What is National Bundt Day?
On November 15th, National Bundt Day, also known as National Bundt Cake Day, is observed every year. A bundt cake is certain to be on the holiday menu at least once as people from around the country prepare their menus.
Any cake baked in a Bundt pan can be made into a distinctive ring shape, such as a bundt cake. The Bundt pan's mold was first inspired by Gugelhupf's traditional European fruit cake.. Nordic Ware pioneered the mold style and registered the word Bundt in the 1950s and 1960s. Cast aluminum Bundt pans were first manufactured by Nordic Ware. Similar pans are also available as "fluted tube pans" or other similar terms.
Bundt cakes are often served undecorated, glazed, or dusted with powdered sugar due to the difficulty of frosting a ring-shaped cake.
In the beginning, the Bundt pan did not sell well, and Nordic Ware considered discontinuing the product. In the 1963 New Good Housekeeping Cookbook, the Bundt pan was mentioned, and sales increased. When a Bundt cake called the "Tunnel of Fudge," baked by Ella Helfrich, took second place at the annual Pillsbury Bake-Off and winning a $5,000.00 award in 1966, sales soared dramatically. More than 200,000 Bundt pan orders were received as a result of the Bake-Off's buzz.
More than 60 million Bundt pans have been sold throughout North America, according to Nordic Ware.
