Vanilla Cookbook
by Moralle
Players who want more to cook get over eighty new dishes from Vanilla Cookbook, built from ingredients already in the game, and some cakes too.
What it does
The mod's author argues that vanilla Minecraft has ingredients with more potential than the game uses, and the mod gives them new dishes. Eight new cakes come with it, along with milk bottles, cheese, stuffed sea pickles and cheesecake, which clear potion effects the way milk does. Loot, villager trades and a range of food items that can be placed into the composter are also added.
When Farmer's Delight is installed, the mod adds cake slices and cooking pot recipes. Other small compatibility patches are included as well. Vanilla Cookbook is published for Forge and NeoForge, with builds covering 1.16.3 – 1.21.1, and runs on client and server. It is not open source and is released under a custom license.
Key features
Over 80 new dishes
Dishes are crafted from vanilla ingredients, extending the food options available to players.
Placeable food blocks
A pancake stack and a brownie tray can be set down in the world as decorative and usable blocks.
Potion-clearing foods
Milk bottles, cheese, stuffed sea pickles and cheesecake clear potion effects, as milk does in vanilla.
Composter and trades
Many of the new items can go into a composter, and villagers offer trades and loot includes the new food.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.20.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.19.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.18.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.17.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.16.x3 of 3 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Optional 1
Use cases
Food-focused survival
Players who want more recipes to cook and eat in a survival world can use the added dishes as a food supply.
Who it’s for: Players who want a larger food selection in vanilla-style gameplay, and server owners who want new dishes and cakes on a shared world.
Questions
Which loaders does Vanilla Cookbook support?
Does Vanilla Cookbook need to be installed on the server?
Does Vanilla Cookbook add cake slices?
In the catalog
Vanilla Cookbook is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,337 Food mods for Forge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Minecraft has a lot of potential with the ingredients already in the game. However, it doesn't seem like they're interested in using that potential, since they barely add any new food items. I decided to take things into my own hands and make a mod that shows what Minecraft could or should do with their food. Over 80…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/vanillacookbook
- Owner
- Moralle
- Published
- 2021-03-19
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-06-14
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15