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Warner Bros. Leavesden,

where our bakers are in the heat of a fierce competition

through the sets of the Harry Potter films.

That looks amazing.

In their previous task, the bakers showcased

their magical desserts in Diagon Alley.

It's really, like, boiling.

For a group of Harry Potter superfans...

Smoky!

...and our judges, it was a very close call.

The team that won by one vote.

Oh, wow.

Elizabeth and Juan.

But it also marked the end of the journey

for Hemu and Riccardo.

This week, a surprise guest joins the judging panel,

as our teams must present their edible showpieces

in one of the most dangerous places in the Wizarding World.

This is truly a celebration of the Dark Arts.

-It's so eerie. -Yeah, it's super eerie.

Stepping through the big gates

into the Forbidden Forest, it is creepy.

What a surreal experience being on set

where I remember watching all those movies.

It's Buckbeak!

Can we ride him though?

-Oh, my God! We're back! -We're back in the kitchen!

-Yes! -Come on down, everybody!

Welcome back to the kitchen, baking wizards!

Thank you!

Now, the Forbidden Forest borders the grounds

of Hogwarts, so it's no surprise that this enchanted location

is featured in almost all the Harry Potter books and films.

There's more than werewolves in those trees, lad.

You're Aragog, aren't you?

Yes.

The forest is not safe at this time.

As always, this competition is about to become

even more daunting.

Oh, what's this?

-Whoa! -Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Someone else is coming.

I wonder who it could be.

Oh, my God. Who could this be?

It's got to be someone who knows the Forbidden Forest.

Luna Lovegood herself. Evanna Lynch!

Hi.

Wow, this is such a lovely, warm welcome.

-Oh, my God -Eva, we've got tears

happening right now.

Your character is helping me raise my daughters

to be confident in who they are,

and I'm so grateful.

-Stop. -Sorry.

-Oh, my God. -That's really beautiful.

Well, Evanna, tonight, the baking wizards

are going to be presenting their dessert showpieces

on the set of the Forbidden Forest.

You're not going mad.

I can see them too.

You're just as sane as I am.

So, for this Forbidden Forest task,

you'll create sweet showpieces that are inspired by the Dark Arts.

I like that.

We have four rules for this task.

Some part of your showpiece must be at least three feet tall.

Okay.

You'll need to make two delectable tasting elements.

And in a nod to the many layers of intrigue

in the Forbidden Forest, one of those tasting elements

must contain at least ten layers.

-Oh, no. -Ten?

Ten layers?

Hold on, what's the fourth rule?

-You've only given three. -Sorry. It involves a spell.

The one that makes objects levitate or fly.

Wingardium Leviosa.

You're saying it wrong.

It's Levi-oh-sa, not Levio-sah.

You do it then if you're so clever. Go on, go on.

Wingardium Leviosa.

And it does mean that the required enchanting element

must appear to defy gravity.

Oh, gosh.

So, teams, Carla and Jozef will judge your fantastical creations,

and Evanna is also here to be one of your judges.

Because Evanna is famously vegan,

her focus won't be on flavor, but on the visuals.

So that means that the woman that brought Luna Lovegood to life

will have a hand in deciding who will eventually win

the Wizards of Baking Cup.

And don't forget, being featured in a brand-new Harry Potter cookbook.

-Yes. -So, teams, you have six hours.

Best of luck, everyone. Let the baking begin.

-Oh, my God. -Oh, my God.

-All right. -Another one.

-Can't wait. -Dementors.

-Perfect. Dementors. -Nice. Perfect. Right up our alley.

"Dementors are wraith-like creatures who feed on

human happiness and consume a person's soul."

What could be more Slytherin, Chris, than this?

-Nothing, I don't think. -Exactly.

"Umbridge...

-Yes! -...is your Dark Arts inspiration..."

-I love this character. -She's like the devil.

-She is the devil... -She is the devil.

...but she's kind of presented in this pink,

sugary, saccharine, sweet coating.

Because you know, deep down, you deserve to be punished.

Don't you, Mr. Potter?

-She's a full facade. Literally. -She totally is.

-Boggarts! -Whoa!

"A boggart is a shape-shifting creature that takes the form

of the worst fear of the person who encounters it."

Whoa.

