lot of real estate.
[Eddie] Anthony, you know, he's a great carver,
but they run into issues trying to keep the pumpkin body together
'cause it didn't really fit perfectly.
That [bleep] just fell apart on me.
-What? -The arm.
Okay so that's the arm.
I mean, it was. It's just gonna be too flimsy now.
I don't know how we're gonna get this arm stick.
-[sighs] -I'm sorry, guys.
I don't know how we're gonna get this arm stick.
[Anthony] The forearm for the Lord of The Underworld is not staying.
Our skewers aren't working.
[thunder rumbling]
We ain't got time for that now.
[Zak] My worst fear is dolls What's yours?
-[Anthony] Oh, my God. -One hour left.
One hour left.
Where's the time go?
Can we just lose an arm?
-And then what? -And then what?
I don't know.
How about we just do modeling chocolate at this point?
-Do it. -Okay.
-Start painting. -Okay.
[Anthony] Andrea grabs spraying modeling chocolate
and creates what I cannot create in that time.
It's at least covering the armature.
-Thank you so much, Andrea. -That's all right.
We'll work together, we'll work together.
[Janira] All right. Coming through.
For the gargoyle body,
we definitely need to get that posture right
to make the cake, tell the story that we want it to.
We still want them to look scary,
but I'm trying to create tha hunched over, terrified look
What I love seeing over from Ghosty Gals,
that Gargoyle is almost done.
[Janira] I am shaping the gelatin wings.
-Oh! -Like, right there.
-[Janira] Like that angle? That's awesome. -Yeah. Like that.
[Shinmin] The gargoyle, like, it's just known for that
like stony atmospheric look,
and they've got that down.
Yeah. Like, I have chills.
[Monique] Oh, my goodness, Janira. That looks awesome.
-Yeah, those looks so cool. -[Monique] Yeah, I'm happy.
[Shinmin] The mummy will be covered with ragged looking fondant,
very torn and tattered with pastry pirates.
We have, I think, the most ambitious design from them to date.
-[Eddie] Yeah. -[Aarti] They've got this gigantic piece here.
The main character is still in the kitchen.
Ready for this?
We're going to need some of this...
Please. All right, let's do it.
All right. So this is the moment of truth here.
They are trying to figure out
how they are going to move their mummy onto the base.
[Shinmin] Oh, they took it right off the base?
Oh they're gonna drill it directly onto the base.
What in the world?
[Shinmin] They removed it from something that was already secure.
-[Aarti] Yes. -[Shinmin] And they are replanting it.
-Yes. -Oh, my God! Finally.
-Is it on there? -It's on there.
-Oh, my gosh. -Good going guys.
I'm gonna pull a bunch of sugar to make the ram's horn.
A ram's horn.
[Jamie] Bev is taking a long piece of isomalt
getting it tapered at one en twisting it
and then bending it like a horn.
I'm about to dip my horn in some blood isomalt.
I'm having way too much fun with this gore.
This is gonna be awesome.
Oh, look at that.
That's gnarly, man.
-[thuds] -Ouch!
[Jamie] Are you okay?
[Willy] Are you okay?
I just broke it.
-[Willy] Oh. -[Jamie] Oh.
Slipped on the pumpkin.
-[Jamie] Are you okay? -Yeah. I wasn't even going fast.
[Jamie] Bev made a beautifu ram's horn.
It's snapped into.
[Beverly] My perfect horn.
[Jamie] Is it fixable?
[Beverly] Well, I'm gonna melt the two ends,
and I'm gonna stick them back together.
That's a good thing about isomalt.
You can always fix it. You break it, you just keep going.
Look at that.
[Jamie] Nice.
Oh, I'm putting this board
based on the accident we had last week.
We had a cake collapse.
And you know what? We're not gonna have it this week.
[Hannah] Look at those layers.
How about we put the pinata at the front?
So when we cut into it, it's pouring out like his heart is being ripped out.
That's perfect. Let's do it.
[Hannah] Now I'm adding our twist element of sprinkles.
Okay. That's enough.
We got to put cake on top.
I'm making a heart using the yam.
It's gonna be stuffed with the wooden stick.
-[Reggie] You showin' out today, sister? -[Janet] Thank you.
Just trying to make it look like more realistic heart.
Oh, shoot.
[Andrea] The forearm slid down right here,
so we're just using some modeling chocolate to cover up the armature.
[Eddie] I'm worried about, Eerie Eats.
Anthony. You know, he's a great carver.
