r/Baking

Updated 2026-10-24

r/Baking is a Food & Cooking community on Reddit with 4,523,667 members, ranking #7 of 2,151 in Food & Cooking. 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!

4,523,667 membersFood & Cooking#7 in category
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How big is r/Baking?

Created in 2009, r/Baking has had over a decade to grow and is a major community by Reddit standards. Within Food & Cooking it ranks #7 of 2,151 communities we track — the top 0.3% of the category by subscriber count. That puts it about 2,193× the median Food & Cooking subreddit, which has 2,063 members. It is a work-safe community with no 18+ flag on Reddit.

For scale, the largest Food & Cooking community we track is r/food with 24,528,486 members — roughly 5 times the size of r/Baking. Reddit itself launched in 2005, so a subreddit created in 2009 sits in the early wave of community building on the platform. Subscriber counts indicate reach, not activity — a large community can be quiet, and a smaller one busy. Open r/Baking on Reddit to see how often people actually post before deciding whether it is worth joining.

Members4,523,667
CategoryFood & Cooking
Rank in category#7 of 2,151
Created2009
Category median size2,063 members
Content ratingWork-safe (SFW)

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