I am actually really afraid of spiders. Can we do a spider?

-Horcruxes! -Yes!

"Objects that conceal a part of someone's fragmented soul."

"Lord Voldemort creates seven of them

in order to try to achieve immortality."

Let's start sketching out. We need to make sure that we do

-the six that they destroy. -Yes.

So, we've got the diary,

-the ring... -The ring.

-The locket. -...the goblet, the diadem,

and I want a really big Nagini. She's almost gravity-defying,

so I want her, like, swirling up.

-Perfect. -Oh, gosh. This is huge.

I'm nervous.

So, dementors.

-One is going to be in the center. -Yup.

-And it has to be gravity-defying. -Right.

We want it to look like they're flying around us.

-It needs movement. -Yeah.

Yeah, so definitely.

It's ambitious, but we need to nail this to get to the semifinals.

-We have to. -Yeah.

The iconic scenes with Dolores Umbridge

-in her office at Hogwarts... -Okay.

-...with the plates on the wall... -The plates, yep.

...with the moving kittens, and she's stirring sugar into her tea.

Yeah, the pretty on top, the evil within.

-We need to bring that to this design. -Okay.

For this challenge, we want to go with a tea party theme.

The gravity-defying challenge is to make the tea party float.

There'll be some edible teacups and the iconic cat on a plate.

And then a little bit lower down the showpiece,

we're going to create some little dainty macarons.

I'm starting to work on making the shells for the macarons.

Very French techniques.

As a executive pastry chef, I do everything pastry.

Plated desserts, petite gateaux,

the fancy plated desserts.

That's something I feel like is my niche.

So doing a macaron is something that I'm really excited to do.

We wanna play with a little bit of texture on that.

So I'm going to make some blackcurrant leather.

-Nice. -We'll have a little sugar in there,

and I'm just gonna dry it out in the oven. And then...

Yeah, I like that.

Then we can stick that on top of the macarons.

We're doing a riff on a blackcurrant and licorice sweet,

which is a very typical British sweet that we have.

I'm learning a lot about British delicacies and desserts

-from you, Zoe. -You are, right?

People all around the world absolutely love Harry Potter,

but we have to kind of claim it as Brits

because that's fitting to Harry and Hogwarts.

It's important to me, and now it's important to Jordan.

Cake is in the oven.

Perfect. Nice, quick cake.

-Lisa. -Well, hello.

-Mitzi. -Hi.

-So, what's going on? -Making some roller skates

-for our boggart. -Okay.

It's not a scary boggart. We have defeated the boggart

with the charm Riddikulus!

So we gotta make it fun and playful.

It's a big, creepy spider.

The legs are gonna be flying in the air with some roller skates.

And we're gonna do a nod to Neville's boggart,

which is Snape dressed in his grandma's clothes.

So we're gonna do a red handbag.

Then we're gonna do a balloon that looks like the moon

because it's a nod to Lupin's boggart.

Riddikulus!

And our cake is defying gravity,

so all of the legs are just gonna be flying everywhere.

We gotta be careful that our weight is spread evenly,

so that way it doesn't start tilting on us.

So the structure needs to be nice and strong.

Normally, with my gravity-defying cakes,

I will spend a few days making sure the physics are right,

the balance is right.

Doing a gravity-defying cake in six hours

is an incredible challenge.

And would a spider be your personal boggart?

I feel like my boggart would be completely losing my mind

in front of some of my childhood heroes,

but I've already done that, so it's all good.

We've been assigned the dementors. Scary.

My tasting element is a gravity-defying dementor

flying over clouds with an edible fabric gown.

And to accompany the dementor,

we're gonna be making a lake made out of isomalt,

trees that are made out of solid chocolate.

The requirement of the challenge is that

it needs to be a ten-layer dessert.

So Black Forest cake, because we are in the Forbidden Forest,

but reverse Black Forest cake.

So, instead of doing chocolate cake,

we're doing a cherry cake, and chocolate as the filling.

My tasting element is going to be a tree trunk.

I really enjoy incorporating savory into a dessert.

I think it balances it out very well.

Using tarragon as an herbaceous note complements the cherries very well.

I mean, in the last challenge, we almost got sent home

with a savory element.

But I'm pretty confident in this choice so far.

I am attempting to bring the best of what we need to do

to this challenge today.

