Now that we've dealt with Disney Dreamlight Valley's Storybook Vale characters disappearing, it's time to take a more lighthearted approach by baking cakes. During Aurora's The Family Recipe quest, you'll help her recreate a cake, only to run into some mishaps and enlist help to resolve them.
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Starting the "The Family Recipe" quest
Starting the "The Family Recipe" quest requires completing the second chapter of Disney Dreamlight Valley's Storybook Vale storyline, unlocking Aurora as a villager, and reaching level two friendship with her. After reaching level two friendship, you'll be able to talk to her to learn more about her current predicament.
She plans to host a celebration within the Valley and needs your help with organizing it. Since she's already planned a good chunk of it, your first goal is to check up on Merida and Flynn. Unfortunately, the two of them are arguing over how to design the banners. Frustrated over their questionable ideas, you decide to create them yourself.
Crafting Aurora's Celebration banners
Creating the banners for Aurora's quest requires collecting the following resources:
- Petrified Wood (10)
- Marble (10)
- Posidonia (10)
By now, you likely have some of these resources stockpiled, as they're all early-game materials you learn about shortly after beginning your The Storybook Vale playthrough. Nonetheless, if you're running low, you can obtain Petrified Wood by mining The Bind and Everafter, with Marble available through mining in Mythopia and Posidonia by fishing in the same region. Posidonia can be tricky, as you need to avoid hitting fishing circles.
Once you have all three items, return to Merida and Flynn to hear another argument. This time, they're trying to pick a color for the banners. You decide to make the banners yourself, prompting Flynn to give you two dye colors.
With all that said and done, you're ready to make the banners. Head to any crafting station, navigate to Furniture, and select Aurora's Fairy Cake Celebration Banner. After placing them around your village, return to Aurora to receive your next task: baking a cake.
Baking Aurora's cake
After placing Aurora's banners and returning to her, she'll tell you she needs some items to bake a cake. You'll need the following materials for this:
- Shovel Bird Eggs (12)
- Porcini Mushrooms (5)
- Lightning (5)
Shovelbird Eggs are the easiest item to come by, as they're readily available through Goofy's Stall in The Bind. Porcini mushrooms grow as wild fungi in Everafter, while Lightning appears as an herb in Mythopia. Gather each item before returning to Aurora.
Gather Spiral Strawberries with Aurora
Once you return everything to Aurora, she'll show you the finished cake, leading you to question it. Several conversations between you, Aurora, and Flynn follow, with the overall consensus revealing that it isn't a tasty cake.
With this revelation in mind, Flynn decides that the only logical solution is to steal the cake back. Even if you question it, you'll still go through with it, with your job being to distract Aurora while he takes the cake. After talking to Aurora, travel around Everafter with her and collect some Spiral Strawberries before moving on to the final part of this quest.
Making a new cake for Aurora
Once you and Flynn conclude your cake heist, you'll both return to his house, only to find Aurora waiting for you. She reveals that she knew about the heist all along and wishes the two of you had been honest about the situation. Looking to resolve this situation peacefully, you all decide to ask Remy for help with baking another cake.
You'll need to gather the following items for this cake:
- Milk
- Elysian Grain
- Spiral Strawberries
- Faerie Rye
- Remy's Cake Yeast
By now, you should already have some Spiral Strawberries from the previous quest objective. Remy will also give you cake yeast, knocking out two of the five ingredients. You can purchase regular milk at Remy's restaurant shop, while Elysian Grain and Faerie Rye are available from Mythopia and Everafter's Goofy Stall, respectively.
With all five items on hand, toss them into a cooking pot to make an improved cake for Aurora. Return to Aurora and arrange the display to wrap up her "The Family Recipe" quest.
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