Hot Chocolate ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Hot Chocolate is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Birch Syrup ×1 — which resolves to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 6 units, plus 11 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,542 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 531 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

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

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 59 intermediate up to the Lv 60 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

1 of the 4 raw materials matches a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 3 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Birch Syrup has the widest use: 13 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.