NARRATOR: The Wizards of Baking journey
has reached its thrilling finale
here at Warner Bros. Studios England.
♪ (ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
NARRATOR: Sixteen of the world's greatest bakers, pastry chefs,
and chocolatiers have produced countless
truly astonishing cake creations.
I have never had anything like this before.
- That is banging. - Yes.
- He's crying. Look at him. - Oh, my God!
NARRATOR: All designed to honor the genius
of the Harry Potter stories.
CARLA HALL: Oh! (GASPS)
JOZEF YOUSSEF: We've been transported.
NARRATOR: The judging has been rigorous.
What I am not enjoying are the bits of tea. Sorry.
NARRATOR: And there have been more ups and downs...
Oh, it's spilling out the bottom.
...than flying on a wayward Nimbus 2000.
- (LAUGHS) - (LAUGHS)
It doesn't fly. I'm gonna have to write a letter.
NARRATOR: Coming up, Jenny and Alex...
I'm like this, I'm like this.
...Molly and Priya...
(INHALES, EXHALES)
...and the Wizards of Baking Chapter One champions,
Zoe and Jordan...
It feels like they've upped the ante this year.
...all vie for the prize worth its weight in Galleons.
Who will win and lift the Wizards of Baking trophy?
The magic begins now.
(JENNY CHAMBERS CHUCKLES)
- Knock, knock. - Wow.
We're back in here.
Oh, my gosh.
- ALEX: It's so crazy. - JENNY: See the cup?
PRIYA: Honestly, I don't think that
it gets any better than this.
It still looks the exact same.
- JENNY: Five challenges. - ALEX: We made it.
- I love the moving ones. - We've come a long way,
- haven't we? - MOLLY: I know.
Molly and I have made it to the finale
and honestly we're so excited.
- (LAUGHS) - 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?
PRIYA: Yeah, I think so.
It definitely adds a little bit of pressure.
This is beautiful.
- Hasn't changed much, has it? - No. This...
They haven't done much with the place. (LAUGHS)
ZOE: All the memories
from last year come flooding back.
The hairs are literally standing up on my arms.
Hello, baking wizards,
and welcome back to where your journey with us began,
- the Great Hall. - Yeah! (CHUCKLES)
Without doubt,
one of the most iconic locations in modern cinema.
You've made it to the grand final.
The stage is set for one final heroic challenge.
But what is it?
Well, this year marks the 20th anniversary
of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,
the fourth Harry Potter film.
- Okay. - OLIVER PHELPS: I know, I know.
How do James and I look so youthful two decades later?
(CONTESTANTS LAUGHING)
Polyjuice filler. The elixir of life, you know?
(CONTESTANTS LAUGHING)
The Goblet of Fire is all about the contest
to win the Triwizard Tournament.
Eternal glory!
That is what awaits the student
who wins the Triwizard Tournament.
But to do this, that student must survive three tasks.
Three extremely dangerous tasks.
- Wicked. - Wicked.
The inspiration for your final showpieces
will be one of the many unforgettable scenes
from the fourth Harry Potter film.
- That's cool. - That's really cool.
And this time, to take home the trophy,
your bakes must contain one delicious tasting element.
And you will all present your showpieces right here.
You'll have eight hours
for the most important bake of your lives.
And for the final time this season, may we both say...
- Let the baking begin! - Let the baking begin!
- ZOE: Oh, my goodness. - (CONTESTANTS CHATTERING)
- JORDAN: Come on, Zoe. - ZOE: Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Every single challenge that we've done,
we've had to really push it to get to the end.
ALEX: We can win this one, so...
- JENNY: You are so positive. - Of course. Let's go for it.
What are you doing? No, no, no.
No, that is not a good start. Okay. (CHUCKLES)
We're in the final.
My favorite scene is the Yule Ball.
When I was pregnant with Grace, my first child,
Simon and I went to the Harry Potter...
- ALEX: Okay. Yeah. - ...studios to do the tour,
and the Yule Ball was all set up,
so it's a really special memory for me.
So it's wintery, it's sparkly,
there's loads of ice everywhere,
there's lots of people dancing, and, of course,
the classic moment for me in the Yule Ball
is when Hermione is descending that staircase.
Yeah, you're right.
♪ (DRAMATIC FANFARE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
And we'll put the staircase here.
ALEX: Mm-hmm.
JENNY: How about Ron waiting at the bottom
- of the stairs? - ALEX: Yeah.
- The dancers, of course. Yeah. - JENNY: The dancers.
So for our showpiece, we are going to have
a revolving dance floor with hand-sculpted dancers.
Another floor above will have Hermione and Ron.
At the top, we're gonna have a chocolate dome and arches.
And the whole piece
will be surrounded by a magical spiral.
- This is the last chance. - Yeah.
We have to pull out all the stops.
(SIGHS) It is going to be a lot. I really... (CHUCKLES)
(SNIFFLES, SIGHS)
I really want to make my... my parents proud of me
and my family and...
and all the Mexicans around here, so...
- Oh. - Okay.
Okay, so Triwizard Cup.
- Triwizard Cup. - Goblet of Fire.
It's my personal favorite movie.
I know, you like this one.
Yeah, so Harry wins the golden egg.
