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BAKING TIPS

Items

Vegetable Oil

Plant

Makes cooked foods even more delicious.

400

20

Salt

Minerals & Ores

Never put salt in your eyes.

15

Intact Clay Pot

Trinkets

A large, dusty clay pot that is in usable condition.

72

Ice Crystal

Organics

A perfectly formed ice crystal. Incredibly valuable, until it melts.

35

Ancient Knife

Trinkets

The engravings in the handle indicate that this tool was most likely used in food preparation rather than battle.

78

Waterskin

Dragonmade

Crafted from a sheep's bladder, this skin holds a liter of water.

40

Starches/Flours

Sweet Potato Vine

Plant

The roots of this plant produce a hearty bulb that provides starch to a diet. The leaves are good too!

37

4

Centaur Ration Pouch

Plant

This leather pouch is filled with harvested oats that have been tossed in sugar and honey. Makes for a hearty, balanced breakfast.

20

2

Heavy Grainbasket

Plant

A healthy selection of grains harvested during a particularly bountiful planting season.

25

3

Woodland Acorn

Plant

Did you know that if you swallow an acorn whole, a tree will grow in your belly? It's true!

25

3

Blood Acorn

Plant

While most types of acorn contain seeds, Blood Acorns are filled with nutrient-rich nectar.

55

5

Acorn

Plant

Acorns are perfect for storing during long winter months, if you can get them before the squirrels...

55

5

Grassland Grain

Plant

Easy to spot and good for filling stomachs, Grassland Grain is a friend to any traveler. (Special thanks to Endeavor!)

65

8

Quinoa

Plant

Recently, Tundras have started claiming quinoa is full of vitamins, cures disease, and attracts mates. Mirrors are skeptical. (Special thanks to TCA!)

65

8

White Quinoa

Plant

As tasty as it is colorful! (Special thanks to EldritchCrowe!)

65

8

Imperial Tails

Plant

A basic staple of many dragon clans, this tasteless grass thrives in areas of negligible magic concentrations.

41

5

Pampas Grass

Plant

Dragons may dry these grasses to store them for leaner times, or to decorate the entrances of their lairs in times of plenty.

41

5

Flavors

Blue Honeycomb

Plant

Coral Carpenter honey solidifies extremely quickly when exposed to warm air. Many crafty dragons will pour the honey into molds as a way of quickly and easily making hard candies.

18

2

Honeycomb Fragment

Plant

A delicious treat.

18

2

Wisp Fruit

Plant

This fruit is light, airy, and tasteless.

22

2

Strawberry

Plant

Fresh cream transforms this treat into an indulgence.

70

8

Ripe Yellow Banana

Plant

One of the sweetest, most delicious treefruits there is. The riper a yellow banana it is, the more nutrients it provides. Commonly used as a dessert.

55

7

Red Delicious Apple

Plant

An apple a day keeps energy penalties away.

50

5

Honeycrisp Apple

Plant

It's a challenge to get the skin off in a single, unbroken spiral. Sharpen your claws!

50

5

Winter's Delight

Plant

They say this berry tastes sweetest when the weather's at its coldest.

25

3

Raspberry

Plant

It's rude to blow raspberries at others, just so you know.

25

3

Seaberry

Plant

Even berries are better down where it's wetter.

25

3

Blackberry

Plant

Though they're not really addictive, some dragons become very dependent on Blackberries.

25

3

Cinnamon

Plant

The practice of attempting to hold a mawful of cinnamon sticks for extended periods of time became strangely popular among juvenile dragons.

58

5

Cindermint

Plant

A crunchy plant with a little fiery kick. Often dried and crumbled up to help accent desserts or teas.

63

7

Peppermint

Plant

A cool, favorable plant that can be consumed to help aid a number of maladies such as indigestion, nausea, colds, and headaches.

63

7

Butcher's Fig

Plant

This crimson fruit stains a maw red for days.

64

8

Fig

Plant

Enjoy fresh, dried, or boiled.

64

8

Sunbeam Fig

Plant

Sunbeam fig trees will only produce fruit when exposed to long periods of direct sunlight.

64

8

Blueberries

Plant

A treat for hatchlings (and dragons) who have been very good today.

41

5

Puckerberries

Plant

A bitter berry that turns tart as it ripens. New and ripened berries are both used in recipes, with very different outcomes in mind.

41

5

Decorations

Pale Pink Rose

Plant

A romantic bouquet and dinner for dragons.

17

2

Blue Rose

Plant

White roses can take on many colors by tinting their water. Plant connoisseurs have also tried to encourage them to take on other flavors as well. This one tastes faintly of blueberries.

17

2

Amber Algae

Plant

Vegetable pudding!

33

3

Luminous Almonds

Plant

Almost too pretty to eat. Almost.

42

4

Strawberry

Plant

Fresh cream transforms this treat into an indulgence.

