Caramels

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Caramels is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Garden Beet Sugar ×3, Sour Cream ×3 and Fermented Butter ×1 — which resolve to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 13 units, plus 32 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 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 20 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Fire Shard, 12 Fire Crystal and 6 Water Crystal.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 51 intermediate up to the Lv 72 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

1 of the 2 raw materials matches a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Fermented Butter has the widest use: 32 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.