And then, of course, Cedric Diggory tells Harry
to take it to the prefects' bathroom.
We have chosen the prefects' bathroom,
and it needs to feature as much sort of magic
and storytelling as we can throw at it.
The main thing is a bathtub.
ZOE: What about the taps?
JORDAN: Yeah, with all the different color.
ZOE: We have that beautiful stained glass,
which we could do out of sugar...
- JORDAN: Okay. - ...at the top.
- You know, of the mermaid. - JORDAN: Uh-huh.
- It's such a feature. - It's iconic. It's very iconic.
It's such a feature of that bathroom.
JORDAN: So we'll have, like, the...
the colorful faucets, the bathtub,
and then we're also gonna have a stained glass window
with the mermaid in it.
We're gonna have the egg.
We're depicting that it's going underwater.
So we're gonna have the mermaid tail and seaweed.
This is the most complicated thing
that we have ever tried to do, period.
Okay, so we've got to do a scene
from The Goblet of Fire.
You know when the Beauxbatons arrive?
Oh, yeah.
(BEAUXBATONS SIGH)
The Beauxbatons compete in the Triwizard Tournament,
and they're so glamorous and stylish.
And they have quite a dramatic entrance.
PRIYA: And I love the carriage that they come in.
MOLLY: So carriage, nice big wheels on.
PRIYA: Mm-hmm. The horses are amazing.
MOLLY: The winged horses.
Obviously, we want the horses to fly.
PRIYA: And nestled on some clouds,
flying over the Pyrenees Mountains.
MOLLY: Gorgeous.
Whoo! She's running.
All right, let's do it.
JENNY: I need to start stacking cake
for the Christmas tree base.
I want plenty of places to put little ornaments,
little decorations, hidden little areas
where Alex can put his tasting element.
Christmas trees are... They're full of texture.
At the moment, it's like a chocolate mess,
but there is method to my madness.
Um, what I'm gonna do now is heat up some paste
and I'm gonna make all the little branch details.
So I texturize as much as I possibly can, but obviously,
I've got a lot of sculpting to do for this challenge.
So I've decided I've got to move on.
Okay, time is short,
and I've got to make dancers on the dance floor,
which is gonna take me ages.
I've chosen to make eight people,
which... (CHUCKLES) ...is an interesting decision.
I have never rushed
stuff like this so much in my life.
This challenge, we wanna do something
we've not done before.
We've had pieces where we've represented
freestanding characters.
We've had flushing toilets. We've had Hagrid and his beard.
But when we are thinking about this one,
I think we're gonna do a traditional
stylized showpiece.
We've not done that in the competition
and it's a risk because are the judges gonna think
we're being too predictable?
I'm gonna be starting with the Carlota.
When I was a little guy,
my mother is always making Carlota on Christmas.
That's why I decided to honor her.
A Carlota, it's a Mexican dessert
that only has three things.
Lemon, condensed milk, and cookies.
I'm elevating this Carlota
by changing some of the elements.
The condensed milk, it's gonna be the honey Chantilly,
the lemon, I'm using yuzu,
and the pistachio and lemon sponge cake,
it's going to be the cookies.
So it is going to be sitting on the bottom of the tree.
It's going to be a Christmas bauble,
so we are going to put it all around the cake.
So I just glaze it with some
- caramelized white chocolate. - JENNY: Yeah.
And I'm just putting some silver leaf.
JENNY: Alex, those look amazing.
PRIYA: Hey, you guys, we made it to the finale.
Can you believe it?
- No. - Uh, nope. (LAUGHS)
Not really, but we're excited.
Uh-oh. It's gurgling again. Who's it gonna be?
(CONTESTANTS GASP, CHEER)
Very soon, we will crown
our Wizards of Baking Chapter Two champions.
(CONTESTANTS CHEERING)
Who's it gonna be? Hands up.
(PRIYA CHUCKLES)
- I've got two hands up. - Okay.
- (LAUGHS) - I like it, guys. I like it.
I'm gonna mix up some royal icing now.
I'm gonna use this to do the stained glass.
I will be creating
a stained glass window from pastillage,
isomalt, and royal icing.
It's completely handmade.
Oh, really?
I've just noticed as I'm coloring it up
that there's a little bit of a crack in the pastillage.
It's making me a little nervous
that it's not gonna hold together.
This is going to be a potential problem.
We fix it the best we can with more isomalt.
I'm hoping that once it's filled with isomalt,
it should be okay.
What I need to do is very carefully,
with black royal icing,
pipe all of the lines in the correct position
so that I'm telling the story of the shape of that merperson.
This is genuinely very stressful.
I really don't know why we decided to do such a risky
and challenging piece,
- because it's all or bust. - JORDAN: All or bust.
ZOE: I essentially start coloring in,
because in the actual stained glass
that you see in the movie, it's really beautiful.
But, boy, it is really, really time consuming.
And it is taking longer than the 20 minutes
that I allocated for it.
This one is not gonna beat us,
- okay? - No, it won't.
- Hi, Zoe and Jordan. - JORDAN: Hello.
- Hello. - OLIVER: This is the final.
- JORDAN: Yes. - ZOE: Yes, it is.
