Destiny 2 The Dawning 2019 Guide - Delivery Quest Steps, Ingredients, Recipe List

Eva Lavante likes to act like it’s been a long time since we’ve seen her. It’s only been a month, of course, but we welcome her back regardless. This time around she’s outfitted the Tower for The Dawning, the Destiny 2 winter holiday event. But what rewards are there to chase during The Dawning 2019? Let’s dig in.

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When does The Dawning 2019 End?

The Dawning runs from December 17 to January 14.

Dawning 2019 Deliver Quest Guide – Spreading Cheer

Here are all the steps for this year’s main quest. Ingredients, how to obtain them, and recipes can all be found after this section!

Step 1: Deliver Gifts to Drifter and Vance

To get this year’s Dawning sparrow, you need to complete the following:

  • 1 Dark Chocolate Mote
  • 1 Fractal Roll
  • 50 Total Gifts Baked

Bake holiday gifts, then deliver them to the Drifter and Brother Vance. Available only during the Dawning 2019.

“Even those on the fringes deserve a happy Dawning.” —Eva Levante

Step 2: Deliver Gifts to Saint-14 and Spider

You can upgrade your Alpine Dash Sparrow by completing two other gift deliveries. The first of which is for Saint-14 on the Tower and Spider on Tangled Shore.

  • 1 Lavender Ribbon
  • 1 Candy Dead Ghosts
  • 150 Total Gifts Baked

Upgrade the Alpine Dash Sparrow by baking holiday gifts and delivering them to Saint-14 and Spider. Available only during the Dawning 2019.

“The Dawning is a time to celebrate friends both old and new.” —Eva Levante

Step 3: Deliver Gifts to Eris and Calus

Now to give some delectable food to Eris and Calus.

  • 1 Fried Sha-dough
  • 1 Ascendant Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
  • 200 Gifts Baked

Upgrade the Alpine Dash Sparrow by baking holiday gifts and delivering them to Eris Morn and the Visage of Calus. Available only during the Dawning 2019.

“You’ll find that a little kindness can do a lot of good.” —Eva Levante

Step 4: Deliver Gifts to Amanda and Benedict

One more step to go! Obviously the total gifts baked is much more difficult than the two recipes. Keep grinding!

  • 1 Chocolate Ship Cookies
  • 1 Hackberry Tart
  • 300 Gifts Baked

Upgrade the Alpine Dash Sparrow by baking holiday gifts and delivering them to Amanda Holliday and Benedict 99-40. Available only during the Dawning 2019.

“The Dawning is the perfect time to reconnect with old friends, even if you’ve drifted apart. A simple gift will remind them that you care.” —Eva Levante

How to Get The Dawning Ingredients

While we do know you will still be baking, we do not know if recipes or ingredients have changed since last year. Here’s everything from The Dawning 2018.

The first ingredient is a random drop from certain enemy types.

  • Vex Milk: Kill Vex
  • Ether Cane: Kill Fallen
  • Cabal Oil: Kill Cabal
  • Chitin Powder: Kill Hive
  • Taken Butter: Kill Taken
  • Dark Ether Cane: Kill Scorn

The second ingredient is found by killing enemies in specific ways.

  • Delicious Explosion: Kills with grenades, rocket launchers, or grenade launchers
  • Sharp Flavor: Kills with swords
  • Impossible Heat: Kills with Solar damage
  • Electric Flavor: Kills with Arc damage
  • Null Taste: Kills with Void damage
  • Flash of Inspiration: Generate Orbs of Light
  • Personal Touch: Kills with melee
  • Perfect Taste: Kills with precision damage
  • Bullet Spray: Kills with submachine guns, light machine guns, or auto rifles
  • Pinch of Light: Pick up Orbs of Light.

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The Dawning 2019 Recipe List

Once you’ve gotten some ingredients, it’s time to get cooking. Here’s the full list of recipes, and their recipients, to help you finish out everything you need to do in this year’s event.

Gjallardoodles (Zavala)

Mix Ether Cane and Delicious Explosion, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Traveler Donut Holes (Ikora)

Mix Cabal Oil and Flash of Inspiration, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Vanilla Blades (Lord Shaxx)

Mix Cabal Oil and Sharp Flavor, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Fractal Roll (Brother Vance)

Mix Vex Milk and Pinch of Light, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Fried Sha-dough (Visage of Calus)

Mix Dark Ether Cane and Superb Texture, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Ascendant Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (Eris Morn)

Mix Chitin Powder and Finishing Touch, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Hackberry Tart (Benedict 99-40)

Mix Cabal Oil and Multifaceted Flavors, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Lavender Ribbon Cookies (Saint-14)

Mix Vex Milk and Personal Touch, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Hot Crossfire Buns (Ada-1)

Mix  Ether Cane and Balanced Flavors, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Thousand-Layer Cookies (Riven)

Mix Taken Butter and Delicious Explosion, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Eliksni Birdseed (Hawthorne)

Mix Ether Cane and Personal Touch, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Burnt Edge Transits (Master Rahool)

Mix two ingredients that do not successfully combine, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Telemetry Tapioca (Banshee-44)

Mix Vex Milk and Bullet Spray, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Strange Cookies (Xur)

Mix Taken Butter and Electric Flavor, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Chocolate Ship Cookies (Amanda Holliday)

Mix Cabal Oil and Null Taste, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Gentleman’s Shortbread (Devrim Kay)

Mix Ether Cane and Perfect Taste, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Infinite Forest Cake (Failsafe)

Mix Vex Milk and Impossible Heat, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Alkane Dragée Cookies (Sloane)

Mix Chitin Powder and Bullet Spray, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Radiolarian Pudding (Asher Mir)

Mix Vex Milk and Electric Flavor, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Javelin Mooncake (Ana Bray)

Mix Chitin Powder and Sharp Flavor, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Ill-Fortune Cookies (Petra Venj)

Mix Dark Ether Cane and Impossible Heat, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Candy Dead Ghosts (The Spider)

Mix Dark Ether Cane and Flash of Inspiration, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

Dark Chocolate Motes (The Drifter)

Mix Taken Butter and Null Taste, add Essence of Dawning, then bake.

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Dillon Skiffington

Dillon is the Senior Game Guides Editor at Fanbyte. He's been writing about video games for 15 years and has thousands of hours logged in FFXIV and hundreds of hours in Destiny 2.