Food Network is kicking off the spookiest month of the year with some fun competitions. "Halloween Wars" will have contestants competing against each other to see who can make the most outrageous and realistic Halloween-themed masterpieces that are almost too scary to eat, while "Halloween Baking Championship" will focus on fully baked treats featuring Halloween staples like blood, candy corn and pumpkins. From edible roaches, to life-like cakes that look like zombies, to cupcakes shaped like ghosts, the contestants on these two shows will be producing completely edible creations that look good enough to be part of a haunted house and send chills down your spine.
Season 5 of "Halloween Wars" premiered on Sunday night, and the five teams and host Rossi Morreale came ready to scare. As we've seen since season 1 of the hit show, each team is composed of a pumpkin carving expert who makes pumpkins nearly unrecognizable, a cake artist who can somehow create life-sized monsters out of just batter, and a sugar artist who will spend hours perfecting tiny yet unbelievable creatures out of just sugar. Each episode consists of two gruesome challenges, a Small Scare where they only have 45 minutes to create a Halloween-themed design, and a big battle, the Spine Chiller, where they have five hours to come up with humongous presentations that are simply perfection. The judges this season are cake decorator Shinmin Li, makeup artist Brian Kinney and a rotating panel made up of Robin Atkin Downes from "The Strain," Benjamin Papac from "The Walking Dead," Bex Taylor-Klaus from "Scream" and Elvira, aka Cassandra Peterson.
