Pearl Chocolate

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Pearl Chocolate is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Kukuru Butter ×1, Maple Sugar ×1 and Maple Syrup ×1 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 4 units, plus 5 crystals.

That bill outweighs 3,935 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 468 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 3 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 4 Fire Shard and 1 Water Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 12 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

2 of the 3 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Maple Sugar has the widest use: 17 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.