JAMES PHELPS: You guys know how this feels already.
How are we getting on?
It's like climbing Everest, this competition. (LAUGHS)
It gets harder and harder and more intense.
You're doing the prefects' bathroom.
- Yes. - ZOE: We are.
Were you guys prefects at school?
- ZOE: I actually was a prefect. - You were a prefect?
ZOE: Yes, I was a prefect, yeah.
Not until I was a little bit older.
- JAMES: Of course you were, Zoe. - What a shock.
Jordan, were you a prefect?
I graduated top of my class.
I did graduate with a three point,
- I think, nine nine. - (LAUGHS)
JORDAN: A little bit of a perfectionist,
but my brother got a 4.0 and he holds it against me
- till this day, so... - JAMES: Rightly so.
Can you tell I'm competitive just a little bit?
Rightly so, you've let the family down
with that 3.99999.
Yeah, I still think about it to this day.
- (BOTH LAUGH) - JORDAN: See you, guys.
Jordan, can you imagine if we actually managed
to win this for a second time?
I was very emotional the first time around,
- so I can only think... - You were, you did shed a tear
or two, this is true.
JORDAN: The second time would be...
Like, to win again would be unreal.
- Period. - Literally.
Coming back a second time, there's a lot of sacrifice.
I have a new wife at home.
I want it to be worth something, right?
I don't want to waste this opportunity.
To be back now, I think we just...
throw everything at it.
We've just gotta put it all out there.
So satisfying to karate chop chocolate.
We've decided we're gonna feature
the Beauxbaton carriage.
The carriage is gonna be that Beauxbaton blue.
So I'm building the carriage not with a mold,
but with a blueprint like I'm an architect.
And I'm feeling a little out of my element.
- Yes. - ♪ (ENERGETIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
PRIYA: Ah!
The roof, it's made up of four triangles.
I'm having to pay really close attention
to the details and the order they go in.
So I'm just building this thing I've never built before
and insanity has set in.
Okay, I need to get in
and do a little bit of chocolate underneath.
- What do we need to do? - Just put loads on, I reckon.
It is stressful.
MOLLY: No!
PRIYA: All just having moments of panic.
It's no big deal. We're fine. Everything's fine.
The weight of the chocolate is pulling it down.
But finally, it sticks.
It's going to stay by sheer willpower.
MOLLY: Use your mom voice to it.
You better stay right there. (LAUGHS) Thank you, Molly.
It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride.
We haven't actually won a challenge yet.
It's okay. I'm optimistic.
Sometimes the true challenge is how you kind of persevere.
- We're the underdogs. - We're the underdogs.
We're gonna peak just at the right time.
OLIVER: Only four hours to go,
you bubbling, bumbling band of bakers.
Say that five times fast.
- That is a mouthful. (LAUGHS) - We better get moving.
ZOE: How are you doing, Jordan?
I have to unmold these faucets. In the middle of our piece,
the taps will be made from chocolate
to really bring the prefects' bathroom to life.
These taps are so meticulous.
We really need to put it all out there
because we are the returning champs.
So we have a standard that we want to hit
and also go even above and beyond that.
- Whoa! - ZOE: Wow. (LAUGHS)
JENNY: There's too much to do.
I'm not going for hyperrealism. I don't have the time.
For the men, I've decided to keep them very simple
and just go with simple black shapes.
The men are definitely more basic... in general.
(LAUGHS)
The ladies' dresses,
I want them to be recognizable as the characters.
So I've made Cho Chang, I'm making Parvati,
and I'm doing a sort of reinterpretation
of Fleur Delacour.
So Goblet of Fire, Hermione comes down the stairs,
and in the movies,
she's wearing a sort of a purpley color.
But actually, the fans will know,
who've read the books, that she's actually wearing
a periwinkle blue.
So I'm actually celebrating the book here with her dress.
I don't want to break them. Come on.
♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
So I finished my chocolate dome, Jenny.
- Look at it. - JENNY: Oh, it looks amazing.
ALEX: It's beautiful, huh?
And right now I'm unmolding all the isomalt.
We need to fill all the spiral out of isomalt and chocolate
and whatever we have available.
JENNY: Those are the ones we have on our tree at home.
- Are you being serious? - JENNY: No, completely.
We have those in glass. We have glass ones of those.
- ALEX: Okay, okay, okay. - So at home waiting for me
are my family.
I'm missing them like crazy.
- ALEX: For me, it's my cats... - JENNY: Your cats are waiting.
- ...back home. Yeah. - JENNY: I love that.
ALEX: My mother is taking care of them, so...
- JENNY: Yeah. - ALEX: I really want to see her,
make her proud.
I'm just feeling the pressure right now.
Alex, Jenny.
- Hey. - JENNY: Hello.
How's it all going?
(SIGHS)
We have got so much to do.
I've still gotta finish making all my dancers.
I've gotta make Ron and his gorgeous outfit
on the top tier.
We've still got to decorate the spiral
which is surrounding our cake.
I've gotta decorate the tree to make it look Christmassy.
I've gotta make decorations.
Are you really gonna get all that done?
'Cause it sounded like a long list you were just saying.
It does sound like a long list, doesn't it? (LAUGHS)
OLIVER: Yeah.
