On the show, John and Halloween Baking Championship’s judges gather at “Hotel Henson,” a “haunted hotel” where John acts as the caretaker. The hotel is the backdrop for twisty, terrifying surprises that occur during the competition, and is where past winners honed their spooky skills. However, John, who also hosted E!’s Talk Soup and ABC’s Wipeout, doesn’t run the hotel in real life.

The real Halloween Baking Championship filming location is the 14-acre Sunset Gower Studios in Los Angeles, California. Per The Cinemaholic, Halloween Baking Championship has filmed at the soundstage for several years, through the filming location briefly changed at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In March 2020, Food Network paused production of the holiday series until the following July. When the cast and crew returned to filming, they shot in ​​an outdoor kitchen area at Terranea Resort in California. In 2021, Food Network’s team reportedly used the same resort to film Spring Baking Championship.