Apple Tart

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Apple Tart is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Maple Sugar ×1, Pie Dough ×1, Smooth Butter ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 12 units, plus 8 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 773 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 6 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Fire Shard and 1 Water Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 18 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

5 of the 8 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 3 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Table Salt has the widest use: 51 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.