The Yule Ball scene that you guys are doing,
we filmed that the week
- leading up to our Christmas break. - JENNY: Aw!
OLIVER: So it was literally our Christmas party...
- ALEX: Really? - ...when we were filming, yeah.
And this scene reminds me
especially when it was Christmas
back in the days and we all were dancing salsa
and some merengue music, so it was really nice.
I wouldn't do any dancing
'cause we've worked out there's a curse of dancing
on this show right now.
- JENNY: Oh, no. - Really?
One episode, I danced with Angel.
- We do a turn. - OLIVER: Like that?
- Good job, look at you. - Like that?
And her team went home.
- Then Stefan... - Yeah.
...ran up and danced with Afshan.
- What do we do? - (CONTESTANTS LAUGHING)
There we go, here we go, here we go, here we go.
OLIVER: And his team went home.
Oh, yeah.
Hope you get to dance to the trophy.
- JENNY: Yeah, maybe. - (LAUGHS)
MOLLY: So, I start building the horses.
I'm doing armature wire to create like a skeleton.
And then I'm going in with white chocolate modeling paste,
which is gonna set nice and firm.
I'm very much an animal person
and the anatomical structure of the horse
is something I've looked at a lot.
The muscles in the legs,
I need to just make them absolutely perfect.
And it's really, really difficult.
(SIGHS)
I used to ride horses when I was younger.
This one took a little while, but now I've done it.
I can do the second one a bit faster.
I'm really good at horses.
Yeah.
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
OLIVER: Here's some goblet-smacking news.
Only three hours to go.
Oh, really? We're behind, but it's okay.
Oh, this is smelling so good. The horses are in for a treat.
MOLLY: We want to have the door for the carriage swing open
to reveal Priya's beautiful tasting element inside.
It's gonna capture a horse's favorite treat, an apple.
But in the Harry Potter movies, these horses love malt whiskey.
I'm going to work on a hazelnut
single malt whiskey mousse, hazelnut sponge,
hazelnut crispy layer,
and a bananas Foster that I'm going to flambé today.
I can kind of start assembling.
- MOLLY: Love that. - I wanna play a little trick
on the judges with the shape of the apple
because the flavors have nothing
to do with apple really.
It's going to be surprising and delicious.
Ta-da!
I've come a long way to be here. I miss my kids.
I think it's important for me to show myself,
and to show my family and friends
that I laid it all out on the line
before I came home.
I want the trophy.
Same. We've become very competitive.
- (LAUGHS) - (LAUGHS)
So what's going on with the water there, Jordan?
JORDAN: This is the sugar tubes.
ZOE: This will be the running water
that comes out of the taps.
JORDAN: You pour very hot sugar, very hot isomalt,
and fill the tube.
And with a syringe, you inject some air
inside of the tube.
The air creates bubbles within the sugar.
- Okay, I'm excited to see this. - Look at it. Look.
(GASPS)
Oh, that looks so cool, Jordan.
Look at the bubbles.
Yeah, look at the bubbles.
We're doing things we've never done before.
It's taking me a really long time.
It's very meticulous work.
I get the first three done.
There's so much other things to do.
ZOE: And how many have you got to make?
Nine.
- Nine? - JORDAN: Yep.
This is so fragile.
I need to slow down but I can't
because I don't have enough time.
So I just hope that stays.
I'm putting the water up, and it's not sticking.
I'm moving the taps, they're falling.
This is the most stressed I've ever been
on any competition that I've ever been on.
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
JORDAN: Just breathe.
ZOE: As the Americans would say, this is a doozy.
JORDAN: Yeah, if I can't get them all on, then that just...
our showpiece...
is going to look incomplete, which is not what we want.
If you don't have a finished piece,
you're never going to win.
Right now, it's all hands on deck
to have something finished.
Have one running, one empty, one running, one empty.
- Like, just do that. - JORDAN: Okay.
We're going to have to make artistic compromises
and leave stuff off.
And that's just what it is, right?
That's just what it is in a competition.
This is the corner where we come to cry. (LAUGHS)
Things are starting to get as ugly
as Ron's Yule Ball suit.
Only two hours to go.
MOLLY: So if you imagine the sea
is gonna come crashing all the way around.
I'm getting the shape with some fondant.
To make really big structures like this,
you have to be quite physically strong.
I don't really go to the gym or anything,
but I think this is kind of the only reason why
I've stayed relatively fit and strong.
We still have a lot to do, and it is scary.
The stress is setting in.
It's huge. Maybe it's too big.
I think we potentially could have made it
- a little bit smaller. - What were we thinking?
Maybe like a third smaller.
I thought I liked baking, but then...
- Ask me again tomorrow. - (LAUGHS)
There is physically
a lot to get on there in the time given.
I made this cool grassy moss stuff.
I'm packing this around the base.
I'm airbrushing the ocean and clouds at the top.
There's so much to do.
We also want to do a textural element
in the waves, and so I'm putting rice paper
into blue colored water
and then just fry the edge of it to give
that kind of ruffled edge of the crest of a wave.
I don't know. I've given up.
What a fun technique to add to your cake decorating, hey?
I'm not listening. Can you just come over here?
