Learn to Bake



Are you prepared to become a baking champion? Or perhaps just learn enough to not burn everything you touch? Come visit me at my new bakery in Veta Lake, which will be open year-round, to learn how different cookies, pies, loaves of bread, and cakes!

As you cook more things and earn more experience, your level in baking will go up. As you level up, more recipes will be unlocked for you, meaning they will no longer show up greyed out on the front page! Once you get more experienced, when you go back to cook easier recipes, you’ll have a much higher success rate. After all, we know how hard baking a new thing can be, so don’t be surprised if you end up burning a thing or two!



I’ve prepared a lovely baking starter kit for everyone. I’ll make sure to give you one when you visit me for the first time!

If you have any questions, I’m here to help!

Just so you know, burning has nothing to do with the timing of each baked good! Burning is tied to your skill level, not how long it takes you to grab a baked good from the oven. ;)
March 15, 2016, 12:12 pm by meowth
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seems like a fun thing to do in 6 months when the prices go back down.

March 15, 2016, 12:11 pm by clatskani
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You guys realize you DONT have to do this if its that big of and issue or upsetting you oh so badly.

my goodness....

March 15, 2016, 12:06 pm by pumpkins
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Appreciate the confirmation ! I've always been mad for achievements, so it would be good not to lose any progress I'm (attempting) to make now.

March 15, 2016, 12:00 pm by Amber
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Yes, we’re tracking things. And the achievements I’m thinking of doing are like hit level x or whatever, SO IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY C: @?StarShadow You don’t need to make everything right this second. :) This feature will stick around, so if you want to do one baked good a day or maybe gather some ingredients up first and then try to knock out a few things then you can do that! Don’t give up <3 It’s pretty clear right now that you need the specific items as well as one from each general group (like milk, eggs, etc) that it asks for. I’ll clarify the wording a bit more, though!

March 15, 2016, 11:12 am by terrerio35
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: I completely agree with you. Why does everything have to be in the hundred-thousands? I think I even saw something that was almost a million sp! And another item wasn't even available anymore!! It's like a monopoly or something; and what's even more frustrating is the fact that I apparently need to get ALL the ingredients that are listed, whereas my first impression was that we could do an either/or recipe. They should really clarify that.

March 15, 2016, 10:21 am by BoneCollector
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very nice new feature !! i love it !!

but if you burn somthing, for example the maple leaf cookies you dont get experience points ( okay i get that ) but can we please pretty please get at least our burned maple leaf cookies to take home ???? :) blackened burned maple leaf cookies are good too to eat :) certainly if you tried to do youre best

so all the foods we can make must have a "burned" or blackened version too (puppy eyes) pleeaaaaaassssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeee

March 15, 2016, 10:20 am by StarShadow
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Well, this seems to be more frustrating than fun. The prices of items is too high to waste SPs buying them now, it's nearly impossible to get the exact items I need from the DC despite constant refreshing and on the rare occasion I can the cookies always burn. That plus the constant error pages last night and the lag this morning is making me want to give up.

March 15, 2016, 10:19 am by MapleRose
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Cool idea, but holy inflation. Will try to remember to try it months from now when everyone has forgotten about this feature lol (I didn't want to open my starter kit 'cause that's going in the gallery)

If this came out for Pi Day, why wasn't the level 1 item some kind of pie?

March 15, 2016, 10:01 am by iriscrow
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Oh my gosh...my cold wooden mori girl heart is so warmed by this T^T

March 15, 2016, 10:00 am by ChatLunatique
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Oh oww! I guess I got really lucky.

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You did it!
Enjoy your Maple Leaf Cookies.
first try.

March 15, 2016, 9:52 am by Hollykins
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I can not believe I just dropped 5 mil on vanilla extract.. angry face

March 15, 2016, 9:42 am by Mel
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Yeah, burned 2 cookies so far lol ><

March 15, 2016, 9:40 am by ChatLunatique
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Have you opened the basket Fantine gave you?

