Bundt cake
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A Bundt cake is a dessert cake cooked in a Bundt pan forming it into a distinctive ring shape. Bundt cake is pronounced "bunt", the "d" being silent and comes from the German word Bund meaning "a gathering of people".[1]
The bundt may have originated from the German Gugelhupf, a ring shaped cake. The word bundt appears as early as 1901 in The Settlement Cookbook, written by Lizzie Kander of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Bundt is used instead of bund in a recipe for "Bundt Kuchen."[2] The aluminum Bundt pan is a variation of ceramic cake forms and was trademarked in 1950 by H. David Dalquist, founder of Nordic Ware, who developed it at the request of members of the Hadassah Society's chapter in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [1] 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. Similar cakes were made in Europe in Germany, Austria and Hungary with similar traditional kugelhopf pans. 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[3] (in German the final d is pronounced like a t). Dalquist trademarked the word bundt, and 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 Institution's collection.[4]
National Bundt Pan day is November 15.[5]
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- ^ a b "Obituaries: Bundt Pan Creator H. David Dalquist, 86" (HTML). Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51960-2005Jan5.html. Retrieved on 2006-11-12.
- ^ Kander, Lizzie Black. The Settlement Cook Book. 4th ed. (Sandusky, OH: American Crayon Co., 1910); Online facsimile at: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=910
- ^ Hermann O. Pfrengle, "Who Brought the Bundt Cake?", The Washington Post, January 22, 2005, p. A15.
- ^ "Smithsonian gobbles up Bundt pan" (HTML). Star Tribune. http://www.startribune.com/535/story/1022295.html. Retrieved on 2007-03-01.
- ^ November 2008 Monthly,Weekly,Daily,Bizarre,Silly,Crazy,Unknown Holiday Observances
