Silkie Pudding ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Silkie Pudding is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Garden Beet Sugar ×1 — which resolves to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 13 units, plus 10 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,426 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 825 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 6 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Fire Crystal, 2 Fire Cluster and 2 Water Cluster.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 72 intermediate up to the Lv 80 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

4 of the 6 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, Garden Beet Sugar has the widest use: 21 recipes call for it, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.