March 15, 2016, 9:33 am by FlowerAngel
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also, what I didn't mention earlier, being a devoted RS-er, I like me some inflation. :P but honestly, I hope the inflation will like ... nicely balance between things? like, at some time something is inflated, some other thing deflated and so. XD and the price for vanilla extract rn miiight be too much, yes.

March 15, 2016, 9:32 am by Kindred
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Oh sorry, I didn't realise! Only rereading now do I see you figured it out before I posted. Should have checked, sorry! But yeah, that's one of my favourite parts of the Custom CSS. It's a pain but oh well.

March 15, 2016, 9:25 am by Tribunal
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This is a fun but brief feature but the inflation always ruins stuff like this.. I wish there was a way to do something similar without it, or at least with a lot less of it. Hopefully RS-ability will continue to power through this so it's reasonable by the time I get around to it.

Also it'd be cool if we could tie pets to these skills (optionally). Your Alchemy/Alchemy Assistant Pet, Baker/Baker Assistant Pet, etc.

March 15, 2016, 9:19 am by TheseHeights
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Yeah, I figured out it was my CSS, but not exactly what part of my CSS. Thanks for that.

March 15, 2016, 9:19 am by Maniac
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oh yay! a new site feature that i'll probably forget about because it's simply not worth it.

March 15, 2016, 9:10 am by Shelbi
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When you wake up to see most ingredients have went down but vanilla extract is at 7 mil??!!

March 15, 2016, 8:53 am by Riptide
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You did it! Enjoy your Maple Leaf Cookies.

Success, first try. Yay :D

March 15, 2016, 8:50 am by Exie
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OMG! This is too cute. <3

March 15, 2016, 8:44 am by pumpkins
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Can we get a confirmation if any progress now will be 'remembered' for achievements if release later? n_n;

March 15, 2016, 8:40 am by Mel
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I feel like im playing wheres waldo, only with vanilla extract lmao

March 15, 2016, 8:32 am by Calm
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Eeee, how fun! :D

March 15, 2016, 8:11 am by kaleidoscope
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Yay! I am excited for this and I really don't know why but this is going to be fun! :D

March 15, 2016, 7:54 am by ulalena
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Oh! That represents a problem with the Vanilla Extract, then, LOL

March 15, 2016, 7:52 am by Amber
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Yep!

March 15, 2016, 7:50 am by ulalena
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I have all ingredients from the general left side and one of the special right sided ones. It says no nevertheless. So I assume I have to buy all of the special ones, too?

March 15, 2016, 7:47 am by Amber
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Yes, you need all of the things listed. For the left side, you have to have one item from each of the “general” things needed (milk, eggs, whatever) while specific items you need one of those listed (it’s not a category like the other side).

March 15, 2016, 7:46 am by Blackjack
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I burn water, I doubt even Fantine can help me.

March 15, 2016, 7:44 am by ulalena
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Neat! Yet I have a question: Quote: For these ingredients, you'll need to use a specific item to make this recipe. Do I need one or all? I have Salt yet it´s telling me "Oh No! You don't have all of the ingredients to make that!" So I have to buy the other 5, too?

March 15, 2016, 7:41 am by far
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I was more concerned about the vegan options .. but awesome! c:

March 15, 2016, 7:39 am by Amber
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We might actually do some vegan options in the future! :) Honestly though, I’m are the prices for the regular items needed will go down once the items start restocking more / people move up levels / the “newness” wears off / etc. If you follow admin posts, you’ll see that it’s something we’re considering, adding a small bit of experience on burning something!

March 15, 2016, 7:36 am by Ark
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OH MY LORD MY FOOD GALLERY IS ABOUT TO GET A DOZEN NEW FACES /flails /cries /sobs beautiful

March 15, 2016, 7:30 am by Ispahan
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I'm sad that you get absolute ZERO experience from burning what you make. Of course I'd expect gaining exp from making something successfully, but could you please make it so that you earn at least little bit of experience even if you burn it? (That's how it works in real life, too--learn from your mistakes!)

