Creepy confections: ‘The Big Bake’ returns with a Halloween-themed season
Dig into some deadly delights as a new episode of “The Big Bake: Halloween” airs Monday, Oct. 9, on Food Network.
The series, hosted by Brad Smith (“Eddsworld”), welcomes returning “Big Bake” champions and veterans, each looking to redeem themselves in this larger-than-life, “Halloween”-themed event. Food Network describes: “In each episode, three professional baking teams have five hours to design, bake and decorate a grand-scale cake creation based on a particular theme. These bakers need to think big and bold, blowing up their designs to gigantic proportions and thinking outside the (bakery) box.”
As “Big Bake” competitions take place throughout the year, this iteration celebrates the spookiest and scariest season of them all, tasking bakers with eye-popping and downright dreary challenges that feature spooky Halloween treats, creepy clown cakes, fa-boo-lous shrieks, scares and costumes galore.
So far this season, the teams have been asked to create cakes of the best “boo-ticians” in town, decorated with their creepy clientele, and then made their way to the carnival, where funhouse screams were on the menu as Smith asked the baking teams to create some spine-chilling desserts. But fear not. The scariest snacks are still to come. During this upcoming episode, Food Network promises that witches will be the “talk of the town,” as a description for the challenge shares that “Brad Smith asks the baking teams to wave their magic whisks to create cakes featuring the queens of Halloween.” In the following weeks, the competition continues, as bakers serve some “big bog bakes” with swamp-themed cakes and later tackle their fears by making creations that feature thrill-seeking monsters.
As tension rises and suspense builds, bakers must do their best to impress this season’s judges – pastry chef Ron Ben-Israel (“Cake Wars”), cornerback-turned-chef Eddie Jackson (“Outchef’d”) and internet personality/cookbook author Danni Rose (“Danni’s Juke Joint Comfort Food Cookbook: Modern-Day Recipes, Ole Skool Flavas,” releasing in November 2023) – and avoid elimination, making it to the end of the competition, where the most ambitious (and terrifying) baker will go home with a $10,000 prize. Jam-packed with creepy confections, taunting treats and bizarre baked goods, new episodes of “The Big Bake: Halloween” air Mondays through October on Food Network.