What the hell!? Horror cake challenge...

I agree. That cake was the definition of horror! A cake coming to life and eating people?? It's horrific. That cake should have won. The motorcycle cake was boring!

She definitely deserved to win. All of the other cakes were goofy looking and not nearly as gory as her cake. The giant wedding cake with teeth was terrifying. Yeah, the cupcakes were cute but so what? There's nothing wrong with an element of humor in horror. In fact, because of the lack of blood, I thought the Grim Reaper was more cutesy than the cupcakes.

i came on here to make the exact thread you did. that cake was very horriffic. the cupcakes were eating the chef in front of us for god sake. the cake itself was incredible and very scary. the fact that they took something not scary and made it so scary was great and creative. the fact that it kept a touch of the charm of baked goods while eating your brains is what made it so great. the only thing that worried me about her was having food come to life again, but after seeing it i didnt care. it was just awesome.

man wasnt the grim reaper motorcycle so creative. the only thing they could have done to make it better was have the skull be in flames....oh wait.

i loved the idea of the girl being dead in the cake. i agree that if they had made the girl 3d or scary looking that may have been unstopable. the leathery skin of the cake was great though. i didnt like the axe standing straight up on it. it was weird looking. i would rather it be cutting into the cake then have it weirdly balanced on top turning. it would have been cool if you could see the axe spliting her head in the cake. did i just get too weird?

i thought it was odd they said the other cake being white was bad. i thought the only interesting thing about the cake was when the blood came down a white cake. it was interesting to look at, but nowhere on the same level as the others.

my thoughts fully go on how the cakes look, not how hard the techniques are. i just wanted to point that out. ok, i just got way too worked up about cake challenge.

*beep* it, cut'em up!

Thank GOD I'm not alone in thinking this! All along, I firmly believed (and still do) that the "haunted bakery" story was the most thought-out and creative of them all. The wedding cake was a rip off of Corpse Bride, and the birthday cake was a funny concept, but no real story, and don't get me started on the Grim Reaper on a chopper. That wasn't a story. It was just a Halloween icon.

Frankly, I could see her story actually being made into a classic campy horror movie.

The judges are incapable of independent thought. They made their minds up very early on when the Dr. Evil judge said that he thought it looked too "cute". THAT WAS THE POINT! It's called IRONY. The juxtaposition of something innocuous and happy turning into an object of horror and death.

Hello?! Has anyone heard of Chucky the DOLL from Child's Play??

All Dr. Evil could say in the judging portion was "You really listened to what Kerry and I said." So WHAT? Is that the game? Forget your plans and just do whatever lame ideas the judges pull out of their rear-ends?

When Dr. Evil complimented Jorg on the "high-tech" use of shoving a couple of kids' glow-sticks into the skull's eye sockets, I knew the fix was in. For goodness sakes, the cupcakes were actually animated and still attacking what was left of the baker!

He didn't deserve to win this competition under its topic. If he made that same cake in a basic Halloween challenge, I'd have no problem with it winning, but there was no "original story" there.

I couldn't agree more with everything said in this thread, this whole thing was a sham and the judge insulting her intelligence really got to me.

The bike was boring and I couldn't believe they fawned over him covering what was essentially a motorcycle frame to make the bulk of the cake, the hunched over white monster cake was far more impressive to me considering how many of these have people with major problems with off kilter cakes. That thing was off kilter and rock solid, bravo. Marianne also had animation in the cake, which seems to never work right for anyone else, but they are impressed with a couple of glowsticks shoved into a skull? SMH

This fiasco seriously makes me want to never watch this show again, especially if witch judge in empaneled. Food Network is trash anymore anyways, they've gone steadily downhill since they let Rachel Ray on board, they push Batali out the door and now this? They have no credibility left in my estimation.

If Marianne Carroll happens to read this, if they call you to do another of these you should tell them to look "kiss my ass" up in the dictionary.