Retail Cooking — Midnight 1–100

Retail · Midnight
Updated 21 October 2026

Learn Midnight Cooking from Sylann in Silvermoon City. This expansion has its own 1–100 skill bar; older expansion skill does not need to be leveled first.

Leveling Cooking

Skill	What to do
1–25	Make Spiced Biscuits from vendor ingredients until the recipe becomes grey.
25–35	Make Felberry Figs using Plant Protein and vendor ingredients.
35–100	Alternate fresh Spiced Biscuits with Hearty Food conversion; late green skill-ups need extra batches.

These are profession skill points, not character levels. Yellow and green recipes can fail to award a point. Check recipe color and your learned recipes before committing a full batch of materials.

Craft counts and ingredients per step

Count crafts, not servings. A biscuit craft always consumes one butter and three spices; its food output changes with Cooking skill. Stop a leveling step when you reach its target, even if you have ingredients left.

Skill / action	Craft budget	Ingredients per craft	Batch ingredients
1–25: Spiced Biscuits	Start with 50; add small batches if needed	1 A Big Ol’ Stick of Butter; 3 Pouch of Spices	50 butter; 150 spices
25–35: Felberry Figs	10	10 Plant Protein; 4 Ripened Vegetable Assortment; 1 butter; 1 Mana-Wyrm Essence	100 Plant Protein; 40 vegetables; 10 butter; 10 essence
35–100: make a fresh biscuit batch	50 at a time, only when food runs out	1 butter; 3 spices	50 butter; 150 spices per batch
35–100: convert biscuits with Hearty Food	One conversion for every 5 biscuits you have	5 Spiced Biscuits	50 biscuits support 10 conversions; 100 support 20

Learn Hearty Food at 35. Convert saved food first, then alternate biscuit production and conversion. The conversion becomes yellow at 50 and green at 75, so there is no guaranteed fixed number of batches to 100. Increasing your skill between batches can improve the servings from later biscuit crafts.

Shopping list: starter budget and refills

Ingredient	Starter budget to about 35	Each later 50-craft biscuit refill	Where to buy
A Big Ol’ Stick of Butter	60	50	Cooking supplies vendor
Pouch of Spices	150	150	Cooking supplies vendor
Plant Protein	100	0	Farm or Auction House
Ripened Vegetable Assortment	40	0	Cooking supplies vendor
Mana-Wyrm Essence	10	0	Cooking supplies vendor

The starter column budgets 50 biscuit crafts plus 10 fig crafts. If you need B additional biscuit crafts, total butter is 60 + B and total spices 150 + 3B. Subtract what is already in your bags. For example, 200 extra crafts require 260 butter and 750 spices in total, with the same protein, vegetables and essence as above. This is a purchasing calculation, not a promise that 200 crafts will finish the skill bar.

For ten more Hearty conversions, you need 50 ordinary biscuits. If the recipe currently yields four servings per craft and you have none, 13 biscuit crafts provide 52 servings and cost 13 butter plus 39 spices. Recalculate using your displayed yield; do not buy one craft’s ingredients for every individual serving.

Recipe amounts: Spiced Biscuits, Felberry Figs. Conversion and skill thresholds: Wowhead Cooking route. Checked 21 October 2026.

Raw materials by recipe

These links cover the gathered and processed materials named by the leveling recipes. Keep intermediate products and check the recipe window for vendor supplies and the amount needed per craft.

Recipe	Farm or process these materials
Felberry Figs	Plant Protein

Materials and farming guides

Buy butter, spices, vegetables and Mana-Wyrm Essence from cooking suppliers. The last stage earns points from Hearty Food conversion; grey biscuits themselves no longer award skill.

References: WoW-Professions

Compare Midnight food and feast buffs

Pick the stat your character needs, then compare foods that provide that same buff. More points of a different stat are not automatically an upgrade. “Highest secondary” selects your highest secondary stat; it is not a menu where you choose one.

