Cake Tray

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cake Tray is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Highland Flour ×4 and Sour Cream ×2 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 19 units, plus 27 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,589 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 994 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 21 Fire Shard, 3 Fire Crystal and 3 Water Crystal.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 51 intermediate up to the Lv 52 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

4 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Old World Fig (2:00, 4:00, 14:00, 16:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 10 Eorzean hours, about 29 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Highland Flour has the widest use: 16 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.