You are currently a level 7 baker. You are 35% of the way to the next level!
It get very tedious and monotonous and I want to do more but the motivation is meh. So I fear if these are implemented I'm going to re-inflate the baking ingredients, so sorry in advance!!
Okay, first off! Achievements for baking. Baking x number of items and getting to the next level. Burning x number of items. etc.. Excited to hear ideas from other people.
Second! Seasonal baking items. Like the seasonal stuff in the Millionaire center and the Quest shops. Nobody's gonna be baking Christmas cookies in July. Fall, let's do pumpkin spice everything!! (Not a fan personally, I just think it would be hilarious to be inundated with pumpkin spice items at that time) Winter, lord help me but I want to make fruitcakes and send them to all my friends! Spread them out between different levels, so you might not be able to bake a certain thing that year.
A baking shop? To keep prices down on ingredients I think it would be nice to have them in a permanent shop as well. Staple ingredient but at a higher price than the normal shop. The hustler could run this. The higher level you are the more items you have available to you (like the blue building). Maybe even make some new items that are only available here. Or perhaps baking points to spend in the baking shop. If a certain ingredient gets too scarce in the general population, you could use your points to buy them from there instead.
Donate your stuff to charity for baking points! So when we all bake at once, it makes the final item plummet in value. But make a one use link from the baking page so people don't buy out all the maple leaf cookies and donate for infinite baking points. Who wants old stale cookies donated to them anyways??
Now I'm just being random. But I do feel the baking aspect of the site has not been getting any attention and needs some love.
I find this Suggestion meh.
There's already a thread in Suggestions - Achievements about baking.
Baking has never been a heavy allocation of limited staff time, but all the things in your seasonal paragraph it does, just not every year. I don't think it is unloved and Amber is coming up with new recipes on the regular. It's just a smol thing is all
A Baking Shop doesn't really change whether or not many people are baking the item, and if anyone can get the ingredients just by getting the ingredients. If the only limiting factor is time baked, then there will be no high value to plummet from? Make up your mind.