This is another second chance episode; all of these teams made it to the final round.
Susan Catron & Nikki (the sweet shoppe; they took a train)
Kasia Maslanka & her mom (Cheesemo's)
Taryn Mumpower & Robyn Hult (Pick Your Poison Bake Shop; they drive a Porsche Cayman)
Dawn Eskins & GM Marsha Insley (Carolina Cupcakery)(first competed on 9/11/11 w/ Jennette McCurdy as the guest; they want to win the money so that they can buy a van, since they're currently using a big black sedan)
WINNERS' DESTINATION: "Hotel Transylvania" VIP party
Guest Judge: Michelle Murdocca (one of the film's producers)
R1:
Cheesemo's: Yellow apple cake w/ apple cognac filling, nutmeg cinnamon whipped cream topping & caramelized walnuts
Pick Your Poison: Red wine cake w/ satou, fresh raspberry/blackberry liquor reduction glaze & lemon zest frosting
Carolina Cupcakery: Cloven apple w/ traditional vanilla bean frosting & cool nutmeg chocolate spider
the sweet shoppe: Raspberry lemon w/ Italian buttercream & satou
OUT- Cheesemo's
R2:
PYP:
1. Dracula dark chocolate & chocolate chip w/ black cherry cream cheese frosting, cherry rum filling & Dracula "fangs" w/ "blood"
2. Mavis strawberry champagne w/ red/white swirl almond cream cheese frosting & fondant red heart
3. Monster food fruit punch pineapple w/ lemon lime cream cheese frosting & monster hors d'oeuvre (eyeball & fermented cheese)
tss:
1. Frakenstein green vanilla w/ peanut butter buttercream, grape jelly & homemade fondant worms
2. Mavis spider leg carrot cake w/ cream cheese frosting & "bloody" 118 white chocolate decoration
3. Chocolate w/ graham cracker buttercream, marshmallow filling, fondant marshmallow bloody finger & graham cracker "band-aid"
CC:
1. Dracula blood orange fennel w/ blood orange buttercream frosting & a bat "flying" over this cupcake
2. Strawberry lime w/ jasmine buttercream, white chocolate skull & flower
3. Mummy coconut cinnamon w/ honey buttercream, pistachio mousse center, light honey buttercream frosting & an eyeball that "pops" out of the center- ELIMINATED
1K C R:
PYP: Grey castle
tss: Brown castle
WINNERS- Susan & Nikki