Editing The Dark Baker & the Bewitching Sweets

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|image=[[File:PPS The Dark Baker & the Bewitching Sweets 3.jpg|250px]]
|code=
|world=BF
|game=''[[Princess Peach: Showtime!]]''
|powerup=[[Patissiere Peach]]
|boss=[[Dark Baker]]
|track=Into The Darkness
|sample=[[File:Princess Peach Showtime! 013 Into the Darkness.oga]]
|before=[[Welcome to the Spooky Party|<<]]
|after=[[Melody of the Sea|>>]]
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'''The Dark Bake & the Bewitching Sweets''' is a stage in ''[[Princess Peach: Showtime!]]'', located upstairs in the [[Sparkle Theater#BF|BF]] to the far-left. After completing [[Welcome to the Spooky Party]] on 3F, the player will get the opportunity to play this stage. The [[Patissiere Sparkla]] is trapped in this stage.

==Layout==
[[File:PPS The Dark Baker & the Bewitching Sweets 1.jpg|left|thumb|The Patissiere Sparkla possessed by the Dark Baker]]
Upon entering the stage, [[Princess Peach]] is already [[Patissiere Peach]]. [[Stella]] comments that the area is weird and suggests to find the Patissiere Sparkla. After making some progress to the right, the Patissiere Sparkla is found, but she has been corrupted by the [[Dark Baker]]. She welcomes the two to [[Grape (character)|Madame Grape]]'s baking stage and wants to bake with them. She then travels to a bakery further to the right. Patissiere Peach must follow the Sparkla inside.

[[File:PPS The Dark Baker & the Bewitching Sweets 2.jpg|right|thumb|Patissiere Peach successfully bakes a triple-layered character cake]]
Once inside the bakery, the possessed Sparkla challenges Patissiere Peach, which involves baking a triple-layered character [[Cake#Princess Peach: Showtime!|cake]], with the first baker to do so the winner. The first layer is the base of the cake, which has Peach using icing to connect macarons on the edges. The second layer involves piping icing around the macarons in a "+" shape around the edges. The third layer has Peach decorating the head of the cake, using icing to make the eyes and hat. After Patissiere Peach wins the contest, the corrupted Patissiere Sparkla does not accept her loss and wants to taste the cake herself. After tasting the cake, the Sparkla becomes cleansed and compliments Peach's baking. Peach and the Sparkla then make their escape. As they travel to the right, they are taunted by the Dark Baker.

The patissieres then find the exit, but curtains close over it. The Dark Baker then arrives and challenges the two to a bake-off race, which Patissiere Sparkla thinks they have no real choice but to accept. The first team to fill five plates with [[Yoshi Cookie#Princess Peach: Showtime!|cookies]] wins. During the contest, the Dark Baker jumps and [[Ground Pound]]s between the four bowls, knocking away anyone who may be standing there or baking. The Dark Baker can use a mixer and bake up a lot of cookies at a time, tossing them to a plate afterwards. The Patissiere Sparkla can also bake some cookies on her own, but Peach can bake with her, baking a large batch of cookies at once. After the patissieres fill all five plates with cookies, the Dark Baker becomes angry and declares that taste is more important than speed. Peach and the Sparkla then decide to bake a giant cookie for the Dark Baker to eat, who becomes amazed and overwhelmed by the taste and disintegrates. The curtains vanish as well, allowing for the patissieres to escape and for the stage to be completed.

On return to Sparkle Theater, Patissiere Sparkla compliments Peach's baking skills, before the Sparkla heads upstairs to the [[Sparkle Theater#3F|third floor]].
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==Loss outcomes==
*If Peach loses the cake decoration race, the corrupted Patissiere Sparkla celebrates her victory, while Peach lose one [[HP]] and is returned to a couple seconds before the cake decoration race starts.
*If she loses the cookie bake-off, the camera zooms in on the Dark Baker's filled plates, while Peach lose one [[HP]] is then returned to a couple seconds before the cake decoration race starts.

