Cake
Food · FoodDishVegetable0★Festival food, and the one item a Breeding Farm chest needs to get an especially healthy egg out of a pair.
Cake is 5th of 20 cooked dishes by hunger restored, at 656 against the 738 of Special Cake.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient. Whatever you build is the finished article, so there is no reason to hoard spares.
Details
It stacks up to 9,999.
Cake Crafting Recipe
Flour×5
Red Berries
Milk×7
Egg×8
Honey×2
Wheat×15Crafting it takes 30 materials across 5 types.
Where to Find Cake
1 Pal drops Cake when defeated or captured, which is usually the faster route if you are already out hunting — the drop list below is sorted by how reliably each one gives it up.
Using Cake Well
Cake is a Cooking Pot dish, and the pot is a level 17 entry costing 2 technology points plus 15 Ingot, 5 Wooden Board and 3 Flame Organ. The Mill at level 15 is the real gate, though: it is the only thing that turns Wheat into Flour, so a base that skipped it cannot bake at all no matter how many eggs the ranch is sitting on.
Cake rots like any other cooked dish. Left in an ordinary base chest a stack you baked for breeding will quietly decay before the pairs get through it, so keep it in the Breeding Farm's own box or a cooled container.
One Cake is five separate supply lines. Flour comes from Wheat run through the Mill, and a Wheat Plantation takes about 4.5 minutes of work per 10 Wheat. Red Berries come off a Berry Plantation at roughly 3 minutes per 10, or from Caprity on a Ranch. The other three are all Ranch drops and nothing else: Mozzarina for Milk, Chikipi for Egg, Beegarde or Elizabee for Honey. Milk and Egg are the ones that throttle you at 7 and 8 per Cake, so put multiple Mozzarina and Chikipi down before you widen anything else.
The pot cooks on Kindling, so parking a strong fire Pal on it turns a slow bake into a fast one — Jormuntide Ignis carries Kindling 7, the ceiling for the job.
Do not feed it. 656 hunger is more than any Pal's stomach can bank, so most of it is thrown away, and every Cake you burn as a snack is one egg you are not hatching. Cheap salads and grilled meat cover feeding for a fraction of the input.
The Breeding Farm eats one Cake per egg, so a batch of ten eggs is ten full recipes — 50 Flour, 80 Red Berries, 70 Milk, 80 Egg and 20 Honey. Plan the farm around what the ranch can actually push out per hour rather than around how many pairs you want breeding at once.
What Cake Is For
Cake is what the quest "Breeding Basics" asks you to bring — that is the reason it exists, and why holding on to one is worth more than selling it.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Mushroom Cake at 676 hunger restored; step down and it is Mushroom Quiche at 184. Weigh the jump against what the next tier costs you before committing the resources.
Other cooked dishs at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
