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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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TubeScreamer · 28/04/2024 13:26

With teenage boys these things vanish within minutes,

Sadperson1 · 28/04/2024 13:26

They’d be gone in a day here, maybe 2, 3 teens in the house. Nothing lasts long and they are all slim, oh to be young again 🤣🤣.

Hermittrismegistus · 28/04/2024 13:25

Do your family actually like your baking? I can't imagine tasty baked goods lasting know than 2 days in my home.

maddening · 28/04/2024 13:24

What is blhh?

wpalfhal · 28/04/2024 13:23

A week for a family to eat 12 muffins...that may say more about the cooking ability of the chef tbh...

museumum · 28/04/2024 13:22

12 muffins, 3 people so four each - three days probably. If there were fresh muffins in the house why would you leave them for days?

surely though if people are baking two dozen they’re for a party or bake sale? Before I has dc and my own business I’d bulk bake for group camping trips and weekends away - old habit from guide camp :)

Sahara123 · 28/04/2024 13:21

Oh I love homemade cakes and biscuits…. Don’t even have any teenagers to blame any more . I daren't bake that often any more , I’d be housesized . Although I have just polished off a big slice of a pear and frangipane cake I made for pudding last night to “ use up those pears” . Why didn’t I just eat the pears ?! I have absolutely no willpower that’s why !

daffodilandtulip · 28/04/2024 13:21

Well it's Mumsnet, so approximately 152 days.

In the real world however, 1-2 days. I have teenagers.

I do only tend to bake when I haven't done a big shop, so they'll have them instead of crisps or whatever. But even so, they certainly wouldn't ever need freezing!!

Devilsmommy · 28/04/2024 13:19

chaticat · 28/04/2024 10:35

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

Well I'm screwed, I can eat the whole bag of 5 to myself in 1 day🤣🤭

godmum56 · 28/04/2024 13:19

Noyoky · 28/04/2024 12:53

My darling Mum used to make the most amazing Welsh cakes …absolutely amazing and they literally were gone same day they were baked .Think I might try and bake some but not sure if Ihave a griddle.

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you can make them on a solid based frying pan as well.

WaitingForMojo · 28/04/2024 13:18

There are six of us and they’d be gone the same day. But my teenage ds would eat five of them at once.

godmum56 · 28/04/2024 13:17

TimeInBlue · 28/04/2024 12:35

Pretty sure the production crew polish them off.

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They do on James Martin

Cherrysoup · 28/04/2024 13:16

TimeInBlue · 28/04/2024 12:35

Pretty sure the production crew polish them off.

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Blimey! They must eat nothing else! Or maybe I'm underestimating how many people are on the crew, I have no idea!

tara66 · 28/04/2024 13:13

That's the least of your worries! Cake is very bad for cholesterol and should be given up - also cookies, muffins or whatever!

Mulhollandmagoo · 28/04/2024 13:12

Honestly, I don't wanna share how quickly we would polish them off, as it's embarrassing 🤣

It's why I don't bake!

NortieTortie · 28/04/2024 13:12

We'd have one a day after tea. Maybe one with dinner too. Definitely wouldn't last for the freezer.

RagzRebooted · 28/04/2024 13:07

Whatever I make a batch of is gone in about 24 hours. So I don't do it often!
I'll let everyone know how many they get each so they can ration themselves, but generally it's all gone by the end of the next day.

ghostyslovesheets · 28/04/2024 13:05

12 muffins would last me a year - no wonder you have to freeze them - I'd manage one a month after my fruit and salad - no wonder we have an obesity crisis in this country etc etc ...

In the real world - with 3 teen/adult children - 3 days max! DD's 1+2 like baking and all three like cooking

Blanketpolicy · 28/04/2024 13:03

If I made 12 muffins and they lasted a week with some being frozen I'd be looking for a new recipe!

notprincehamlet · 28/04/2024 13:03

Don't like cookies but I made some scones intending to freeze half of them ... and ended up eating them all (with a massive salad obviously). I can't be trusted with fast-burning carbs.

Testina · 28/04/2024 13:03

It’s almost like people who make video content decide the quantity on what is going to look good for the video, not what they eat.

You know if they make more than they need, and don’t have someone in mind to give it to, they just bin it right? They’re not making food at this point, they’re making content.

Hatscarfgloves · 28/04/2024 13:00

chaticat · 28/04/2024 10:35

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

Looks like it. MN competitive under eating. So dull.

Noyoky · 28/04/2024 12:53

Elphame · 28/04/2024 11:22

DP would eat one a day. He was brought up that way.

I probably would have one to try but I don't have much of a sweet tooth. I make Welsh cakes for the 6 Nations matches but other than that I don't make cakes and biscuits as a rule.

My darling Mum used to make the most amazing Welsh cakes …absolutely amazing and they literally were gone same day they were baked .Think I might try and bake some but not sure if Ihave a griddle.

fluffi · 28/04/2024 12:52

5 cookies that you’d get from a supermarket bakery could easily be eaten in half a day or less by me, they are so delicious! I’d pay the same price to just buy 1 because I have no willpower and saving / freezing them just doesn’t work - I know they are there and want to finish them.

Muffins: I could finish off a 4 pack of supermarket bakery muffins in a day no problem.

I just don’t buy either anymore as it’s too many calories 😞

lovemycbf · 28/04/2024 12:47

@chaticat haha spot on 🤣

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