- (LAUGHS) - (LAUGHS)
I'm so tired.
I'm going straight into my tasting element,
which is inspired by a dessert
that my nan always used to make, baklava.
But I am layering it up into a cake.
It's gonna go inside the merperson tail.
I have honey, lemon peel,
and I'm also gonna throw in a little bit
of orange blossom water to really enhance that flavor.
(SNIFFS) Smells really good, Zoe.
ZOE: What I've got here is something called kadayif.
It's a phyllo dough
and I'm just gonna fry it off really
with a little bit of butter.
Kadayif is something that completely reminds me
of my nan and my Turkish heritage,
so it just feels right.
I am gonna be as true
to my nan's baklava as I possibly can,
whilst trying to present it in a different way.
So this is gonna be a challenge
to try and translate this into cake form,
because the difference in the texture...
Ah! I really could have made a sheet cake.
I am questioning the wisdom.
When have I ever made life easy for myself, people?
Never.
Don't get your wands in a knot. There's still one hour to go.
- Oh, my goodness. - One hour, wow.
PRIYA: Oh, my gosh, Molly.
This is gonna be Ron Weasley.
When you talk about the Yule Ball,
I think his outfit is famous because it's so awful.
Straight out of the 1970s,
it looks like it's been worn by a grandmother.
No offense to grandmothers out there,
but it shouldn't be worn by a teenage boy
at his first dance. (CHUCKLES)
- ♪ (CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - (SIGHS, GRUNTS)
Murder me, Harry.
- ALEX: Jenny? - JENNY: Yeah?
- ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - ALEX: How much longer until...
- I am hoping these... - ...dancers?
I will be done with the dancers in about ten minutes.
ALEX: Okay, Jenny, you're gonna help me.
It is taking a lot of time making those little figures.
Look, she wants to give you a hug.
(IN A CHILDLIKE VOICE) "Alex. Alex."
I'm just like, "Come on, Jenny, you gotta pivot."
I'm really stressed right now. I know time is going on,
and there is a lot of things to do.
I'm doing the chocolate dome, chocolate baubles.
I have to finish the tree.
So, I'm thinking those crystals, babe.
- Just around that circle. - Yeah.
JENNY: And if you do it like a clock.
Or we could do more at the front, I guess.
Yes, of course. Front is priority.
- Are you gonna do a test of one? - Continue your thing.
I hear a little bickering. Trouble in paradise?
JENNY: We're having our first fight.
- ALEX: I want to finish. - Yeah, don't worry about me.
- Seriously-- - I'm worrying about you.
JENNY: All right, don't get grumpy.
He's very stressed, which is why we're not talking.
ALEX: Oh, come on.
We're not really angry at each other,
but it's the stress of the moment.
- ALEX: Yeah, it's the stress. - (BLOWS RASPBERRIES)
It was not a moment. It was, like, 30 minutes.
- (LAUGHS) - (CHUCKLES)
Come on, you agree, the bossiness has helped,
- hasn't it? We're here. - Do you have a bossy partner?
- (CHUCKLES) She's so bossy. - (LAUGHS)
- We'll find a place over there. - JENNY: What's going on?
We can go over there, clean table.
- ALEX: Think about it. - (CHUCKLES)
- Thirty minutes, baking wizards. - (GASPS)
- Oh, my gosh. - Oh, my goodness. Whoop!
Keep moving.
So, it's the last 30 minutes here in the kitchen,
and there is a very quiet panic going on right now.
(SIGHS)
OLIVER: Zoe and Jordan, they're spending more time
on making sure all the taps look right.
What the heck, man?
Is this gonna be the first time they're going to present
- an unfinished showpiece? - I mean, it's looking like it.
Let's get some decorations on the tree.
JAMES: Jenny and Alex.
Now, Jenny has only just started to help Alex put together
the main focal point of this piece.
Alex, he likes this kind of pressure.
OLIVER: Yes, but has it been too much for one person?
PRIYA: Can we do a little zhuzh right there where it opens?
OLIVER: Molly and Priya.
JAMES: That Beauxbaton carriage is looking incredible.
OLIVER: I mean, that's come together very, very well.
Is the bottom of the stand going to look up to scratch?
JAMES: They're running out of time.
OLIVER: So, do you think that we're looking at now three teams
and it's going to come down to
who's going to get the most done?
- I hope not. - PRIYA: That's excellent.
I kind of feel like today's our day.
Priya's this positive all the time.
- (CHUCKLES) - MOLLY: We've got a few minutes.
Get the blender, make that wafer paper snow.
Shove it in, tear it into pieces.
No liquid, just wafer paper.
- ♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC OVERLAPPING) ♪ - I got this!
I'm scared though, but I got this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got this.
ALEX: There is a lot of things to paste on that spiral.
- I hope this all stays on. - JENNY: I'm sure they will.
- (ICICLE SHATTERING) - Whoops! Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Oh, my God.
My baubles and my sugar decorations
are not sticking properly.
- (SIGHS) Oof! - ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- JENNY: Lots of chocolate. - ALEX: Lots of chocolate.
JENNY: Just lots and lots of chocolate.
Do you know, I think for every challenge,
we do switch roles.
