Prune Ponzecake ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Prune Ponzecake is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Royal Maple Syrup ×2, Fermented Butter ×1 and Upland Wheat Flour ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 19 units, plus 28 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 22 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Fire Crystal, 7 Fire Shard, 3 Fire Cluster and 1 other kind.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 53 intermediate up to the Lv 100 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

2 of the 6 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 4 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

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