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?

I can’t believe people actually make muffins and cookies at home. Obviously they’ll be marginally better than shop bought but it really isn’t a good idea to give children ideas about eating so much sugar in one snack. My dc are more than satisfied with kale chips, carrot sticks and cucumber. Once a week we have berries - not more often because they’re full of sugar!

Brownies, blondies, traybake stuff takes 3 days at most, they have cleared 16 brownies in a day, but they were really good in my greedy wee fuckers defence.

Cakes or biscuits which I'm absolutely awful at baking, or my scones which I believe would be as equally as effective as trident as a safety measure, I have to bribe my kids to eat.
Sometimes even cold hard cash still gets a no.

I could eat a box ot chocolate fingers on one sitting - easily.

The M&S bakery cookies are really sweet though - I only eat half of one of those.

Seriously??

We all would have a slice of muffin for pudding every other night. The alternate night we would have 3 crumbs of a biscuit each.

If your homebaked goodies are only ‘marginally’ better than shop bought, you’re doing it wrong 😏

Of course, this is mumsnet.
There are children on here harvesting their fruit to make homemade hooch on the radiators to combat the boredom of a single chicken that makes 14 square meals a week.

My son likes to bake. We're obviously a load of piggies because we NEVER have trouble eating up what he bakes. A big batch of hone made cookies disappear within a day or two in this house! (There are 5 of us tho)

@BlueLimeRun @Waitingfordoggo

I’m 100% not being serious. Batch of 10 large cookies lasts 2 days in our house if there are 3 here. Less if there are more.

BECAUSE THEYRE DELICIOUS!!

@Lwrenn it’s a bit depressing that people thought I might have been serious. Hey ho.

about to turn my attention to a baked Camembert that I will be eating all on my own. What a pig. 🤣

I’ve seen a few posts that didn’t like this sadly. You’re right - baked good are delicious 😊

@ComeAlongPeggy, the ‘once a week berries’ did make me think you weren’t being sincere but I couldn’t be sure 😂

We'd have 1-2 per day each (ok, 2-3). So on our house of 4 they'd last 2 days max.

Approximately 4 years....

Or more likely 4 hours

I'd love a good muffin'.

My FIL gave me 2 massive lovely handmade cakes. There's only 3 of us so I gave one to the childminder to share out between the kids. The one we kept went hard before we managed to finish it and we don't have small appetites. He meant well but stuff like this is so expensive and wasteful.

12 cookies? Probably 2 days between 2 adults and 2 children. It's variable depending on flavour and if I'm restricting calories.

I often make stuff that nobody likes so I take it to work to stop me scoffing it all at once.

With crusty bread I hope! 🥖

I love that you were joking and yet, you equally could have been deadly serious and we'd have not been shocked 😂😂

@Lwrenn crusty bread and some cranberry sauce!!! Mmmmm…

With a side of bragging about how slim their teenagers are

Puppy fat doesn’t seem to be a thing on mn, everyone’s teens are extremely slim and seemingly 6ft tall!!

Both my dc had puppy fat.

Ds is now 6ft 4 and as thin as a lat.

Dd is 6ft and long and slender.

Both were very chubby at 11

Here’s mine

8 oz plain flour
1/2 level teaspoon Baking powder
3 oz butter
3 oz sugar
2 oz dried fruit ( currants traditionally but sultanas are fine - not the white sort though)
1/2 level teaspoon dried mixed spice
1 beaten egg
milk
Rub the butter into the flour, spice and baking powder ( I do it the modern way and use the blender/food processor for this bit - much quicker)
Remove from blender and add the fruit, sugar and egg
Stir well and mix to a dough with a little milk. Don't let it get too soft or you'll have a sticky mess when you try and roll it out. Use as little milk as possible just so it doesn't crumble.
Roll out to about 1/8 th inch thick - you will need plenty of flour to stop it sticking if you were over generous with the milk. Generally the recipes say thicker than this but it is then much harder to cook them through without them burning. Burnt welsh cakes are not nice
Heat bakestone or heavy frying pan. Traditionally this would have been greased with lard but sunflower oil works as well.
Cook gently on both sides until done. Don't have the heat too high or they'll catch before cooking through. The sides should just look set and dry when they are ready.
Remove from heat, sprinkle with more sugar if you want to and eat! Some people have been known to add butter and jam too.

About 1 and a half days 😅

Freeze cake? You’re doing it wrong! You eat cake 😂

it would last 4 days in our house of two, we like cake!