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The Baking sub-reddit. For all your baking needs! Recipes, pictures, ideas, questions and all things baking related. Cakes, cookies, pies, tarts, muffins, scones, breads, rolls, biscuits, cheesecakes, snack bars, etc are all welcome! Founded 2009 · 4.6M members

4.7M members. The best post we have captured here reached 142.6K upvotes, which works out to 31 per 1,000 members.

31peak upvotes per 1,000 members
4.7Mmembers
142.6Kbest post
4.3Kmost comments
1.6Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

48% 32% 11% 8%
Gallery 48% Image 32% Text 11% Question 8% Video 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Showcase (No-Recipe) 620 Baking Advice Needed 275 Recipe Included 216 Recipe to be posted soon. No guarantees. 107 Seeking Recipe 106 General Baking Discussion 103 No Recipe 34 Baking fail 💔 27 Semi-Related 22 No-Recipe Provided 19

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

I (15) made my dad a birthday cake!

↑ 142.6K 💬 4.3K gallery 2025

Every year I bake a ton of cookies for family and friends. Here’s all 2,162 now that Cookie Chaos 2024 is over!

↑ 113.4K 💬 3.8K gallery 2024

I didn't know you're suppose to put decorations AFTER baking

↑ 104.6K 💬 1.8K gallery 2026

My nephew asked for a switch cake for his birthday. Apparently I misunderstood the assignment. (Just kidding, had to prank the kid first.)

↑ 104.5K 💬 762 gallery 2025

Made myself a birthday cake for the 4th year in a row

↑ 94.9K 💬 3.2K gallery 2026

I made my friend's graduation party cake!

↑ 86.7K 💬 742 gallery 2026

I took a class for this roll cake. Heartbreaking to cut into it

↑ 85.8K 💬 1K image 2025

recent cake by my mom hehe

↑ 83.8K 💬 1.6K gallery 2025

I tried to bake my first pie... inadvertently created a portal into the underworld

↑ 80.6K 💬 1.8K video 2024

why did it do this

↑ 79.5K 💬 4.3K image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Baking, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Baking?
r/Baking ("The Baking sub-reddit") describes itself this way: For all your baking needs! Recipes, pictures, ideas, questions and all things baking related. Cakes, cookies, pies, tarts, muffins, scones, breads, rolls, biscuits, cheesecakes, snack bars, etc are all welcome. It was founded in 2009 and has 4.6M members.
How many members does r/Baking have?
r/Baking has about 4.7M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.6K of its posts; the biggest reached 142.6K upvotes, which is 31 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Baking?
"I (15) made my dad a birthday cake!" reached 142.6K upvotes and 4.3K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Baking.
What subreddits are similar to r/Baking?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/freefolk, r/awesome.
What kind of posts do best on r/Baking?
Of the posts we hold, 48% are gallery posts and 32% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Baking?
Across 1.6K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 06:00 UTC (26.9K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 18:00 UTC (24K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 00:00 UTC (21K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Baking?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Baking has 62.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 370 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Baking, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.