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Warner Brothers Leavesden Studios,

the location of the original

Harry Potter movie sets.

Now, home to the world's most

magical baking competition.

Last time, Jenny and Alex came out on top

and earned an advantage for the next challenge.

I love those kissable, juicy lips.

But Andy and Stefan vanished

from the competition for good.

Coming up, the bakers will attempt to create

a masterpiece to impress our judges,

Chef Carla Hall, a best-selling food writer,

and Chef Jozef Youssef,

a world authority in the field of immersive dining.

They are all vying for a spot in the season finale.

- This is the semifinal, right? - I know what's at stake.

Welcome to Wizards of Baking.

Sorry, Dobby.

Oh! Ow...

-Wow! -Oh, my God!

-Look at this! -This is amazing!

Wow, that's bringing back some memories.

It's gotten bigger, it's gotten bigger.

This is huge! I mean...

Oh, my goodness.

It's immaculate and huge!

The chandelier, I think it's bigger than my house.

So clean.

- So clean. - It's how I imagine your kitchen looks.

- Mm. - Mine's not.

Welcome to Gringotts...

...Wizarding Bank.

And welcome...

...to the semifinals of Wizards of Baking.

That was scary.

For you final four teams,

the trophy is definitely in sight.

Three teams will make it to the finale...

But only one pair of bakers...

...will ultimately lift the Wizards of Baking Cup.

Now, a special occasion like this...

requires an extra special guest judge.

Tonight's visitor is indisputably

Harry Potter royalty.

Unquestionably,

the toughest baking judge in the Muggle world.

- Oh, okay. -Pressure.

A respected Hogwarts professor.

A goblin not to be crossed.

-Oh! - No way.

And if you need to borrow a Galleon or two,

he's your man.

Say hello to the legend that is...

Mr. Warwick Davis.

Hello! Thank you for that lovely introduction, chaps.

- Thank you. -Welcome.

Next customer, please.

Wow. Warwick Davis.

Yeah, I'm nervous.

And I remember last season, Warwick said it how it is.

It's a bit too dense for my liking.

I'm not sure what I'm tasting, to be honest.

It's not really doing it for me, I'm afraid.

Right, I see I'm not the only one back for seconds.

Zoe, Jordan, nobly defending your title.

- Yeah. We are trying. - We're gonna try.

It's amazing to have you back here.

Every actor loves a good sequel.

So does my agent.

So, teams, Gringotts appears

in just two of the Harry Potter movies.

Hagrid?

- What exactly are these things? -They're goblins, Harry.

Clever as they come, goblins,

but not the most friendly of beasts.

Sadly, Gringotts was pretty much destroyed

in the final film.

The Ukrainian Ironbelly dragon definitely stole that scene.

So, bakers, your semifinal challenge

is all about fantastic beasts.

- Whoa. - Okay.

- And how to bake them! - And how to bake them!

And in honor of the famous Gringotts dragon,

your tasting element needs

- to be either smoky or fiery. - Okay.

And we want your incredible baked beasts

to come to life.

- Ooh. -Okay.

Not literally though,

that would be very irresponsible.

For this challenge,

we may have started here

on this beautiful, pristine set.

But you'll be presenting your showpieces to the judges

on the set of the destroyed Gringotts.

Teams, you have six hours

to bring to life your beastly showpieces.

Warwick, do the honors.

Let the baking begin!

Come on.

Right!

Jenny's like...

- What's inside? Let's look. - Okay. Okay.

- Dobby! - Dobby!

"Harry Potter's friend and a free elf."

- Whoa! It's amazing. - I couldn't...

I seriously couldn't be happier about this.

- Yeah. - Why don't we recreate

the scene when he becomes a free elf?

So, how about when he receives the sock in the diary?

Okay.

Master has presented Dobby with clothes.

Dobby is free!

There's also a really good scene

- with the dessert as well. -Floating dessert.

Maybe we can make both of them?

- Yeah. -We can put a floating dessert.

That's merging the two scenes.

- Yeah. That would be nice. Yeah. -You are a genius.

For our showpiece, Dobby is gonna be mainly

carved out of cake, and sculpted

with modeling chocolate and ganache

with Tom Riddle's diary, and a dessert

floating above his head.

They'll find Harry's sock, and now Dobby is a free elf.

And of course, he will start to cry.

- Is this too ambitious, Alex? - But it's the semifinal.

We've got to push ourselves, you know?

"Your beast, being, or creature inspiration is

- a hippogriff." -"A hippogriff."

