Halloween Baking Championship season 8 episode 5: Open wound cakes

Halloween Baking Championship season 8 was back on the Food Network with episode 5 and this might have been the grossest episode to date. It was all about flambe desserts and cakes that looked a little too much like real wounds.

It all started with the Thriller Challenge. For this challenge, the bakers had to choose a classic flambé dessert and then make their own Halloween-inspired dessert based on those flavors. The flambé desserts include cherries Jubilee, flaming apple tart, peach flambé, bananas foster, mangoes Diablo, crepes Suzette, and Baked Alaska.

All the desserts looked delicious. Even the ones that didn’t turn out the way they were supposed to. But one was more creative, delicious, and fun than the others and that was Zac with his spiced rum cake with peach flambé filling. He had a witch being burned at the stake on top of his cake. It really could not have been better.

On to the Killer challenge! If you have a weak stomach, this is not a challenge you want to watch. The bakers were tasked with making an open-wound cake. Whether it be a cut across the arm, sewn-up lips, or a cake covered in different cuts, this challenge had cakes bleeding from their seams.

This week’s Halloween Baking Championship was the grossest yet

But there was a twist halfway through the challenge. After the bakers had already made part of their dessert, host John Henson told them they had to add a type of cured meat to their recipe. Yikes! Everything from pancetta to pepperoni to chorizo. This was not easy and that was clear in some of the final results.

At the top of the pack this week was Blayre. Her sewn-up lips cake was way too realistic looking and according to the judges, it tasted delicious.

And, unfortunately, someone had to be sent to the dreaded 13th floor and this week, that was Lola. While her broken toenail cake looked pretty gruesome to me, the judges thought it looked a little too cartoonish and they said that her buttercream was grainy.

Next week, the remaining bakers will have to bake individual cakes that represent the legend of the room 222 twins, but they will have to make these cakes in teams of two. It’s sure to be spooky.

What did you think of this week’s episode of the Halloween Baking Championship? Let us know in the comments below!