Tender Shortcake

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Tender Shortcake is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Palm Sugar ×1, Upland Wheat Flour ×1 and Whipped Cream ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 21 units, plus 39 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,152 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,021 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 23 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 31 Fire Crystal and 8 Water Crystal.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 74 intermediate up to the Lv 96 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 5 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 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.