What if he nods

to really come to life because it's, like, iconic.

I feel like we should go for that.

-I like that. - It's going to be

a fun one, but a hard one. Let's go.

- Let's get this up. Perfect. - All right.

"Your beast inspiration... -"Inspiration."

- ...is a Thestral." - "Is a Thestral."

- Yeah, there's a lot of different sculpting. -Wow!

I know the Thestral. Wow. First thoughts?

Bony, skinny, big.

It's a bit ambitious if there's time,

but I feel that it would be good to add in

- a little bit of scenery around her. - I agree.

It's something that I think me and you

are known for, right? Creating a story, creating...

It's not just the Thestral, right?

It's the Thestral walking in the Forbidden Forest.

- The Cornish pixies! - The Cornish pixies!

"Bright blue and known

to be devilishly tricky little blighters."

-Oh, yeah, they are. -That is so good.

- I love that one. -Amazing.

I've got three kids, and this totally appeals to me.

- Yeah, the chaos. - The chaos.

Yeah, they are chaos.

Can you see the cake stand anywhere?

-Ah! It's there. -Brilliant. Got it, got it.

Go, go, go, go, go.

For this fire tasting element

that goes inside Dobby's body, I'll be doing

a coffee cake with smoke with dark chocolate ganache.

And that is gonna add

a lot of flavor to the cake itself.

And also a mole ganache.

Mole, it's a typical Mexican sauce.

It's a blend of chiles with some cacao

and it brings this umami flavor

that everybody loves in Mexico.

- What do you think? - Mm.

It's different, no?

It's lovely, it's got a background heat, hasn't it?

It builds. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum!

- Molly! - Hi.

Do you have any animals

or beasts at your house?

Well, we've got six dogs.

Pixies are a bit like the Chihuahuas,

'cause they're very naughty.

She says she's got pixies.

Then I have big Labradors,

- which are probably a bit like Buckbeak. -Yeah?

Very loyal and very big.

You have a few beasts!

I also have three cats.

I live with my three beautiful cats,

Momo, Mochi, and Saurio.

They are really small and beautiful.

They are the love of my life.

I pulled out the cocoa powder,

the tamarind paste, pink peppercorns,

chili powder, all my chilies.

Just like the Thestral,

our tasting element will be very elegant.

To find the fiery note, I will be creating an entremet

that has a chocolate chili cake,

a blackcurrant and chili mousse.

In the middle of that,

there's gonna be a tamarind marshmallow.

The marshmallow is in there because it's really

to represent the bone marrow within

the spine of the Thestral.

And then we're gonna finish it off

with a pink peppercorn chocolate sablé.

I've been an athlete my whole life.

I played baseball in college.

I have won four out of the five competitions

I've done on Food Network.

I've also been nominated for a Forbes 30 Under 30.

I love competition. And you know what?

That's maybe another reason why we're doing this again.

I like to challenge myself.

Buckbeak is a hippogriff,

which means he is half horse and half eagle.

And it's a really big piece

and we have to cut thousands of feathers...

-Mm-hmm. - ...and it's gonna take a lot of time.

I'm gonna start building the entire body

- out of cakes real soon, okay? -Perfect.

We feel like we're bringing a lot to the table,

always pushing ourselves.

There is only one opportunity to get into the finale,

so everything we do has to be calculated

and planned.

Perfect, perfect.

Oh. Gurgle. Gurgle, gurgle.

Whoo! Oh!

That always means something's coming.

No, no!

Bakers!

Whoo! Hello!

Do it again, do it again!

-That was scary. - Now that's an entrance.

Things are already looking a bit beastly in the kitchen.

Jenny and Alex, we still need to give you

your advantage for winning the last challenge.

Zoe, they're right in front of us too.

- I'm listening in. - Thank you.

We've got your prize right here.

- Nice. - Zoe, hear anything over there?

Not a sausage, Katie.

"Not a sausage." I've never heard that.

"You have earned the right to use the Nebulus spell

at any time during this bake."

It was used by young Albus Dumbledore

in Fantastic Beasts, The Crimes of Grindelwald.

It's a fogging spell.

-I love it. -When you choose

to use it, all of those other teams' workstations

will be covered in fog...

...for ten minutes.

- Oh! - That's just evil.

- When you want to use it... -Mm-hmm.

- just shout... -Mm-hmm.

..."Nebulus."

Okay.

Oh...

- Molly, Priya. Hi. - Hi.

Semifinal time.

- I can't believe it. -I know, I can't believe it.

How are you feeling about today's challenge?

