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How to make a Cake in Minecraft

Is the cake a lie? No, it's not! Here is how you can make that sweet delicious dessert that your tongue will love so much.

How to make a Cake in Minecraft
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The more you play Minecraft, the more you get a sense of appreciation for its scale and complexity. I know this comparison has been made countless times, but it really does feel like a digital version of a Lego set… in addition to all the other Lego-based games. And, like Lego, you never know what exactly it's going to cover. The simple appearance opens it up to a lot of content and mechanics, many of them related to survival. Keeping your health up is good, but you also have to manage your starvation which will catch up to you sooner than you think.

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Because of this, getting some food is paramount to succeeding. Like many of us, you'll start by foraging for things like apples before hunting more dangerous game, like pigs. However, raw food is not the most reliable, so you'll need to find a way to start cooking to get the most out of your ingredients. After you have all the proper tools, you'll be able to significantly improve your raw goods as well as combine them to create more filling dishes. Among them is the cake, not only a quality food item but also a milestone of sorts that proves that you know what you're doing.

The Power of Cake

Minecraft cake screenshot

Cake is possibly the most recognizable food item in Minecraft and there's a good reason for it. It's unique in that it actually forms a block that needs to be broken to be eaten. In terms of its value, you can consider it a good quality food item. Two of the most important effects that food impacts are your Hunger and Saturation levels. The former affects your Health Regeneration, and the latter affects how long you need to wait before you need to eat again. When you break a cake, you get seven slices with each restoring two points of Hunger and about half a point of Saturation. Therefore, eating the whole cake will effectively refill your Hunger and provide some satisfaction.

How to Make Cake

Another Minecraft cake

After you build a crafting table, you'll have the tools you need to make a cake. However, it does require a fair number of ingredients so prepare to forage. You will need three Buckets of Milk, two Scoops of Sugar, an Egg, and three Bushels of Wheat.

You can get Milk from Cows, Goats, and Mooshrooms by interacting with them while holding an empty Bucket. Each Bucket you construct needs three Iron Ingots, which require Iron Blocks or Iron Nuggets.

To get Sugar, you can craft it from Sugar Cane which are tall bamboo-like plants that often grow near water sources. You can also craft it from Honey, which you can obtain from a Beehive using an Empty Bottle.

To get an Egg, simply look for a Chicken and wait a few minutes for it to drop, or hunt down a Fox which has a chance to drop one. For Wheat, you need to look for Hay Bale Blocks that tend to spawn in villages and places with farm animals.

Once you have the proper number of each ingredient, place them in the following arrangement on a Crafting Table to make a Cake:

  • Milk Bucket + Milk Bucket + Milk Bucket
  • Sugar + Egg + Sugar
  • Wheat + Wheat + Wheat
Will Quick
Will Quick
Will Quick is a travelling writer currently dedicating his time to writing about the games he spends his free time playing. He's always on the lookout for the smaller and stranger of the bunch so he can shine a light on them.