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Last time on Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking,

teams created gravity-defying showpieces...

We can do this, we can do this.

...that celebrated the Dark Arts...

It looks really creepy.

...and presented them in the Forbidden Forest.

- Wow. - It's so eerie.

Miko and Chris secured their first win of the competition.

This is truly a celebration of the Dark Arts.

We finally won something.

Lisa and Mitzi's flavors won over the judges.

I taste your heart.

But their presentation fell... short.

I'm gutted.

Lisa, Mitzi, it's time to say goodbye.

With our heads held high.

This week, it's the semifinals.

And the pressure is on

for our remaining three teams...

Oh my God. We're not even halfway done.

...to impress a beloved Harry Potter guest

and earn a spot in the finale...

Any little mistake will send you home.

...while inside one of the most exclusive

inner sanctums of Hogwarts.

Whoa.

Oh my goodness.

Oh my God.

It's so cool to be here in Dumbledore's office.

It's so grand.

You definitely get that sense of... "sacred place."

Just amazing.

Chris, we're in the semifinals.

We're feeling confident

going into the most important challenge yet.

It's the best of the best at this point.

Hey, everybody! Come down, come down!

Hello!

Welcome to the semifinals!

When this day is done,

only two teams will advance to the final task

of the competition.

- Yes! - That's amazing.

And one of those surviving teams

will go on to claim the Wizards of Baking Cup!

And you'll be featured

in the new Harry Potter cookbook.

Yes.

Well, tonight,

your tour of the Wizarding World continues

as you present your next sweet showpiece

in another legendary location,

Dumbledore's office.

Professor Dumbledore will be waiting for you.

"Sherbet lemon."

It's a Pensieve.

Very useful if, like me,

you find your mind a wee bit stretched.

What was the phrase? "Come quietly."

Take him!

We've got another exciting piece of news.

Today, we'll be joined by another special guest.

- Oh my God! - I wonder who it is.

This person played a character

who was an accomplished Quidditch player,

a key member of Dumbledore's Army,

and, in fact, the character who gave the group its name.

Please welcome...

Ginny Weasley herself, Bonnie Wright!

- Hello! - What's up, sis?

Hello, everyone! It's so lovely to be here.

I'm so excited to see what you create today.

What's it like for you to be back here at Leavesden?

Oh, it's always so special.

All these memories just flood through.

Fred, you next.

He's not Fred, I am.

Good luck.

I'm just always so amazed at the beautiful attention to detail

that we got to be a part of.

Hello.

I feel like you kind of just step back in time.

Oh, well, it's great to see you here

and being able to join us.

And Bonnie, you've agreed to join Carla and Joseph

on our judging panel this week.

I have. I'm very ready and excited.

Okay then, teams.

As you know,

Dumbledore's office is filled

with all sorts of magical delights.

Now, your challenge today is to design some sweet showpieces

inspired by one of them.

In this task,

your edible sculpture must be taller than ever before.

At least four feet high.

The judges would like two tasting elements per showpiece.

And if that wasn't challenging enough,

here's the hardest rule.

In your enchanting effect today,

you'll pay homage

to one of the most difficult skills

for wizards to master.

Transformation.

- Oh my. - Wow.

Transformation.

Gosh, well, how are we going to do that?

We are one bake away from the finale,

so you've really got to step it up.

Good luck, and let the baking begin!

Good luck, guys.

All right.

- You ready? Okay. - Yeah.

Let's see what we got from Dumbledore's office.

"Your inspiration is the portraits."

Miko, this is right up your alley.

Portraits of past headteachers.

Past headteachers. I love this one.

You got to make a painting for this.

Oh, definitely a painting 'cause it's a portrait.

- "Your inspiration is Fawkes." - Yay!

"Dumbledore's kind and brave phoenix

who occasionally bursts into flame

and is reborn from his own ashes."

- I love it so much. - Yeah!

Oh my goodness.

- A Time-Turner. - "A Time-Turner."

"A highly complex magical device

that allows the user to go back in time."

- This is tough, Jordan. - Yeah, this is a tough one.

I think we need to really, really bring it.

It's so iconic.

I don't think we can replicate that.