I think we're feeling optimistic.

- Yeah, definitely. - This is our challenge.

It's full of whimsy and character.

Suspended from the candelabra will be the pixies themselves,

made from fondant and modeling chocolate.

The candelabra will spin like a baby's mobile

to allow for a full 360-spin.

And one of the bulbs will be Priya's tasting element.

Priya, are you into Cornish pixies in any way?

Yeah, I love them.

Newfoundland is rich in folklore.

I took some folklore classes. You know what?

Every time you guys come through that Floo,

I kind of feel like you might be pixies too.

-It's all right. -Thank you.

So, this is interesting because it's a much more

complicated structure than I did last challenge.

But for some reason, I feel calmer.

We want to set her in her habitat,

which is the Forbidden Forest.

We'll do some twisted roots, some mushrooms

and then Jordan's gonna work on creating big trees

cast from chocolate.

- Zoe and Jordan! -Hello! - Hello. How are you?

-Nice to see you. -I'm upside down.

In the last challenge, you were a bit up against it.

I just don't understand

how I'm gonna get this finished.

Now you're in the groove of it now.

Yeah. I have my mojo back.

I specialize in cakes

that evoke stories and emotions.

And I am so thankful I have spent the past year

in sculpting class because I feel comfortable

with what I have to do.

So, looking around,

you've got to suss out your competition.

I know. You can be humbled very quickly in this kitchen.

'Cause obviously, you know, there's someone who wins

and there's the guys who don't.

2 This is not stable.

Truly the only thing I can think about

is, "I hope she's okay."

The Thestral.

Thanks, Jordan.

No, no, it's good.

You know, sometimes

the situation can be so stressful,

you need someone that can lighten the moment.

And that's all I'm here to do. Just make sure

you're not stressed.

- There we go. -Good job, everybody.

Oh, my goodness. Thank you.

It flew, and that counts as flying, right?

I think

- our job here's done. - You've rescued a Thestral.

You can put that on your CV now.

I like to make sure the eyes are in the right position

before I do the rest of the face,

'cause I think it helps capture the personality a bit.

Oh, my God. The teeth. Perfect!

The teeth are funny.

Because we have at least five pixies,

we're going to inject as much personality

into them as possible.

I want them to all be a bit different,

all be doing something

and kind of interacting with each other.

This one's funny.

Roger, who works in HR. That's Gary.

Oh, my God! Yes. Hey there, little guy.

I'm just gonna get cracking on Dobby's face.

One of the things I enjoy doing most

is magical creatures.

I mean, I've made fairies,

and I've made mermaids, witches.

Well, pretty much everything.

I think the responsibility is doing Dobby justice.

He has a very long nose,

his cheeks are very high, and his ears are really large.

"Dobby can hear! Dobby must warn Harry Potter."

Because I'm gonna be making Dobby cry,

I need to insert plastic tubes into his head.

So, he's gonna cry out of those little holes

you can see in the side of his eyes.

I just need to disguise them a bit more

'cause at the moment they're huge.

I don't want to spend hours and hours doing this face

because now I've got to get the body built.

I need it to be solid as a rock.

Have you got any ganache ready for me, Alex?

Because Alex's role on this challenge

is mainly the tasting element,

he is also going to be a ganache hero.

When I need him, I just shout.

Hey, Alex, when you've got a moment, can you make me

- some more ganache? -Sure.

I've been making a lot of...

...ganache.

Have you got more ganache?

Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna do it.

- One batch. So-- Excellent. - I'm doing it.

A lot.

Alex, you're just the ganache guy.

He's ganache guy.

I wouldn't laugh, Jordan. You're about to become

- modeling chocolate guy again. -Ah! I already know. It's already there.

- Am I bossy? - You are.

-"Yes, chef." - "Yes, chef!"

In honor of Dobby...

-Oh! - ...you have...

...three hours to go!

Jujhar and Katie, what did you get?

We have Buckbeak.

Oh, that's another iconic piece.

How's it going over there?

- Moving along. - It's going good.

Literally doing the same thing. Same part of the body.

I'm about to work with wafer paper for the first time, so...

-My advice is just... - Yeah.

- ...to go slowly with it. - Uh-huh.

It's hard to tell if she means go slowly to be good

or go slowly to...

...to not get it done.

I'm a person of reason. I like to weigh out the odds.

And the odds say Zoe and Jordan are our biggest competition

because they've already won this.

But do I think that their piece

is going to be better than ours?

I don't know if I believe that.

Do you think we signed up for too much?

