How to Make Bread, Cake, and Cookies in Minecraft - For Dummies

Everyone loves yummy baked goods! Like flour in real life, bread, cake, and cookies all require wheat as a main ingredient. Many Minecraft players begin a wheat farm on their first or second day.

Seeds are abundant in most biomes, and seeds can be obtained by breaking weeds you find throughout the biome. However, you need a light source — simply the sun supplemented with torches. Also as in real life, wheat grows best when given bonemeal to act as a fertilizer.

As on most farms, growing wheat can be time-consuming, and can require automation using recipes, like a hopper for automatically harvesting wheat into a chest. Wheat is also extremely useful in breeding cows and mooshrooms, as well as other animals in the game, which supply a significant amount of food.

Making bread

Bread is one of the easiest and most common food sources that is created early in the game because it requires only 3 wheat stalks, placed in a horizontal row, to craft. No furnace or fuel is required to “bake” the bread. Increasingly, players are turning to mushrooms (turned into stew) and carrots as a food source rather than bread and using wheat in other ways.

Baking a cake

Unlike other food items that are consumed when held, cake is a block that is eaten when placed. Each cake consists of six slices, which can be consumed by a single player or a group (as in a real-life celebration). If a single player eats only part of the cake, that player cannot pick up the remaining cake but can return to eat it later.

Because cake has multiple slices, it can restore up to 6 Hunger bars (1 bar per slice) but has a low saturation score (so you become hungry again quickly). Cake can also be used as mounting for a TNT cannon.

The biggest drawback to making cake is the complexity of the recipe. It requires 3 buckets of milk placed on the top row, a sugar-egg-sugar configuration for the second row, and 3 wheat stalks on the bottom row. Before you can make a cake, you need to do the following:

• Craft 3 milk buckets.

• Craft sugar.

• Collect wheat and an egg.

After you complete the recipe, the buckets return to the inventory.

Baking cookies

Cookies require cocoa beans, which can be found in dungeon chests, which, in turn, are most commonly found in the jungle biomes, or on jungle trees. In a jungle biome, harvesting cocoa beans is easy, and crafting cookies is more advantageous than bread.

The total hunger points for cookies is higher (per number of wheat stalks used), but because the saturation is lower, you need to eat more often. Many players consider cookies to be more of a rare treat and a novelty item than a long-term food source.

Cocoa beans can also be farmed, and mass-produced like other crops using jungle logs as the “soil.”

To craft, place 2 stalks of wheat on either side of a cocoa bean in a horizontal row. This recipe yields 8 cookies, which can be stacked.