Uses of the word bund outside of Europe to describe cakes can be found in Jewish-American cookbooks of the early 20th century. [5] [6] The alternative spelling «bundte» also appears in a recipe as early as 1901. [7] Bundt cakes do not correspond to a single recipe; Instead, their characteristic is their shape. A Bundt pan usually has fluted or grooved sides and is usually coated to make it easier to loosen the cake. Like other tubular or annular pans, the central tube allows for faster and more even heat distribution when cooking large amounts of dough. [1] [8] Opinions differ on the meaning of the word covenant. The people credited with popularizing the Bundt cake are American businessman H. David Dalquist and his brother Mark S. Dalquist, who founded the Kitchenware company Nordic Ware, based in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. In the late 1940s,[14] Rose Joshua and Fannie Schanfield, friends and members of the Minneapolis Jewish-American Hadassah Society, approached Dalquist and asked if he could make a modern version of a traditional Gugelhupf cast iron dish. [1] Dalquist and company engineer Don Nygren designed a cast aluminum version, of which Nordic Ware produced a small production series in 1950.
To successfully protect the pans, a «t» was added to the word «bunch». [4] Some of the original Bundt pans are now part of the Smithsonian collection. [15] A Bundt cake (/bʌnt/) is a cake baked in a Bundt pan and shaped into a distinctive doughnut shape. The shape is inspired by a traditional European cake called Gugelhupf, but Bundt cakes are usually not associated with a single recipe. The mold style in North America became popular in the 1950s and 1960s after kitchenware manufacturer Nordic Ware registered the name «Bundt» and began producing Bundt pans made of cast aluminum. Pillsbury`s advertising allowed cakes to gain popularity. Annular pans such as Bundt pans heat up faster than regular round pans and bake evenly deep cakes, even with diameters larger than 9 inches. Usually, heating cores are recommended for even heat distribution in deep cake molds and standard cakes larger than 9 inches in diameter.
To cook in standard cans, group recipes must be converted. A standard 9-inch cake box holds about six cups of volume, so a 12-cup bundt recipe fills two standard cake pans or a 13×9-leaf pan. [9]. To date, more than 60 million Bundt pans of northern items have been sold in North America. [18] On the 15th. November has been named «National Bundt Day». [19].