Uh. You know what? It's the semifinals.

I'm not ready to go home.

There's so many ambitious parts in our build.

This entire piece is hand sculpted.

No molds used. Katie's building the wings.

Going all these different directions.

Give it some twists and turns.

I feel so at home.

I love doing yoga and weightlifting.

I like to wake up, go to the gym at five

with my husband.

It's part of my everyday life, so that was helpful.

For our piece, we are going to have Buckbeak bow down.

Oh...

Save a bunch of long feathers. There's a lot of gaps.

I'll have to cut more, but I definitely can.

Awesome.

I've already got 400 feathers, which is wild.

Buckbeak has a really interesting face.

His face is quite narrow and tapered in the front,

and it gets wider and wider.

And he has a little crown,

kind of like me, like my turban.

Try our best to add as many elements

as we possibly can.

Absolutely. Great work on that.

Thank you.

So, I'm actually just going to make a start

- on these wings, Jordan. - Mm-hmm.

I've got one big template here.

The obvious way, really, to bring this Thestral to life

is for her wings to move.

You need something light, firstly.

So, wafer paper is a good go-to.

So, this is my homemade

edible fabric mixture.

It applies like a layer of elasticity,

so it literally turns from paper into fabric.

We need these wings to move and flutter,

and we need them to get into the finale.

- Alex? - Yeah, yeah?

Oh, look around.

Should we?

- Jordan and Zoe look stressed. -Yeah.

Priya and Molly look like

- they're being very constructive. -Yeah.

Jujhar is giving me

- a very suspicious glance. -Yeah.

I think it's time. Are you ready?

Let's go for it.

- Three, two, one. - Two, one.

- Nebulus! - Nebulus!

Nebulus!

- What? - What?

It's time! Jenny and Alex's advantage!

- What's that? - It's the Nebulus spell!

- Nebulus? That's clouds. -And it's...

- the fogging charm! - The fogging charm!

- Oh, come on! -Oh, my God!

What's happening?

I can't see you.

I can't see the... I can't see the...

Where are you?

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Jenny, Alex, I thought we were friends!

Oh, my gosh.

- Bye, guys. - Bye, see ya.

For the next ten minutes,

it's going to be pretty hard to see what you're doing.

What the heck, man?

There is smoke literally everywhere.

Somebody save me!

It is not fun.

-Jenny! -Jenny, where are you?

I can't see anything, literally.

Oh, my God, this is so annoying.

Jenny, have you seen my brother?

No, I haven't seen James anywhere.

Has anyone seen Oliver? Oliver?

Can't find him anywhere.

- Could you pass me a spatula? -Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- That's not a spatula! - Perfect timing.

Having this advantage is brilliant

'cause they can't see,

while I'm continuing with Dobby's sock.

Making the sock with black modeling chocolate

and just texturizing it with a knit texture mat.

- Right, what do you think? - Oh là là.

Socky enough?

- I mean, it's a good advantage. - And it's so funny.

Katie, how do we get

- anything done? -I can literally

hear you. I'm a snake right now. I cannot see anything.

There's no way we can get any work done.

We have to literally completely stop and just wait

till the smoke all goes away.

It looks like our smoke is slowly drifting away

and our bakers can see again.

That was the best spell ever.

Just ludicrous.

I feel like it was targeted.

Not cool, man. Not cool.

-Yeah. It was amazing. -Yes, it was.

I'm gonna be blowing some sugar lanterns.

I want to make the candelabra look realistic.

So, I've added a little bit of brown,

a little bit of black to some of my isomalt.

This chandelier needs to look like it's seen a lot of life.

Blowing sugar takes a tremendous amount of skill.

And to be honest,

I don't work with sugar a ton, I'm a chocolatier.

This one's fragile.

It's gorgeous, that one. I love the different colors.

The sugar chandeliers will be on top of my tasting element,

which is an ode to childhood.

It reminds me of those summers off with the kids.

We always have s'mores on the beach.

We're gonna go with a smoked,

toasted vanilla bean marshmallow...

Oh, I can smell it. It smells great.

...with a honey graham tart shell,

smoked dark chocolate ganache.

So, I'm actually using a chili chocolate today.

And to amp that up,

I'm going to put in some cayenne pepper

and chipotle for a little bit of smokiness.

I don't want it to overtake the other flavors

or to blow the judges' heads off.

-Not yet. - A little bit more?

Yeah.

We're adding a little bit of drama by doing

a pour-over on a chocolate dome.

