Statistics
Source-based figures about cake baking & decorating, with dates, definitions and links.
Explore bakery energy use statistics across a 2010 U.S. sector snapshot, measured and representative process benchmarks, and studies from Quito, Ghazni, and India.
County Business Patterns counted 9,219 U.S. retail bakery employer establishments in 2023. The size and legal-form breakdowns show how those locations were distributed, while older Federal Register figures offer a separate count of bakery firms.
Baking ingredient prices vary by product, period, and measure. These statistics compare retail prices, recipe costs, bakery CPI movements, and flour’s farm share.
Direct baking-supply sales data are limited. These figures show what can be said about cake decorations and household spending, alongside clearly labeled finished-food context.
Canadian per-person butter use rose from 2.69 kg in 2015 to 3.68 kg in 2025. USDA FAS figures also show domestic consumption trends across selected countries and a rising global table total.
Birthday purchases lead the occasion findings, while household patterns and buying channels differ across Belgium and the Netherlands. These survey figures offer context for celebration cake shopping without treating all patisserie as cake.
A data-led overview of U.S. commercial bakery manufacturing in 2002 and reported nonfatal injury counts and incidence rates for 2022–2024.
BLS monthly averages show U.S. retail prices for Grade A large eggs per dozen across 2022–2026, including unavailable October 2025 data.
U.S. flour-use estimates show a long-term decline in per-person use, while survey data split wheat flour consumption between home and away-from-home use. Product-category and price figures add context to what these measures do—and do not—show.
Irish data show food processor ownership rising from 39.5% of households in 2004 to 46.7% in 2019, with a dip and recovery along the way. U.S. 2015 estimates count 12.1 million homes reporting weekly use, broken down by household and housing characteristics.
Dutch household waste figures, Malaysian survey responses, and German diary records show how studies measure food waste at home—and what their numbers describe.
Explore measured U.S. food expenditures across annual consumer-unit budgets, food-at-home categories, income quintiles, household types, and food-security groups, with the underlying definitions kept distinct.
Review U.S. annual averages from 2021–2025 and pooled 2023–24 regional and metro spending on cereals and bakery products.
Explore reported online baking supply purchases, baking habits, recipe-led grocery decisions, and the limits of available survey data.
BLS and ALFRED data show specialty food retailer payroll employment and selected worker measures through September 2026, alongside annual index observations from 2021 to 2025.
Publisher estimates put the 2025 global stand mixer market at USD 2.15 billion or USD 2.20 billion, depending on the report. See the reported annual series, regional and channel breakdowns, segment forecasts, and country snapshots.
Explore historical U.S. sweetener availability alongside survey estimates of added sugar and sugar-sweetened beverage intake across age and demographic groups.
Explore U.S. baker jobs across industries, Census employment counts for bakery workplaces, production staffing, May 2025 wages, commercial baking workforce findings and BLS projections.
Explore cake retail sales statistics by channel, cake type, country, value and volume, with historical periods and forecast estimates kept distinct.
Survey and panel results describe how often people bake, what motivates or deters them, and what some home bakers planned to spend.