-I really want to get to the semifinals. -We have to go from the bottom to the top.

Absolutely.

I'm making our smoky tendrils, but we're doing rice paper,

and I'm dipping them in water, tinted black, to make them

really dark and inky and creepy.

Elizabeth, Juan.

-Hi. -Hi.

What is your inspiration for today?

So, we want to do all the Horcruxes.

So, we're going to start off with a really huge rock formation.

We're going to have smoky tendrils coming out.

And then above that is going to be the black Voldemort soul pieces,

which are the faces.

And then we're going to have each of our Horcruxes,

basilisk fang as well. And then to top it all off,

we're going to have Nagini, gravity-defying, giant five-foot snake.

You were the fan favorites in the Diagon Alley task,

and that means you've won another advantage.

We get a second advantage.

-This is fantastic. -I know.

Bakers, you may want to pay attention to what

Juan has got to say.

"Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who deserve it."

It must be something related to help, but who's going to help us?

-So, at any point during the task... -Any pont?

...you can present this card to us and use your advantage.

-There's definitely a target on our back. -Yeah.

We kind of are known as being the overachieving team.

I really do want to win and being in that cookbook

would be, gosh, beyond mind-blowing.

I know we got this.

We have lots of different components in this Dolores Umbridge showpiece.

Jordan is tackling the tasting elements,

so that I can focus on the cake sculpture and the sculpted details.

I am starting on some teacups and saucers.

I'm just using actually a little bit of pastillage.

Just gonna do that first, and then I can hand paint them later.

And I'm using bone china...

to model said teacup.

My mom, sorry Mom, has a china problem.

She loves a bit of china. Vintage china, old china.

"Ooh, look at this one."

Anyone that knows my mum will be nodding.

My mum is the most amazing woman.

Every birthday I had, she always ordered, like, a novelty cake.

So I kind of grew up, like, the magic of the novelty cake.

I feel that now I've discovered that cake is my canvas.

So my focus is to bring the detail to the piece,

which I intend to do through hyperrealism.

So, it is definitely gonna look different, and hopefully

that will make it stand out against the other pieces.

So we gotta position them where we want them.

I'll help you.

And then we'll get it tightened. Yeah, there.

I'm about to remove the skates for all eight legs of the spider,

but they're incredibly fragile right down the middle.

-Definitely anxious. -Yeah, me too.

Shoot. It broke a little bit.

-This one broke too. -Okay.

This is not good.

I need every single one of them.

They're cracking.

I am starting to worry about time.

I'm definitely freaking out.

-Our skates are fragile. -The wheels broke a little bit.

We're trying to glue them together so we don't lose them.

I don't think we have time to fix every roller skate,

so we're gonna have to use the ones we have,

get them in the fridge, and do something faster

for the other legs.

-Maybe socks? -Sure.

Come on. We can do this.

Bakers, only four hours left to create your Dark Arts themed showpieces.

And please remember,

you will need to make two tasting elements.

And one of those tasting elements must contain at least ten layers.

For the ten layers tasting element, we're doing a crepe cake.

So, this is Earl Grey tea. So, I'm actually gonna blend it in

with the batter. Wanna taste it? Here you go.

It's not reading. It needs a little more Earl Grey.

Earl Grey, it's tricky. If you have too much,

it's almost starchy, but too little of it, you're not gonna taste it at all.

Now I taste it.

-Zoe, Jordan. -Hey. Hi, guys.

-Hey. -Hi.

You've been so good on the flavors.

So you're going big on those again as well today?

We are. We've been inspired by a drink called London Fog.

It's like a milky Earl Grey.

And so those flavors are going to be incorporated

into the crepe cake. The challenge is ten layers,

but this thing is going to have a lot of layers.

I'm putting a little bit of crunch in there,

so freeze-dried yogurt and some feuilletine.

It's not gonna look like a crepe cake. So, it looks like one right now,

but it'll look completely different and very modern.

-Guys, we'll leave you to it. -Thank you.

-All the best, guys. -Nice to see you.

So, I am working on my mangoes right now.

These are gonna be the filling of my chocolate cake.

It's going to be the dementor.

Every time I eat mangoes, it always reminds me

of my home country, which is the Philippines,

and beautiful childhood memories.

