How to Craft Cake in Minecraft

Cake in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Placeable food block with 7 slices. Minecraft has used the name Cake since Beta 1.2.

Stand at a Crafting Table with 3 Milk Buckets, 2 Sugar, 1 Egg, and 3 Wheat and you can make a Cake. On the grid you want three Milk Buckets filling the top row, two Sugar side by side in the middle row, a single Egg in the centre cell, and three Wheat filling the bottom row. You end up with 1 Cake each time. It puts 14 hunger back, with 2.8 saturation behind it.

Cake Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Cake is minecraft:cake. In commands the namespace may be left off, so cake works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one: /give @p cake
Give several at once: /give @p cake 5
Give it to a named player: /give Steve cake 1

Cheats have to be on for Cake to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Cake is a placeable food block with 7 slices, each restoring 2 hunger points. It can also power a redstone comparator. Cake uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft has used the name Cake since Beta 1.2, the oldest release whose language file lists it. The recipe itself last changed in Minecraft 1.21.5. Guides written before that release show a different set of ingredients for the cake, so check the grid above rather than the video.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with milk bucket (use buckets on cows), sugar (craft from sugar cane), egg (collected from chickens), and wheat (harvest wheat crops).

One Stack, Counted

Stack sum: 64 over 3 is 21 crafts, times 1 is 21 cakes. The recipe wants 63 milk buckets beside it. The box keeps 1 wheat.

Materials Needed

Item	Amount	Where to Find
Milk BucketMilk Bucket	3x	Use buckets on cows
SugarSugar	2x	Craft from sugar cane
EggEgg	1x	Collected from chickens
WheatWheat	3x	Harvest wheat crops

Gather 3x Milk Bucket (use buckets on cows), 2x Sugar (craft from sugar cane), Egg (collected from chickens), and 3x Wheat (harvest wheat crops), then take the lot to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

2 Sugar Cane makes 2 Sugar, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 3 Milk Bucket, 1 Egg, 3 Wheat and 2 Sugar Cane.

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Sugar Cane2Sugar2Sugarrepeat 2x
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CakeCakethis page

Gather this first

3Milk Bucket

Egg

3Wheat

2Sugar Cane

Step-by-Step Instructions

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Milk Bucket3x Milk Bucket
2
Sugar2x Sugar
3
EggEgg
4
Wheat3x Wheat
5
Cake

Minecraft crafting recipe for Cake: 3 x Milk Bucket, 2 x Sugar, 1 x Egg, 3 x Wheat in a crafting table, making 1 Cake.

Tips & Notes

Line up 3x Milk Bucket, 2x Sugar, 1x Egg, and 3x Wheat before you open the Crafting Table. Milk Bucket: use buckets on cows.

Uses for Cake

Placeable food block with 7 slices
Each slice restores 2 hunger points

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Cake on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Cake in Minecraft?

Bring 3 Milk Buckets, 2 Sugar, 1 Egg and 3 Wheat to a Crafting Table and you can make a Cake. Lay them out exactly as the grid above shows, and one craft produces one Cake.

What do you need to make a Cake from scratch?

From raw materials only, a Cake comes down to 3 Milk Buckets, 1 Egg, 3 Wheat and 2 Sugar Canes. The rest you make yourself, and it takes 2 crafts to get there.

Can you craft a Cake without a crafting table?

You need a table for a Cake. It is laid out as three Milk Buckets filling the top row, two Sugar side by side in the middle row, a single Egg in the centre cell, and three Wheat filling the bottom row, and that takes 3 rows, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.

Where do you find the materials for a Cake?

The materials for a Cake each come from somewhere different. Milk Bucket: use buckets on cows. Sugar: craft from sugar cane. Egg: collected from chickens. Wheat: harvest wheat crops.

How many Cakes do you get from one craft?

The Cake recipe makes one Cake per craft.

What is the item ID for Cake in Minecraft?

Cake is registered as minecraft:cake. Commands accept the short form cake as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.

What is the give command for Cake?

The command for Cake is /give @p cake, with an optional count after it. It only runs with cheats enabled.

Is the Cake recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?

It is the same recipe on both: 3 Milk Buckets, 2 Sugar, 1 Egg and 3 Wheat at a Crafting Table gives you a Cake, in the layout shown above, one at a time.

How many times do you repeat each step for a Cake?

Most steps for a Cake are a single craft, but Sugar has to be made 2 times to reach 2 Sugar. The chain section shows the totals per step.

How do you unlock the Cake recipe in the recipe book?

The Cake recipe appears in your recipe book as soon as you pick up Egg, Blue Egg or Brown Egg in Java Edition, whichever you come across first. The book lists only what you have triggered, so the craft works before that if you already know the grid.

What version of Minecraft added the Cake?

As far back as the language files go, the cake appears under this name in Minecraft Beta 1.2 and not before. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. That pattern above is still the one the game uses.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield: 3 Milk Buckets and 2 Sugar and 1 Egg and 3 Wheat in, 1 Cake out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, 17 August 2026.
That Bedrock agrees: Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 4 ingredients.
How far back it goes: The name appears in Minecraft Java Beta 1.2 and in nothing older. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
When the recipe last changed: Every Java release since 1.13 was checked in order, 50 of them, and 1.21.5 is where this recipe last changed.
Stack size, hunger and saturation: The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock: What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum: Counted, not played: 1 Cake per craft against the stack size.

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