To wonder how people eat all the cakes in these blhh

Why would you not just half/quarter the recipe?

Exactly this - DD is very into her baking at the moment so often bakes at weekends/ in the holidays. DH and I both work from home the majority of the time so we would all have one fresh with a cuppa in the afternoon and then often have another as pudding after dinner.

A normal 8 inch sponge cake does us two sittings - so 10 slices.

If I baked something I'd eat maybe 2 or 3 pieces when they were fresh, so same day. Then probably one a day till they were gone. Two of us would do that. The other never eats baked or sweet things!? Mad person. Lol.
I made some keto cookies the other week and most of them went in the bin. That's never happened before!

A batch of 12 cookies or muffins would be gone in a day in this house. There are 5 of us including a teenage ds. We’d have some warm out of the oven and then another later on.

Before I retired I would bake cakes, biscuits and sometimes savouries, once a month, to take into work where the results would be polished off in one or two days. I also bake for friends and any family I visit or who visit me. If I bake for my own consumption I portion and freeze it so that I can have a small portion when I crave something sweet, otherwise I would eat a cake in a couple of days and thoroughly enjoy it, but my waistline would not.

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.

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.

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

Yep

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

I could eat two muffins in a day easily or 4 cookies.

I don’t bake for this reason, I would be the size of a house.

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.

Wouldn’t last a day in my house

We could easily eat 12 supermarket bakery cookies in one day. We're a family of 6, including 4 teenagers. I'd be surprised if there were any left by lunch time tbh. I've stopped baking so often, because it takes longer to bake and clear up than it takes my sons to eat the results.

If my DM had made that amount, unless she really rationed us, the whole lot would be gone in a flash. As kids and teens we were like a plague of locusts around biscuits, cake and stuff. I remember DM baking a batch of jam tarts, left them to cool and between the 3 of us, with a bit of help from the dog, polished the lot off. We were in big trouble.

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

Some people eat more cakes

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!

I rarely bake for this reason. DH doesn't really like cake or biscuits and DD will only eat certain ones and I don't want to eat a dozen buns! (Well, I do, but I try not to) I usually only bake for a party or something like that.

They'd be gone in a day or two here.
Teenage boys eat loads!!

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

Homemade cakes and cookies don’t last long in my house. I’ve got two teenagers, one of whom eats an extraordinary amount (but is very lean). OH and I both have a sweet tooth and are both at home a lot. We also have ILs popping in several times a week as well as the DCs’ friends. A cake can disappear in a day or two!

I usually do half the mix. I use a small
loaf tin that fits in my air fryer - that does enough cake for three of use for three days (we have it as pudding with custard or ice cream). A batch of cookies or brownies lasts three days as a rule of thumb. Note: no teenagers here, two adults who try to eat treats moderately and one skinny 10yo who would demolish the lot but has the same as we do.