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"Freakshow Cakes" Episode 1 "Creepy Clowns" Now THIS Is How You Do Halloween Right [SPOILER REVIEW]

As part of Food Network's overall celebration of the culinary creeps that make up the Halloween season, sister network Cooking Channel premiered Freakshow Cakes on Friday, October 4th – and it actually made me want to scream a little. From all of the shows I've screened so far, this episode best exemplified Halloween.

Granted, I might not be completely objective since it showcased creepy clowns, which in the interest of "full disclosure" you should know is my biggest fear. Hosted by Zac Yung and Vivian Chan, three shady-looking cake artists create a horrific sculpture for a chance… at immortality!!! Actually, it's really just a chance to win $10,000. The contestants themselves were awesomely sinister and gave our judges blood, vomit, intestines, and nightmare-inducing clowns. Let me just say – from hair-raising carousels to Jack-in-the-Box – Freakshow Cakes more than earned its title and sets the bar for Halloween cooking competition shows (for now).

Here are some of highlights from our first episode "Creepy Clowns"

● A funhouse which screamed asylum, with some of the most insanely terrifying clown expressions imaginable – I will absolutely be sleeping with a night light on tonight. If sleeping at all…

● A Jack-in-the-Box cake with blades for hands squirting blood (clearly our winner). Extremely creative and the cake artist has never done frightening sculptures before.

● A moving carousel with swinging homicidal clowns – will be haunting me for weeks to come.

Freakshow Cakes is a very enjoyable quality Halloween cooking show embodying the dark, eerie, and tasty. The contestants are professional, the artistry is impressively disturbing, and although I would never be able to recreate any of these creations at home, they do the job of sending chills down my spine. I wish the judges were a little more into the Halloween spirit, their appearance is more representative of fuzzy bunnies than it is of death and demons.

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