Starlight Cake

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Starlight Cake is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Smooth Butter ×1, Sunset Wheat Flour ×1 and Sweet Cream ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 14 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,492 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 644 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 3 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Fire Shard and 5 Water Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 6 intermediate up to the Lv 45 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

2 of the 4 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Smooth Butter has the widest use: 33 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.