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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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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.

sprigatito · 28/04/2024 11:22

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?

19yo DS2 would hoover them up pretty sharpish tbh. If DS2 was home from uni as well they wouldn't last the weekend.

lonerider · 28/04/2024 11:22

12 large cookies, well now let's see
12/4 =3
So 3 cookies, per person. Each cookie takes 8 bites to eat, each bite takes approx 5 seconds to masticate and swallow so 5 x 8 = 40,
Now 40 x 3 so 120
So I can conclude it would take precisely 2 mins to polish off 12 cookies.
Your welcome.

maximist · 28/04/2024 11:21

If I buy a bag of four bakery cookies from the supermarket at lunchtime, they're likely to be gone by bedtime, and I live on my own.

I don't buy them very often....

Pintoo · 28/04/2024 11:20

I was used to baking mountains when I had teenage boys in the house - still do when the DC come home to visit.
I like cake but only one piece a day so I bake maybe once a week and freeze muffins or sliced up cake and get one out when I want it. DH likes a muffin with custard on for his supper.

CadyEastman · 28/04/2024 11:19

Coughsweet · 28/04/2024 11:17

It would depend how full I was after my
massive salad

Grin

Of course, one can never be sure. Those salads can indeed be massive!

Coughsweet · 28/04/2024 11:17

It would depend how full I was after my
massive salad

CadyEastman · 28/04/2024 11:17

Have 2 growing teens do one of use probably bakes like this every other day! Grin

PhamieGowsSong · 28/04/2024 11:15

I made 29 chocolate chip cookies last Sunday, see pic , they lasted less than 24 hours in our house (2 adults, 3 kids). It's a nightmare.

To wonder how people eat all the cakes in these blhh
WhySoManySocks · 28/04/2024 11:15

TimeInBlue · 28/04/2024 10:52

I can’t believe anyone would even make muffins let alone eat them…I mean do you know how much sugar is in one of them?..No wonder we have a health crisis in this country…We’ve forgotten what a healthy weight looks like..

Thought I’d get the bingo cards out the way first before answering. A day or maybe 2, I have 2 (sometimes 3 when ds is back from uni) teenage boys in the house (they’re not even tall strapping sports players). We’re just greedy bastards.

This!! The competitive under eaters are out an masse this morning.

If I make two dozen muffins, we’d probably eat 1-2 per person that day and 1-2 the next day, and take the rest to work to share with colleagues, offer some to the neighbour etc. We don’t ever worry about what to do with leftover cake - the concept is unknown in this house.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 28/04/2024 11:15

It's the bit of social media where they make money from the videos - it doesn't matter if they're eaten or not, and it's just as likely that they go into the bin afterwards. A TV cook will usually have a section where 'friends' (ie, whoever is part of the same production company or publishing house turns up to be filmed usually not actually eating, just being seen) have the dishes offered, but that's more for the very well managed influencers where they've decided to market them with a view to moving into the TV cook market.

Some influencers include as part of their videos that the food goes to needy people in their location, particularly where they're cooking large quantities of celebration food and/or their faith is part of their brand as well.

In short, it's not guaranteed that anything is eaten, because it's marketing/advertising/income generating to show them being prepared (no guarantee what you actually see is edible and hasn't been replaced in the final shots by facsimiles of food, either), so there's not people eating 30 cakes a week and still looking social media slim.

Gettingbysomehow · 28/04/2024 11:13

Seriously though if you go into a supermarket as a single person now DS has left home you cannot buy just one biscuit or one muffin. Not round here anyway.
They are always in packs of 4. This is the problem.
I did at one point get into making mug cakes for one in the microwave but microwaved cake always felt like a huge dissapointment.

Wavywoo · 28/04/2024 11:12

I don't think a cake that I've baked has lasted more than 24 hours in this house. Except for a coconut one that only I was keen on. Cupcakes or cookies would not see nightfall. Teenage DS has zero brakes.

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 28/04/2024 11:11

GalileoHumpkins · 28/04/2024 10:39

Just the smell of the muffins baking would fill me up for the rest of the year, I can't believe you put them in your mouth!

This is classic competitive undereating!😂 At its finest.

Can go with the massive salad and one roast potato.

Flozle · 28/04/2024 11:11

FlabMonsterIsDietingAgain · 28/04/2024 10:54

DD likes to bake, I'm on a diet so no eating of the baking is allowed, DH is a fussy bastard sometimes, so we tend to give em away to DDs friends whenever they knock to play out.

So much to unpack here: your child "plays out" and you answer the door when people knock?? You do know that this wanton, devil may care behaviour could get you excommunicated from Mumsnet?

StormingNorman · 28/04/2024 11:08

I mostly bake layer cakes and always eat some of the uncooked batter. Does that count as halving the recipe?

Gettingbysomehow · 28/04/2024 11:08

BertieBotts · 28/04/2024 10:37

Confused Is this a weird stealth brag?

It would probably take us (family of 5, but thinking back to when we were 3) about 2-3 days to eat 12 muffins.

20 cookies - again a couple of days.

We wouldn't need to freeze them. We would probably have a couple each (maybe 3?) on the day they were made and then whoever wanted some would have 1-2 more over the next day or two.

I have no idea what a "massive" muffin is though Grin

The cake equivalent of a massive salad 😂

burnoutbabe · 28/04/2024 11:06

samestyle · 28/04/2024 10:41

About a day or 2, any treats get snapped up our house.

Indeed. 2 of us but I can see 20cookies being gone by day 3. Unless we freeze them.

But we'd not make 20 massive ones. Most recipies I use for muffins or cookies (supermarket boxes or Sarah Lee) make 6 or 8.

Bunnyhair · 28/04/2024 11:05

Depends on my mood & how good the cookies are.

PotteringAlonggotkickedoutandhadtoreregister · 28/04/2024 11:05

12 cookies? There’s 5 of us.

2 days.

Flozle · 28/04/2024 11:04

GalileoHumpkins · 28/04/2024 10:39

Just the smell of the muffins baking would fill me up for the rest of the year, I can't believe you put them in your mouth!

You smell the muffins? I can only look at photos of them, otherwise I don't have room for my massive salad.

nimski · 28/04/2024 11:03

2-3 days max!

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WittiestUsernameEver · 28/04/2024 11:02

TinyYellow · 28/04/2024 10:38

This is why people bring their baking into work. Those people are great.

I thought MNers never ate home baking unless it's from a kitchen with a 5star health rating? 😜

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WittiestUsernameEver · 28/04/2024 11:01

MolkosTeenageAngst · 28/04/2024 10:43

The people on the popular baking TikTok’s are likely making them for the likes and to get views and not necessarilly baking to actually be eaten. I imagine lots get thrown away.

It sounds like you’re not big cake eaters if 12 muffins lasts your family of 3 a week, that means not even one a day each. I could easily eat 2 sweet treats a day if they were available at home (I tend not to buy or bake sweet things for that reason!). But 3 is also a small family, lots of people likely have larger families and many people may also live near to extended family or have friends popping over. If you’re a family of six and then invite over two sets of grandparents and a few aunts/ uncles and cousins every weekend then you’ll easily get through two dozen muffins over the weekend. Some people might also take their bakes to work or to school to share as well.

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Yes, I suppose a lot of people would take them to work etc

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