We Asked James and Oliver Phelps Their Favorite Holiday Baking Traditions

There's no better home than Hogwarts for the holidays. Fresh off the set of Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking Season 2, James and Oliver Phelps are ready to kick up their feet and enjoy some time with family, friends and flambeed treats. (After all, it’s too cold to be running marathons!)

The world-traveling twins have a few holiday traditions they look forward to. Oliver loves getting right in the middle of it. “We’ll make mince pies with the kids, and then [for] Christmas Day dinner, I’ll always make dessert. I'll either make a trifle — I don't mean the trifle like in Friends, but a proper trifle.”

As a father of a child with dietary restrictions, Ollie gets creative when it comes to holiday desserts. “We made a gluten-free Christmas pudding last year. [My daughter] was very excited because, traditionally, you put a penny in it. And then you cover [it with] brandy and light it. So, she was very happy to see this thing go up. Just make sure people aren’t too close.”

As for James? “I eat a lot of trifles. My mother-in-law actually gets me my own, because I don't like to share.”

The twins say if there's one thing they've taken away from two seasons of Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking, it's that not only has the show been great at getting families together to watch, but to bake together as well.

"It inspires people to want to get in the kitchen and bake, even if you're not particularly amazing at it, like myself," said Oliver. "It still wants you to get in there. And if we can encourage kids to [get interested in baking] as well, they may [show] more of an interest as to where [their] food comes from … [and] what ingredients are going into it."

"I think that's what the show's helped [do]," said James. "[People have] told us how they've watched it with their whole family. Definitely a screens-down kind of thing, like put your phone away. And then go and bake together, go and make something in the kitchen and really make good memories as a family."