It’s time to spread the holiday cheer in Destiny 2. The Dawning is here and there’s no EAZ, Infinite Forest, Haunted Sectors, or class competition this time around: It’s all about finding recipes, gathering ingredients, and baking cookies.
Giving cookies to specific vendors will award players with rewards for the event, with Eva Levante’s repeatable bounties also being a great source of Bright Dust. This year’s list of recipients is mostly unchanged compared to last year’s, with a few names removed and others not being added again.
Of course, you can’t bake if you don’t have any ingredients. Each kill has a chance of giving players ingredients based on what type of enemy they took down and how they dealt the final blow. Players can bake several cookies with different combinations of ingredients, though every cookie recipe also requires Dawning Essence. This resource is acquired from activity completions throughout the Dawning.
Here are the ingredients and recipes for The Dawning in Destiny 2.
The Dawning ingredients in Destiny 2
Enemy Ingredients
These drop depending on the type of enemy killed.
- Cabal Oil: Drops from Cabal enemies, which appear mostly in the EDZ and occasionally on Nessus.
- Vex Milk: Drops from Vex enemies. Found in all parts of Nessus, in Asterion Abyss (Europa), The Spire of the Watcher dungeon, the Vault of Glass raid, and other locations.
- Dark Ether Cane: Drops from Scorn, which appear primarily on Savathûn’s Throne World and in the Dreaming City.
- Ether Cane: Drops from Fallen enemies. They appear on the Moon, Europa, and in parts of the EDZ.
- Taken Butter: Drops from Taken enemies. Take advantage of the Coil to stock up on this item as you farm for seasonal gear. It’s easiest to collect this ingredient in the Dreaming City and the Blind Well, though it also appears in other parts of the System.
- Chitin Powder: Drops from Hive, commonly found in the Moon and on Savathûn’s Throne World.
Kill Ingredients
These depend on how players achieved a final blow on their enemy. They aren’t guaranteed to drop.
- Delicious Explosions: Explosive kills, including rocket launchers, grenade launchers, and grenade abilities. Gjallarhorn is your friend here, if you have it, and it’s also a good time to take your shiny new Dragon’s Breath for a spin.
- Sharp Flavor: Sword final blows
- Impossible Heat: Solar final blows
- Electric Flavor: Arc final blows
- Null Taste: Void final blows
- Flash of Inspiration: Create Orbs of Power
- Personal Touch: Melee final blows
- Perfect Taste: Precision final blows
- Bullet Spray: Final blows with auto rifles, submachine guns, and machine guns.
- Finishing Touch: Finishers
- Balanced Flavors: Final blows with bows, snipers, pulse rifles, and scout rifles.
- Multifaceted Flavors: Multikills
- Superb Texture: Super final blows.
- Dark Frosting: Stasis final blows.
The Dawning recipes in Destiny 2
These recipes will create the actual cookies that will be delivered to specific vendors. Baking those requires Dawning Essence, and you’ll have to take a run at them to complete the Cookie Delivery Helper quest.
Players will notice a few cookies are absent this year: Amanda Holiday’s Chocolate Ship Cookies aren’t on the list, and you can’t bake Candy Dead Ghosts for the Spider either. Mara and Riven will go another year without getting baked goods from the Guardian, despite both being at the H.E.L.M. (and Mara also being at the Farm).
- Gjallardoodles (Commander Zavala): Ether Cane, Delicious Explosion.
- Telemetry Tapioca (Banshee-44): Vex Milk, Bullet Spray.
- Strange Cookies (Xûr): Taken Butter, Electric Flavor.
- Ill-Fortune Cookies (Petra Venj): Dark Ether Cane, Impossible Heat.
- Etheric Coldsnaps (Variks): Chitin Powder, Electric Flavor.
- Lavender Ribbon Cookies (Saint-14): Vex Milk, Personal Touch.
- Traveler Donut Holes (Ikora Rey): Cabal Oil, Flash of Inspiration.
- Bittersweet Biscotti (Crow): Dark Ether Cane, Balanced Flavors.
- Eliksni Birdseed (Suraya Hawthorne): Ether Cane, Personal Touch.
- Vanilla Blades (Lord Shaxx): Cabal Oil, Sharp Flavor.
- Gentleman’s Shortbread (Devrim Kay): Ether Cane, Perfect Taste.
- Infinite Forest Cake (Failsafe): Vex Milk, Impossible Heat.
- Ascendant Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (Eris Morn): Chitin Powder, Finishing Touch.
- Classic Butter Cookies (Eva Levante): Taken Butter, Superb Texture.
- Dark Chocolate Motes (The Drifter): Taken Butter, Null Taste.
- Blueberry Crumblers (Shaw Han): Ether Cane, Bullet Spray.
- Starwort Thins (Elsie Bray/The Exo Stranger): Dark Ether Cane, Dark Frosting
- Hot Crossfire Buns (Ada-1): Ether Cane, Balanced Flavors
- Bright-Dusted Snowballs (Tess Everis): Chitin Powder, Multifaceted Flavors
- Lucent Crunch (Fynch): Chitin Powder, Perfect Taste
Once you’ve baked a cookie, you just need to go to the specific vendor and interact with them. This should reward you with some prizes and it’s also a requirement for some of Eva Levante’s bounties.
If you’re hard-farming a specific activity, make sure to bake cookies that use the ingredients you can get more easily out of it, which will bulk up the number of cookies you make and let you get the maximum amount of rewards.