My parents actually have a farm in the Philippines.

And every harvest season,

there are like baskets and baskets of mangoes.

So it's like breakfast, lunch, and dinner,

we always have mangoes.

And it is tied up to our showpiece,

like happiness is something that could

actually ward off dementors.

I love it!

Just carving the basilisk fang

and then I'm covering it with fondant, and this is the gravity-defying device.

You have to teach me how to say it.

It's Harry Potter or Harry Potter?

I say Harry Potter.

-Harry Potter. I think that sounds better. -I pronounce the T a little bit more.

Harry Potter.

"Harry Potter! You've come to die!"

Okay, Voldemort, calm down.

So, in this challenge, one of our tasting elements

has to have ten layers.

My ten layers is going to be Tom Riddle's diary,

five layers of cake and five layers of filling,

dark black cocoa chocolate cake, a mint crunchy buttercream,

and then also, a chocolate whipped ganache.

My specialty is chocolate.

So I am casting and painting my bonbons.

So this is going to be for the jewel in the diadem.

I'm painting them with cocoa butter, so they're nice

and shiny and they have that beautiful blue.

So it's gonna be a black sesame cheesecake bonbon.

I'm using black sesame because this is all about Dark Arts.

Black sesame has beautiful notes,

but people are too scared sometimes to use it

because it tends to be on the savory side.

So we have two wins now, which that means

that we're closer to that beautiful cup.

I know. One step closer to the cup.

I really want that cup.

I'm just blown away by their imagination and their ambition.

I feel stressed for them.

I don't know how they're holding it together.

I love that they each put their personality into it.

I think that shows really gifted artists

who know how to play to their strengths.

We're going super Mexican with this cake.

So for our ten-layer cake, it's gonna be the body of our spider.

Inspired by a Mexican fruit stand.

The layers will be a cucumber lime jam,

mango and passion fruit crémeux, guava.

And I wanted to add a Mexican candy called Miguelito.

It's like a chili, sugar, kind of chili powder.

It's definitely a big, big challenge because you had to balance the flavors.

That smells so refreshing.

Whoa!

It's my mom's favorite dessert.

And I wanted to bring a nod to her because she is amazing.

I really hope you know how incredible you are, Mitzi.

Chris, I'm starting to build out the rock formations.

Perfect. I'm making some branches for the trees.

So, it's just chocolate and then a little bit of ice water.

The good thing is they're supposed to be abstract, so that works.

Bakers, that's halfway.

You have three hours left

to create your Dark Arts themed showpieces.

We've got a lot to do, and we are rather behind on time.

I'm feeling the pressure.

-I think it's time. Let's go. -All right.

Let's use this. Okay.

-Oh, it's happening. -Hello.

Baking wizards, Elizabeth and Juan

have decided to use their advantage.

Dumbledore's famous quote is,

"Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who deserve it."

Well, Elizabeth and Juan, you'll be getting some help

in the form of a baking assistant.

Yes!

What?

-Oh, no. Good for them. -Must be nice.

But this isn't an ordinary helper.

You'll be aided by a world-renowned chef

who is a culinary genius.

For the next 15 minutes, help will be given to you by...

Oh, my gosh!

That's so cool!

Jozef Youssef!

Oh, my gosh!

-That's so cool! -Help has arrived.

This is going to be exciting and just as equally terrifying.

So you got me for 15 minutes. Put me to work.

Come on. Let's roll up our sleeves. Let's do this.

Hope you like green.

What have you got for me?

Now we know this isn't exactly the best use of your skills,

but we are short on time.

We just need you to take some of this icing

and basically smear it on and cover this rocky island for us.

I haven't done any icing for a while,

but, hey, I'm sure happy to give it a crack.

I honestly thought my painting decorating days were over.

Don't forget, you still missed a bit around

-this side as well, Jozef. -Yeah, I know.

How ridiculous is that?

This accomplished chef over there is just painting cake.

I think he's more than just a painter, you know what I mean?

That's such an honor to be able to work with him.

-That's a really big advantage. -It is.

No job is too big or too small

-in the kitchen. -Thank you.

-That's how it is. -That's the most important part.

So Elizabeth and Juan have won the last two challenges.

And I'm really gunning to go after that win now.