==Sparkle Gems==
[[Sparkle Gem]]s marked with an asterisk ⁽*⁾ will always be obtained during regular gameplay.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
!Image
!Location
|-
|[[File:PPS! The Dark Baker & the Bewitching Sweets 1st SG.png|150px]]
|Not far into the stage is an area where Peach can strike a pose to enter a [[sub-area]]. In this sub-area, Patissiere Peach must bake cookies for hungry [[Theet]]s with the help of two [[Baker (Princess Peach: Showtime!)|bakers]], who will reward her the first [[Sparkle Gem]] upon being fed.
|-
|[[File:PPS! The Dark Baker & the Bewitching Sweets 2nd SG.png|150px]]
|Successfully baking the triple-layered character cake before the corrupted Patissiere Sparkla has completed her second layer.
|-
|[[File:PPS! The Dark Baker & the Bewitching Sweets 3rd SG.png|150px]]
|After cleansing the Patissiere Sparkla.*
|-
|[[File:PPS! The Dark Baker & the Bewitching Sweets 4th SG.png|150px]]
|By baking at least three big batches of cookies with the Patissiere Sparkla and then proceeding to win the bake-off against the Dark Baker.
|-
|[[File:PPS! The Dark Baker & the Bewitching Sweets 5th SG.png|150px]]
|After clearing the stage.*
|}

== Stella ribbon ==
'''Multicolored Patissiere Ribbon''': To the right of the entrance to the bakery where the cake decorating contest is held is the [[Ribboner]]. He is hungry, and so Patissiere Peach must head back slightly to where Patissiere Sparkla was first encountered and bake cookies for him. The quality of the cookies do not affect the outcome. After he eats, he becomes full of energy and his mood is brightened, proceeding to award the [[Stella ribbon|ribbon]].
*Help request: ''"I'm so hungry..."''
*Rescue message: ''"Positively delicious! I'm full of energy!"''

== Postgame hidden Theet ==
The stage has one [[Ninja (Princess Peach: Showtime!)|Ninja]] [[Theet]] when it is played in the postgame:
*To the left of the entrance to the bakery where the cake decorating section is.

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=180>
PPS Patissiere album 3.jpg|[[Pictioneer]]'s photo of the stage
PPS The Dark Baker & the Bewitching Sweets sub-area.png|The stage's sub-area, with two [[Baker (Princess Peach: Showtime!)|Baker]] [[Theet]]s inside
PPS Ribboner dancing The Dark Baker & the Bewitching Sweets.webp|Ribboner dancing after having been rescued
</gallery>
==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ヤミのパティシエと{{ruby|幻惑|げんわく}}のスイーツ
|JapR=Yami no Patishie to Genwaku no Suītsu
|JapM=Dark Pastry Chef and Bewitching Sweets
|ChiS=黑暗的糕点师与迷幻的甜点
|ChiSR=Hēi'àn De Gāodiǎnshī Yǔ Míhuàn De Tiándiǎn
|ChiSM=Dark Pastry Chef and Psychedelic Desserts
|ChiT=黑暗的糕點師與迷幻的甜點
|ChiTR=Hēi'àn De Gāodiǎnshī Yǔ Míhuàn DeTiándiǎn
|ChiTM=Dark Pastry Chef and Psychedelic Desserts
|Dut=De duistere bakker
|DutM=The dark baker
|Fre=Les biscuits du pâtissier sombre
|FreM=The biscuits of the dark pastry chef
|Ger=Die verzauberten Leckereien
|GerM=The enchanted Treats
|Ita=I dolcetti del pasticciere oscuro
|ItaM=The sweets of the dark baker
|Kor=어둠의 파티시에와 유혹의 디저트
|KorR=Eodum-ui Patisie-wa Yuhok-ui Dijeoteu
|KorM=Dark Pastry Chef and Tempting Dessert
|Por=A Confeiteira Sombria e as Delícias
|PorM=The Dark Baker and the Sweets
|Rus=Кондитер мрака и сладости
|RusR=Konditer mraka i sladosti
|RusM=Pastry chef of darkness and sweetness
|Spa=Pastelería de la malguria
|SpaM=Pastry of darkle
}}

== Trivia ==
*If Peach decides to let Patissiere Sparkla do the cookie bake-off solo, she will only have filled up one and a half of the stacks by the time Dark Baker has finished all five.
{{PPS levels}}
[[Category:Princess Peach: Showtime! levels]]