Mug of Cocoa

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Mug of Cocoa is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Palm Sugar ×1 — which resolves to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 11 units, plus 24 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,999 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 734 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

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

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 82 intermediate up to the Lv 96 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

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