Wood stove in FarmCapi: cornmeal cake and cheese bread

The Wood stove in FarmCapi becomes available at level 8, costs 1,400 coins and bakes two classics from the Brazilian countryside: cornmeal cake, or bolo de fubá (2 cornmeal + 1 egg + 1 milk, 30 minutes, worth 250 coins), and cheese bread, or pão de queijo (1 Minas cheese + 2 eggs + 1 milk, 45 minutes, worth 320, from level 9). In the current version (November 2026), it's the building that ties your field, coop, Windmill and Cheese house into a single recipe.

Wood stove recipes

FarmCapi building recipes

Product	Building	Ingredients	Time	Level	XP	Sell value
Feed ×6	Windmill	2× Radish, 1× Carrot	2 min	4	1	–
Cornmeal	Windmill	2× Corn	15 min	5	6	55 coins
Minas cheese	Cheese house	2× Milk	40 min	7	16	150 coins
Butter	Cheese house	1× Milk	20 min	8	8	75 coins
Cornmeal cake	Wood stove	2× Cornmeal, 1× Egg, 1× Milk	30 min	8	20	250 coins
Cheese bread	Wood stove	1× Minas cheese, 2× Egg, 1× Milk	45 min	9	26	320 coins
Strawberry jam	Sweets kettle	3× Strawberry	50 min	10	22	175 coins
Pumpkin sweet	Sweets kettle	2× Pumpkin	1 h 30 min	11	40	400 coins

How to build and use the Wood stove, step by step

1. Before level 8, get the Windmill making cornmeal, hens laying eggs and at least one cow.
2. At level 8, tap the Wood stove building site, then Build (1,400 coins).
3. Your first cornmeal cake starts right away: 45 seconds, no ingredients used. The game also puts 2 cornmeal, 1 egg and 1 milk in your Barn for the next cake.
4. Pick a recipe, tap Make and, if you like, fill the other slot.
5. While it works, the stove puffs smoke from its chimney. When a bubble appears over it, tap to collect.

The full chain, from plot to oven

FarmCapi calculates recipe value against the sale price of the ingredients. Trace the chain back to raw goods and the Wood stove's edge gets clearer:

Cheese bread nearly doubles the value of the milk and eggs. The cost is time: 40 minutes in the Cheese house plus 45 at the stove, and 3 cow-hours of milk.

Queue, slots and gems

The Wood stove makes one item at a time; each slot holds an order waiting its turn. It starts with 2 slots and goes up to 5. A finished item keeps its slot until collected, and the queue runs with the game closed.

Speed up costs 1 gem per 10 minutes left on the item in progress, rounded up: 3 gems for a fresh cake, 5 for a cheese bread.

Which Wood stove recipe pays best

Cornmeal cake has the highest gain per building-hour in the game: 82 coins in 30 minutes, or 164 an hour. Cheese bread earns more per batch (104) but takes 45 minutes (139 an hour).

The caveat: that gain ignores ingredient time. Each cake needs 1 milk and each cheese bread needs 3 (counting the cheese). With 3 cows, the farm makes 3 milk an hour: plenty for the 2 cakes an hour the stove can bake, but only enough for 1 cheese bread an hour. That's why cake usually earns more coins per day.

Stove checklist: 2 cornmeal per cake queued at the Windmill, eggs in the Barn, and milk set aside before you make butter.

Orders and quests

• The "Grandma's cake" quest (collect 2 cornmeal cakes) pays 200 coins, 60 XP and 2 gems.
• Granny Coti asks for cornmeal cake from level 9 and cheese bread from level 10. She bakes her own cornmeal cake, considers it the best around, and won't share the recipe. See orders.
• Corn to cake in the real world: read what is fubá.

Keep reading

Before it comes the Cheese house; after it, the Sweets kettle. Why it is the best-earning building today is covered in the most profitable FarmCapi recipes. Play free and bake your first cornmeal cake.