-Yeah. -But they run into issues
trying to keep the pumpkin body that he carved together.
I'm gonna try to get some guts here in the joint.
It's time to start improvising.
-This is so late in the game. -[Shinmin] Yeah.
To try to fix your main character's body.
-Your character should be pretty close to being done. -[Eddie] Yeah.
-Start making the hand Anthony. -[Anthony] Okay. Okay.
[Willy] So I'm working on the zombie ram head
and I've got this really solid piece of pumpkin.
I really wanna create the entire thing that's one piece,
including the ears.
Looks good, looks really good from head on.
[Hannah] Right now, I'm starting to make some of the flames
to go around our vampire.
I'm gonna do a couple of different color
so that we have a nice contrast
and it gives you some really really awesome organic shape
So, I can break that in any way that I need to
and surround our vampire to look like, that he's engulfed in flames.
Oh, my God.
-[Zak] Ten minutes teams. -Hi, guys.
[Anthony] The hand's done.
-Don't touch the structure if you can. -Yes, boss.
[Janet] Oh, it's supposed to be like this on top?
Yeah. Goodbye clean white shirt.
[Jamie] I'm doing a sponging technique
to get a whole lot of texture.
Super, super fast and a bunch of color.
[Willy] All right, guys. Let's do this.
What do you think about him right now?
[Janira] Oh, that's so good.
[Suzanna] I still have a lot of spiders.
[Monique] No one touched you down a spider web.
-No. -No, nobody.
Can we put some bandages on the foot as well?
[Anthony] You're smoking.
-One minute. -All right. Let's go, girls.
[Cesar] I still got to put the vacuum piece on there.
There we go.
-So good. -I love it.
-Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. -Yeah, I know. I know.
No more marshmallows here.
[Zak] Time to show us what might terrify the terrified.
-Oh. -Time's up.
Whoo!
-Yes. -We're done.
Can you be down if you're still stuck to your display?
I'm not really sure.
[thunder rumbling]
[Monique] Normally gargoyle are so terrifying
that they are placed to ward off evil spirits.
But this one has really bad arachnophobia.
So, he is frozen in fear as all of these spiders
make his throne their own nest.
Way to step up, ladies.
One of the things that I love the most is your gargoyle.
You chose the perfect color.
Also, Monique, the brick by brick carving
you did on the base there.
Every piece is different
and you laid everyone down as if you were a bricklayer.
It was worth all of the effort.
I think my favorite thing is actually
your gelatin wafer paper wings.
It's so translucent you can see light through it
because you did the pulled marshmallow for the webs.
The chocolate is a lot thicker, it's a lot clunkier.
So when you're creating an element,
try to stick with one mediu
and move on to your other cool techniques for something else.
The face is what's standing out to me.
He's unsure about himself,
and it works perfectly with the story that you told us.
All right, now let's have some fun.
Can we cut into this pinata cake?
We will warn you, though,
the spiders laid a little surprise inside.
Ew!
Whoa!
Yuck! So many of them.
-Are they eggs? -Yeah.
[Suzanna] It's a churro cake and it's filled with peanuts
And a drizzle of caremal.
And it has a little bit of Chipotle, a kick of cayenne,
and the buttercream is also caramel.
I like your cake.
I like the caramel flavor in the buttercream.
I like the very gentle heat that I'm getting
from the Chipotle and the cayenne.
The one thing that doesn't work is the peanut.
Peanut has such a strong flavor
that to me, it's sort of walking me away from the churro cart.
I disagree with Aarti.
The saltiness and the crunch from the peanuts.
That's actually my favorite part.
This cake is everything that I want in a churro.
I feel like the actual cake layer
is just a little bit too chunky for me
because I want to be able to get all of that deliciousness in one bite.
And right now, because those layers are just a little bit thick,
I can't get that.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
I think you guys nailed it with the cake. And the eggs.
-And I love the spider eggs I love it. -Yes.
-I love the gross factor. -Yes.
[Jamie] We have a bloodless zombie ram
perched atop a rocky hillsid
looking at our approaching Chupacabra.
As the Chupacabra comes forward, he looks up and he sees
the zombie ram about to pounce and he cowers in fear
because he knows his fate.
I have chills...
...from your cake.
Your ram is one of my favorite parts
because there's motion.
Beverly, I love the way that you pulled those gorgeous aloes
and snake plants growing there.
I think the color is slightly off
and I think I'm craving some of that sort of sad green
rather than this cheerful green in your succulents.