And it'll melt the dome and reveal inside

our Cornish pasty inspired s'more.

- Molly? -Yeah?

-They look fantastic. -Yay! I'm not surprised.

I'm a little surprised.

Typically, I would take two days to make an entremet.

Um, we have six hours.

I will be doing an ode to Buckbeak

and the pumpkin patch by making the layered pumpkin entremet.

So, I'm just going to simmer this.

I have a pumpkin scotch mousse.

I chose scotch because Hogwarts is in Scotland,

and scotch has a really nice smoky flavor.

And then for our smoky element, I'm making smoked caramel.

The fats in the cream

will absorb the flavor of the smoke.

We smoke a lot of foods at home.

I live in the South.

Smoking is like, just... that's part of life.

I mold my caramels into mini domes.

These are gonna go into the blast

and they will pop out. And they'll be chewy caramel.

Also inside of the pumpkin entremet,

we are going to do caramelized bacon

brushed with brown sugar and maple syrup.

Oh!

Once the tasting elements are inside of our entremet,

I can dust them with some edible paint.

These flavors together, pumpkin, caramel, bacon,

they are really, like, going to really wow the judges.

I really hope so.

Bakers, you have two hours remaining!

- Oh, no, Zoe. -Okay.

- Oh. Oh. -Oh, no.

Someone's coming through.

Hello.

Have you come to see how our bakers are getting on?

And also eat some cake.

That's what I'm most excited about.

Oh, my goodness.

- Right. Let's go on then. - Let's get out there.

Let's do it.

Look at this. It's the same size as me.

That's impressive. I never thought I'd see

a cake creation as big as myself.

I do feel I'm slightly

- more handsome though. - I've got a question

- for you, Mr. Warwick Davis. - What's that?

Who was your favorite character to play?

Was it-- Let me see if I can guess them.

- Oh, gosh. - Griphook?

Griphook, definitely, 'cause he's a villain.

- We had a deal, Griphook. - The cup for the sword.

I said I'd get you in.

I didn't say anything about getting you out.

It's fun to play a villain,

'cause in real life, I'm too nice.

I'm majorly fangirling. It's a crazy moment for me.

For Dobby's clothing,

I've rolled out some sugar paste fondant.

Just texturizing it with a knit texture mat.

I'm steaming Dobby, and what that's doing

is making the surface just sticky enough

that I can stick the sugar paste fondant to him.

"Dobby has a steamed bottom."

Right now, I'm working on trees,

so we're gonna have a couple trees in the back.

So, I'm just gonna make a bunch of trunks.

I casted the chocolate,

and then I'm gonna wrap it, roll it around the PVC.

We did survive last week,

but from this point on, we need to thrive.

Yeah, that's better.

Really hoping this week is a new page for Zordan.

This is a flipping workout.

I can see your muscles from here.

Zoe, I know it's a lot,

but this is the semifinal, right?

I know. I know what's at stake.

The Thestral is a full chocolate sculpture,

and I'm going to be using modeling chocolate

much like I would use clay.

There's a lot that can be done to really bring her to life.

Her angles and her ribs, the detail in her beak.

She's a beautiful creature,

but very anatomically complicated.

If I get an airbrush on it, it's going to homogenize,

and it's just going to fit better

- than it does at the moment. - Okay.

Seeing you do this reminds me of walking

into the Creature Shop on the films

and seeing them create the real hippogriff,

in which they did lay in individual feathers,

thousands of them.

You didn't have any scenes with Buckbeak, did you?

- No. - Did you have a favorite scene?

Wingardium Leviosa's probably my favorite.

That was my first day on the film.

Oh, well done!

See here, everyone!

Miss Granger's done it!

It's very useful in real life.

I'm levitating right now, you see, to be up here.

So, guys, tell Warwick what your tasting element

is consisting of.

So, our tasting element is a pumpkin entremet.

It's pumpkin mousse with a candied bacon.

- The bacon is smoked. - That's nasty.

- Huh? - Whose idea was that?

Mine.

Are you all right?

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The pumpkin mousse is a scotch pumpkin,

so it's got a little bit of that smoky in there.

- Do you like scotch? - I'm not a drinker.

Okay. I mean, it's burnt off, but the flavors of it--

I don't eat bacon. I don't drink, so...

I'm terrified for our tasting now.

Well, guys,

- best of luck with Buckbeak. -Thank you.

Yeah, hope he can save your bacon.

Thank you.

That's concerning.

Buckbeak is very detailed.

I'm working on airbrushing his wings in different colors,

and I'm not really loving how this is looking.

