Cream Cheese

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Cream Cheese is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Sweet Cream ×1 — which resolves to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 3 units, plus 5 crystals.

That bill outweighs 3,373 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 427 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 1 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Fire Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 6 intermediate up to the Lv 36 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

None of the 2 raw materials do not appear in the gathering data, so the whole bill comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Cream Cheese is itself consumed by 11 further recipes, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.