Cake

Cake

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Other names	Candle Cake (Cake with Candle Only, AU, NZ)
Consumption time	0 game ticks (0 seconds)
Hunger	2 () 14 ( × 7)
Saturation	0.4 () 2.8 ()
Saturation boost‌[JE only]	Heals: 0.267HP × 0.1335 Duration: 0.133 seconds Heals: 1.867HP × 0.9335 Duration: 0.933 seconds
Always consumable	No
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	JE: No BE: Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0.5
Hardness	0.5
Luminous	With a candle: Yes (3) when lit Otherwise: No
Transparent	Yes
Waterloggable	JE: No BE: Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	0 NONE
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

A cake is a block that can serve as food. It can be eaten by placing and using it, with each use consuming one of its seven slices. The entire cake gives the most hunger points out of every food item, but has low saturation.

A cake with candle is an uneaten cake with any type of candle placed on it, which can be lit with a flint and steel to emit light.

Obtaining

Breaking

Once the cake is placed, it cannot be recollected even with the use of Silk Touch, meaning placing it is final. Cakes with candles always drop their respective candle when broken.

Block	Cake
Hardness	0.5
Breaking time (secs)
Default	10.75 (JE) 0.75 (BE)
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Cake	Trial Chambers	Intersection chest	1–4	39.7% { "item": "Cake", "stacksize": "1–4", "chance": 0.39719773101739475, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Intersection chest" }

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Milk Bucket + Sugar + Any Egg + Wheat		After crafting the cake, the empty buckets remain in the crafting grid in Java Edition, or are moved to the first available inventory slot in Bedrock Edition.

Trading

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Farmer	Expert	100%	100%	Emerald	Cake	12	15	0.05

Usage

Unlike most food, the cake cannot be eaten as an item in the hotbar. Before being eaten, it must first be placed on top of a solid block. Placing the cake on a slab also works, with the slab acting as a solid block. The cake may float half a block above the slab depending on how it is placed.

Each cake is sized 0.875 blocks long and wide, 0.5 blocks tall, and has seven "slices"; each use consumes one slice progressing inward from the west, reducing 0.125 blocks of its hitbox. A single slice restores 2 () hunger and 0.4 hunger saturation. Eating all seven slices of a cake restores 14 ( × 7) hunger and 2.8 hunger saturation.

Since eating a cake comes with no animation, the cake can be eaten at a rate of one slice per tick. Multiple players can eat from the same cake at the same time. In Java Edition, eating cake makes no sound, unlike other foods.

As a redstone component, when connected to a comparator, a whole cake emits a signal strength of 14. The signal strength decreases two units with each slice.

Cake destroys falling blocks if placed under them, similar to a torch. A player who is sneaking can place any block (including a cake or a falling block) on top of a cake without the block breaking.

Pandas

Some pandas move toward a dropped cake to pick up and eat it. Some may not, depending on the cake's location. Cake cannot be used to breed pandas.

Composting

Placing a cake into a composter raises the compost level by 1.

Piston interactivity

A cake is broken when pushed by a piston, and it drops nothing.

Cakes with candles

Using a candle on an uneaten cake creates a cake with candle^[a] of that color (including uncolored). Eating any of the cake causes the candle to drop.

Using flint and steel, fire charge, or any flaming projectile on an unlit cake with candle lights its candle. Lit cakes with candles emit a light level of 3 and point lighting of
 #d3852b when the "Render Dragon Features for Creators" experiment is enabled in Minecraft Preview. Interacting with the lit candle (but not the cake) extinguishes it.

Lit candled cakes emit the same point lighting as candles.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

wool sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wool.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wool.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wool.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wool.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.wool.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

cloth sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​ ?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.cloth	​ ?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.cloth	​ ?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.cloth	​ ?	0.35	0.5
	​ ?	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.cloth	​ ?	0.4	1.0
	​ ?	Players	Walking on the block	step.cloth	​ ?	0.3	1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.cloth	​ ?	0.12	1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.cloth	​ ?	0.18	1.0

