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To wonder how people eat all the cakes in these blhh

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WittiestUsernameEver · 28/04/2024 10:32

So I love to watch baking videos and whatnot. They're always making like 2 dozen massive muffins or 20 cookies or whatever.

When do these all get eaten?? Am I missing something? If I make 12 muffins, we (family of 3) will take maybe a week to eat them, maybe more. They often get frozen and used up eventually. But I always get the impression that we're "slow".

How long would 12 cookies, the size you might get in bakery supermarket last your family?

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WorkCleanRepeat · 28/04/2024 14:22

chaticat · 28/04/2024 10:35

Is this like the mumsnet chicken where we all brag how long it takes us to eat cookies?

I was thinking that. 12 fresh cookies would disappear from the kitchen in a few hours in our house.

kwetu · 28/04/2024 14:19

In my household 2 adults 2 kids I would say that half would probably be gone before they even had a chance to cool. So 24 hours all would be gone!

Alfreddoeblin · 28/04/2024 14:17

Gettingbysomehow · 28/04/2024 10:36

😂

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Na it’s about people stealth boasting about how much they exercise before they stuff themselves with cakes.

TheMuskratOfDestiny · 28/04/2024 14:16

WittiestUsernameEver · 28/04/2024 10:32

So I love to watch baking videos and whatnot. They're always making like 2 dozen massive muffins or 20 cookies or whatever.

When do these all get eaten?? Am I missing something? If I make 12 muffins, we (family of 3) will take maybe a week to eat them, maybe more. They often get frozen and used up eventually. But I always get the impression that we're "slow".

How long would 12 cookies, the size you might get in bakery supermarket last your family?

About 30 minutes

PyongyangKipperbang · 28/04/2024 14:14

Moidershewrote · 28/04/2024 14:14

OMG I couldn’t possibly eat another THING after my single radish for breakfast🙄

Seriously OP… How do people eat ALL the nice surgery baked cookies and muffins, I just cannot imagine at all..

What a tedious stealth health boast post✅

You eat breakfast? Greedy!

squishee · 28/04/2024 14:14

Recipetineats (Nagi) donates surplus to the homeless, and has opened a soup kitchen type operation too. She's fab.

Moidershewrote · 28/04/2024 14:14

OMG I couldn’t possibly eat another THING after my single radish for breakfast🙄

Seriously OP… How do people eat ALL the nice surgery baked cookies and muffins, I just cannot imagine at all..

What a tedious stealth health boast post✅

Xmasbaby11 · 28/04/2024 14:12

I usually limit it to one per person per day, so 4 of us, 12 muffins would last 3 days.

I wouldn’t bother baking for us if my family didn’t like sweet things.

CrispieCake · 28/04/2024 14:10

12 cookies would last our family about 5 minutes.

Anyone having a bath or shower at the crucial moment had better hope that someone else takes pity on them and saves a couple, otherwise they'd emerge clean and fresh but to a plate of crumbs.

SirenSays · 28/04/2024 14:08

Cookies wouldn't last a day with my DC. I bake often, I always have friends, colleagues, neighbours...fighting over who gets them.

Moonshine5 · 28/04/2024 14:08

One evening

PyongyangKipperbang · 28/04/2024 14:08

I think it depends. I dont have a sweet tooth at all so if I do eat cake it will be maybe once or twice a year for a special birthday to be polite. So cake in the house would end up in the bin.

But savoury stuff...no problem. I once made 6 really nice (and large) sausage rolls for a birthday tea we were delivering for my mums 70th during lockdown. The next day I had to make 6 more Blush and use a fan to cool them down in time to deliver them!

Snowpaw · 28/04/2024 14:07

If I bake a batch of muffins we would eat one fresh out of the oven and then I'd put a few for the next day or so in a tub then freeze the rest and just defrost as and when.

We are only a family of 3, one of whom has reversed pre-diabetes so doesn't eat any sugar, so we just wouldn't get through them all if I didn't freeze them.

theonlygirl · 28/04/2024 14:07

3 / 4 days tops. DH won't eat any, I'll try to restrict myself to one a day, the kids will hoover up the rest. No cake or cookie has ever seen the inside of our freezer.

exomoon · 28/04/2024 14:04

OneTC · 28/04/2024 10:41

Some people eat more cakes

Never was a truer word said.

FreebieWallopFridge · 28/04/2024 14:02

12 cookies the size of bakery cookies??? 2 days max in this house. Same for muffins. I can’t fathom freezing a muffin because they haven’t been eaten.

EliflurtleAndTheInfiniteMadness · 28/04/2024 13:57

TobaccoFlower · 28/04/2024 11:23

I'd be huge if I imagined smelling muffins. I imagine smelling lettuce instead.

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OMG this must be why I can't lose weight. Must remember next time to be the lettuce not the muffin. Or is celery better?

pinkpirlie · 28/04/2024 13:52

Wouldn't last an hour in my house, just two adults and a BF baby 🤣
We would easily eat and entire batch of cookies before they even cooled. It's why I don't do any baking as we have zero self control.

BeachHutsAndDeckchairs · 28/04/2024 13:51

They're usually gone within the hour. Anything that we bake, be it bread or cake or buns, as soon as it comes out of the oven, everyone appears around them like a pack of gannets and they're gone. I thought that was normal?

SlashBeef · 28/04/2024 13:47

Family of six here. Baked goods last about an hour.

Ohhmydays · 28/04/2024 13:45

MrsBungle · 28/04/2024 10:46

12 muffins might last 2 days in my house. Two teenagers.

Same in my house tbh but my 2nd teen boy is a 4yr old with hollow legs lol and i have a grown man. The wee one would probably take about a day to eat 1 as he’s a grazer lol

Groovee · 28/04/2024 13:43

I bake then hand it out to people. My baking in the school staff room is usually crumbs by the time I go on lunch.

HappyAsASandboy · 28/04/2024 13:32

12 cookies the size of bakery cookies would last one day in my house. Maybe 2 days depending on what else is going on.

There are six of us. 12 cookies is two each. Easily a morning snack and an after-dinner pudding and they're gone!

Sahara123 · 28/04/2024 13:31

Cake needs to be eaten fresh as well, don’t fancy week old stale cake .
I can really justify cake eating …

theholesinmyapologies · 28/04/2024 13:29

My DD made 2 dozen chocolate chip cookies last night. I'd be surprised they lasted until Tuesday in this house.

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