In 2014, Juan started as a cook for me.

Maybe he used some of the tricks that I taught him

over the years. Maybe that's why he won. I don't know.

So, if I've done this right,

I should have a nice fluffy marshmallow.

-Ah, it looks amazing. Fluffy. -Yeah.

Take that, Juan.

Four minutes left of your time, guys.

-Oh, I believe in you. -I've spent better part

of a quarter of a century trying to master

the gastronomic and culinary arts.

And here I am...

-Smearing icing. -...smearing icing on a cake.

One minute left, guys. One minute left.

Elizabeth and Juan, your 15 minutes are up.

I hope you made the most

-of your time with Jozef. -Well done.

Well, I'm glad you're happy with my work, and now, I can add this to my resume.

-All right, guys. Good luck. -Thank you, Jozef.

See you later.

-Bye. -Thanks, Chef.

Two hours left to finish your showpieces.

Remember, teams, we're looking for your showpiece to defy gravity.

Is it leaning more forward than it was last time?

It is, like, a lot. I want to push it,

but I don't know if that would make it worse.

We're gonna have to hope that it will hold.

-How are you guys feeling? -I feel like we were the underdogs

in the last challenge, and these two up here

are the ones to beat, so...

Watch out for the underdogs.

Well, I feel a lot like the underdog right now,

-considering how much you've got done. -Yeah, don't worry, guys.

We're not coming for you. We're coming for the cup.

-Yeah. -So you're fine. Don't sweat it.

-What are you working on right now? -I'm going to make chocolate fabric

for the dementor's clothes.

So, I'm taking tempered chocolate

and mixing it with gelatin, which will make it flexible.

So, I just need to let it set.

I'm happy with how it's coming out right now.

It's bendable, it's flexible like actual fabric.

I'm adding some holes, I'm tearing it

because the dementor's clothes are actually very torn.

I'm looking forward to this challenge

because I specialize in hyper-realistic cakes,

so I wanted to incorporate my talent

in painting and sculpting into my dementor.

-That looks great. -That's an awesome dementor.

-Whoa, your dementor's so cool. -Thank you.

-Yours looks great as well. -Thank you.

-Yours look great, too. -Thank you.

I started to airbrush my spider eyes.

Great job. I'm covering the spider legs right now.

We're like creepily doing a lot of body parts.

Okay, I'm making the aerated white chocolate.

It's a part of the inside of my bonbons

that were gonna be the eyes of the spider.

I want to show my molecular gastronomy techniques

to impress as much as we can.

I temper my chocolate and add in CO2,

which basically pumps a lot of air into the chocolate.

And the final product will look like a sponge.

Just melt in your mouth.

It's fun, it's different, it's gastronomical.

One hour, teams, start thinking about your finishing touches.

So, this person, the dementor is actually trying to suck

the soul out of her.

-Oh, Chris, it looks so cool. -Perfect.

-These are so heavy. -They're too heavy?

I'm definitely freaking out and nervous.

Worst case scenario,

everything could just fall over.

So, right now, I'm making the faces.

-It looks really creepy and good. -I know.

Teacups are pretty much done. I'm keeping these ones simple.

We've got two cotton candy and the cat.

Cake looks good.

So, right now, I'm making the cotton candy because we have to defy gravity.

The cotton candy will be used to float with the dementor.

It's gonna look like clouds.

This is make or break for the dementor here

because otherwise we just have a big pole

-sticking out of the lake. -It's looking great. I love it.

Here, you want to try? There you go.

We're both doing cotton candy, so I hope ours looks better

and is gravity defying enough.

We've got this structure here. We wanna create the illusion

that the cakes are floating in the air, so...

Jordan's making some cotton candy, which we're just gonna wisp around

so it will appear the cake's floating. So, we need to get it covered, really.

Thirty minutes, everyone!

-Oh my... Oh, God. -Oh, my gosh!

That went by so fast.

So, I'm actually using a special technique

to get the snake pattern and scales on there.

There's a lot to do

and I'm really not feeling good about the time.

The clock is ticking, and we still have a lot to do.

I wish we had more time with Chef Jozef.

We don't have our six Horcruxes even remotely finished.

Making all six Horcruxes was very ambitious.

The cup still has to be made gold.

