Nameday Cake ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Nameday Cake is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Highland Flour ×4, Birch Syrup ×2 and Sweet Cream ×2 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 25 units, plus 26 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,313 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,036 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 23 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 23 Fire Shard, 2 Fire Cluster and 1 Water Cluster.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 6 intermediate up to the Lv 60 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Snurbleberry (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Sweet Cream has the widest use: 26 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.