I think in order for us to succeed,

we need to abstract.

Sort of deconstructed Time-Turners.

I would love to do more of a sculptural chocolate element.

The judges mentioned last challenge

that we were not performing on our best.

- Yes. - So we need to make sure

that we bring the detail, the quality, the perfection.

Definitely this one needs to be, like, step up.

Yeah.

Miko and Chris.

- Hey, how are you? - Oh, hello!

Your winning Dark Arts showpiece

from the Forbidden Forest earned you an advantage.

Oh my God.

"You've earned the power of the Deluminator."

"The Deluminator is a magical device that,

when opened, can absorb and expel light

from any light-emitting source."

Interesting.

Juan, what do you think it is?

Can you hear?

- No, I can't hear. - I can't hear. I wanna know.

The Deluminator, if we hit 'em at the right time,

this might set them back a little bit.

Let us know when you want to use your advantage.

- We will. Thank you so much. - Thank you. Thank you so much.

What is it?

Let's go.

- Elizabeth and Juan. - Hi.

Congratulations for getting this far.

I know, right?

Last week was obviously a bit of a letdown

considering you won the two challenges before that.

So this week, we're going to make sure that we go back to

what was working for us,

which is focusing on the quality and the details.

So what's your inspiration?

Fawkes.

What better inspiration to have

after what happened last challenge?

Yes. Rebirth. This is your moment.

So what we're going to be doing is

a giant sculptural piece of Fawkes.

He's going to be there with his wings up.

Then we're going to have the whole piece turn around.

Fawkes bursting into fire,

because obviously he gets reborn

to reveal a pile of ash.

And then a little Baby Fawkes

is going to poke his head out the ash.

Oh, brilliant!

And what kind of flavors do we have going on?

I wanted to pay homage this time to my grandma,

so I'm actually doing her carrot cake.

She actually puts a little bit of cayenne pepper into it

just to give a little bit of heat.

My grandma used to just make delicious food,

but especially her carrot cake.

We were actually neighbors

so we'd actually go to my grandma's house,

and then we just go there to eat comfort food that I love.

Yeah.

I am taking inspiration from the password,

"sherbet lemon."

My tasting element is actually

going to go into Fawkes himself.

Fawkes is going to have a body,

and that's going to be all out of lemon cake

with a lemon crémeux.

I'm going to have a layer of meringue for a crunch layer.

I'm actually really excited about this

because I love Fawkes.

I just want to make sure that I do him justice.

How big a Harry Potter fan are you?

You know, I have the usual. I have the posters.

I have the cushions. I have the socks.

I have the sweater. I have the cloak.

I have a Quidditch outfit.

Do you have a Quidditch outfit, Bonnie?

I can't say I do have a Quidditch outfit.

I'm apparently not a true fan. That's amazing.

Guys, good luck. We'll catch up with you later.

- Thank you so much. - Good luck.

- Nice to meet you. - You too.

I just put in my lemon zest cake.

Perfect.

Guys, what was your inspiration?

We got a difficult one. We got Time-Turners.

- Oh, the Time-Turner? - Yeah.

When I think of Time-Turner, I think about gears,

- movement, and dials. - Dials.

We are putting together a sculptural showpiece

that will speak to the moving of time.

So I'm going to make a load of dials and cogs.

And I will create three rings out of chocolate

to look like the rings of the Time-Turner.

Then we'll move all the way up into a chocolate showpiece

that houses more gears and more movement

with a lot of different mediums.

I work with chocolate really every day.

I've done big chocolate sculptures that I'm really proud of.

But throughout the competition,

I really haven't showcased chocolate work.

So I'm excited to show the judges

more skill and technique.

I'm always up for the challenge, so this is fun.

So Jordan, this is the batter for our ginger entremet.

Our first tasting element is going to be an entremet

that consists of a ginger cake

with miso caramel pear compote interior

with a little bit of fiery stem ginger in it as well.

Last challenge, I felt that we dropped the ball

a little bit with the flavors.

There's no second chances. We're in the semifinal.

The competition is really stiff.

The teams are fantastic,

and we gotta do what we gotta do.

This is the buttercream.

- Miko, Chris. - Hi.

