Cooking is one of the most important hobbies in Heartopia, and it becomes available once you reach DG Level 5. At this stage, you are asked to choose your first hobby from three options: Cooking, Birdwatching, and Bugcatching. You unlock your second hobby at DG Level 8, and your final hobby at DG Level 11.
Heartopia Recipes Guide – Complete Cooking Ingredients
No matter what level you are at, this guide will walk you through exactly how cooking works and why so many experienced players strongly recommend choosing it as your very first hobby.
Choose Cooking First
Cooking is widely considered the best early-game hobby for one simple reason—it naturally connects with two other major systems in the game: Gardening and Fishing.
When you pick Cooking, you automatically start benefiting from all three systems at the same time.
You can grow your own vegetables and fruits
You can catch fish for cooking ingredients
And you can turn everything you collect into cooked meals for higher profits
Because of this, your progress becomes much faster. You are not only leveling your Cooking hobby, but you are also indirectly leveling Gardening and Fishing just by playing normally.
Even better, cooked food always sells for more than raw ingredients.
For example:
Selling two Level 1 tomatoes gives you 60 coins
Cooking those same tomatoes into a Level 1 salad sells for 90 coins
You are using the same materials, but making significantly more profit simply by cooking them first.
Recipes and Sub-Recipes
When you first unlock Cooking, you start with 2 base recipes. As your Cooking level increases, you can purchase up to 28 more base recipes, giving you a total of 30 base recipes.
But this is only the beginning.
Heartopia’s cooking system hides a huge number of sub-recipes inside those base recipes. These are unlocked when you experiment with different ingredient combinations.
For example, the Jam base recipe simply says:
“Cook 4 of any fruit to make jam.”
If you use 4 apples, you unlock Apple Jam.
If you use 4 blueberries, you unlock Blueberry Jam.
And so on for other fruits.
Many base recipes work this way, allowing you to discover entirely new dishes just by changing the ingredients you use. Once you cook a dish even once, the game automatically saves that recipe, so you never need to memorize anything.
This guide is designed to grow along with your progress and will include:
All cooking ingredients and where to find them
All base recipes and how to unlock them
All discoverable sub-recipes
Profit comparisons to help you decide what is worth cooking
This is an ongoing guide. As more recipes are unlocked and more information becomes available, it will continue to be updated with new discoveries.
Heartopia Cooking Ingredients
Heartopia features a surprisingly large variety of cooking ingredients. In total, there are 15 wild ingredients, 13 garden-grown ingredients, and **11 ingredients that can be purchased from the Chef**.
This number does not even include every fish type, mushroom variant, or star-level variation. When everything is counted together, the game contains **around 39 different ingredient types**, giving you plenty of room to experiment and discover profitable recipes.
To keep everything easy to understand, this guide organizes ingredients into three clear categories.
Wild Ingredients
Wild ingredients are items you can gather naturally from the world map. They respawn over time and can be collected freely, with no hobby level required unless specifically mentioned. These are your main source of early-game materials and are perfect for quick farming runs.
Garden Ingredients
Garden ingredients are crops that you grow inside your personal garden plots. Some crops are locked behind specific **Hobby Gardening Levels (HGL)**, which means your list of available plants will grow as you continue leveling your gardening hobby.
Chef Ingredients
Chef ingredients are items you can buy directly from the Chef. Their prices vary depending on the ingredient, and some of them are locked behind certain **Hobby Cooking Levels (HCL)** before they become available for purchase.
What You Will Find in Each Ingredient Entr
Every ingredient listed in this guide includes:
Where you can find it
Its purchase cost (if applicable)
The required hobby level, if any
The base selling price
The lowest and highest price ranges for star-level variations
The low and high prices shown are based on the cheapest and most expensive versions I have personally encountered so far.
Heartopia Recipes List
These are the recipes that have been confirmed so far. This list will continue to grow as more combinations are discovered. If you uncover a recipe that is not listed here, it can be added to expand this guide.
House Salad
2x any vegetable
Mixed Jam
4x different fruits
Raspberry Jam
4x raspberries
Blueberry Jam
4x blueberries
Apple Jam
4x apples
Mandarin Jam
4x mandarins
Tomato Sauce
4x tomatoes (grown through gardening)
Fish and Chips
2x any fish
2x potatoes (grown through gardening)
Cheesecake
1x cheese (purchased from the Chef)
1x milk (purchased from the Chef)
1x wheat (grown through gardening)
Mushroom Pie – Base Version
2x any mushrooms
1x wheat (grown through gardening)
1x egg (purchased from the Chef)
Shiitake Pie
2x shiitake mushrooms
1x wheat (grown through gardening)
1x egg (purchased from the Chef)
Oyster Mushroom Pie
2x oyster mushrooms
1x wheat (grown through gardening)
1x egg (purchased from the Chef)
Button Mushroom Pie
2x button mushrooms
1x wheat (grown through gardening)
1x egg (purchased from the Chef)
Boletus Pie
2x boletus mushrooms
1x wheat (grown through gardening)
1x egg (purchased from the Chef)
Black Truffle Pie
2x black truffles
1x wheat (grown through gardening)
1x egg (purchased from the Chef)
Grilled Mushroom – Base Version
4x any mushroom
Grilled Oyster Mushroom
4x oyster mushrooms
Grilled Shiitake Mushroom
4x shiitake mushrooms
Grilled Button Mushroom
4x button mushrooms
Grilled Boletus Mushroom
4x boletus mushrooms
Smoked Fish Bagel
1x any fish
1x any vegetable (grown through gardening)
1x cheese (purchased from the Chef)
1x wheat (grown through gardening)
Bizarre Food
Use any normal food recipe and intentionally let it burn
Coffee
4x coffee beans (purchased from the Chef)
Latte
2x coffee beans (purchased from the Chef)
2x milk (purchased from the Chef)
Bizarre Drink
Use any drink recipe and intentionally let it burn
Chocolate Sauce
4x cocoa (grown through gardening)
Carrot Cake
2x carrots (grown through gardening)
1x egg (purchased from the Chef)
1x wheat (grown through gardening)
Roll Cakes
Currently unknown. This recipe appears to require purchasing the recipe directly from Doris’ Secret Store.