I will spray the piece, okay? Just gotta focus on the snake.

I don't think we're gonna get it done in time.

You have 15 minutes left. It's looking great from here.

-Oh, God. -Oh, my God.

It's okay, just focus on what we can do right now.

I'm so thankful that I'm finally on the airbrushing stage.

So, I'm airbrushing through this fishnet tights

because it will give the look of scales.

I'm airbrushing this as quick as I can because I really need to get this done.

-It's a little heavy. -We're gonna have to glue them

-over there. -'Kay.

Time is ticking. I want to be adding the details

that the judges keep asking of me,

but I'm now focusing on just trying to keep

the spider standing.

This is definitely one of the fastest paintings

I've ever done, especially a portrait.

We're trying to make the impossible happen.

We really want to be in the semifinals.

I'm looking around and I feel like we're all a little bit

in the same boat here. I think we're all running behind,

but I feel good with our flavors,

our gravity-defying element.

I would love to be in the semifinals.

Just my competitive spirit and what I love to do.

It's validation for the hard work I put in on a day-to-day.

-Ten. -Nine.

-Eight. -Seven.

-Six. -Five.

-Four. -Three.

-Two. -One.

Arresto Momentum. Bakers, your time is up.

Well done, everybody.

You'll have 20 minutes to assemble your showpieces

and then present them to the judges in the Forbidden Forest.

And don't worry, nothing bad can possibly happen there, okay?

Yeah, sure.

Oh, pretty.

-Good luck, everybody. -Thank you.

I don't think Jordan and I could have given

any more of ourselves to this showpiece.

I'm a little nervous about the tasting elements.

Did we bite off more than we can chew?

So, this is a very important part of meeting a hippogriff.

They can sense your energy so you have to show

that you respect their strength and power.

Welcome back to the Forbidden Forest,

home to giant spiders, a herd of centaurs,

and now, a whole lot of cake.

Zoe and Jordan, tonight we're celebrating the Dark Arts.

This piece is completely inspired by Dolores Umbridge.

You know, obviously we chose a tea party to represent Dolores.

The top half speaks more of when we see her

in her office in Hogwarts.

The more you look at it, there's so much detail.

And it looks like we're not the only ones eyeing up this creation.

Buckbeak is taking a little gander, isn't he?

He looks like he's about to reach out and just peck a teacup off the top.

It's so true.

We decided to use the cotton candy, obviously,

to give the illusion of things floating.

We have these teacups that are kind of very wonky.

You have the ones on top.

Amazing. Amazing job.

All the construction looks nice.

I can see a few little bits of metal kind of hanging out

here and there.

Could you have kept the cotton candy a bit fluffier?

Cotton candy is fickle. I think that's what we learned with this.

Okay, two tasting elements.

So, tell us about them.

The macaron is a blackcurrant ganache and a licorice gel.

And then on top, there's a blackcurrant leather.

It's beautiful, really pink color, and then this sludgy dark color, it's...

Yes, it's so Umbridge.

I think your macaron is probably two minutes over.

-It's a little crackery in the top. -Yep.

I do think that the flavors are really good.

Let's try your second tasting element,

your ten-layered dessert.

As you see, there is a multi-layered crêpe cake.

It embodies a London Fog, which is a type of drink,

so that's gonna have some Earl Grey,

a little bit of lavender, some mascarpone cream,

and a lot of vanilla.

It's really, wow, just so stunning and so unique.

So, what I love is that I get that Earl Grey flavor

coming through in beautiful subtlety,

but it's really there, and it's distinct.

Textures are lovely, delicious.

Well, you've given us a lot to think about.

For the moment, you guys can head out of the Forbidden Forest.

Thank you so much.

Heading to the judges, I honestly feel great about our showpiece.

But also, we were in the bottom two in the previous challenge,

which was pastry chef focused,

so I'm super nervous in terms of my tasting element.

Miko and Chris, tell us what you've prepared for us.

So, we took a scene from

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as our inspiration.

Miko's Patronus here, which is a butterfly,

is warding off the dementor and saving the person

that is in the forest.

So, we have here a dementor, which is floating,

covered with edible chocolate fabric and wafer paper crinoline.

To complete the scene, we've added an isomalt lake,

trees made out of chocolate, and the cotton candy

to give the effect of the levitation.