If one of us is having a bit of a panic,
then the other one is calm.
I'm gonna say your words back to you.
- You've got this. - ALEX: I got this, I got this.
It's all taking much longer than it should.
This is not gonna beat me.
Jordan, I'm just gonna put the tail together.
I am wiring up some wafer paper. There's so much going on,
I'm not sure what we're gonna end up with,
truth be told.
We just don't have the stuff made,
- do we, this time? - Yeah, I'm really mad about that.
Hickory dickory dock, the clock is ticking.
- OLIVER: Five minutes to go. - What? How did that go so fast?
- (GROANS) - JENNY: Oh, my goodness.
I'm gonna need a new heart when I'm finished here.
Keep going, we got this, keep going.
ZOE: Kinda lost for words at this point.
We still have a little bit--
- Yeah, we got it. - JAMES: Ten.
- OLIVER: Nine. - JAMES: Eight.
- No! (GROANS) - OLIVER: Seven.
- Six. - Five.
- JAMES: Four. - OLIVER: Three.
- JAMES: Two. - OLIVER: One.
Arresto Momentum, your time is up.
- MOLLY: Yeah! Mm! - (CHUCKLES)
JORDAN: It sucks. I couldn't do what I wanted to.
Really, really upset. It's not a good feeling.
- ZOE: You okay? - Yeah.
- ZOE: You're not too traumatized? - Pretty traumatized.
OLIVER: Your final challenge has ended,
and the ovens are about to be sold off
half price down at Knockturn Alley.
- I can't believe we did it. - We did it.
JAMES: All that remains is to head to the Great Hall
- to be judged. - (SIGHS)
- Good luck, everybody. - MOLLY: Thank you.
- PRIYA: Good job, everybody. - ZOE: Well done, everyone.
- ♪ (UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - Phew! Well done.
JORDAN: That was the hardest day of my whole life.
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
PRIYA: Oh, my gosh, it's over!
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
MOLLY: Those huge, iconic doors open,
and there are tons of people watching.
- We're like cake rock stars. - (CHUCKLES)
- Wow. - PRIYA: Oh, my gosh.
So, there's added pressure. It's very, very unnerving.
ZOE: All the memories from last year
- come flooding back. - It takes your breath away.
ZOE: We've been here before, and we have won before.
Bakers, welcome back to the Great Hall.
As you can see, our house-elves have been busy prepping
- for this year's Yule Ball. - ♪ (ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- Amazing, beautiful. - Mm.
And we have got the Great Hall full of Harry Potter superfans!
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
You now have ten minutes
to put the finishing touches on your showpieces.
Come on, get to it.
- Clock's ticking. Come on. - ZOE: Oh, Lord. Okay.
(CONTESTANTS LAUGHING)
ALEX: I really want to win this one,
but I don't know if we have this, to be honest.
JENNY: I don't know if we've done enough.
MOLLY: It's been a journey. We've worked really hard,
and it's been an amazing experience.
I think this is probably the biggest showpiece
in the whole competition.
JORDAN: Of course, I'm worried.
We tried our hardest to create something so specific.
Yes, we fell on some things.
Is that enough for the judges? I don't know.
Now, I need to move the stained glass window,
and put it on top of the cake. But it is so fragile.
- ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (ISOMALT SHATTERING) - Oh!
JORDAN: That was the weak part. That was it. This is real bad.
(WHISPERS) Jordan's just broken his stained glass window.
Mm.
OLIVER: I hope that doesn't cost him later.
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
ZOE: The thing that we worried about the most happened.
- The stained glass broke. - JORDAN: That was the weak part.
ZOE: Our piece looks different from the others.
And I am terrified.
- Five, four, three, two, one. - Five, four, three, two, one.
- (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING) - ♪ (UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Teams, your time is up.
And here to scrutinize your final creations,
our Ministers of Baking.
Please welcome Chef Carla Hall and Chef Jozef Youssef.
- ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
♪ (TENSE MUSIC OVERLAPPING) ♪
It's almost time to taste your creations.
But this table is way too big for just the two of us.
- ♪ (UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
Please welcome back the pride of Hogwarts,
Devon Murray...
Afshan Azad...
and Warwick Davis!
- Well, the scene is set. - Yeah. (CHUCKLES)
OLIVER: Now, it's time to tuck into
your three incredible Goblet of Fire creations.
Jenny and Alex, you're up first.
♪ (MYSTICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
JENNY: We have the Yule Ball.
And what a fantastic place to have it,
- in this amazing hall... - (CHUCKLES)
...where it actually happened.
At the top of our showpiece, we have the dome.
And then coming down, we have Hermione,
who's descending the stairs,
and she's being met by Ron at the bottom.
And then as we come down to this tier,
we wanted to represent a lovely dance.
Coming down, we have a full Christmas tree,
- because it's the Yule Ball. - ALEX: And the spiral,
it's made out of isomalt, chocolate work,
and we put some silver leaf also in it.
(CROWD GASPING, EXCLAIMING)
- CARLA: Oh! - JOZEF: Oh!
- Oh, wow. - Wow.
(CHUCKLES)
- Oh! - JOZEF: Whoa!