It looks quite dull,

so I'm just using a sponge and buffing it out,

just trying to add all the little details.

The last 30 minutes

are winging their way over to you.

-No, it's good. -Yeah.

I'm just gonna be as fragile as I can

with this book, 'cause I do not trust it at all.

I'm making white chocolate candles.

I think I'll add some drips,

just to make them a little bit more realistic.

Right now I'm doing the floating dessert.

It doesn't need to be perfect, because to be honest,

the one in the movie, it's not a high-end cake.

Okay.

So, Jordan, I'm just actually just taking off a little bit

of this original gray.

It's just a little too strong for my liking.

Five minutes for these fantastic beasts.

Careful, behind you. Here it comes.

Scusi!

Alex painting toenails at this point.

I'm so evil to him.

Ten.

-Nine. -Eight.

-Seven. -Six.

-Five. -Four.

-Three. -Two.

- One. Arresto Momentum. - Arresto Momentum.

- Your time is up. - Your time is up.

This bake is complete.

-We did it . - I absolutely love this.

- Do you? -Yeah, it looks good.

We are one step closer to finding out

which teams will compete in our grand final.

Whoo!

Bakers, welcome to the set of destroyed Gringotts.

Do you like what we haven't done to the place?

It's a bit of a fixer-upper, isn't it?

Now, I want to talk

about this amazing Thestral.

It's come alive.

- Wow. Wow! - Wow. I mean, it is elegant.

The movement that you have in the wings

is absolutely brilliant, and that's a testament

to how you've gone about constructing them.

I love the contrast between the skeletal body

and the bat-like wings.

The sheen that you have on it, it almost looks like iron.

And you see the muscles in the body.

It's the ribs. It's the talons. It's the eyes.

It looks as realistic as anything

that you would see here at the Harry Potter Studio Tour.

I think it's movie standard, really, isn't it?

Is this all edible or something you bought

- from a train set shop? - Yeah, no, all edible, and...

The base is chocolate. All the shards are chocolate.

The trees are chocolate.

You know, edible meringue mushrooms and moss.

We get the story.

In terms of execution, I see how you have...

No, we're not faulting anything on execution on this.

- You-- - We can't. This is ama--

No, no. This is genuinely one of my favorite pieces.

Carla, let me live in this for a moment.

I was not going to criticize.

I was going to say, what a difference a week makes.

- Yes. - It's one of the best pieces

I think we've seen on this show,

and it just shows that you've come

to give this season's contestants

a run for their money.

- Thank you. -Thank you.

Now, the taste.

The tasting element is an entremet built around fire.

And we decided to hide the entremet in the vertebrae

- of the Thestral. - Yeah.

Which saddens me, 'cause it means

you're cutting into this, aren't you?

- Well... - Well, we did it in a good way.

There's a layer of a chili chocolate cake,

and then we have the freshness of a blackcurrant mousse

with some fresh jalapeños,

a little bit of Scotch bonnet in there.

And then in the middle, there's a tamarind marshmallow,

and then at the base,

there's a pink peppercorn chocolate sablé.

I'm a little concerned about the combination of flavors,

'cause as you may remember from series one,

I'm not particularly exotic...

- Adventurous. - ...in my taste.

I think you might be pleasantly surprised with this.

All right, Warwick, it's time for you

- to enjoy this bad boy. - Am I gonna be surprised?

- A little bit spicy now. -Yeah?

It's kind of a slow burn, the hotness.

Oh! (CHUCKLES, MUNCHES) Hmm.

It's nice and crunchy, and I like the fruitiness.

I appreciate that. That's...

- Why do you look surprised? - No, no, no...

Warwick, you know why we look surprised.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

I think what I'm responding to, the jalapeño and the habanero,

they're actually fruity, so you're leaning into that.

I mean, this is a beautiful marshmallow.

The chocolate is great. The heat comes through,

but very mildly and nice along the tongue.

My one bit of feedback, I'd say the ratio

of the blackcurrant mousse that you have in here

is quite out of proportion to the other elements.

- Okay. Thank you so much. - Thank you. Thank you all.

I'm just impressed that you impressed Warwick.

Yeah.

- You get a special medallion... - Warwick's prize.

Yeah, a little medallion to wear.

I'll leave you to do the washing up.

And clean up the-- Get a broom or something.

Yeah, yeah, you got it.

So, am I right in thinking

that these are our mischievous Cornish pixies?

And are they, by any chance,

creating havoc in Lockhart's classroom?

- Got it in one! - You guessed it.