-Wow. -I love this so much.

This is truly a celebration of the Dark Arts.

The movement, the different textures, I love it.

-Thank you so much. -Thank you very much.

I love the detail of the butterfly,

because this is something I love so much about the Harry Potter fandom.

It's about us putting ourselves into it,

and that is the special element, that you haven't just copied it,

you've put your own little flavor and essence into it.

-So... -Thank you very much.

-Thank you so much. -Thank you.

So, what have we got?

I did a reverse Black Forest cake.

So you have six layers of cherry cake,

and you have a layer of toasted marshmallow,

tarragon cherry compote,

and tarragon freeze-dried cherry crunch.

Black Forest is my favorite.

No pressure.

And...

Oh, you've delivered a delicious cake. I love it.

-I absolutely love it. -Thank you.

Having said that,

I'm not really getting much tarragon,

which might be a good thing. It's delicious.

I love that you gave us all of these different facets,

the cherry cake with the cherry soak,

the cherry gelée, the cherry crunchies.

-Well done. I'm really happy for you. -Thank you.

For my tasting element, which is the dementor,

it's chocolate cake. It has mango buttercream frosting,

and then it has a layer of milk chocolate ganache,

and it has fresh mango fillings as well.

I love the mango layer.

The texture of the chocolate

-feels a little dry in my mouth. -Okay.

-Maybe a little too much flour. -Okay.

But the flavors themselves work really well together.

Thank you, Chef. Thank you.

All right, here we go.

Our spider right now is incredibly unbalanced.

All of the weight of all of the chocolate and the cake

is starting to push our spider forward.

This is exactly what you don't want to happen

while you're making a gravity-defying cake.

We are definitely very nervous and anxious.

I'm about to remove the dowel

and everything could just fall over.

Let her go down, yes.

We've made it this far,

and I just don't want this spider to fall.

Is that gonna hold?

Hold your breath.

Hold your breath.

I'm gutted. I just don't want this spider to fall.

Oh, she's moving.

-Here, look, she's gonna rest on the moon. -Perfect.

-Okay. -It's her pillow.

-Okay. -Nothing to see here.

We have created for you Ron's boggart, which is the spider.

This is after we've already performed the Riddikulus charm.

So, the legs are flying in the air with some roller skates.

All of the legs are made out of modeling chocolate.

Guys, so the balloon didn't quite work. Looks a bit precarious,

things are a little bit off balance, but it's striking.

The first thing that really strikes me is there's so much personality.

Like, the detail on the socks, oh, my gosh,

there's so much to look at. Yeah, it's brilliant.

Our first tasting element is her eyes.

Inside of the eye, you're gonna have aerated vanilla chocolate.

It's gonna have a little bit of sesame seed.

It's gonna have a chamomile ganache,

a strawberry jam, and a strawberry marshmallow

with some strawberry pieces in it.

Oh, it smells lovely.

Texture on that aerated white chocolate, great.

Lovely and crispy.

I did like the texture of the strawberry mousse.

I love the flavors that you were doing,

but a little bit of acidity in that jam would have gone a long way.

Now on to your ten-layered tasting element.

You are about to taste

the magic that is a Mexican fruit stand.

So, we have cucumber and lime, we have guava,

and then a mango and passion fruit crémeux on the bottom.

Mitzi, what I love is that you're leaning into your Mexican heritage full force.

It smells like this Mexican fruit stand.

There's gonna be some palate surprises

-in there. Oh, my gosh. -Yes.

I'm disappointed.

It's not good.

It's great.

-Oh, my God! -Oh, my gosh!

So cruel.

-I am definitely going to cry. -Oh, my gosh!

Let me tell you, I feel really emotional for you

because I taste your heart.

She's so amazing.

You've given us an experience, you've allowed us to travel

into your country of Mexico, and I appreciate it so much.

You put your heart into it. Wow, amazing.

Thank you.

Hearing those words, she tasted my heart, it's incredible.

But we did have a falling structure,

so I'm really worried that might affect us.

We're the last team to go into the tasting.

I'm petrified, honestly, because we've raised the bar so high.

We're in a winning streak, and it puts pressure on us.

But there are definitely some areas that are a lot rougher

in our showpiece, and I just want to melt

into the dark Forbidden Forest.

