To wonder how people eat all the cakes in these blhh

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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?

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.

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.

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.

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

😂 very good.

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!

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.

Why would you not just half/quarter the recipe?

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

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

2-3 days max!

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

12 cookies? There’s 5 of us.

2 days.

Depends on my mood & how good the cookies are.

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.

The cake equivalent of a massive salad 😂

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

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?

This is classic competitive undereating!😂 At its finest.

Can go with the massive salad and one roast potato.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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