Unique

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Cake	cake	Block & Item	None	block.minecraft.cake
Cake with Candle	candle_cake	Block	candle_cakes	block.minecraft.candle_cake
Cake with White Candle	white_candle_cake	Block	candle_cakes	block.minecraft.white_candle_cake
Cake with Orange Candle	orange_candle_cake	Block	candle_cakes	block.minecraft.orange_candle_cake
Cake with Magenta Candle	magenta_candle_cake	Block	candle_cakes	block.minecraft.magenta_candle_cake
Cake with Light Blue Candle	light_blue_candle_cake	Block	candle_cakes	block.minecraft.light_blue_candle_cake
Cake with Yellow Candle	yellow_candle_cake	Block	candle_cakes	block.minecraft.yellow_candle_cake
Cake with Lime Candle	lime_candle_cake	Block	candle_cakes	block.minecraft.lime_candle_cake
Cake with Pink Candle	pink_candle_cake	Block	candle_cakes	block.minecraft.pink_candle_cake
Cake with Gray Candle	gray_candle_cake	Block	candle_cakes	block.minecraft.gray_candle_cake
Cake with Light Gray Candle	light_gray_candle_cake	Block	candle_cakes	block.minecraft.light_gray_candle_cake
Cake with Cyan Candle	cyan_candle_cake	Block	candle_cakes	block.minecraft.cyan_candle_cake
Cake with Purple Candle	purple_candle_cake	Block	candle_cakes	block.minecraft.purple_candle_cake
Cake with Blue Candle	blue_candle_cake	Block	candle_cakes	block.minecraft.blue_candle_cake
Cake with Brown Candle	brown_candle_cake	Block	candle_cakes	block.minecraft.brown_candle_cake
Cake with Green Candle	green_candle_cake	Block	candle_cakes	block.minecraft.green_candle_cake
Cake with Red Candle	red_candle_cake	Block	candle_cakes	block.minecraft.red_candle_cake
Cake with Black Candle	black_candle_cake	Block	candle_cakes	block.minecraft.black_candle_cake

Bedrock Edition:

Cake	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Block	cake	92	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	item.cake	tile.cake.name
Item	cake	417	Item	—	item.cake.name
Cake with Candle	candle_cake	684	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -429)	tile.candle_cake.name
Cake with White Candle	white_candle_cake	685	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -430)	tile.white_candle_cake.name
Cake with Orange Candle	orange_candle_cake	686	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -431)	tile.orange_candle_cake.name
Cake with Magenta Candle	magenta_candle_cake	687	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -432)	tile.magenta_candle_cake.name
Cake with Light Blue Candle	light_blue_candle_cake	688	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -433)	tile.light_blue_candle_cake.name
Cake with Yellow Candle	yellow_candle_cake	689	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -434)	tile.yellow_candle_cake.name
Cake with Lime Candle	lime_candle_cake	690	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -435)	tile.lime_candle_cake.name
Cake with Pink Candle	pink_candle_cake	691	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -436)	tile.pink_candle_cake.name
Cake with Gray Candle	gray_candle_cake	692	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -437)	tile.gray_candle_cake.name
Cake with Light Gray Candle	light_gray_candle_cake	693	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -438)	tile.light_gray_candle_cake.name
Cake with Cyan Candle	cyan_candle_cake	694	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -439)	tile.cyan_candle_cake.name
Cake with Purple Candle	purple_candle_cake	695	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -440)	tile.purple_candle_cake.name
Cake with Blue Candle	blue_candle_cake	696	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -441)	tile.blue_candle_cake.name
Cake with Brown Candle	brown_candle_cake	697	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -442)	tile.brown_candle_cake.name
Cake with Green Candle	green_candle_cake	698	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -443)	tile.green_candle_cake.name
Cake with Red Candle	red_candle_cake	699	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -444)	tile.red_candle_cake.name
Cake with Black Candle	black_candle_cake	700	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -445)	tile.black_candle_cake.name

Block states

Java Edition:
Cakes:

Cakes with Candles:

Bedrock Edition:
Cakes:

Cakes with Candles:

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		The Lie	Bake a cake using: wheat, sugar, milk, and eggs.	Pick up a cake from a crafting table output.	30	Bronze
		Birthday Song	Have an Allay drop a cake at a note block	Tame an allay by giving it a cake while having dropped cake items and play a note block nearby.	10	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Birthday Song	Have an Allay drop a Cake at a Note Block	Have an allay that is holding a cake previously given to it by the player throw any other cake on a note block. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.

