Wondrous Parfait

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Wondrous Parfait is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Palm Sugar ×2 and Dark Rye Flour ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 16 units, plus 32 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,959 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 943 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 16 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Fire Crystal and 8 Water Crystal.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 81 intermediate up to the Lv 90 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

5 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Prickly Pineapple (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Palm Sugar has the widest use: 31 recipes call for it, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.