All Dawning Recipes and ingredients in Destiny 2


Eva Levante in the Tower as a promotional image for the Dawning 2023.

The Dawning is upon Destiny 2, bringing back the classic cookie-baking, recipe-collecting, ingredient-hoarding fun as usual (though without the beloved bounties this year). The tried-and-true tradition of gifting your favorite NPCs for loot remains, though, and this time, the goodies are high-end.

Baking cookies is at the heart of the Dawning. Delivering baked treats to any of the eligible NPCs has a chance of giving you an item called A Gift In Return, and if you're lucky, opening it may get you special versions of the new event weapons.

Opening gifts has been giving us Tier Five versions of the Dawning weapons, which include a returning linear fusion rifle and two powerful newcomers. Knowing the best goodies to make is vital, so here's a list of all ingredients and recipes for this year's Dawning.

All Dawning Ingredients in Destiny 2

Dean Rebecca of the Aionians with the Dawning symbol next to them.
This year, you can bake cookies for the Dean of the Aionians. Image via Bungie

Dawning ingredients come in two rarities: Uncommon and Rare. Uncommon materials drop depending on what enemy type you kill, while blue ones drop depending on how you got that kill. The uncommon elements are:

  • Vex Milk: Vex
  • Ether Cane: Fallen
  • Cabal Oil: Cabal
  • Chitin Powder: Hive
  • Taken Butter: Taken
  • Dark Ether Cane: Scorn

That said, there are no ingredients tied specifically to Dread enemies this year, and it may take a while to get there—if Bungie ever adds that to the fold. Until then, we can be happy we don't have to shoot Barrier Grims to bake treats for Ghost or something similar, and I hope I haven't just jinxed that into existence next year.

Archie from Destiny 2's Dawning event.
You can also give Archie cookies, even if he doesn't eat them. Image via Bungie

The list of Rare ingredients is longer, with a litany of different types depending on your weapon (or ability) of choice.

  • Delicious Explosion: Grenades, grenade launchers, and rocket launchers
  • Sharp Flavor: Swords
  • Impossible Heat: Solar damage
  • Electric Flavor: Arc damage
  • Null Taste: Void damage
  • Flash of Inspiration: Picking up orbs of power
  • Personal Touch: Melee abilities
  • Perfect Taste: Precision kills
  • Bullet Spray: Auto rifles, SMGs, and machine guns
  • Finishing Touch: Finishers
  • Balanced Flavors: Pulse rifles, scout rifles, snipers, and bows
  • Multifaceted Flavors: Getting multikills
  • Superb Texture: Super abilities
  • Dark Frosting: Stasis or Strand damage

All Dawning Recipes in Destiny 2

Eva Levante's holiday oven in the Tower, as seen in promotional art for the Dawning in Destiny 2.
Put those ingredients in Eva's oven to make the finest (or weirdest) cookies in the Sol System. Image via Bungie

There are 22 different cookie recipes in the Dawning this year, which we've listed below. All cookies in this list require 15 Essence of Dawning to make, though masterworking Eva Levante's oven brings that number down to 10. You only need to make each recipe once to get this effect, and any recipes from past years carry over.

CookieRecipientFirst ingredientSecond ingredient
GjallardoodlesCommander Zavala (Tower)Ether CaneDelicious Explosion
Traveler Donut HolesIkora Rey (Tower)Cabal OilFlash of Inspiration
Telemetry TapiocaBanshee-44 (Tower)Vex MilkBullet Spray
Eliksni BirdseedSuraya Hawthorne (Tower)Ether CanePersonal Touch
Gentleman's ShortbreadDevrim Kay (EDZ)Ether CanePerfect Taste
Infinite Forest CakeFailsafe (Nessus)Vex MilkImpossible Heat
Vanilla BladesLord Shaxx (Tower)Cabal OilSharp Flavor
Dark Chocolate MotesDrifter (Tower)Taken ButterNull Taste
Ill-Fortune CookiesPetra Venj (Dreaming City)Dark Ether CaneImpossible Heat
Strange CookiesXûr (Eternity)Taken ButterElectric Flavor
Lavender Ribbon CookiesSaint-14 (Tower)Vex MilkPersonal Touch
Hot Crossfire BunsAda-1 (Tower)Ether CaneBalanced Flavors
Ascendant Oatmeal Raisin CookiesEris Morn (Moon)Chitin PowderFinishing Touch
Etheric ColdsnapsVariks (Europa)Chitin PowderElectric Flavor
Blueberry CrumblersShaw Han (Cosmodrome)Ether CaneBullet Spray
Bright-Dusted SnowballsTess Everis (Tower)Chitin PowderMultifaceted Flavors
Classic Butter CookiesEva Levante (Tower)Taken ButterSuperb Texture
Starwort ThinsElsie Bray/The Exo Stranger (Europa)Dark Ether CaneDark Frosting
Lucent CrunchFynch (Throne World)Chitin PowderPerfect Taste
Neomun-PieNimbus (Neomuna)Vex MilkDark Frosting
Dark Matter DrizzlersDean Rebecca (Kepler)Ether CaneDark Frosting
Peanut Butter Paw PrintsArchie (Tower)Dark Ether CaneBalanced Flavors

The Dawning doesn't require you to engage with the event activities (outside of one match of Snowball Fight for the event quest). Instead, it happens passively as you do any activity in Destiny 2. You should get enough ingredients for cookies just by playing, but if you have a special NPC in mind, you can also focus on baking their favorite recipe. And who knows, maybe by next Dawning, we can give treats to Ghost or Aunor.

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