Lemon Curd Sachertorte ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Lemon Curd Sachertorte is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Sour Cream ×2, Fermented Butter ×1 and Upland Wheat Flour ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 19 units, plus 25 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 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Fire Shard, 7 Fire Crystal, 2 Fire Cluster and 1 other kind.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 51 intermediate up to the Lv 80 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

2 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Lemonette (6:00, 18:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Upland Wheat Flour has the widest use: 61 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.