(CROWD LAUGHING)
That was j-- Ah! I was... (LAUGHS)
The second I look at it, I know exactly where it is.
It's just beautiful.
AFSHAN AZAD: I love everything about it.
I just think there's one element missing.
- Oh? - ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
And that's a mini me in there...
- JENNY: We're so sorry. - ...sat on the corner. (LAUGHS)
That dome and the chocolate work, Alex,
- it's so clean and precise. - ♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
However, Jenny, your models look a little bit plasticine-y.
Oh, my God.
You brought us back to the Yule Ball.
We get the story, and you have set the scene.
Really well done.
For me, if you were to take the Yule Ball,
and use the little known spell, "Cakeify,"
this would be the result.
- (CHUCKLES) - Thank you.
- Oh, "Cakeify." Aw! - JENNY: Oh, that's lovely.
- JENNY: That's lovely. - I love that.
ALEX: For the tasting element, I decided to make a dessert.
It's called Carlota.
- (CROWD LAUGHING) - PRIYA: It's named after Carla.
It is a Mexican dessert that I decided to make it
with honey Chantilly, yuzu curd, a lemon cake,
and also, it has a little pistachio sucrée on the bottom.
So, is the foil edible?
- It's not foil. - WARWICK DAVIS: It looks like foil.
- It's silver leaf. - WARWICK: Oh, okay.
They're not gonna serve you up foil, Warwick.
I thought a bit of the wrapping had been left on.
(BOTH LAUGH)
- (JUDGES CHUCKLE) - ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Alex, you drilled it down to its simplicity.
So, you have the biscuit, you have the cake,
the lemon, the cream,
and it really all comes together.
It's a journey of texture.
It's just like an explosion in my mouth.
So, I'm very, very happy with it.
I've nearly finished it,
- and I never do that. - (BOTH LAUGH)
It's really good. The cream's lovely.
- ALEX: Thank you. - The fruity, lemony flavor.
The smell as well that I get, you really do...
I do smell that pistachio in there.
JOZEF: The caramelized white chocolate is really nice.
It's absolutely delicious.
- That is my conclusion. - (CROWD LAUGHING)
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
Molly and Priya, over to you guys.
♪ (MYSTICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
MOLLY: We were inspired by the part
where the Beauxbatons arrive,
and they make quite a dramatic entry.
So, we wanted to go quite big. (SNICKERS)
As you might have noticed, we've gone quite big.
Some would say too big, but here we are.
(CROWD LAUGHING)
- So, we-- (CHUCKLES) - "Some" is me. (LAUGHS)
MOLLY: We wanted to capture the moment
the winged horses fly the carriage to Hogwarts.
And we've captured the Pyrenees Mountain,
which is rice cereal and tempered chocolate.
And then we've got fondant waves.
We've actually deep fried the edges
to make it look like the crest of a wave.
On the top, Priya has handmade, with no molds, no templates,
this beautiful chocolate carriage.
And then I've made
the white chocolate modeling paste horses.
I love this very dramatic scene.
I think your storytelling is incredible.
You really have freeze-framed a part of the movie,
for me at least.
I feel like this piece brings your whimsy.
The colors, the shapes,
I mean, the entire piece really flows.
- Really well done. - I'm a huge horse lover.
- We breed horses. - So am I.
And I'm totally blown away by them.
And I can see, like, the tendons.
The wind is blowing their mane, their tail.
The shine. They look so, like, pearlescent.
- Thank you. - JOZEF: I'm really impressed
that you've made the carriage and horses by hand.
So, it looks really well put together.
PRIYA: Thank you.
So, when the carriage door swings open,
it reveals inside a golden apple.
- Oh, that's so sweet. - DEVON MURRAY: The door.
PRIYA: We all know that horses love apples,
but these are not ordinary horses,
and this is not an ordinary apple.
These horses consume one thing, single malt whiskey.
- (CHUCKLES) - OLIVER: Oh!
PRIYA: To play on those flavors, the treat for all of you today
is a single malt whiskey hazelnut mousse
with a bananas Foster flambé,
and I've done a hazelnut sponge, and a hazelnut crunch layer.
Firstly, to look at visually, the golden apple is perfect.
Your flavors are fantastic,
but I think, in terms of layering,
they weren't evenly distributed.
The whiskey comes through quite nice and strong.
There's a lot of cream going on here.
There's a lot of the banana.
And I think there could be a little bit more crunch.
A little bit more texture could have gone a long way.
Okay, hang on, I'm gonna completely disagree with you.
(LAUGHS)
I think, like, the texture of that
was second to none. I loved the crunch.
Dude, all I heard over here was...
- (CROWD LAUGHING) - Thank you, Molly and Priya.
Zoe and Jordan, please present your final showpiece.
We created the prefects' bathroom.
- When the egg moves... - AFSHAN: Oh, wow. Bubbles.
...and comes underwater...
- JOZEF: Wow. - AFSHAN: Oh, it's going down.
- ...you can hear the merpeople. - AFSHAN: Look at that.
- (JUDGES GASP, EXCLAIM) - Oh, my God, amazing.
- CARLA: Oh! - ♪ (ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
ZOE: The top is the stained glass
of the merperson.
We had a bit of an issue with it.