Jamie, your sculpting of the Chupacabra
is my ultimate favorite thing on this entire piece.
I can see that he is a terrifying beas
But you managed to create
such vulnerability the drooping of the ears,
the hunching of the shoulder
I want to take this guy home
-and just tell him everything's gonna be okay. -[laughter]
[Aarti] Poor guy.
-Mmm. -Woo-hoo!
[Jamie] I chose flan for our Mexican desserts.
There's layers of chocolate cake
with a vanilla cream.
-Ay... -Dulce de leche.
Thank you.
And [indistinct] peanut with some lime-chili seasoning.
A classic flavor from Mexico
Are you kidding me with this cake?
The chocolate really comes through,
is not really overpowering, I love the spice.
It kinda reminds me of a Mexican hot chocolate.
I guess my only issue is,
because I've never had chocolate flan,
I don't know how to compare it.
This just tastes like a really, really good chocolate cake
with a little bit of crunch on the inside.
This is a gorgeously rich, moist chocolaty cake,
which would be great if that was the challenge.
I'm missing the flan.
I'm missing that eggy custard.
I'm missing the bittersweet of the caramel.
If you're gonna be making a cake like this,
you could make this every week.
[all] Thank you.
-Hey, that right there. -Yeah. Yeah.
[laughs]
We did good.
The Egyptian lore is that cats are the guardians of evil.
So, when we have a cursed mummy awakened from his tomb,
ready to climb on out, he is terrified
of the cat that is ready to burn him alive,
burn the rope, burn his means of escape.
And then also, my little bonus was that these are canopic jars.
So, in Egypt, they store their organs in them.
So, I wrote in Hieroglyphics, Eddie, Shinmin, and Aarti.
-In Hieroglyphics? -Yes.
-[Eddie] That is cool. -[Aarti] Awesome.
I love the fact that you managed to keep the mummy scary
but also convey fear with those big bulging sugar eyes.
And I'm also a huge fan
of the multiple textures that you've got
using fondant and wafer pape and burning paper.
That's a lot of work and it really paid off.
[Shinmin] I love the sculpti in your pumpkin work.
I just wish that you hit the base color
of your pumpkin with a little bit of white
-before you added the actual colors. -Okay.
And then you wouldn't have as much of that bleeding
and it would look a lot more refined.
Sure. Thank you.
One thing I love about you all is that
you do a really good job of creating the scene.
I love how the board is just filled but is not too much.
The little jewels, the urn, everything has a place.
Ah!
-Ay! -Oh!
-Look at that! -Woo-hoo!
[Rudolfo] We chose the churros,
and for the base of the cake I did a cinnamon cake,
and I did a homemade Dulce de leche
with fried churros.
In the middle, I did a coconut pastry cream.
[Eddie] As far as the cake itself, I do get the cinnamon
and I want a little bit more because it does eat a little sweet.
It almost eats more like a cinnamon roll.
I agree with Eddie.
Because it's so ooey gooey and we're not getting any crunch from the churro,
it does kind of finish off like a morning bun.
When you're doing something like this
and you know it's gonna get soggy with time,
you have to cheat a crunch.
Even like a little bit of a salty almond,
which is not too strong and nutty taste.
-But it's gonna give us that crunch. -That crunch, okay.
Thank you, Pastry Pirates.
-Thank you. -Thank you so much.
Congrats, guys.
-Thank you. -Pastry Pirates.
[Anthony] Hades, our lord of the underworld,
has decided to pull out his vacuum cleaner,
but that scares his dog, Cerberus, to death as he runs away
hoping to be in the next circle of the inferno,
so that he may not encounter it.
Anthony, just the way you sculpt the chest,
the six pack, the ribs and all these things is really impressive.
My favorite thing is really this three-headed hound.
And Andrea, this is definitely the best work we've seen from you.
And Anthony,
I actually love the sort of psychedelic swirling of the eyes.
It really just sucks you right in.
The one thing that just feels, kind of, disconnected to me
is the fact that your pieces don't really speak to each other.
I would agree. I think the story itself,
it's a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
It's a little bit funny and it's a little bit scary.
And I think you would have had a stronger design
-if you picked one. -Yeah. Okay.
-Yeah. -That's a big slice. Woo!
[all cheering]
[Eddie] There we go.
[Cesar] I've done a Mexican vanilla cake,
soaked it in the caramel flan syrup
with caramel camu,
with a chili mango salsa,
and cinnamon spice pepitas.
Cesar, when it comes to...