So what are you actually baking? What are we going to see?

So what we got here are the portraits

in Dumbledore's office.

Being an artist, that fits into your category, doesn't it?

Yeah, exactly.

But it's more pressure on my part

because if you're doing a portrait,

it has to be exactly similar

or else it's not a portrait of that person.

So we are paying homage to Dumbledore himself,

and also our favorite headmaster for a brief time,

Professor Snape.

And for us, Snape is our unsung hero.

And for so many people watching,

he is their unsung hero, too.

How's this going to work in transformation?

Are you going to have two paintings next to each other?

We're going to make a large frame cast out of chocolate.

It'll spin, so as you look from one angle,

it'll be Professor Dumbledore,

and as you look from the other angle,

it'll be Professor Snape.

Miko needs a canvas to paint on,

so I'll be making chocolate slats.

This is a very large piece.

Each one of the slats that we have is thirty inches long.

Wow. And have you ever done anything like this before?

No.

You've saved it to this moment to try something new.

You have to go big or go home.

- Well, it does smell incredible. - Thank you.

What I'm baking for my tasting element is yuzu cake,

with candied yuzu folded in it and a yuzu curd.

So lots of yuzu things.

Is that, like, on the citrusy end?

What's the flavor profile of that?

Yuzu is similar to lemon. It's a Japanese lemon.

Gonna be, like, sweet and sour.

- That's it? Okay. - Yeah.

So our take on the flavor of, you know, sherbet lemon.

So my tasting element will be part of the portrait.

And then on the bottom,

because we're in Dumbledore's office,

we're going to have candles, which are my tasting element.

A play on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

So right now I am making the molds for the candles.

My tasting element will go inside of these

once they're cast.

So it's candied peanuts

that are tossed in cinnamon and cayenne pepper

and a Concord grape gelée.

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are nostalgic for me.

It's a staple of American diet, isn't it?

Well, it was a staple for my diet

because that's all I could afford when I first became a cook.

You know, after years of working long days...

The grind is real.

Now to be on the other side of that

as an executive pastry chef

and to be here in the semifinals,

potentially winning would be absolutely amazing.

It would validate that I made the right decision

about being a chef.

Kind of like a full circle moment.

You guys are one step away from the finale.

Is there more pressure on yourselves,

especially winning last week?

Yeah, you're only down to three teams who are amazing

and any little mistake will send you home.

So you have to hope someone else makes one.

Very Slytherin of me.

The time's going too quickly.

Goodness.

What I'm doing now with the frame,

I'm actually making a mold out of it using putty.

And this frame is a very critical part of our showpiece.

This mold is going to be ready

for us to actually pour chocolate into.

I'm already exhausted from kneading.

Knead, Miko. Knead like the wind.

At least you're starting with your sculpting.

Yeah.

I'm making Fawkes's face out of modeling chocolate and fondant.

This is a really difficult piece

because Fawkes is so detailed.

Being here, it just means so much to me

because I've done a lot of other competitions before,

but Harry Potter has always had a special place in my heart,

so I've never wanted to win a competition

as badly as I have this one.

He's so pretty.

Bakers!

- Five hours remaining. - Oh, great.

I'm making the slats for Miko's painting.

I just gotta get Miko the pieces that he needs.

My concern is that if we break any,

we won't have a showpiece.

These need to be super straight and the exact dimensions.

So if I don't nail this,

Lord knows what Miko's gonna end up painting.

Are you okay?

Some of the slats are breaking.

Oh my God. Chris.

I have zero time to remake any of them.

We're missing a slat and we don't have a full picture.

I'm not having fun right now.

I don't think anything would be more terrifying

and embarrassing to be in the semifinals

and not go to the judging with a showpiece.

I think we may have bit off

more than we could chew with this.

What I would do, Miko, to fix the slats pieces,

glue them together.

Like we've timed it exactly to have enough time

to fix the slats.

'Cause I have to, while Miko's painting,

I have to do my tasting element

and finish the entire showpiece.

So I have zero time to come back to this.

So, once I'm done, I'm done.

And if we're missing a slat, we're missing a slat.

And we don't have a full picture.

You know? Every second counts.

