Grow a Garden: How to Cook a Cake for Eloise’s Birthday

A special event is happening in the world of Grow a Garden! The beloved NPC, Eloise, is celebrating her birthday, and to mark the occasion, she is asking players to help her by baking a cake. This isn’t just a simple fetch quest; it’s a multi-step journey that will have you diving into your achievement log, firing up your crafting skills, and ultimately, earning some of the most valuable and sought-after rewards in the entire game.

For your efforts, you will be rewarded with a top-tier Grandmaster Sprinkler and three Level Up Lollipops, an incredible prize package that makes this quest an absolute must-do for every single player. This guide is your complete, step-by-step walkthrough for the entire birthday cake quest. We’ll show you how to get the essential Cooking Kit, explain the crafting process, and provide the single most important tip for completing this quest in the most efficient way possible.

Phase 1: The Prerequisite – How to Get a Cooking Kit

Before you can even think about baking, you need the right equipment. You cannot cook a cake (or anything else) without a Cooking Kit. This is a special, placeable crafting station that is not available in any shop. Instead, it must be earned by proving your dedication as a gardener.

Unlocking the Cooking Kit via Achievements

The only way to obtain the Cooking Kit is by completing a specific set of in-game achievements. Here’s how to find and unlock it:

1. Open your Garden Guide (the book icon).
2. Navigate to the Achievements tab.
3. Inside the achievements menu, find and select the “Core Plants” category.
4. You will see several tiers of achievements related to growing different plants (Common, Rare, Legendary, etc.). The guide will show that the Cooking Kit is the grand prize for completing all the achievements in either the Common or the Rare plant tiers.

A Guide to “Core Plants” Achievements

These achievements are designed to reward you for growing a wide variety of plants and filling out your collection log. To unlock the Cooking Kit, you will need to successfully plant, grow, and harvest every single crop listed in the “Common Plants” section of your Garden Guide. This is a long-term goal that encourages players to experiment with different seeds from the shop and to trade with other players to find any they are missing. While it takes time, it’s a fundamental part of the game’s progression, and the Cooking Kit is a fantastic reward for your efforts.

Placing Your Kit

Once you have completed all the required achievements, the Cooking Kit will be added to your inventory. It is found in the “Cosmetics” tab. To use it, you must select it and place it down anywhere on your garden plot, just like any other piece of furniture or decoration.

Phase 2: Baking the Cake – The Recipes and The Golden Rule

With your Cooking Kit placed and ready to go, it’s time to start baking.

A Cake for Every Tier

Interacting with your placed Cooking Kit will open a new crafting menu. You will see that there isn’t just one cake recipe. The game features a wide variety of cakes of different rarities, each requiring different ingredients. The known tiers of cake you can craft are:

• Normal Cake
• Rare Cake
• Legendary Cake
• Mythical Cake
• Divine Cake
• Prismatic Cake
• Transcendent Cake

The specific ingredients for each of these recipes will be displayed in the cooking menu. Naturally, the higher-tier cakes will require much rarer and more valuable “foods” (crops) to create.

The Most Important Tip: ANY CAKE WORKS!

This is the single most important piece of strategic advice for this entire quest. While you can craft a spectacular, high-tier Mythical or Divine cake using your rarest and most valuable ingredients, you absolutely do not have to.

The quest objective is simply to give Eloise “a cake.” The game does not differentiate between the different rarities. The rewards you receive from Eloise—the Grandmaster Sprinkler and the three Level Up Lollipops—are identical regardless of whether you give her a simple Normal Cake or a legendary Transcendent Cake.

The Optimal Strategy: Craft the Cheapest Cake

With this knowledge, the optimal strategy is clear: you should craft the easiest and cheapest cake available, which will be the Normal Cake. Do not waste your valuable, high-tier, multi-harvest fruits on a fancy cake when a simple one made from common, easily grown ingredients will give you the exact same incredible rewards. Save your valuable crops for selling, completing other quests, or using in the Ascension system. Give Eloise the Normal Cake, and you will have completed the quest in the most efficient and profitable way possible.

Phase 3: The Rewards – A Massive Payout for Your Efforts

After you’ve crafted your cake, simply find Eloise in the village and give it to her. In return for your simple baked good, you will receive one of the best reward packages from any quest in the game.

The Grandmaster Sprinkler

This is an incredibly valuable piece of gear. The Grandmaster Sprinkler is one of the best sprinklers in the game, capable of automatically watering a huge section of your garden. Placing this on your farm will save you a massive amount of time and effort, freeing you up to focus on other tasks. It is a true endgame-quality item.

Three Level Up Lollipops

These are extremely valuable and rare consumable items. Each Level Up Lollipop can be used on any of your pets to instantly grant it one full age level. Receiving three of these represents a huge boost to your pet progression, allowing you to quickly age up a new event pet or finish leveling a member of your main team.

The rewards for this quest are wildly disproportionate to the minimal effort required (provided you craft the cheap cake), making this one of the most efficient and valuable quests you can complete in Grow a Garden. So get those Common achievements done, craft that Normal Cake, and enjoy your new top-tier sprinkler!

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