Cake in Grow a Garden, the Roblox gardening game, uses four ingredient slots: Bread, Filling, Fruit and Icing. Each slot takes one plant. Its Base Cook Time is 5m 50s. The Bread slot has the shortest list by far, so start there. Every other slot has more than a hundred valid plants.
Quick answer: Put one plant in each of Bread, Filling, Fruit and Icing. Four Bananas is the simplest full cake because Banana is valid in all four slots.
Grow a Garden cake ingredients by slot
The four slots differ a lot in size. Icing and Filling accept exactly the same plants. Fruit accepts the most, and that list includes plenty of everyday crops that aren’t sweet or candy items.
| Slot | Valid plants | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bread | 5 | Shortest list |
| Filling | 126 | Same list as Icing |
| Icing | 126 | Same list as Filling |
| Fruit | 146 | Includes plain crops |
Only five plants work as Bread: Banana, Cauliflower, Corn, Sugarglaze and Violet Corn. If you don’t have one of those, you can’t make a cake.
Plants that fill more than one cake slot
Many plants count for more than one slot. The five Bread plants cover different combinations of the other slots, though Corn and Violet Corn cover the same two: Bread and Fruit.
| Plant | Slots it fills |
|---|---|
| Banana | Bread, Filling, Fruit, Icing |
| Sugarglaze | Bread, Filling, Icing |
| Corn | Bread, Fruit |
| Violet Corn | Bread, Fruit |
| Cauliflower | Bread only |
| Strawberry, Blueberry, Grape, Mango, Peach | Filling, Fruit, Icing |
| Pineapple, Watermelon, Pear, Raspberry, Cherry | Filling, Fruit, Icing |
| Apple, Coconut, Lemon, Lime | Fruit only |
Most berry and candy fruits follow the Strawberry pattern: they can serve as Icing, Filling, or Fruit, but not Bread. Apple and Coconut, along with Lemon and Lime, plus many vegetable-style crops, count only as Fruit. Sugarglaze occupies three slots by itself, but it cannot count as Fruit, so pair it with a separate Fruit plant.
Working cake combinations
Any mix that follows the slot lists is a valid cake. These four combinations need the fewest different plants.
| Bread | Filling | Fruit | Icing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banana | Banana | Banana | Banana |
| Corn | Strawberry | Corn or Violet Corn | Strawberry |
| Cauliflower | Blueberry | Apple | Blueberry |
| Sugarglaze | Sugarglaze | Apple or Corn | Sugarglaze |
In the Corn and Cauliflower builds, you can swap Strawberry or Blueberry for any two plants from the Icing and Filling list. You can use the same plant twice or two different ones.
How to open the Cake recipe in the Garden Guide
You’ll know you have the right page when the title bar reads Cake. The page shows the cake icon and “Base Cook Time” with “5m 50s” next to it. It also shows cooking progress, records and achievements. Below those is a Known Recipes row with four boxes labelled Icing, Bread, Filling and Fruit. On an account that hasn’t filled in its recipes, those boxes are empty. The Heaviest Cooked, Most Valuable and Best Mutations records show “-” with “Achieved on (Record not set)”.
Where the cake gets cooked
Cake is a Cooking Event recipe. You cook it in a cooking pot, and pots only appear while the Cooking Event is running. The live event right now is Anubis Event – Part 1, and there are no cooking pots in the world during it. No date for the next Cooking Event has been confirmed.
Full Icing and Filling list (126 plants)
Every plant below works in both the Icing slot and the Filling slot.
