Learn about all 10 bakers competing on Halloween Baking Championship 2024

Break out the pumpkin-flavored treats and prepare to relax in front of the television tonight as Food Network's fall slate of baking competition shows gets underway, starting with the tenth season of Halloween Baking Championship. The series returns tonight on the Food Network.

This season, the ten chosen bakers will experiment with bubbling concoctions and broken glass desserts as part of their efforts in the Chemistry Laboratory at Henson Labs. It looks like season 10 will have a very "mad scientist" theme for the bakers to toy with, and the premiere starts with desserts inspired by the toxic chemicals in the lab and lots of sugar glass.

Fan favorite judges Carla Hall, Zac Young, and Stephanie Boswell return to judge the contestants this season. They will decide which bakers move to the next round...and which ones to send to the cryo-freeze. John Henson is back to host.

Future episodes this season will include a fun Beetlejuice tie-in in the Paranormal Research Lab, an episode centered around rotten and forgotten desserts, and an homage to The Wizard of Oz in honor of the film's 85th anniversary.

Meet the bakers

But the most important part of any new season of Halloween Baking Championship is getting to know the bakers who will be competing for the championship title! This season has a nice mix of new and familiar faces, a few of which you might recognize from previous seasons of shows like Holiday Baking Championship and Halloween Wars.

• Aaron Davis from Arizona (@chefaedavis) - Pastry lead at Chateau Luxe and no stranger to the Food Network; he was a Holiday Baking Championship season 9 finalist and a Halloween Wars season 5 semi-finalist
• Carly Robertson from Utah (@sugarhighconfectionsutah) - Owner of Sugar High Confections bakery
• Hollie Rivera from Manitoba (@hollie.cakes) - Assistant pastry chef at Cake-ology
• JL Hinojosa from Texas (@jlhino2) - Works as the pastry chef de partie at The Driskill Hotel, allegedly one of the most haunted in the state
• Joel Gonzalez from Arizona (@chefjoel1) - Executive pastry chef, previously competed on Halloween Wars season 10
• Lillian Chng from California (@decorated_confections) - Home bakery owner of Decorated Confections
• Manny Martinez from Texas (@thegrimbakers) - Owns horror-themed bakery The Grim Bakers
• Megan Aucone from New Jersey (@cinnabunbunn) - Classically-trained and award-winning pastry chef and lead cake artist at Uncle Giuseppe's
• Samantha Santiago Torres from Illinois - Accomplished executive pastry chef
• Thierry Aujard from Pennsylvania (@taujard5) - Executive pastry chef at Sweet Prosperity Bakery, previously on Holiday Wars and Halloween Wars

Halloween Baking Championship season 10 premieres tonight on Food Network at 9/8c, with new episodes airing weekly and streaming next-day on Max.