When Is Harry Potter: Wizards Of Baking Season 3 On? Wednesdays At 8 p.m. On Food Network, With Duff Goldman And Sarah Mountain Judging A Hogwarts House Tournament
Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking is back for a third season, and it airs Wednesday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT (7 p.m. Central) on Food Network. The season opened with a two-hour premiere on Wednesday, November 4, and runs seven episodes to a finale on Wednesday, December 16.
James and Oliver Phelps, who played Fred and George Weasley in all eight Harry Potter films, return as hosts. Duff Goldman and pastry chef Sarah Mountain are this season’s judges, and the bakers now compete as four Hogwarts House teams.
Wizards of Baking Season 3 episode schedule
Every episode airs Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on Food Network. Each one repeats the following Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET, an hour before the next episode, so it’s easy to catch up.
| Airs | Episode | What it’s about |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, November 4 | 1. Memorable Firsts and Magic (two hours) | Showpieces inspired by memorable firsts from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, judged on the Quidditch pitch, then a second showpiece built around each team’s favorite spells, delivered to Ollivander’s Wand Shop |
| Wednesday, November 11 | 2. The Chamber of Secrets Challenge | Cakes that bring the Basilisk, Moaning Myrtle, a Howler and Hermione as a cat to life, each hiding something inside, judged in the Chamber of Secrets |
| Wednesday, November 18 | 3. Hagrid’s Challenge | Edible magical creatures with a tasting element built from ingredients found in the Forbidden Forest, judged at Hagrid’s Hut. It ends the first round, and the team with the lowest total score goes home |
| Wednesday, November 25 | 4. The Dark Arts Challenge | Round two starts with the scoreboard wiped clean. Showpieces honor Defense Against the Dark Arts professors, and Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto joins as guest judge |
| Wednesday, December 2 | 5. The Order of the Phoenix Challenge | Cakes with a 10-layer tasting element, one layer for each floor of the Ministry of Magic, judged at the Ministry |
| Wednesday, December 9 | 6. The Weasley Challenge | A multi-sensory tasting element inspired by the joke sweets of Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, judged at the Burrow. Only the top two teams reach the finale |
| Wednesday, December 16 | 7. Good vs. Evil (finale) | Double-sided cakes on the series’ good-versus-evil theme, judged in the Hogwarts Courtyard, where the winning House is crowned |
The premiere also aired again on Wednesday, November 11, at 6 p.m. ET. Episode four falls on the night before Thanksgiving, on a busy week for baking TV. Our holiday baking show calendar has what else is on.
Where to watch and stream
Season 3 premiered on Food Network and HBO Max, and Food Network says episodes stream the next day on discovery+.
The hosts and the new “Ministers of Baking”
The Phelps twins are back as hosts. New this season are the judges, whom the show calls its “Ministers of Baking”: Duff Goldman, whom Food Network calls cake royalty, and Sarah Mountain, a pastry chef. They judge every episode. Masaharu Morimoto joins them for the Dark Arts episode on Wednesday, November 25.
How the house tournament works
This season, every baker is a returning competitor from the first two seasons, and none of them has won the Wizards of Baking Cup, according to Food Network. They compete in teams of three, one team per Hogwarts House. Each episode pays tribute to a Harry Potter film, part of the show’s celebration of the first movie’s 25th anniversary, and the challenges are judged on the original film sets.
The season plays out in two rounds. The first round ends with episode three, when the lowest-scoring team is eliminated, and the scores reset for round two. After episode six, two teams go on to the finale.
The winning House takes home the Wizards of Baking Cup and a VIP trip to Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo, The Making of Harry Potter.
Meet the four Hogwarts House teams
Food Network and the Wizarding World list the twelve bakers by House and hometown:
- Gryffindor: Andy Ortega (Yonkers, New York), Angel Figueroa (Denver, Colorado) and Rui Mota (Lisbon, Portugal)
- Hufflepuff: Elizabeth Rowe (Dallas, Texas), Molly Robbins (Birmingham, England) and Priya Winsor (St. Albert, Alberta, Canada)
- Ravenclaw: Caitlin Taylor (Bowie, Maryland), Jujhar Mann (Surrey, British Columbia, Canada) and Kimberly Adams (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
- Slytherin: Christopher Teixeira (Chicago, Illinois), Hemu Basumatary (Katy, Texas) and Miko Uy (Astoria, New York)
Hufflepuff is close to a reunion of near-misses: Food Network says Priya Winsor and Molly Robbins were the Season 2 runners-up, and Elizabeth Rowe was a Season 1 finalist. All three Slytherins return from Season 1.
Food Network’s other big holiday baking competition, Holiday Baking Championship, is in its 13th season. For the Pillsbury Bake-Off, Next Level Baker and the rest, see every holiday baking show on TV this year.