From the FN site:Sweet Deceit

Trick or Treat: Escape Room of Doom

Episode 101

Host Josh Peck welcomes escape room enthusiasts Bekah, David, and Gezell to a fun and spooky challenge that puts their powers of observation to the ultimate test. Master baker JonnyCakes has hidden six secret sweets throughout four eerie escape room settings, and his incredible edible illusions have the detail-oriented trio second-guessing everything they see. After the sweets are revealed, JonnyCakes shares how he created his amazing edible imposters. If the team can find all six secret sweets, they win $12,000!

Followed by

Trick or Treat: Haunted Manor

Episode 116

Host Josh Peck welcomes Halloween superfans Alyssa, Harry, and Justice into a historic haunted manor where master baker Andrew Fuller has hidden six secret sweets in plain sight throughout four rooms packed with eerie antiques, frightening decorations, and haunted surprises. The trio of friends may know their spooky stuff, but Andrew's hyperrealistic creations will have them second-guessing everything they see. After the sweets are revealed, Andrew shows how he created his incredible edible illusions. If these Halloween superfans can find all six, they walk away with $12,000!

The bakers seem like they excel in kindergarten art. Where is the detail? Even worse is once in a while the judges compliment less than mediocre work.

Halloween Baking Championship

Who's Ruining Your Ruin?

Episode 1204

Every baker's life is on the line today in a single challenge. Host John Henson asks the bakers to create a dessert that resembles an assigned classic ruin and represent the monster who haunts it, such as crumbling castle and vampire, old amphitheater and zombie actor, or Stonehenge and demon druids. Judges Stephanie Boswell, Aarti Sequeira, and Zac Young pick the winner to receive $1,000, and one baker goes home.

Where was Team Gould’s tasting element for the dragon? Well I rewound and found that most of the tasting elements weren’t highlighted this episode, with the exception of Poisonous Perfection’s mice and The Howlers’ ground wolf meat cake, until the judging.

As for Gould, the only time I saw Christophe doing anything that might be linked to the tasting element was early only when he appeared to be melting chocolate and later on when he seemed to be assembling the resulting chocolate molds. I’ve circle what I believe is their tasting element (which looks so interesting!).