History

Development

Java Edition

Java Edition Beta
1.2							Since Minecraft won the title, cake has been added.
							A slice of cake heals 3HP and the whole cake heals 18HP × 9.
							Cake with six bites taken out of it exists, but is normally inaccessible until release version 1.8, as using a cake with five bites will consume it completely.
1.5							Achievements have been added, including "The Lie", which is rewarded when the player crafts a cake.
1.7							The textures for the side and inside of cakes have been shifted vertically due to changes to texture mapping in this version. This does not change how normally-obtainable states of cake look (see #Data history for a case where this change has a visual impact), but texture packs from previous versions will no longer be compatible.
1.8			Pre-release				Cake now restores 12 ( × 6) and its slice restores 2 ().
							Cake is available in the Creative inventory.
Java Edition
1.1			12w01a				When cake is crafted, the empty buckets are now moved to the player's inventory, rather than staying in the crafting grid.
1.5			13w02a				Cakes now use the inside texture for all orthogonal faces.
			13w03a				Cakes now use the outside side texture for the sides again.[1]
1.8			14w02a				Farmer villagers now sell 1 cake for 1 emerald.
			14w27a				Cake slices available when eating cakes have been increased from 6 to 7, restoring 14 ( × 7) in total. This allows the 6-bites cake to be obtained legitimately.
			14w28a				Cake now emits a comparator signal.
							When cake is crafted, empty buckets now stay in the crafting table.
1.8.2			pre1				Added "Cake slices eaten" to statistics.
1.9			15w37a				Cake can no longer be eaten in survival with the primary attack (left-click).
1.14			18w43a				The texture of cake has been changed.
							Cakes can now be eaten by pandas when they are thrown to them.
			19w03a				Placing a cake into the new composter now raises the compost level by 1.
			19w08a				The texture of cake items have been changed, this time to have a large cherry in the middle to match its block counterpart.
May 17–20, 2019							Cakes now display a "10" above them, textured with white concrete, to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the first public version of Minecraft (0.0.11a) being released.
1.17			20w45a				Added candle cake.
			21w19a				The name of "Candle Cake" has been changed to "Cake with Candle".
			pre1				Changed lit cake with candle textures.
			pre3				Changed lit cake with candle textures.
1.19			22w14a				Giving a cake to an allay is now required for the "Birthday Song" advancement.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w45a				Cakes can now be found in trial chambers intersection chests.
1.21.5			25w06a				Cake can now be crafted using blue eggs or brown eggs.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.7.0							Added cake.
							Cake restores 12HP × 6.
v0.12.1			build 1				Cake now restore 12 ( × 6).
v0.14.0			build 1				Cake can now be used to emit a comparator signal.
v0.15.0			build 1				Cake currently does not show its inside texture on two or more bites.
Pocket Edition
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0				Farmer villagers now sell cake for one emerald.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0			beta 1.2.0.31				Cake is now stackable.
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				Cake can now be found inside buried treasure chests.
1.8.0			beta 1.8.0.8				Cake, as a dropped item, can now be eaten by pandas.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of cake has been changed.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Cake can now be used to fill up composters.
			beta 1.11.0.4				Cake sold by farmers now has a 50% chance to cost 8 emeralds.
			beta 1.11.0.5				The texture of cake items has been changed, once again.
			beta 1.11.0.7				Cake trades from farmer villagers have been reverted.
1.16.0			beta 1.15.0.53				Cake now shows its inside texture on two or more bites.
1.17.10			beta 1.17.10.22				Added cakes with candles.
1.20.60 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.60.20				Cakes can now be found in trial chambers intersection chests.
1.21.70 Experiment Drop 1 2025			Preview 1.21.70.22				Cake can now be crafted using blue eggs or brown eggs.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added cake.
TU6							Cake has been made stackable, as a then-version exclusive.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Farmer villagers now sell 1 cake for 1 emerald.
							Cake slices available when eating cakes have been increased from 6 to 7, allowing the 6-bites cake to be obtained legitimately.
							Cake now emits a comparator signal.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Cake can now be found inside buried treasure chests.
			1.83				Cake, as a dropped item, can now be eaten by pandas. Cakes can also be fed to pandas by pressing use on them.
			1.90				The single, lone texture of cake has been changed.
			1.91				Cake can now be used to fill up composters.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added cake.

