The Dawning recipes and ingredients – Destiny 2

The Dawning holiday is here in Destiny 2 and with it comes a dozen or so recipes for players to bake into cookies to give to people around the Tower. Destiny 2 doesn’t reveal these oven recipes, so it’s up to the player to find them all through trial and error, or refer to a handy cooking recipe so as to avoid any burned goodies.

Last updated on December 12, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. PT.

The Dawning oven recipes

There are several recipes for players to discover during the Dawning and all of them require various ingredients in order to be crafted. Though it is possible to unlock all of the recipes using trial and error, it can be an expensive endeavor, as each ingredient can be time-consuming to come by.

The table below details each of the cookie types, the recipes used to craft each one, and the recipient whom the cookie should be given. Note that each cookie requires 15 Essence of Dawning to be baked in Eva’s Holiday Oven 2.0. Most of the recipes are ones we saw during last year’s Dawning event, however, a few new recipes have joined the fold. We’re working hard to find their ingredients, so check back later for more information.

Those looking to make the Burnt Edge Transit cookie should be aware that it is created with two items that are incompatible. The recipe we’ve included below is just one of a few variations, but it’s also one of the easiest combinations to put together.

It’s also worth noting that has destinations are added and removed, some recipients will be no longer available or new ones will be added. Old recipients will be left in the table below for documentation’s sake.

The Dawning recipe list
Cookie	Recipe	Give To
Burnt Edge Transit	Vex Milk Delicious Explosion	Master Rahool
Gjallardoodles	Ether Cane Delicious Explosion	Commander Zavala
Vanilla Blades	Cabal Oil Sharp Flavors	Lord Shaxx
Chocolate Ship Cookies	Cabal Oil Null Taste	Amanda Holliday
Eliksni Birdseed	Ether Cane Personal Touch	Louis (Hawthorne’s bird)
Traveler Donut Holes	Cabal Oil Flash of Inspiration	Ikora Rey
Telemetry Tapioca	Vex Milk Bullet Spray	Banshee-44
Gentleman’s Shortbread	Ether Cane Perfect Taste	Devrim Kay
Alkane Dragee Cookies	Chitin Powder Bullet Spray	Sloane
Infinite Forest Cake	Vex Milk Impossible Heat	Failsafe
Radiolarian Pudding	Vex Milk Electric Flavor	Asher Mir
Javelin Mooncake	Chitin Powder Sharp Flavor	Ana Bray
Dark Chocolate Motes	Taken Butter Null Taste	Drifter
Candy Dead Ghosts	Dark Ether Cane Flash of Inspiration	Spider
Ill-Fortune Cookies	Dark Ether Cane Impossible Heat	Petra Venj
Strange Cookies	Taken Butter Electric Flavor	Xur
Fractal Rolls	Vex Milk Pinch of Light	Brother Vance
Thousand Layer Cookie	Taken Butter Delicious Explosion	Riven
Lavender Ribbon Cookies	Vex Milk Personal Touch	Saint-14
Fried Sha-Dough	Dark Ether Cane Superb Texture	Calus
Hot Crossfire Buns	Ether Cane Balanced Flavor	Ada-1
Ascendant Oatmeal Raisin Cookies	Chitin Powder Finishing Touch	Eris Morn
Hackberry Tart	Cabal Oil Multifaceted Flavors	Benedicts 99-40
Classic Butter Cookie	Taken Butter Superb Texture	Eva Levante
Bittersweet Biscotti	Dark Ether Cane Balanced Flavors	Crow
Blueberry Crumblers	Ether Cane Bullet Spray	Shaw Han
Bright Dusted Snowballs	Chitin Powder Multifaceted Flavors	Tess
Etheric Coldsnaps	Chitin Powder Electric Flavor	Variks
Ascendant Apple Tart	Taken Butter Sharp Flavor	Queen Mara Sov
Starwort Thins	Dark Ether Cane Dark Frosting	Exo Stranger

The Dawning ingredient locations

There are more than a dozen ingredients that can be found or purchased that are used to create the recipes. Players looking to bake all of the cookies in the Dawning will need to collect all of the ingredients, some of them a few times. Ingredients can be found out in the wild by killing enemies or purchased from Eva Levante using Essence of Dawning. There appear to be some new ingredients during this year’s Dawning, so we’ll update our guide with more information as we track down their locations.

The ingredients come in two forms, Uncommon and Rare. Last year, Uncommon ingredients could be purchased from Eva Levante for 5 Essence of Dawning while Rare ingredients costing 10. Unfortunately, this option doesn’t appear to be available in The Dawning for 2020, so you’ll want to get to grinding as soon as possible to get the items you need.

The Dawning ingredient list
Ingredients	Rarity	Where to find	Price (Essence of Dawning)	Total Needed
Vex Milk	Uncommon	Kill Vex	N/A	4
Ether Cane	Uncommon	Kill Fallen	N/A	3
Cabal Oil	Uncommon	Kill Cabal	N/A	3
Chitin Powder	Uncommon	Kill Hive	N/A	2
Taken Butter	Uncommon	Kill Taken	N/A	2
Dark Ether Cane	Uncommon	Kill Scorn	N/A	2
Delicious Explosion	Rare	Kills with explosives: grenades, rockets, grenade launchers	N/A	2
Sharp Flavor	Rare	Kills with swords	N/A	2
Impossible Heat	Rare	Solar kills	N/A	2
Electric Flavor	Rare	Arc kills	N/A	2
Null Taste	Rare	Void kills	N/A	2
Flash of Inspiration	Rare	Generate Orbs of Light	N/A	2
Personal Touch	Rare	Melee kills	N/A	1
Perfect Taste	Rare	Precision kills	N/A	1
Bullet Spray	Rare	SMG, Machine Gun, and Auto Rifle kills	N/A	2
Finishing Touch	Rare	Earned by completing Finishers on enemies	N/A	1
Balanced Flavors	Rare	Bow, sniper, and scout rifle kills	N/A	1
Pinch of Light	Rare	Earned by picking up Orbs of Light	N/A	1
Multifaceted Flavors	Rare	Multi-kills on any enemy	N/A	1
Superb Texture	Rare	Super kills on any enemy	N/A	1
Dark Frosting	Rare	Stasis defeats	N/A

How to get more Essence of Dawning

Essence of Dawning is an essential ingredient in all of the recipes players will need to make during the holiday event. Each recipe requires 15 of these, meaning players will need to get a total of 300 Essence of Dawning to craft all the recipes, and that’s not taking into account if they want to purchase ingredients directly from Eva.

The first stop in getting more Essence of Dawning is to complete Eva Levante’s Dawning bounties. A couple of these bounties reward 5 apiece, which is a nice little bump when just starting. Nearly all activities in Destiny 2 will reward some amount of Essence of Dawning, though strikes and longer events appear to reward players with much more Essence of Dawn than other activities. A lot of Essence of Dawning can be earned from the Nightfall, Gambit, and Heroic Strikes – so we recommend getting those Challenges done before you switch to other activities, like the Crucible.

The Dawning rewards

This time around, players will find themselves rewarded with several different goodies. In fact, the first gift that you deliver to Zavala will grant you your first Cold Front, a new SMG that you can earn additional rolls for throughout The Dawning event. Here’s what it looks like in-game.

The Dawning is Destiny 2’s way of celebrating the end of the year and all that players have accomplished. This year, players can earn some pretty awesome rewards by simply following a few recipes and baking some cookies using Eva’s Holiday Oven 2.0. Be sure to head over to the Destiny 2 complete strategy guide for more information on Destiny 2’s limited-time events.