When is National Bundt Day?
Wednesday November 15thNational Bundt Day, also known as National Bundt Cake Day, is held every year on November 15th. A bundt cake is certain to be on the holiday menu at least once as people from around the country prepare their menus..
A bundt cake can be any cake baked in a Bundt pan, transforming it into a distinctive ring shape. The mold of the Bundt pan was first inspired by Gugelhupf's traditional European fruit cake. The cookware company Nordic Ware pioneered the style for the mold design and registered the word Bundt in the 1950s and 1960s. Nordic Ware began making Bundt pans made from cast aluminum. Similar pans are sold as "fluted tube pans" or other similar terms.
Due to the difficulty of frosting a ring-shaped cake, bundt cakes are often served undecorated, glazed, or dusted with powdered sugar.
The Bundt pan did not sell well, and Nordic Ware considered discontinuing the product. The Bundt pan was mentioned in the 1963 New Good Housekeeping Cookbook, and sales increased. Sales increased dramatically in 1966 after 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.. The Bake-Off's publicity resulted in more than 200,000 Bundt pan orders.
Pans from Nordic Ware have been sold in North America, totaling more than 60 million Bundt pans.
