Celebrate Final Fantasy XIV’s 8th Anniversary With a Beautiful Cake

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is celebrating a rather tasty 8-year anniversary! Square Enix joined up with former Great British Bake Off star Kim-Joy to put together an amazing cake to mark the anniverasry of 2.0, A Realm Reborn, being launched.

Go ahead and watch Kim-Joy put together the delicious cake in the video below:

This three-tiered cake is a lemon sponge base coated with buttercream. And of course you can find a plethora of Final Fantasy XIV references on the cake too, including:

• Cactuars, Sabotenders and Gigantenders – Spiky creature-shaped gingerbread cookies and decorated with royal icing, placed on a sandy desert backdrop made from biscuit.
• Fat Chocobos – These chubby yellow birds are made from tangzhong bread, sitting on a watercolor blue and white backdrop representing the sky.
• Spriggans – The Copperbell Mines residents are mochi here, and filled with a thick custard, these creatures are clutching their precious gems made from kohakutou-style jelly.
• The cake is topped with a fondant-covered Moogle.

The celebration doesn’t stop at dessert, either! The in-game event, The Rising, is back once again and lasts until September 9th. Participating in the event rewards you with a Red Moon Parasol, Nymeia Potpurri, and the chance to journey to Steps of Nald to assist Kipih Jakkya in a quest.

New to Final Fantasy XIV? Now is the best time to join! The free trial covers you up to level 60 and allows you to play content from A Realm Reborn to Heavensward up to patch 3.56. It also features the Au Ra race as an option for your character, along with the additional job classes Dark Knight, Astrologian and Machinist. You can start your free trial now, just in time to build up to the November release of Endwalker!

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