I'm working on my pineapple compote.

That's gonna be one of my layers

for my tasting element, the carrot cake.

So it has a really tangy punch into it.

I'm working on the lemon crémeux

for my sherbet lemon cake.

Oh yeah.

- Hey, Juan. - Yes?

Can you throw me a lemon?

- You ready? - Yeah, yeah.

You've got a little muscle behind that.

Apparently, everyone's doing sherbet lemon tastings.

Well, we're not really doing a sherbet lemon taste,

so it's an illusion.

There you go.

Zoe and Jordan.

- Oh, hello. - Hello, hello.

So, talk us about your bake. What are you doing?

Our inspiration is Time-Turners.

We're really turning our showpiece

into something that embodies time.

We are creating hyper-realistic lemons.

The flavor profile is an interpretation

of a Cherry Bakewell tart, a classic English dessert.

Sour cherry and sweet almond.

This is the frangipane that Zoe made earlier.

The other half is going to be

a cherry confit with some fresh cherries in it.

So this is the morello cherry mousse.

And then I'm going to put the insert of the frangipane

and confit cherries in the center.

These are the centers of the sherbet lemons

that aren't actually sherbet lemons.

You obviously know lots about this.

Were you classically trained?

I got an academic scholarship,

as well as attending Johnson & Wales,

you know, a pastry school.

I've had a completely different experience to Jordan.

I am self-taught.

I've never had any professional training in the kitchen.

We're now pushing probably forty years

of me being in the kitchen and baking, so... You learn.

I learned from my mother and my grandmothers

and my aunties and baking at home.

So I'm appreciative for them, for sure.

Once I had children, then I started experimenting

with novelty cakes and cake sculptures

and things like that for them, really.

And it sort of snowballed from that.

You've taken on a big, big challenge here.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Thank you.

How are you feeling?

Not too bad actually.

I'm going to be working on the wings because those are big.

This piece definitely has its risks and challenges.

One of those is going to be the wings.

They're going to be so big

and they're going to be outstretched.

They're literally defying gravity,

and I am concerned about the weight

and making sure that all my fondant stays on.

So this is my support for my wings,

and then I'm going to put on all my fondant feathers.

Okay teams, two hours gone and four hours left.

Where did that two hours go?

I know, that's what I was thinking. I was...

Four hours and, oh my God. We're not even halfway done.

Jordan, I'm just finishing up painting all these accents

and I've got to paint the big cog.

How are you getting on?

I gotta finish this chocolate piece.

I'm just unmolding the inspired Time-Turner rings.

There's a lot of chocolate in this showpiece.

We want to do three rings intertwined with one another.

It's a risk in itself.

I'm unmolding the rings, moving too fast, of course.

And I break the middle ring.

It's the semifinal.

I can't afford to have this crack.

I know that I can repair it, but I need to do that now.

My wife, I know she's rooting for me.

I'm recently married.

My wife's name is Tori. I mean, she's amazing.

She's the better half, definitely.

And I want to win this competition and make her proud.

That looks fantastic, Jordan. How's it coming?

Still has some a little bit of detail to do.

I'm going to add some bolts, make it very industrial.

This crack, it never happened.

Okay. For our showpiece, I have two portraits.

But I'm actually starting with Snape's portrait.

As a kid, painting was my first love.

I loved to draw.

I started drawing at the age of four.

I also have a bachelor's degree in fine arts

and I majored in painting.

So this challenge is right up my alley.

I actually won prestigious competitions

for my sculptures and my paintings.

And I taught art and art history.

But then I was like,

let me just pursue my passion in baking.

And now I get to incorporate my painting skills onto my cakes.

If we were to go home this challenge,

I would be so disappointed at myself.

I want to reach the finale.

And I want to reach the finale with you.

Yeah, same. I can't imagine going home.

- Miko. - Yes, Chris?

I don't know how you have managed to pull that

out of thin air in the past thirty minutes.

When you're in a time crunch,

you can do a lot of impossible things.

I'm gonna go ahead and quickly knock out Baby Fawkes.

So the idea of our transformation element is that,

in the front we have Fawkes as an adult,

but then when it turns into fire,

and then it's gonna reveal Baby Fawkes.

