Food · Celebration · 1.21
How to Make a Cake
A cake is a food block you place and eat one slice at a time, seven bites in all, and it makes a fine birthday centrepiece with a candle. Tap the cake below to take a slice.
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Right-click to eat a slice. 7 slices, each restores hunger.
The recipe
Milk on top, sugar and egg in the middle, wheat on the bottom.
Cake
You get the three milk buckets back empty.
How eating it works
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.
Make it a birthday cake
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.
Quick answers
How do you make a cake?
Three milk buckets across the top, sugar and egg and sugar across the middle, and three wheat across the bottom. That makes one cake.
Can you pick a cake back up?
No. Once a cake is placed it cannot be collected again; breaking it just destroys it. So place it where you want it.
How many times can you eat a cake?
Seven. A whole cake has seven slices, and each bite restores two hunger, so one cake feeds you (or friends) seven times.
Do you get the milk buckets back?
Yes. Crafting a cake returns your three buckets empty, so you only spend the milk, not the buckets.
How do you make a birthday cake?
Place a candle on top of a cake and light it. Eating a slice knocks the candle off, so light it again for the next celebration.
Do I need to be hungry to eat it?
Yes. Like most food, you can only eat a slice when your hunger bar is not full.