Pineapple Ponzecake ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Pineapple Ponzecake is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Maple Syrup ×1 and Sunset Wheat Flour ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 8 units, plus 4 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 623 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 2 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 2 Fire Shard, 1 Fire Cluster and 1 Water Cluster.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 50 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Prickly Pineapple (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Pineapple Ponzecake is itself consumed by 2 further recipes, all of them Culinarian recipes.