Right now, I am doing the fire.

We're using the cocoa butter sheets

with a lot of gold.

And then I'm covering them with chocolate.

The reason why I'm folding them this way

is so when I take them out of the acetate,

I am already gonna have that shape.

And I can just pull them around the whole piece.

Halfway through.

Three hours gone, three hours to go.

I'm freaking out on the inside, I can tell you.

You can do it.

I feel like I'm coming in on this very high stakes moment.

So the wings are going really, really good.

I've got lots and lots of layers on.

I'm almost done with the first wing actually.

Cool.

This is just soul-crushing at this point.

What's happening?

It came off of the acrylic.

- Oh, no. - Yep.

My time is literally ticking down.

At this point, I just hope we can still finish this thing.

We made it this far.

I just don't want to go home yet.

What do you need?

I need you to cut out feathers for me.

Cut out feathers? Okay.

These wings took up so much more time

than I anticipated

because I didn't plan on them falling off.

So in order to fix it,

I basically have to remake these entire parts of the wing,

which means rolling out more fondant,

cutting out more wings.

They just have to be done quickly.

Got it.

Miko, I think it's a good time to use the advantage.

Zoe's doing some painting on the cake,

and I know that Elizabeth and Juan are doing some

very intricate feathers for their phoenix.

- Let's do it now. - All right, let's go. Perfect.

Okay.

May we have your attention please?

Miko and Chris have decided to use their advantage,

the power...

of the Deluminator.

Oh, no. You guys!

So in this kitchen, that means

that the lights above your two stations

will go dark for ten minutes.

No light for ten minutes?

Sorry, guys.

I'm going to freeze Juan's arm off or something

using this in the dark.

I've got to do some painting now.

All right, get ready,

because your ten minutes in the dark starts now.

- Perfect. It worked. - Thank you.

- Wow. Okay. - That's really dark.

I'm piping chocolate onto the wings

because I'm trying to stick these feathers on.

Now I can't see if I'm piping chocolate on my wing

or Juan's head.

Miko's got lovely bright light over there.

Meanwhile, I'm squinting.

I can only imagine how much this is setting them back.

Well, I hope so.

Oh, that's so evil of me.

So right now I'm starting to assemble

my candles tasting element.

So I have some of the candied nuts in there.

And now I'm going to put some peanut butter mousse in there.

And then I'll finish it with the grape Concord gelée.

Zoe, are you having fun in the dark?

Yeah, I'm literally starting to do some painting and drawing.

So this is beautiful timing.

We were running like a well-oiled machine.

But now, we're just moving slowly.

And every minute counts.

We can't have anything prevent us from getting into the finale.

We want to get to the end.

It's just... It's not ideal.

Can you say "thank you" to Miko and Chris right now?

Thanks, Miko and Chris.

Who's saying something? I can't see them.

Cheers!

When the lights go on,

it's going to have to be a casualty check, right?

- Five. - Four.

- Three. - Two.

- One. Lumos! - Lumos!

- Yay! Thank goodness, wow. - Yay!

Let there be light.

Okay teams, four hours gone and two hours left.

Oh my, that is not very long at all.

I am making my tasting element.

So we're gonna have a layer of carrot cake,

then we have a layer of the spicy pecan gianduja,

the mascarpone cream, the pineapple.

It's not spicy enough, no.

I'm not getting any spicy.

I'm gonna actually scrape it off,

and I'm gonna add more spicy in the pineapple.

We've unmolded our chocolate frame,

so we're about to put it on the wooden frame now.

This is weird.

There's gaps in the frame.

We discovered that the frame

is not the same size as the wood board,

so now we're having to makeshift something to cover it up.

We're putting fondant on this part

so it could look like still a frame.

This is taking time from us.

That looks fantastic, Jordan.

I still have some detail to do.

I dipped our lemons into cocoa butter and white chocolate,

which created a hard outer layer.

Now I'm spraying on a glaze

that will give it that lemon peel texture.

And the sherbet lemons themselves

will be transformative

because they're going to look like lemons

but not taste like lemons.

And then our transformation element.

The lemons will be hidden inside an infinity mirror.

