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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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NerdWhoEatsMedlar · 28/04/2024 12:42

Family of four adults:
A dozen muffins, about two days.
Eight inch carrot cake about 3 days, DS not too keen.
Tray of cookies, a few hours.

If you have a group of teens at your disposal, then a few dozen muffins can vanish in a couple of hours.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 28/04/2024 12:40

I only make such things for Gdcs’ birthday parties, and then it could be 4 dozen - which all go! Only fairy or cup cakes though. I really don’t like muffins - always so sickly sweet - at least the ones I’ve ever had.

OTOH when I make a batch of oat biscuits* (super quick and easy) for just me and dh, all 12 will disappear that same day.

*with a little lemon zest, exceedingly yum.

LakeTiticaca · 28/04/2024 12:39

They would last about an hour when.the kids were at home. I rarely bake now, unless we have guests, because I know DH and I would scoff the lot in a day.Our excuse is always: when it's gone it's gone 🤣🤣

MoreLidlThanWaitrose · 28/04/2024 12:38

…30 seconds?

DH runs 120km per week on average, plus cycling and weight training. I do a mixture of running/swimming/cycling/weight training. We have active children with healthy appetites.

Realistically a batch of baked goods is doing well if it lasts more than a day or two.

TimeInBlue · 28/04/2024 12:35

Cherrysoup · 28/04/2024 12:29

Are you on about Bake-off where they make dozens of items? Me and my Dh always wonder what happens to them. Do the contestants take them home? Are they binned? Seems like a major waste.

Pretty sure the production crew polish them off.

Noyoky · 28/04/2024 12:33

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 am wondering that …only just started reading the thread 😂

Cherrysoup · 28/04/2024 12:29

Are you on about Bake-off where they make dozens of items? Me and my Dh always wonder what happens to them. Do the contestants take them home? Are they binned? Seems like a major waste.

CurleyMango · 28/04/2024 12:26

1 day, maybe two. Cakes and cookies are great and vanish. If they are not great they stay and get stale, not here through.

fieldsofbutterflies · 28/04/2024 11:58

I'd say 12 cookies would last us two-three days - and there aren't even any DC living here, but they're hardly very filling, are they? I'd easily have a couple as a snack with a coffee and DH can easily demolish a bag of five in one sitting.

CommentNow · 28/04/2024 11:55

About 3 days.
I'll probably eat 1
DH will eat more than half
DS will eat the rest.

VestibuleVirgin · 28/04/2024 11:55

Biscuits! We eat biscuits! We are not American (unless you are American of course). We don't eat cookies. Unless the things you are eating are actual cookies, which are an abomination againt everything a biscuit should be
😃

Forhecksake · 28/04/2024 11:52

If I go to the trouble of baking, I'll make loads. Then I'll take some to work or volunteering and send some to school with the kids to share with their friends. People like free baked goods.

DahliaMacNamara · 28/04/2024 11:48

You greedy bastards. I have salad leaves growing in the back garden, and I twitch my bedroom curtains once a week to glance at them. Anything more is asking for type 2 diabetes and reinforced flooring. I won't even type out bkn*.

kitsuneghost · 28/04/2024 11:38

I get you OP. How on earth do people manage to eat more than half a muffin a day.

Simonjt · 28/04/2024 11:33

WittiestUsernameEver · 28/04/2024 11:00

You know the ones that you get a cafes and stuff, maybe the size of a fist?

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So normal sized muffons 🤣

I made a chocolate sandwich cake this morning, we ate it for breakfast.

SmallFY · 28/04/2024 11:32

chaticat · 28/04/2024 10:35

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

Haha yup my exact thought too.

Here comes the competitive under eating brigade.

I on purpose don't buy the Costco cookies now because I have been known to eat 1 of each (there are 4 different flavours I think) in a sitting.

My husband would eat the box if he had the chance. Then he'd moan about how unhealthy he'd been.

So for our own health, and my ears, I avoid them now. But I'm sad about it because eating 4 cookies in a go is a good time Halo

MikeRafone · 28/04/2024 11:32

12 minutes

Savoyafternoon · 28/04/2024 11:29

I don’t bake often because I have no willpower when I do. Nothing is left by nightfall.

MintyCedric · 28/04/2024 11:29

There’s lots of options if you want less cake:

make half the quantity and bake in paper cases instead of making one big one

for a sandwich cake, make one layer, cut it in half and make a half cake

loaf cakes - half quantity/smaller tin or easy to freeze in slices

take some into work

People have different sized families and different appetites…not sure what’s so confusing about that!

HoneyButterPopcorn · 28/04/2024 11:27

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?

Freeze them and give them away! I can’t eat much sweet stuff and DH hasn’t got a sweet tooth. DS (19 so ‘eat any and everything) couldn’t even eat 12.

i often take surplus goodies into the office -get ‘too good to go’ at local bakeries - amazing bread - and last time one added 3 mini loaf cakes, 4 huge brownies and a chocolate muffin (I’d already bought some cake as a treat from a cake shop that makes a lovely rhubarb and rose cake - so happy staff room the next day).

IWantOut29 · 28/04/2024 11:24

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?

Depending on if my 7 & 9 year old enjoyed them or not, they wouldnt last a day if they liked them 😅

My son can eat for England, hes a healthy weight for his age, but he could easily eat 12 cookies in one night if the mood took him

Samlewis96 · 28/04/2024 11:24

If my son home from uni he could demolish them in a day

Beezknees · 28/04/2024 11:23

My 16 year old lad would be able to finish off 12 cookies in a few days. I'd have 1 or 2.

TobaccoFlower · 28/04/2024 11:23

EliflurtleAndTheInfiniteMadness · 28/04/2024 10:47

I mediate and imagine smelling the muffins cooking. I'm shocked and appalled anyone needs to inhale real baking muffins.

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

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