Bundt cake

Bundt cake

A Bundt cake is the name used for a dessert cake cooked in a Bundt pan, whose identifying attribute is its ringed shape. It is pronounced "bunt", the "d" being silent. The Bundt pan (a registered trademark) was created in 1950 by H. David Dalquist, founder of Nordic Ware, at the request of members of the Hadassah Society's chapter in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [cite web | url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51960-2005Jan5.html | title=Obituaries: Bundt Pan Creator H. David Dalquist, 86 | publisher=Washington Post| format=HTML| accessdate=2006-11-12] They were interested in a pan that could be used to make bundkuchen (sometimes called kugelhopf or Gugelhupf), a popular German and Austrian coffee cake. The old-world pans, with fluted and grooved sides, made of delicate ceramic or heavy cast iron, were difficult to use. He modified some existing Scandinavian pan designs and fashioned the pan out of aluminum.The pan sold somewhat slowly until a Pillsbury-sponsored baking contest in 1966 saw a Bundt cake win second place. This prompted a scramble for the pans, causing them to become the most-sold pan in the United States soon after. Since introduction, more than 50 million Bundt pans have been sold by the Nordic Ware company.

The women of the Hadassah Society called them "bund pans". The German word "bund" in "bundkuchen" originated from bundling or wrapping the cake's dough around the pan's center hole [Hermann O. Pfrengle, " [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27813-2005Jan21.html Who Brought the Bundt Cake?] ", "The Washington Post", January 22, 2005, p. A15.] (in German the final "d" is pronounced like a "t"). Dalquist simply added the letter "t" to the end and trademarked it. Pillsbury licensed the name in 1970 for a line of cake mixes.

In early 2007 some of the original Bundt pans were taken into the Smithsonian Institute's collection. [cite web | url=http://www.startribune.com/535/story/1022295.html | title=Smithsonian gobbles up Bundt pan| publisher=Star Tribune | format=HTML | accessdate=2007-03-01]

National Bundt Pan day is November 15. [ [http://www.brownielocks.com/november.html November 2008 Monthly,Weekly,Daily,Bizarre,Silly,Crazy,Unknown Holiday Observances ] ]

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