Alien Apple, Asteris, Astral Grape, Banana, Beach Ball Cactus, Bee Bell, Bendbark, Blood Kiwi, Blue Lollipop, Blue Raspberry, Blueberry, Buddhas Hand, Bunny Berry, Canary Melon, Candlite, Candy Blossom, Candy Blossom 2026, Candy Cane, Candy Cluster, Candy Corn Carrot, Candy Cornflower, Candy Sunflower, Carnival Pumpkin, Cherry, Chicken Feed, Chilli Mango, Chocolate Carrot, Christmas Cracker, Chroma Orb, Cocoa Pod, Cocomango, Coinfruit, Confetti Tula, Cookie Stack, Cosmic Dew, Crimson Cranberry, Crown Melon, DJ Delight, Easter Egg, Egg Melon, Egg Shroom, Elder Candy Blossom, Emberpear, Evo Apple I, Evo Apple II, Evo Apple III, Evo Apple IV, Evo Blueberry I, Evo Blueberry II, Evo Blueberry III, Evo Blueberry IV, Evo Pumpkin I, Evo Pumpkin II, Evo Pumpkin III, Evo Pumpkin IV, Faestar, Fall Berry, Fall Pineapple, Fernberry, Frosty Bite, Gilded Grove, Gingerbread Blossom, Golden Peach, Grape, Grape Droplet, Gumdrop, Honey Dew, Honey Dipper, Honey Hollow, Jelly Bean Sprout, Jellycap, Jungle Cherry, Jungle Kiwano, Lullaberry, Madras Thorn, Mallow Melt, Mango, Mangosteen, Maple Melt, Marshmallow Root, Monarch Jellpod, Moon Melon, Nectar Thorn, Olive, Peach, Pear, Peppermint Pop, Peppermint Vine, Persimmon, Pineapple, Pixie Faern, Plumwillow, Poison Apple, Pomegranate, Popsicle Melt, Prosperity Palm, Queen Fruit, Raspberry, Red Lollipop, Romanesco, Royal Jelly Cup, Sapberry, Smore Suckle, Sparkle Slice, Spiked Mango, Starfruit, Starry Strawberry, Strawberry, Sugar Apple, Sugar Melon, Sugar Snapdragon, Sugarcane, Sugarglaze, Sun Bloom, Sun Fruit, Sun Melon, Tiki Totem, Trinity Fruit, Twineberry, Untold Bell, Vio Puff, Volt Lily, Waddling Willow, Watermelon, Webberry, Zucchini
Full Fruit list (146 plants)
Ackee, Alien Apple, Amberfruit Shrub, Apple, Asteris, Astral Grape, Aurum Spire, Autumn Apple, Avocado, Banana, Baobab, Bat Berry, Bitter Melon, Blood Banana, Blood Kiwi, Blood Orange, Blue Raspberry, Blueberry, Boreal Orange, Brambleberry, Canary Melon, Cantaloupe, Carnival Pumpkin, Carrot, Celestiberry, Cherry, Chestnut, Chicken Feed, Chilli Mango, Chocolate Coconut, Cocomango, Coconut, Coinfruit, Corn, Cranberry, Crown Melon, Cryoshard, Dracuvine, Dragon Fruit, Durian, Egg Melon, Eggplant, Elder Strawberry, Emberpear, Everafter Glowstalk, Evo Apple I, Evo Apple II, Evo Apple III, Evo Apple IV, Evo Blueberry I, Evo Blueberry II, Evo Blueberry III, Evo Blueberry IV, Evo Pumpkin I, Evo Pumpkin II, Evo Pumpkin III, Evo Pumpkin IV, Faestar, Fall Berry, Fall Pineapple, Feijoa, Fernberry, Flame Berry, Franken Squash, Fruitball, Gaze Berry, Gem Fruit, Gilded Grove, Glass Kiwi, Golden Peach, Grand Tomato, Grape, Grape Droplet, Green Apple, Guanabana, Harvest Melon, Hazelnut, Hexberry, Hive Fruit, Holly Berry, Honey Dew, Honey Hollow, Jack O Lantern, Java Banana, Jungle Kiwano, King Palm, Kiwi, Lemon, Lime, Lingonberry, Loquat, Lullaberry, Mahogany, Mandrone Berry, Mango, Mangosteen, Mangrove, Maple Apple, Meyer Lemon, Mini Pumpkin, Moon Mango, Moon Melon, Nebula Barb, Nectarine, Olive, Papaya, Passionfruit, Peach, Pear, Pecan, Pineapple, Pixie Faern, Plumwillow, Poison Apple, Pomegranate, Pricklefruit, Prickly Pear, Pumpkin, Pumpkin Lantern, Queen Fruit, Raspberry, Rotten Apple, Sapberry, Sparkle Slice, Spiked Mango, Starfruit, Starry Strawberry, Strawberry, Sugar Apple, Sun Fruit, Sun Melon, Tiki Totem, Tomato, Traveler’s Fruit, Trinity Fruit, Twineberry, Twist Berry, Violet Corn, Watermelon, Webberry, White Mulberry, Wild Pineapple, Willowberry, Yellow Core, Zombie Fruit, Zucchini
Corn and Violet Corn are on this list, which is why either one can cover both Bread and Fruit. Sugarglaze and Cauliflower are not on it.
