Chocolate Meltdown: Hershey’s After Dark - Season 1

First aired: 9/27/2021 4 episodes

Each week, three duos create over-the-top masterpieces with iconic Hershey candies.

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Episodes

1. Frightful Forest

Aired: 9/27/2021

Three pastry chefs battle it out overnight in Hersheypark's Chocolate World to create showstopping, forest-themed chocolate creations. After riding the park's tallest roller coasters, a world-renowned Danish chocolatier has a major chocolate setback, and a Colombian cake and sugar artist deals with the consequences of working with fragile Jolly Rancher isomalt. Meanwhile, a young mom with an eye for character design struggles to bring her frightful forest to life with realistic chocolate tree sculpting.

2. Scary Sci-Fi

Aired: 10/4/2021

Host Sunny Anderson locks three pastry chefs inside Hersheypark overnight to create sci-fi-inspired chocolate showpieces that impress judges Ralph Attanasia and Maneet Chauhan. An award-winning chocolatier meets his match in two strong competitors as they race through the park picking up candy and making delicious sweets. An artist who loves to create life-sized cakes struggles with her main character while a young chocolatier has a complete chocolate meltdown over a tempering technique gone terribly wrong.

3. Mad Scientist's Lab

Aired: 10/11/2021

Three pastry chefs take over a deserted Hersheypark overnight, and host Sunny Anderson challenges them to create zany chocolate and candy concoctions inspired by a mad scientist's lab. A middle school math teacher stays focused in the kitchen by using detailed to-do lists to keep ingredients in line. A former pastry teacher runs into frustrating follies with their main alien character, but a French chocolatier stays cool, calm and collected even when faced with troubleshooting broken isomalt.

4. Creepy-Crawly Carnival

Aired: 10/18/2021

hree pastry chefs are locked in an abandoned Hersheypark overnight to reveal who has the most-inspired take on a creepy-crawly carnival. The competitors take a spin on one of the park's most-dizzying rides, and then back in Chocolate World, a self-taught gravity-defying cake artist quickly runs into problems that force her to adjust her design on the fly. Meanwhile, an adrenaline junkie sugar artist almost loses a battle against a 33-pound slab of dark chocolate, and a sculpting enthusiast uses enough Hershey's candy to empty the whole store!