When the judges first see the piece,

they will not be able to see the lemons.

But when they look inside, the lemons will appear.

I hope it's enough to get us into the final.

All we can do is do our best, and that is what we're doing.

- Yeah, but it's the semifinal. - It's the semifinal.

- Big. You can feel it. - The pressure is there,

and they are all paying so much attention

to everything they're doing

because it's going to be fine margins from now on.

Juan, can you work on making the ashes, pretty please?

Of course.

So to make the pile of ashes that we're going to put

on the bottom of our piece,

I'm doing a technique called flocking.

You paint wafer paper with blacks and grays

and then you dehydrate it.

What that does is the wafer paper dries out,

so then I can grind them to make really nice and dry ashes.

I need to start layering the cakes

for my tasting element,

which is going to be Fawkes's body,

and that's gonna be all out of cake.

I've got a layer of lemon crémeux,

and then we're also going to add a meringue.

Then I have to carve the shape of the body.

I've got the first bit on, his little belly.

Part of Elizabeth and Juan's cake has just fallen.

Now I have to redo those.

Can we get a dustpan and brush, please?

I think it's going to set them back a little bit.

Pivot, pivot, pivot, pivot.

Yeah, the cake somehow just fell off.

It just abandoned ship

and just decided to make my life even more stressful.

So what we're going to do is I have a little bit extra

and we're just going to go ahead and put that on

and then just give it a fondant neck

because I don't need cake all the way up to the neck.

This is definitely pushing me

like another fifteen minutes back.

One hour to go, teams, one hour.

Coming through, right behind, right behind, right behind.

So what I'm doing right now is

I'm attaching two chocolate slats together.

So one is actually of Dumbledore's portrait

and the other one is of Snape's portrait.

This is the most nervous I have ever been in this competition

because everything has to be precise or else

the transformative element of our showpiece

where you will see Dumbledore on one side

and Snape on the other is not going to work.

I'm hoping that the slats are going to fit.

I'm using a edible paint.

It's kind of like acrylic paint,

but it's food coloring.

Breathe, Jordan.

I'm just finishing up painting all these accents.

Okay.

How are you getting on?

I'm going to try to make a dome for the top of that Time-Turner

to make it look like there's glass.

The plan is to pour some sugar, glucose, and water in the center.

And with the ring, once you push down,

the plastic wrap creates air, so it creates a bubble.

That's going to sit on top of the entremet. That's the plan.

- It broke? - Yeah.

- That is devastating. - Okay.

He doesn't have time to remake it,

but the entremet looks beautiful,

so we're hoping it'll be okay without it.

Just under ten minutes to go, everybody.

Oh my God.

There's not much time left. I just need to cover this body,

so I'm rushing to get that done.

Come on, guys.

I'm very much panicking.

My hand is moving as fast as it can go

because I need to texture this body

and make it look fluffy.

This is the most important part of the piece,

and I'm nearly done, but not "done" done.

Ninety seconds.

It's starting to come together.

Tons more gears, they're all over there.

I'm trying to paint the white parts.

I don't want to leave it white.

Thirty seconds.

- Five. - Four.

- Three. - Two.

One.

Arresto Momentum. Your time is up.

Time to assemble your pieces.

Please take all the parts

and move over to Dumbledore's office.

Good luck, everybody.

Honestly, I'm proud of what we put together.

We worked really hard.

But we're up against stiff competition.

Is it enough to get us through?

I don't know.

Welcome back to Dumbledore's office.

This is where we'll determine

which two teams will head into the finale.

So Zoe, Jordan, so what did you come up with?

We decided to abstract

the concept of time and the Time-Turner.

The dials and cogs are made of isomalt and chocolate,

and throughout the rest of the piece we have rings,

clockfaces, and an entremet

that all resemble other facets of time.

This showpiece is giving my hair

- a run for its money. - It really is!

Even the embossing that is here,

that attention to detail is really incredible.

- It's so stunning. - Thank you.

We've also asked you to showcase

an enchanting element that brings this piece to life.

If you look at this cog, it looks like there's nothing in it.

Okay.

And then, when we turn it on...

it should look like there's a whole bunch of lemons.

Wow!