Data history

Java Edition Beta
1.2							Cakes with seven through fifteen bites also exist, as the number of bites is stored using block metadata which varies from 0 to 15. These have a glitched appearance, with misaligned cake textures as well as the block placeholder texture on the bottom (as the texture next to the bottom of the cake on terrain.png, which it overflows to, is itself a placeholder).
1.7							The cake side texture shown from underneath has flipped to the other side.
1.8			Pre-release				Cakes with data 8 through 15 now use the red mushroom block texture with the addition of the red mushroom block.
Java Edition
1.5			13w02a				With the advent of major changes in texture storage and architecture, overeaten cakes now display other parts of cakes as well as part of a crop texture.
							From this version up until 14w08a, overeaten cakes start to draw from the textures next to them on blocks-atlas, in much the same way they previously did with terrain.png. However, as texture atlases are unstable and textures tend to change positions as new blocks and textures are added, overeaten cakes change the texture they draw from almost every time new textures are added or existing textures are resized.
			13w03a				Overeaten cakes now display a different part of the cake texture than before.
			13w09a				Overeaten cakes now display a crop texture on the side.
1.6.1			13w17a				Overeaten cakes now display a part of the powered redstone comparator texture.
			13w18a				Overeaten cakes now display the carrots texture. The inside underside also uses the feet of the cauldron.
1.7.2			13w41a				Overeaten cakes now display a part of the block breaking texture, and the texture of the block of diamond inside.
1.8			14w10a				Cakes with data values 7 and above now have no model.
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 92, and the item's 354.

Issues

Issues relating to "Cake" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

Interaction

• Because cake is only ⁷⁄₈ blocks wide, it is possible to stand on the edge of a block beneath a cake. This makes it possible to create a functioning staircase using cakes placed on a ramp of 1×1 blocks.
• It is possible to place cake on top of another cake by placing a cake on the ground, then placing another cake on the side of a block above and to the side of the first cake, similar to placing torches on a chest. Eating the lower cake causes the upper cake to disappear, as does mining out the block of cake it is sitting on.
• Mobs on top of cakes rotate while attempting to move, a pathfinding oversight shared with fences.
• If cake is placed in a hole one block deep, players can get across the hole without jumping, although a player standing on the cake must jump to get out of the hole.

Miscellaneous

• Cake was added to Minecraft following the ModDB 2010 Indie of the Year Awards. Notch agreed to add cake to Minecraft if it won, which led to a campaign called "The Quest For Cake". Minecraft won 3 of the 7 awards, including the "Indie of the Year" award.
• The player can place cake on top of a bed, and while sleeping, the cake shows on the player's screen as if it were on top of their head.
• The name of the achievement for crafting a cake is a reference to the internet meme "The Cake is a Lie", which originated from Valve Software's game, Portal.
• On May 17, 2019, for the 10th anniversary of Minecraft, the cake model was changed to display a "10" above it, made of white concrete.
• Unlike most foods, cakes don't count towards the advancement "A Balanced Diet" in Java Edition.^[2]

Gallery

Renders

Cake

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  10 year anniversary cake model
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  Ditto, with one more slice missing
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  Ditto, with one more slice missing
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  Ditto, with one more slice missing

Cake with candle

Lit cake with candle

Screenshots

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  A cake placed on top of another
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  The sizes of cake when eaten
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  The 10-years cake model placed in the world
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  A panda eating a cake

Mojang screenshots

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  Cake and the Totem of Undying
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  Noor in a room full of cake

In other media

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  Official artwork of Efe with a cake, Sunny bringing a candle, and Ari carrying flint and steel to light it
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  Sticker of a cake featured in 15 Year Journey
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  A real cake made for a video featuring Jason Momoa and Jack Black, promoting both A Minecraft Movie and the 15th anniversary
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  Efe crafting cakes with a crafter
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  Developer concept for stacked cakes
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  A Halloween candy bowl with an assortment of sweets and obsidian
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  An "edible tweet" of cake
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  Cake figure of Flippin' Figs
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  A cake as it appears in Minecraft: Story Mode
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  A cake in Minecraft Earth
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  An official YouTube post referencing that pandas eat cake
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  A meme of a baby pig handing cake

Notes

References