Halloween Baking Championship - Season 8 (2022)

The bakers face decay when host John Henson challenges them to make moldy desserts that incorporate fermented ingredients. Then, judges smash desserts and dreams as they send one baker packing up to the 13th floor.

John Henson turns up the heat when he asks the seven remaining bakers to set their desserts on fire by reinventing flambe classics. Then, the bakers have judges in stitches with realistic open wound cakes, and one baker is eliminated.

John Henson turns the bakers' worlds upside down with a challenge to make upside-down cakes without pineapple. Judges Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell see double when the bakers team up to create identical twin cakes that taste different.

John Henson asks the remaining five bakers to bake desserts based on classic cocktails. Then, the bakers must face their fears by frightening judges with sets of entremets that represent their worst nightmares.

The bakers celebrate by creating sweet and savory grazing boards in honor of a dearly departed couple. Then, the judges are invited to the deadliest wedding of their lives when the final bakers create three-tiered black wedding cakes.