How to make a cake in Minecraft

Aakrit Sharma
Minecraft villager and Steve with a birthday cake

The Minecraft world is full of threats and after a long day of mining and crafting, who wouldn’t mind some cake? Here’s a detailed guide on how to make a cake in Minecraft including its crafting recipe and ingredients.

Food is one of the primary mechanics in Minecraft that allows players to constantly gain health. From exploring the Overworld to defeating bosses, every activity affects your hunger and hunger saturation points and a decent supply of food items is essential for survival.

Even though a cake isn’t the most nourishing food item in Minecraft, it is relatively easy to make and can provide you with some health points quickly. Also, it is arguably the best way to celebrate your birthday in the game.

On that note, here’s a guide to making cakes in Minecraft.

A cake in Minecraft

Materials required to make a cake in Minecraft

You can bake a cake in Minecraft with these items:

  • Three pieces of wheat
  • One egg
  • Three buckets of milk
  • Two pieces of sugar

Before jumping to the crafting recipe for a cake, we’ll learn how to get all the ingredients.

How to get wheat in Minecraft

The Minecraft Overworld has an abundant amount of wheat that you can get by breaking grass. Tall grass is quite common and drops wheat seeds when you break it. Thereafter, you can make your own wheat farm in Minecraft.

Ruins and Desert House chests also have a high chance of dropping wheat but to be fair, farming is the easiest and most efficient way to get it in the game.

Ravager mob in Minecraft

How to get milk buckets in Minecraft

To get milk buckets in Minecraft, right-click on a cow or a mooshroom with an empty bucket in your hand. You can also find wandering traders who are holding a milk bucket and kill them but it is certainly not worth the effort.

If you don’t have a bucket, check out this guide on how to make a bucket in Minecraft.

How to get eggs in Minecraft

Just find a chicken in Minecraft and it will lay an egg every 5-10 minutes. The bird naturally spawns over grass blocks and you should not search for them in desert or snowy biomes.

Finding a chicken is fairly easy and to have a steady supply of eggs, we recommend making a chicken farm with fences as soon as possible.

A chicken farm in Minecraft

How to get sugar in Minecraft

These are the best ways to get sugar in Minecraft:

  • Find sugar cane near water and put it in any block of the crafting table.
  • Put a honey bottle in any block of the crafting table.
  • Witches drop sugar when killed.
Crafting recipe to make sugar from sugarcane in Minecraft

After obtaining the ingredients, you simply need to add them to a crafting table and make your cake.

Crafting recipe to make cake in Minecraft

To make a cake in Minecraft, fill the bottom row of a 3×3 crafting table with pieces of wheat and the top row with three milk buckets. Put the egg in the central slot of the crafting grid and fill the remaining two spots with sugar.

The same has been showcased in the image below:

Crafting recipe to make cake in Minecraft

This was everything to know about making cakes in Minecraft. For similar content on the sandbox title, check out how to make a name tag, how to make a boat, and a breeding and taming guide for turtles.

Image Credits: Mojang

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About The Author

Aakrit is a games writer with over 2000 published articles for EssentiallySports, Sportskeeda, FortniteINTEL, and CharlieINTEL. Currently, he writes guides on Minecraft, Roblox, Pokemon games, Genshin Impact, and Brawlhalla. Aakrit loves playing shooter games and in his free time, you can find him queued up in Valorant, Fortnite, Apex Legends, or Halo Infinite. You can contact Aakrit at [email protected].