Buff	Personal food options
50 primary stat	Royal Roast; Impossibly Royal Roast
64 highest secondary	Champion’s Bento; Flora Frenzy
57.6 Critical Strike	Arcano Cutlets; Sun-Seared Lumifin; Tasty Smoked Tetra
57.6 Haste	Crimson Calamari; Fel-Kissed Filet; Null and Void Plate
57.6 Mastery	Glitter Skewers; Warped Wise Wings
57.6 Versatility	Braised Blood Hunter; Buttered Root Crab; Void-Kissed Fish Rolls

Values use the linked item or recipe records checked on 21 October 2026. The 57.6 values come from 64 × 0.9 in the item data; the game may round their display. These differ from some guide tables that list 59. Recipe access: Midnight Cooking reference. Flora Frenzy is a Harandar quest reward from Gomphusta; the other base recipes in this comparison are trainer recipes.

Group feast comparison
Feasts	Well Fed reward	Choice to make
Harandar Celebration; Silvermoon Parade	50 primary stat + 98 Stamina	Primary-stat group option
Blooming Feast; Quel’dorei Medley	65 highest secondary + 98 Stamina	Base highest-secondary option
Amani Cornucopia; Loa’s Gathering; Feast of Knowledge	71.5 highest secondary + 107.8 Stamina in the item data (65 and 98 × 1.1)	Coiled Isle upgrade: 10% more than the base highest-secondary feast

The live Blooming Feast effect and Quel’dorei Medley effect list 65 secondary, while some item records still list 64. This comparison uses their feast-effect values; check the buff applied by your current client. The client may round displayed values. All three Coiled Isle feasts have the same listed stat benefit, so compare their ingredient costs and recipe access. They require level 90 to eat; sit for at least 10 seconds to gain the one-hour buff. The linked item records provide the current effects.

Coiled Isle personal food

Puffer Plate, Sweet-And-Sour Skewers, and Venom-Spiced Cutlets each provide 65 of your highest secondary stat for one hour after 10 seconds of eating, and require level 90. Their published item value is one point above the 64 shown on Champion’s Bento and Flora Frenzy, so compare price as well as that small difference. Their ingredients and sources are listed below.

Hearty food and deaths

Hearty Food consumes five eligible ordinary foods; Hearty Feast consumes ten eligible feasts. The resulting Hearty buff persists through death. For example, Hearty Royal Roast still provides 50 primary stat for one hour: its benefit is persistence, not a larger stat number. Source: Icy Veins Cooking mechanics. Check the conversion’s output and binding before making food for another player.

Choose food by the session, not just the stack price

Solo play: compare the price per usable serving of the desired stat.
Group play: divide feast cost by the number of people who will actually eat it. A feast used by five people costs much more per player than the same feast used by twenty.
Progression pulls: account for repeated food use after deaths, and compare any available Hearty version’s tooltip and conversion cost.
Crafting for sale: use the actual yield shown at your Cooking skill. One craft is not necessarily one serving.

Example: a 600-gold feast shared by 20 players costs 30 gold each. Shared by five, it costs 120 gold each. Those are illustrative prices; compare against individual food with the desired buff before buying.

Coiled Isle recipes

These patch 12.1 recipes require Midnight Cooking 35. They become yellow at 75, green at 82 and grey at 90, so they are options for the middle of the skill bar, not a route from 90 to 100. Buy Pouch of Spices and Tavern Fixings from Cooking suppliers.

Recipe	Ingredients per craft	Recipe source
Puffer Plate	3 Thalassian Fillet; 8 Polluted Puffer; 5 Pouch of Spices; 1 Neutralized Venom Clot	Buy the recipe from Second Mate Sluggs.
Sweet-And-Sour Skewers	4 Cursebound Globe; 4 Neutralized Venom Clot; 5 Pouch of Spices; 3 Blood Hunter; 3 Lucky Loa	Find the recipe in a Thalassian Recipe in a Bottle while fishing, or buy the recipe from another player.
Venom-Spiced Cutlets	25 Thalassian Fillet; 5 Tavern Fixings; 5 Pouch of Spices; 8 Neutralized Venom Clot	Buy the recipe from Navigator Otoola for 250 Beached Asteroid and 750 Voidlight Marl.

References: Warcraft Wiki, Wowhead, Warcraft Wiki