Thanks so much for getting back to me about freezer - no ice poles tonight 
Needs must
I had both grans were HUGE bakers (bit outing but one it was her job she worked for aulds - Scots chain of bakers) so myself, siblings and cousins very used to many of the cakes and pastries that were more in favour for their generation and were their preference - though they made plenty of other treats too 
Each had 3 boys to feed 
I think was very much part of it, they'd bake up LOADS of a Sunday every week (using the fact the oven was on for the roast as meant bit cheaper energy wise - both on meters) plus a VAT of soup.
Seemed a hell of a lot to us at the time as the kitchen, living room and even a bedroom or two would be overflowing with cooling cakes, pastries and biscuits.
But then mum is one of 6 and dad 1 of 5 plus mum had her gran living with them
It seemed so much on a sunday but by tue/wed it was mostly gone!
They made their own bread too - here's the thing I find astonishing with them and mum - not a measuring scale or measuring jug between them! All done by eye/experience!
We surprised mums mother once turning up unannounced as we were travelling from another relatives to army base we were living at then in England and car played up so rather than risk it on motorway we diverted to grans.
She was thrown at first...within maybe an hour max? She'd made soup, dinner, scones and biscuits! After claiming she'd "not a morsel" in
Still in awe now - I suspect you are of a similar skill set