How to Make a Cake

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Cake

You get the three milk buckets back empty.

You must place the cake on a block to eat it, and you cannot pick it back up. Right-click to take a slice: a cake has seven slices, each restoring two hunger, and you can only eat when your hunger bar is not full. It is the easiest food to share with friends.

Place a candle on top of the cake and light it with flint and steel for a birthday cake. Eating a slice pops the candle off, so relight a new one for each celebration. Candles come in all 16 dye colours.

• Milk: right-click a cow or mooshroom with three empty buckets. Iron for buckets is the slow part, so keep the buckets after crafting.
• Wheat: three from a normal wheat farm. Plant seeds on hoed dirt next to water and wait for it to turn fully golden before harvesting.
• Sugar: two, from one sugar cane each. Sugar cane grows on sand or dirt beside water.
• Egg: one. Chickens drop an egg every 5 to 10 minutes, so a small coop covers cakes easily.

The recipe is shapeless in the slots but the rows matter: milk has to be the top three, wheat the bottom three. Putting milk and wheat in the wrong rows gives nothing.

You cannot eat a cake while it sits in your inventory or hotbar. It must be placed on a solid block first, then right-clicked. Once placed it is gone for good, breaking it drops nothing.

Sweet berries, cookies and pumpkin pie are separate foods, not cake ingredients. A cake is only the nine items above, and it does not stack in your inventory, so it takes one full slot per cake.