Unsure about how to craft Minecraft’s tastiest treat? This guide will walk you through how to make cookies in Minecraft so you can have all the delicious morsels you need. We will explain what you need to craft them, as well as how to gather those ingredients. Besides being a tasty snack, there are also some other surprising reasons to make cookies. Patience though, you will learn everything you need to know about this blocky dessert in no time!
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How to Make Cookies in Minecraft
To make cookies in Minecraft, you need to put a cocoa bean with a piece of wheat on each side of it into the grid of a crafting table. Very simple and it produces a whole 8 cookies! For a more detailed explanation of how to gather the ingredients, continue reading on. Additionally, learn all the stats and best facts about cookies and why you would want to make tons of these chocolatey treats.
Gathering the Ingredients
The ingredients needed to craft cookies are 2 pieces of wheat and 1 cocoa bean. We have an excellent guide on how to acquire cocoa beans that you can read. Getting your first cocoa beans can be tricky and take a little time. However, once you find some, you can get a farm set up so you can have as many cookies as you will need. Once you have your cocoa beans, then you will need to gather some wheat. The easiest way to get wheat is to grow it yourself! Simply punch some grass till some seeds fall out. Then make a hoe and till a dirt block near some water that has lots of light. Plant the seed and wait some time. If you do not want to wait try using some bone meal on the growing plant. Once your wheat is ready, harvest it and move on to the next step.
Crafting Minecraft Cookies
How to make cookies in Minecraft is pretty easy once you have the ingredients. First, you will need to make a crafting table because the recipe requires a 3×3 crafting square. However, no furnace or cooking is required. Are Minecraft cookies really just raw cookie dough? Once you have your crafting table, put a cocoa bean sandwiched between two pieces of wheat and you will see 8 cookies available in the output section. Cookies are one of the easiest foods to mass produce because of the large quantity you get from one batch. Like most items, you can have 64 of them per stack in your inventory.
What To Do With All These Cookies
Now that you know how to make cookies in Minecraft, let’s discuss what you can do with them. First and foremost, eat your cookies! They restore 2 hunger, also known as one whole meat stick on the in-game bar. Therefore, a batch of 8 cookies supplies you with 16 hunger in total. That is quite a bit of food for only 1 cocoa bean and 2 pieces of wheat. It is an excellent food to mass produce to sustain yourself with. Who says you can’t eat cookies for every meal?
While using cookies for food might be the most obvious use, it is far from the only use. Its greatest use is actually for composting! When you put a cookie in a composter, it has an 85% chance of adding a piece of compost. Since you get 8 cookies per craft, cookies are the most efficient way to fill a composter. When the math is all done out, you will receive on average approximately 1 bone meal for every 8 cookies you place in the composter.
There are two more things cookies can do for you. The first thing is that they can be traded to farmer villagers in return for emeralds. We have already established they can be easily mass-produced. Therefore, this makes them a pretty decent method of farming emeralds. There is one more thing that you can use cookies for. Maybe, I should say, one more thing that you should avoid using cookies for. Avoid using cookies as bird food. Feeding a cookie to a parrot will kill it. No one wants that, so please don’t feed these tasty treats to the birds. Now you know all you need about how to make cookies in Minecraft and what they do!