Juan and Elizabeth, the inspiration

for your Dark Arts showpiece was the Horcruxes.

Since we went big with this one, we have six Horcruxes.

So, we have Nagini. She is modeling chocolate,

hand airbrushed and sculpted.

The faces, which are elements of Voldemort's soul,

those are chocolate shells.

For our gravity-defying element,

the classic basilisk fang,

you would use that to stab Tom Riddle's diary,

although you won't want to stab this one because this one tastes delicious.

And it actually has chocolate cake inside, so.

This is truly impressive.

This icing work on the mound here has obviously been done

-by a real... -Professional.

...real professional. Just have to throw it in there.

The Horcruxes is such a detailed part of the story,

and the fact that you've managed to put

all of these elements in there, it's so much.

It's stunning, yeah.

I expect nothing less from you guys at this point.

But the finishing's not very clean,

and the box that we have here, it's a bit messy.

-We admit it's not up to... -Our standards.

-...our standards, that we like to show. -Yep.

All right, so two tasting elements.

You mentioned the diary.

There is, in fact, ten layers.

I went with a dark black velvet cake

paired with a mint buttercream that has a mint crunch layer.

-Wow. -Wow. Black velvet.

The layers are really clean.

When I heard about black velvet cake with mint,

I'll be honest with you, I thought it sounded a bit Halloween-y.

-But that's delicious. -Thank you.

And if I had to have mint and chocolate together,

I would want it together like this.

I mean, I don't picture the Death Eaters or Voldemort

as cake people, but I can see them eating this cake.

It's just so classy.

-Thank you. -Yeah.

I think the cake itself needs just a hint of salt,

-just a little more salt. -Okay. Thank you.

Let's see about the second tasting element.

We have here a jewel from the diadem,

a black sesame praline,

a mascarpone cheesecake ganache,

and then a black sesame crunch.

-That is just so detailed. -It's beautiful.

-The color is stunning. -Look at all the faces.

I mean, it is really a saturated blue.

I think that vanilla comes through very nice and cleanly,

complements it very well.

Chocolate work, again, I wouldn't expect anything less

from you, there's a lovely crack to that shell.

You really balanced the black sesame well.

I love how you think about food.

I love how you think about the details and the complexity,

and this is nothing shy of delicious.

-Thank you. -Thank you.

Teams, your one-of-a-kind dessert showpieces

represented the Dark Arts so well,

it was frightening.

There was, however, one team whose showpiece dazzled us.

And the team that created it is...

Miko and Chris.

We finally won something.

Just kind of boost the momentum.

You know, the end goal is to make it to the finale,

so now we just gotta do our best.

-Well done. -Thank you so much.

Thank you.

As you know, two teams will continue on

in the competition with you, and one will head home.

Continuing on to our next legendary location is...

Elizabeth and Juan. Congratulations.

Thank you.

So, that leaves Zoe and Jordan, and Mitzi and Lisa.

The team that will be moving forward in the competition is...

Zoe and Jordan.

Mitzi and Lisa, your boggart showpiece

ran into some issues defying gravity.

But you created a Mexican fruit stand cake

that I think no one here will forget anytime soon,

especially myself.

I give you a Mexican cake and that makes my day.

Thank you for bringing so much to the competition,

but I'm really afraid it's time to say goodbye.

Thank you so much.

It's very sad knowing that we're going home,

but we gave all of our heart through this whole process.

Thank you.

As an immigrant, being able to show your roots,

it's incredible.

Going home doesn't change the fact

that I am officially a part of my favorite world.

I forever get to be a part of the Harry Potter universe.

Teams, we've got to leave the Forbidden Forest.

But you're one step closer to being crowned

the Wizards of Baking champions. How about that?

Next time...

The stakes are higher than ever.

It's the best of the best at this point. Any little mistake will send you home.

As our bakers are tasked with creating their largest...

Want to make sure we definitely hit that four feet mark.

...most impressive...

I've never seen anything quite like this.

...and most difficult showpieces yet.

They'll have to impress another special guest...

in one of the most magical places

in all of the Wizarding World.

It's just gorgeous.

Which two teams will make it to the finale to compete

for the Wizards of Baking Cup?

This was by far

the most difficult decision we've had to make.