I'm really pleased, though, that only the top bit broke,
so, you can actually see the work we've done.
JORDAN: All the pipes and faucets are chocolate.
- AFSHAN: Oh. - JORDAN: The water is isomalt,
as well as a cake-sculpted merperson tail.
And then we have an actual running bath here
with some bubbles to really tie it all together.
Well, I feel like I wanna take my clothes off,
- and jump right in. - (CROWD LAUGHING)
- Please don't. - (CHUCKLES)
CARLA: In terms of execution, there's so much to see here.
I think the stained glass,
even though it broke, is beautiful.
You can see her talking as she pulls her hair
over her shoulder.
I see what you were doing with the water.
I wish it was another color, just so we could really see it.
I noticed there's... one or two of the faucets
don't have any of the water coming out.
JORDAN: The goal of it was to actually have nine.
ZOE: In different colors.
- Time was just... - You should have just said,
- "They're turned off, those taps." - (CHUCKLES)
- Oh, yeah. You're right. - (JUDGES LAUGHING)
They are. They're turned off.
The story is perfect. I think we all know this scene,
and you've brought it to life.
I think in terms of execution, there are a couple things
that may not have gone as you had planned it,
- but... it is time to taste your tasting element. - ♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
The tasting element is in the merperson's tail,
- a baklava-inspired cake. - Oh!
ZOE: I've layered baklava with a pistachio cake,
paired that with a rose and kefir buttercream,
something that's sour,
and in there is a pistachio and kadayif crunch.
The crunch of it, the way that you've made that is amazing.
I love the crunch, I love the texture.
You get baklava, you get the rose water
in the buttercream.
And I think you've really actually quite cleverly
integrated baklava into cake.
- Well done. - (CROWD APPLAUDING)
Three simply breathtaking showpieces.
- CARLA: Wow. - OLIVER: Bakers,
your judges have enjoyed all of your work.
- ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - I'm really proud of what we've done.
I stand by our approach.
I'm hoping we've done enough for the judges
to realize that we've still got it.
Everyone's pieces are looking crazy good.
The standard is so high, but how can we not win?
- (CHUCKLES) We have to win. - That's the famous last words.
We're winning. Yeah.
PRIYA: We pulled it together, and I'm feeling kind of hopeful.
MOLLY: They do like our attention to detail.
This could be our first win. (CHUCKLES)
I mean, there's no opportunity after it.
It's now time to crown our champions.
♪ (MYSTICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
OLIVER: I'd like us all to take a moment
to acknowledge how special tonight has been.
Twenty years on after The Goblet of Fire
was filmed, on these very sets,
we got to live it all over again.
And standing here in the Great Hall again...
(INHALES DEEPLY, CLEARS THROAT) ...is very special for us.
And thanks to you, it's a world that continues to inspire us.
I have been completely blown away
by all you guys.
Congratulations on getting this far.
And remember, whether you win today,
or you don't,
you've made some absolutely fantastic memories here
with all of us guys.
You should all be very proud of yourselves.
I have tasted the most incredible bakes.
Thank you, guys, for allowing us to be a part of your journey.
So many things have happened in this set.
We've had funerals, celebrations,
great feasts, all sorts of things.
And tonight, I think you brought a little bit more magic
into this place with your wonderful creations.
So, thank you very much for that.
- Thank you. - (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
It's now time to crown our champions.
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
The team that's earned the right to call themselves
the Harry Potter Wizards of Baking champions...
are...
BOTH: Jenny and Alex!
- (EXCLAIMS, CHUCKLES) - Oh!
- (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING) - (ALEX LAUGHS)
♪ ("HARRY'S WONDROUS WORLD" BY JOHN WILLIAMS PLAYING) ♪
Oh! I'm so happy for them!
Amazing!
- (SOBS, CHUCKLES) - (ALEX GROANS)
I'm in absolute shock.
I'm stunned. I'm trying not to cry.
ALEX: (CHUCKLES) My parents are gonna be...
- JENNY: Yeah. (CHUCKLES) - ...so proud of me.
My cat, my family, Mexico.
I really want to hug this little Alex,
and tell him that everything is gonna be okay.
So, that's... (SNIFFLES)
- (LAUGHS) - PRIYA: Congratulations!
We can't help but feel accomplished
and I feel incredibly grateful to have met Molly.
- ALEX: Mm. - Proud of you.
I feel like my prize is that I got to be friends with you
'cause, like, that's better than any sort of trophy for me.
ZOE: I knew it. What did I say to you?
- ALEX: Ah! - Well done. I'm so happy.
I had a great night. It wasn't a win,
but for us to be able to work together again,
- it's been fantastic. - You are a true friend.
I'm not gonna do the cheeseball thing,
- but I do feel the same. - (CHUCKLES)
Ladies and gentlemen,
your Harry Potter Wizards of Baking champions,
- Jenny and Alex! - (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
- Come on! (CHUCKLES) - Yay! (CHUCKLES)
Dreams do come true.
- And I have another best friend. - (CHUCKLES)
I have another best friend also.
- Darling. - Ah!
JENNY: It's tested us to our limits.
But this experience, I would not change it.
- The experience has been truly magical. - Yeah.
♪ (TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