- Look, get in there. - Delicious.

I'm loving this.

You saw some "sherbet lemons,"

which are Dumbledore's favorite.

The outer shell

is made of white chocolate and cocoa butter.

Inside, we've got a frangipane,

a cherry confit, and a cherry mousse.

It looks very hyper-real.

Even looks like it's just been, like, rained on.

I know!

This lemon has transformed into a cherry dessert.

The first thing I was mainly thinking of

when I had the first bite

was just the texture was so good.

Like, the fluffiness of the cherry kind of creamy bit

in comparison to this hard shell,

I really like that.

But I could have done with a bit more of the frangipane,

but the rest of the balance

that you have going through this,

the texture of this mousse, the tartness, beautiful.

Thank you.

Up here, we have an entremet. It's built with a ginger cake.

We made a miso salted caramel,

and we folded in some pears as well for that,

for some texture.

And that is enrobed with cream cheese mousse.

It's delicious. I would say

I'm definitely getting the ginger, like, spice.

This cream cheese mousse that is like the best version

of a cheesecake I have ever tasted is so good.

Thank you.

Now, this showpiece could be your ticket to the finale.

Well, you may leave the headmaster's office for now.

Thank you.

Making this piece, it gave me a few gray hairs.

I mean, there was wings falling off,

there was bodies falling off.

But, I mean, honestly,

we started off this challenge, you know,

with the metaphor of rising up from the ashes.

At this point,

I just hope we can still make that true and make that happen.

And I just really want to make it to the finale.

- Wow. - Wow.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

I'm glad, because we've been doing it as well, so...

Elizabeth and Juan,

it is very obvious here what your inspiration was.

Fawkes the Phoenix. This looks incredible.

What beautiful vibrant colors that you have,

what lovely stature,

even the pose that you've got Fawkes in. Bravo.

Fawkes is made out of cake

and also modeling chocolate fondant mix,

a little bit of gum paste, modeling chocolate head,

and wafer paper for the little plume feathers on top.

So what is the transformational element?

So as we know, when Fawkes goes on fire,

he just bursts into ashes.

Then he reborns into Baby Fawkes.

Here comes Baby Fawkes!

- Hey! Baby Fawkes. - Baby Fawkes! Welcome.

The Baby Fawkes is just absolutely adorable.

I can't wait for him to take flight into his new world.

I love the idea of these flames

and even the black chocolate shards

that you've got kind of leading up to the flames. It's genius.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

For our first tasting, actually is the ashes.

So for that, we have a carrot cake.

Then we have a pecan gianduja.

That's going to give us some crunchy,

but also some heat element into it.

Then we have a mascarpone mousse

and then a pineapple compote.

I had one bit, I was like, "Whew!"

It was like, "Wait, what was that?"

Taking that in.

It was definitely quite a kick.

Taking that in.

That cayenne comes in from down, down your toes,

and it was like, bam!

I think that it may have gotten a little too spicy

- after it baked and as it sat. - As it ages.

That said, I think that the crumble

is really wonderful.

Let's get on to your second taster.

What I have for you is a zesty lemon cream cake

with a lemon crémeux,

and also a crunchy, slightly sour meringue layer.

Admittedly, the cake is a little crumbly...

but the flavor is fantastic.

I'm definitely getting sour, I'm definitely getting sweet.

Thank you.

I don't think I've ever had a layer of meringue in a cake.

It's usually the exterior of something.

This is really nice to see it on the inside.

It brings a whole different texture to it.

The meringue is definitely my favorite element

to the mouthful I've had here.

Elizabeth and Juan, we'll call you back later.

- Thank you very much. - Thank you.

We did not come here to lose.

We're hungry for a win in the finale, for sure.

Coming into this challenge, it's not our cleanest work.

But Miko nailed his flavors on the yuzu,

I nailed my tasting,

so I'm optimistically hopeful. We got this.

Miko and Chris,

we're very excited to check out your showpiece.

Oh, we're so excited too.

This is the entrance into Dumbledore's office.

And with the password...

What's the password?

"Sherbet lemon."

I like what I'm seeing.

So it is a chocolate frame,

and the slats that Miko painted on

are also casted out of chocolate.