They're so fun, aren't they?

- I mean, each one's individual. -They are.

You haven't just mass-produced them.

They've all got their own individual personalities...

-Thank you. - ...and characters.

You know what I love about this that speaks to you as a team?

The whimsy of it.

The colors, the sparkly eyes, so they have depth.

I mean, this one back here, that detail, that scream.

Even the chandelier, I like the orbs,

but I do think the joints could've been a little cleaner.

We see some where that you have the chocolate.

There are some that are a little bubbled

and a little heavy on the sugar.

You say all this, but I'm distracted by the fun

and the joy of the whole piece, which is lovely.

Thank you.

This is very impressive. We've got beautiful characters.

It is like a movie set, really, or a stage set.

In terms of storytelling,

I think you all have done one of the best jobs...

-Yeah. - ...because it's not ambiguous.

It's very clear what is going on.

- Thank you. - In terms of the execution,

the amount of work that you guys have done

in building this scene,

the details that you've put into it,

all the different textures, it's super impressive.

Thank you.

- Now... - Time to taste.

-Yes, it's time to taste. -Okay.

Just pour in the shape of a star and it should open up.

-There we go. -Look at that.

-There it goes. - Hello, mischievous.

I love it when my food moves.

Unless it's a steak I've ordered.

- That's gotta be... - Oh, dear.

I've done a little playful take on a s'mores,

which is a honey graham cracker with a smoked marshmallow,

and a little bit of a fiery ganache in there as well.

I've never had a s'more in my life,

and the thing is, will I be wanting more s'more...

- I think you will. - ...after?

It's spicy.

Oh, it's hot. What's going on there?

A little bit of cayenne

and a little bit of chipotle for smokiness.

- Ah. -Mm-hmm.

First off, I think that the...

- Ooh, there it is. - Yeah.

Um...

Keep talking.

It's a slow burn.

I'm not sure about this thing.

2 I don't get the hot thing with the chocolate.

It scares me. I want to eat some more,

but I'm scared of that feeling in the back of my throat.

I think some people are more sensitive

to spice than others.

I was a fan of Warwick Davis, but I'm not anymore.

He's on my list.

I think it might not be for everybody.

No.

But, personally, I think you've got

a really nice balance of it there.

And the Italian meringue that you had on top as well,

really lovely.

The marshmallow, the texture is really nice.

And I love that you torched it. But it's a lot of ganache.

Ooh, you've given us so much to think about.

- Come on, sir. - I'm going to grab some water.

Thank you.

Ah! The hippogriff. Half horse, half eagle.

Not just anyone, though. This is Buckbeak.

We love everything about Buckbeak.

We feel like he is so powerful.

He's so loyal, and you have to earn his loyalty.

- So, should we bow first? - Yeah.

Hey.

If he bows back, it means you can touch him.

I may fly off on him.

Wow. I think that bow really ties into the story.

Great shape on the wings.

That really does bring the piece to life.

Yeah, I remember seeing the real hippogriff

while working on the films, and you've got

the coloring just right, the gray in the feathers.

What lets you down, I think, is the way

these feathers on his neck have curled.

The creature for the films was made in that way.

The feathers were laid on and went against each other.

I feel like he just looks a little bit scruffy

and that takes away from the elegance of the creature.

Okay.

We have a pumpkin entremet inside of our scene,

so we can pull it right off of the scene.

It is pumpkin and scotch for the mousse on the exterior,

and then it has a layer

of caramelized bacon on the inside.

This is very pleasing on the eye, isn't it?

- It looks so cute. - It looks great, doesn't it?

It's so well decorated.

Are you worried about the bacon?

Well, I think that salty and sweet can go together,

so you never know, you might be surprised.

I might be surprised, but I'm not sure.

Here goes.

Hmm.

- Well, I'm relieved 'cause... -Whoo!

Oh, no, it has a bit of bacon aftertaste.

It was going well, but then it went downhill last minute.

With the bacon, okay, all right.

Incredible texture on the mousse,

and I love the caramel, it's lovely and runny.

I'm gonna have to agree with Warwick though,

that that bacon bite at the end

- is too bacon-y. - Okay.

I actually like the taste of the bacon.

I do think the piece that I got was a little big

- and so it was chewy. -Okay, okay.

But I like the flavor of it.

Would you chop it finer,

would you make less in there, or would you just remove it altogether?

I might've done something like a bacon jam.

Oh, that's brilliant, okay.

I'd have ditched the bacon altogether,

if you're asking me.