It's just super disheartening to know that you just wasted all these ingredients for pretty much nothing. :(

March 15, 2016, 7:15 am by far
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Where are the vegan recipes so I can stop spending mil for the overpriced items?

March 15, 2016, 7:06 am by Kindred
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I don't know if you fixed your blank page already, but I had it too and searched this news post for the term 'blank' and found your post, and I have a potential solution I figured I'd share. I had some CustomCSS which I believe takes away pet training portraits that was giving me the blank page. It's 7 lines and starts as " > div.container-fluid > div.ui.grid > div.four.wide.column". If you have this, cut it into a spare document while you bake, and then put it back in when you're done baking. Not very elegant, but that's how it is with new features sometimes.

March 15, 2016, 6:49 am by FlowerAngel
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this is everything i've ever wanted, really. <3 ingredient based cooking/baking. maybe we can now also use this with like crafting? flower crossbreeding? soooo many options and possibilities. :? pretty please! and thank you so so so much.

March 15, 2016, 6:24 am by Chansey
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Look we can also bake now here XD I love this!

March 15, 2016, 5:52 am by Taters
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Haha yeah, and like a derp It seems I missed all but one item in my grab earlier. So waiting for me it is as well. I dont think itll matter if we are a bit behind though. This isnt a 'event' but a new addition to the site like Alchemy thatll be around for a long while. So that made me feel better about having to sit around on my hands and wait for more items to flood the system -flops-

March 15, 2016, 5:42 am by Sunflower
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Thanks for at least reassuring that the items were in there at one point, at least! That gives me some hope. All I ever see is a handful of the same things, and I've been slowly grabbing duplicates since I'm not seeing the ones I still need, but you're right. I probably should just give in and give it a few days even though I'll be behind even further for it.

March 15, 2016, 5:38 am by Taters
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Your welcome!

Ahahah I tried to be funny and code that in to my derp about fantine but it failed. So I guess she didnt like my idea of her being as nuts as our muffin man xD

Im not sure, at one point when there were 60k items in it earlier there were many of each item and some for later. But I wouldnt be surprised if people are sitting and grabbing every 5min. So there could be some missing now.

Thankfully they are rs-able. Ive caught quite a few, and Amber lowered the rarity so they show up more. But if you cant catch those the hype should die down in a day or two and people will begin to price reasonably. For the moment I say stock up on whatever you see and hope to catch some good rs times until the prices deflate!

March 15, 2016, 5:30 am by taffyann
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Cool idea but not possible. The set of ingredients to make the first Maple cookie are up to RIDICULOUS. One set of items I will not be getting.

March 15, 2016, 5:10 am by curbdirt
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Welp I burnt my cookies :o

March 15, 2016, 4:47 am by Sunflower
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You know, I don't actually mind sitting and browsing the DC for the ingredients as an alternative to paying the highly inflated prices in user shops.... But... I'm less enthused upon several hours of refreshes and not finding some of the ingredients to even get past the first recipe. :'c Are all the ingredients actually available there? (I.e. am I wasting my time.)

March 15, 2016, 4:15 am by Spiral
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I was wrong, not two just one argh!!

March 15, 2016, 4:13 am by Spiral
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Why are there only two recipes that don't take a stick of butter 0.0

March 15, 2016, 4:12 am by Natasha
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With all the ingredients coming in, I was really hoping for something like this! I've made my first cookie successfully :)

Looks like I'll wait a couple of weeks before attempting another, lol. Maybe there'll be achievements by then too!

March 15, 2016, 3:56 am by Chrissy
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wow crazy prices ... not doing it at them price shame :(

March 15, 2016, 3:35 am by Peppermint
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OH gosh, I love baking I need to make all of them. I'm sO HYPED. MY BAKER PET, AZUKI, IS HYPED TOO. I can't wait to burn everything. :'D Just like in real life! I like to imagine the creators of this are thinking of multiple lvl 1 baked goods. But then seeing normal-common items inflate out the butt and seeing everyone scramble for them is too much fun to resist, hehehe. Though thankfully most of them seem pretty easy to rs.

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