So on this side,

you will see the portrait of Dumbledore.

There he is!

But it transforms to the portrait of Snape.

It's definitely Snape.

This just really comes alive.

So it really feels like magic out of this frame.

- Thank you so much. - Thank you.

You do get the optical illusion, so bravo.

But at the same time,

I can see a lot of chocolate binding all of this together.

With a bit more finesse,

you really could have achieved something that would have been

mind-blowingly remarkable.

But having said that,

I've never seen anything quite like this.

- Thank you so much, Chef. - Thank you.

So my tasting element are the candles.

So I did peanut butter mousse

with caramelized Oaxacan spiced peanuts

and Concord grape gelée.

I love absolutely every flavor that you've got in here,

but I'd say this chocolate shell is quite thick,

but I want to keep digging out more.

- It's really delicious. - Thank you very much.

I love peanut butter, so I was...

a bit worried that I wouldn't love

the more unusual take on it, but I do.

- Thank you very much. - Thank you.

So the painting is not just a painting,

it also happens to be my tasting element.

So inside the painting is actually my cake.

So the flavors are candied yuzu,

a layer of yuzu buttercream,

yuzu curd, and white chocolate coated yuzu peels.

I'm a big fan of yuzu as a flavor,

and I feel like you can definitely note and taste that it's that.

I mean, the two layers here were just my favorite,

the cream and that cake.

It's like a fluffy, beautiful cloud.

Thank you.

You've actually got a really fresh yuzu flavor

that comes through in the sponge,

which that's actually quite hard to achieve.

You know what I like about your cake?

The different textures.

There's nothing on my plate.

Thank you. That's the best compliment ever.

Thank you so much, Chef.

We'll see you back here in Dumbledore's office shortly.

Thank you.

- Thank you so much. - Thank you.

Teams, your edible sculptures were the biggest and best yet.

But as you know,

only one team can win our final advantage.

And that team

will be going straight through to the finale.

That team is...

Zoe and Jordan.

- Oh my God. Oh my God! - No way!

- This is overdue! It's overdue! - I know it is! We finally won.

We won a challenge.

If anything, it's the most important challenge to win.

- Yes. Yes. - And we're in the finale.

We loved how your Time-Turner showpiece

was both magical and mechanical.

I feel like

that's something Dumbledore himself would have loved.

Now it's time to find out

who you will be competing against for the championship,

and who will be heading home.

Elizabeth and Juan.

Your Fawkes showpiece was fire.

But the texture of your lemon cake

was a little bit off and crumbly.

And Juan, the cayenne made your carrot cake

a little too hot to handle.

Miko and Chris, you gave us so much more than a dessert.

Your showpiece was an edible optical illusion.

Thank you.

But the execution of your showpiece

was sloppy in a number of places.

We love the creativity of your candle tasting element,

but the chocolate around that candle was way too thick.

This was, by far,

the most difficult decision we've had to make

in this competition.

But in the end, we all agreed.

The team that will be moving on to the finale is...

Elizabeth and Juan.

Congratulations.

Miko and Chris, we want to thank you guys so much

for all the amazing showpieces that you've created

on all these Harry Potter movie sets.

You guys are such a great team,

but I'm afraid that your journey ends here.

Thank you.

Bye, guys.

So unfortunately, we're leaving Hogwarts.

It's kind of bittersweet.

The two teams that are going to the finale

are absolutely phenomenal.

We came in proud Slytherins. We're leaving proud Slytherins.

And secretly, I know there are a lot of people

that are actually Slytherins and don't want to admit it,

but now maybe they will.

Congratulations, Zoe and Jordan and Elizabeth and Juan.

You are the Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking finalists.

And I hope you're ready for the biggest bake of your lives.

Next time...

What you present in this hall

will determine which team will be crowned

the first ever Wizards of Baking champions.

The final task will push our teams...

Look at that.

...like never before.

Ouch! Medic.

I've got one thing that sums up how I feel right now.

They'll create their largest

and most elaborate showpieces yet...

This is a big risk.

I hope it shows the judges that we're not messing around.

...and present them

in front of their most formidable group of critics.

Which team will make culinary history?

The winners of Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking are...