Valentione's Cake ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Valentione's Cake is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 8 intermediates — Bubble Chocolate ×2, Smooth Butter ×2, Sunset Wheat Flour ×2 and 5 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 12 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,161 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 967 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 9 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Fire Shard, 2 Fire Cluster, 1 Water Cluster and 1 other kind.

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

4 of the 6 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.