70

8

Black Tulip

Plant

The comfort food of heart-broken veggie-dragons.

50

5

Starfall Blossom

Plant

Starfall Blossoms glow softly at night... and sometimes explode for no apparent reason. Botany can be a dangerous hobby where they grow. (Special thanks to Mirrorstone.)

65

7

Daffodil

Plant

Boil it, mash it, maybe stick it in a stew. (Special thanks to Falwater.)

65

7

Lume Daffodil

Plant

Blooms under moonlight, with a cool, refreshing taste. Often consumed as after-dinner mints. (Special thanks to alcion.)

65

7

Spathiphyllum

Plant

If not consumed, these flowers make excellent lair decorations. Spathiphyllum thrive in areas with little or no natural light.

62

6

Amber

Minerals & Ores

Legends say that most of the realm's amber was formed in an ancient battle between the Flamecaller and the Gladekeeper, where terrible forest fires polymerized resin within the trees in the Viridian Labyrinth.

45

Blueberries

Plant

A treat for hatchlings (and dragons) who have been very good today.

41

5

Colors

Crimson Jadevine

Plant

Crimson Jadevine is extremely rare and usually crushed up to make war paint for battleworn dragons.

55

7

Butcher's Fig

Plant

This crimson fruit stains a maw red for days.

64

8

Amber Algae

Plant

Vegetable pudding!

33

3

Luminous Almonds

Plant

Almost too pretty to eat. Almost.

42

4

Giant Kelp

Plant

A habitat for some, dinner for others.

30

3

Blue Parrot Tulip

Plant

Eating these will turn your tongue blue.

50

5

Aether Cherries

Plant

The juice from this tart cherry is often used as dye for ornamentations.

500

15

Patio Rose

Plant

These small roses are a favored gift to the smaller dragon species.

25

3

Make flour using any of the ingredients above in the Starches list- take your starch or grain of choice, and grind until smooth.

• Sweet Potato Vines are good for a thick, starchy flour, and can be used for pastries that are meant to be thick rather than light and airy.
• Acorn flour isn't as tasty as other flours, but it's perfect for a traveling chef! If you're in an environment with trees, it's relatively easy to find acorns and grind up a quick flour for pancakes and similar.
• If you can find a Centaur Ration Pouch, you have hit the jackpot! Although flour made from it will be much more nutty and thick due to the oats, it's presweetened with sugar and honey to make a delicious sweet pastry.
• Any stored Heavy Grainbaskets, Grassland Grains, Quinoa and White Quinoa are good for bread flours. They can last for a while if stored correctly, and with the right amount of vegetable oil, honey, and Wisp Fruits, they'll make wonderful cake doughs.

Taking your chosen flour, you'll want to add a couple claw's worth of vegetable oil, a splash of water, and a pinch of salt. Knead the mixture together until your dough is stretchy to the point of firmness, but not dried out. If you do notice it drying, splash some more water on top and knead it in.

• For cakes, take your dough and shape it into a rough circle or square, whichever you want. However, if you want a fruit/berry flavor in your dough, make sure the berry or fruit of choice is diced and incorporated before you shape the dough. Place the dough into a clay oven or by a willing Fire dragon, and cook at flame temperature for about 20 minutes. Check the inside by sticking a clean claw or scraped-clean stick in, and seeing if any dough is still sticky. If it needs to be cooked longer, bake for 10-minute intervals. If the dough is good all the way through, move on to decorating!
• For small pastries such as cupcakes, doughnuts, or cookies, do much the same as the above, but shape the dough into small half-paw-sized or paw-sized balls, depending on the dragon breed. Cupcakes require much the same flour type as cakes. Doughnuts are nice with a thick flour, and instead of being baked, will be put into vegetable oil and fried. Cookies are best with acorn flour or centaur rations, adding a nutty flavor instead of wheat grain.
• If you're making a light pastry with the intent of flakiness, dice up as much Wisp Fruit as you can and add it into the dough as evenly as possible. When it's baked, the fruit will melt down into the dough, leaving air pockets for the dough to crisp around.

Your pastries and cakes just aren't finished until you add some flair and decorations! Pick a general idea- maybe based off a flavor, perhaps a specific theme matching a dragon's occupation, or even an elemental flight. Choose colors that match or compliment each other well, along with decorations that go with your theme.

• Icing: combine sugar, goat butter, and goat milk if you can manage it (though water does in a pinch). Taking your food item with your preferred color, dice it finely and mix it into the icing in small amounts, until you have a good color throughout all of the icing. Waterskins that have been cut open are good for piping icing onto a cake so you can make patterns, or you can spread it over your cake or pastry all at once.
• Flowers are a good general decoration, but you can add materials of any sort if you think they look nice. Just make sure inedible items are removed before everyone digs in!

originally written by ObsidianMage for Marzipan