I will never look at bacon without thinking of you.

Jenny and Alex, this is incredible here.

Obviously, we have Dobby, the house elf,

one of the most beloved characters.

Served the Malfoy family for several years

until he was obviously freed.

And that's obviously Aunt Petunia's cake,

I'm guessing, that we see levitating.

Yes. You're absolutely right. Yes, yeah.

And it's interesting, it's very rare we see a cake

that looks like a cake on this show.

He looks wearied.

From the little hairs on his head

to the texture of the skin. I mean, the feet.

Oh, do you know, this poor chocolatier

was even hand-painting Dobby's toenails?

- Yeah, exactly. - Well, what a great job though.

I mean, those nails really do look so lifelike.

-Thank you. - Yeah.

The expression that you have on Dobby's face

- and the posture. - Thank you so much. Thank you.

I think you've really captured the character's soul, in a way.

Yes.

Underneath, we have his sock.

And he realizes he's become free.

"Dobby is a free elf."

- Oh, he's crying. Look at him. - Wow.

Oh, my God!

Has anyone got an edible tissue we can use?

- He does cry a lot. - Yeah.

So, what do we get to eat in this creation?

- Is it the cake above his head? -Uh, it is not.

-I'm so sorry. - Okay, let's do it.

Sorry, Dobby.

-Oh, no. -No.

I can't look.

- Oh, it's just... - "Dobby hurts."

Oh!

For the cake, I decided to make a mole ganache.

Oh.

Also a coffee cake with a little cacao nibs.

Look at the cross section here and the layers,

which look gorgeous and they're well separated.

Um, and, uh, that's it, really.

I'm trying to sound like him now.

- You do. - Well, yeah, but you do.

You're picking it up great. "Layered" and...

No, but the proportions of the layers look great.

The aroma of the coffee and the mole,

it smells delicious.

It's a little bit spicy, but not too spicy.

Smooth and crunchy. It's very good.

So, quite strong flavors that have gone into this.

I would have liked maybe something of a tart

or fruity or something that punches through a little.

But overall, incredible job.

- Thank you so much, judges. - Thank you.

- Thank you. - Goodbye, Dobby. Don't be sad.

Bakers, the judges had a very,

very difficult decision to make.

Not everybody's coming with us to the grand finale.

The team...

who was judged overall winners in this challenge

and going straight into the final is...

- Zoe and Jordan. - Oh, my God.

Oh.

We've won the semifinal.

- Again. - Again.

And we are on our way to the finale.

Would it be amazing to go two for two?

I think so.

Zoe and Jordan,

your Thestral showpiece was incredible.

And the way that you brought it to life,

it truly was one of the best showpieces

we've seen in this competition.

So, congratulations.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

The next team through

to the Wizards of Baking Chapter Two final is...

Alex and Jenny.

Oh, my goodness.

Harry Potter Wizards of Baking Chapter Two finalists.

- We made it! -Crazy. It's amazing.

I'm so proud of us.

Alex and Jenny,

your Dobby showpiece really brought to life

one of our favorite Harry Potter characters.

It was all magical.

And the mole coffee cake, it was absolutely delicious.

Thank you so much.

So, that means there's still one more spot up for grabs.

The third and final team

returning for the Wizards of Baking finale

will be...

Molly and Priya.

We're so excited. I can't believe it.

We've had some highs, we've had some lows,

but we're here!

Do you think we're the only people

to ever get to the finale

to never win a challenge as well?

Yeah, likely. Yes. Likely.

Sadly, that means Jujhar and Katie,

your incredible adventure is over.

Thank you for this amazing opportunity,

and we're excited to see what you guys make

- in the finale. - Yeah.

I can't believe we're not doing the finale,

'cause that was our goal from right when we came.

-Yeah, it was. - But we came super close.

No matter what the response is,

we loved what we made.

-Exactly. -And I'm okay with that.

- I'm good with that, you know? - Yeah, me too.

Bakers, congratulations.

Get ready for the biggest bake of your Harry Potter lives.

And we're gonna leave the last word to Warwick.

How about this, chaps? Swish and flick.

Well, go on then.

Next time

on the Wizards of Baking season finale...

You've made it to the grand final.

- Let the baking begin! - Let the baking begin!

- We're back. -Feels like Christmas

at my house, stressful and manic.

This is the corner where we come to cry.

-No! -He's very stressed,

which is why we're not talking.

No time like the finale to try something

- you've never done before. - I don't know. I've given up.

Oh, no.

The Harry Potter Wizards of Baking champions

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