...cake flavors, you've proven that you're like...
...out there.
You're, you're out there.
Cesar, when it comes to...
...cake flavors, you've proven that you're like...
...out there.
-In a very good way. -Okay.
I tried to be.
Cesar, from the first day I met,
you have been skeptical about your cakes.
-Yes, ma'am. -Mm-hmm.
-I am a convert. -[laughing]
But for me, when I remember eating chili lime,
it's doused in chili. It's like red.
When you say chili mango,
I'm like, [inhales] I wanna get that,
you know, and I'm not gettin' that from your cake.
Thank you. You did a good job.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
Good job to all of us. Family.
[Hannah] Our vampire has been terrorizing
this Mexican village for decades,
and he's been turning all the children into dolls through his curse.
The children finally decide to fight back
using all of the vampires biggest fears.
So, we have garlic, fire,
light, and a stake through the heart,
and he can no longer harm them anymore.
Janet, I know, I singled you out last time,
and you came out swinging today.
-You did amazing carving on your pumpkin here. -Thank you.
[Shinmin] It's super believable.
And, Reggie, your sculpting is always so top notch
that literally this time I can't even look at him
because he's so scary.
I took a quick glance and then I just looked away 'cause it's just...
my skin is crawling right now.
Hannah, those sugar flames are gorgeous.
There's so much movement and heat in there
and so much shine. Well done.
I hear your story,
and you're saying that the children
are using all these things that a vampire is scared of.
I'm like, where? Where are the children at?
So, we want you to bring that story to life
and make an actual kid
using the stake to take his heart,
using your skill set to tell the story, not your voice.
Okay.
[Aarti] Ew!
That's his gut.
-[Eddie] His guts. -[Shinmin] Ew.
[Hannah] So, I have a cinnamon spice cake
with a churro diplomat cream
a strawberry chili jam,
a spiced almond streusel,
and just a regular vanilla bean buttercream.
The texture of your cake is so soft.
It's light, it's moist.
I'm just not feeling churro from this.
I don't really taste as much of the cinnamon.
I don't get the extra texture.
It's a yummy cake. I'm just not really feeling your inspiration.
Hannah, that strawberry chili jam
is so stinkin' good.
It has just the right little smooch of heat in that.
It's really great.
[laughing]
It's been a while, guys.
For me, I want more of that strawberry
because that's where that heat is coming from.
And you don't have as much cinnamon in there.
And normally, you get that, kind of, back of the throat,
kind of, heat from cinnamon.
And I want more of that, and I'm not getting that.
-Thank you, Squad Ghouls. -[Reggie] Thank you.
[Reggie] We've gotta get to this next round
-and come together and see what we could do. -Yeah.
We know what we are capable of,
-so let's do it. -Yeah.
So, today you were inspired by
Zak's own frightening encounter on the Island of Dolls,
and you all scared up some frighteningly good cakes.
Two teams made our heart skip a beat,
Ghosty Gals
and Lollipop Lunatics.
One of you actually edged ahead
by the tiniest of margins.
Lollipop Lunatics. Congratulations.
Holy cow! We won two in a row.
Just go win a third one and what's that called?
A turkey and bowling or something?
All right, so we have one more team that's safe this week.
That's gonna be Pastry Pirates.
Eerie Eats and Squad Ghouls,
one of you is going home.
Squad Ghouls,
you really listened to us and you stepped up your game
with the pumpkin and sugar work.
But we wanna see a better blending of your disciplines.
And Eerie Eats,
this is some of the best sculpting work we've seen from you,
but each of the elements of your cake feel singular.
We're missing the connection
that makes a good cake a great cake.
Which one of you is going home?
Eerie Eats, I'm sorry.
You're done on Halloween War
[sighs]
Thank you guys.
We just didn't come together as a team.
And at the very least,
I think that there's plenty of potential to improve.
I'm proud of my team,
and I don't regret a single minute of this competition.
I'm forever grateful for it.
Competition is getting stiffer and stiffer, guys.
Gotta step it up.
[Eddie] Next time on Halloween Wars...
It's gonna be disgusting to be awesome.
Ew, it's, ew!
[laughter]
[Eddie] Zak reveals the haunted underworld histo of Portland.
[laughing maniacally]
I'm gonna cast sugar over my hands.
What? Molten sugar.
-Oh, wait, wait, wait. -Oh, my gosh.
Oh!
Oh, no.
It is not my day.
Oh!
-What is happening? -[all cheering]
Oh, that's nasty.