How do you get Cake in Minecraft?

Cake is crafted from Milk Bucket, Sugar, Egg, and Wheat at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from trading (Farmer), not just the recipe above.

Where do you find Cake in chests?

Cake is chest loot in one place and one only: trial chamber intersection chests (about 40%, 1 to 4 at a time). No other generated chest lists it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.

How long does Cake take to break?

Look up Cake and you get 0.5 hardness, with 0.5 blast resistance on it. The pair on Cake being level means it has no hidden strength against explosives. It has no listed tool, so what you hold against it is your own choice. Java 26.2 defines Cake here, so no timing of our own went into it.

What is Cake used for?

Cake is eaten to restore 14 hunger and 2.8 saturation, helping you keep your hunger bar full and regenerate health.

When was Cake added to Minecraft?

Cake was added in the 1.0 full release.

How many Cake can you stack?

One Cake per slot, since Cake does not stack, and every one then costs 3 Milk Bucket, 2 Sugar, 1 Egg, and 3 Wheat. A double chest holds 54 Cake, one to a slot.

FoodCraftable

Cake

A placeable food block with 7 slices. Each slice restores 2 hunger. Can be eaten by multiple players.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Cake at a glance

Cake, a food item out of crafting and trading (Farmer), sits under Food. One slot, one Cake: nothing stacks here, and nine of them fill a hotbar. 27 chest slots take 27 of them. It is worth 14 hunger and 2.8 saturation, which reads as 7 drumsticks.

14 hunger back per Cake keeps natural regeneration running, and the 2.8 saturation behind it is what buys you the time until the next meal, rather longer than the hunger number on its own suggests. It has a hardness of 0.5. For Cake the blast resistance is not separate: it is 0.5 as well. Generated chests only ever hold Cake in one place: trial chamber intersection chests (about 40%, 1 to 4 at a time). It sits between Bread and Carrot in Food, number 6 of 37 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Milk Bucket
Milk Bucket
Milk Bucket
Sugar
Egg
Sugar
Wheat
Wheat
Wheat
Cake
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Cake has the grid for Cake

How to obtain

Crafting
Trading (Farmer)

Food value

Hunger Restored

14 (7 drumsticks)

Saturation

2.8

Notes

Must be placed as a block before eating. Total of 7 slices, each restoring 2 hunger. Cannot be eaten from inventory.

Frequently asked questions about Cake

How do you get Cake in Minecraft?
Cake is crafted from Milk Bucket, Sugar, Egg, and Wheat at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from trading (Farmer), not just the recipe above.
Where do you find Cake in chests?
Cake is chest loot in one place and one only: trial chamber intersection chests (about 40%, 1 to 4 at a time). No other generated chest lists it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.
How long does Cake take to break?
Look up Cake and you get 0.5 hardness, with 0.5 blast resistance on it. The pair on Cake being level means it has no hidden strength against explosives. It has no listed tool, so what you hold against it is your own choice. Java 26.2 defines Cake here, so no timing of our own went into it.
What is Cake used for?
Cake is eaten to restore 14 hunger and 2.8 saturation, helping you keep your hunger bar full and regenerate health.
When was Cake added to Minecraft?
Cake was added in the 1.0 full release.
How many Cake can you stack?
One Cake per slot, since Cake does not stack, and every one then costs 3 Milk Bucket, 2 Sugar, 1 Egg, and 3 Wheat. A double chest holds 54 Cake, one to a slot.

Building with it

Three milk, two sugar, one egg and three wheat make a cake, and it is the only food you eat from a placed block. Seven slices at two hunger each, and it cannot be picked back up once placed, so it belongs in a base rather than in a backpack.

In practice

A cake cannot be picked back up once placed, which makes it the only food in the game that belongs to a room rather than to a player. Seven slices means it feeds a table full of people, and a candle on top lights and blows out, which is the closest the game comes to a party trick.

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