All Are Invited To Celebrate Bundt Cake Day @ The "Bundt Bash"

By K.P. Lynne

As if you needed another excuse to eat delicious Nothing Bundt Cakes…here is another REALLY great excuse…Friday, November 15 is National Bundt Cake Day!

Who knew??? Really...it's true!

Bundt cakes actually get their own holiday!!! And this year Nothing Bundt Cakes has pulled out all the stops and wants to celebrate with YOU!

Yes…YOU! You’re invited to the Bundt Bash!

The Bundt Bash is being held at Nothing Bundt Cakes, 14360 South LaGrange Road in Orland Park and 11225 West Lincoln Highway in Mokena from 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. on Friday, November 15.

In honor of National Bundt Cake Day and the Nothing Bundt Cakes corporation’s 22nd Birthday…the first 22 guests in line at 11:15 a.m. on Friday, November 15, 2019 will receive “Free Bundtlets For One Year”! (FREE Bundtlets For One Year will be awarded in the form of a punch card valid for 12 FREE Bundtlets, limit one per month, redeemable through Nov. 14, 2020. Punch cards are limited to one per household.)

Everyone else at the stores will receive one FREE “Confetti” flavor Bundtlet cake while supplies last until 12:15 p.m.

You won’t want to miss this epic National Bundt Cake Day celebration!

Nothing Bundt History

So…you thought you knew all about Bundt cakes…“Bundt” you didn’t even know…Bundt Cakes have their own holiday? Well then…its high time you learn your “Bundt” history!

National Bundt Cake Day was originally known as “National Bundt Pan Day” and was created by Nordic Ware, the first and only American company to trademark the traditional fluted circular shaped cast aluminum cake pans with a hole in the center! The holiday was created to honor the 60th anniversary of the Bundt Cake Pan. This sweet holiday, celebrated on November 15, morphed into "National Bundt Cake Day"!

For Bundt Cake newbies...the most frequently asked question still remains, "What the heck is Bundt?"

The History of Bundt Cake is quite fascinating and extremely interesting... to say the least. Traditional "Bundt" is NOT a specific cake recipe, dough flavor, or baking technique...but rather refers to a specific shape design, whose origin can be traced back to Europe, specifically Germany and a type of fruit cake known as Gugelhupf.

While many legends and much folklore surround the History of the Bundt Cake, the circular ring-shape cake with a hole in the middle, was a favorite in the Jewish tradition and served at Shabbat dinners.

In the 1950s and 1960s, at the request of bakers attempting to preserve the cake’s Jewish roots and replicate the tradition in America, the Bundt Cake pan was introduced in the United States by Nordic Ware of Minnesota, who subsequently trademarked and copyrighted the cake pan design.

While other culinary manufacturers do sell similar round, fluted pans, with a hole in the center...only pans manufactured by Nordic Ware are officially branded as "Bundt" due to the trademark.

For as popular as Bundt Cakes have become today...this was not always the case...and as hard as it is to swallow...the Bundt cake as we know it and love it today…almost wasn't!

Good grief! What would the world be like without Bundt cake?

Early on...cakes baked in Nordic Ware's fluted circular pan with a hole in the center…proved to be difficult to frost with traditional frosting techniques - resulting in the cakes being served plain, drizzled with some sort of confectioner's glaze, or simply dusted with powdered sugar. For untrained home bakers, the difficulty level in frosting the cakes resulted in a diminished popularity.

At one point in time, Nordic Ware actually considered abandoning the Bundt Cake pan and discontinuing it all together!

Nooooooo! Say it ain't so!!!

Can you imagine a world without Bundt cakes? Fortunately, the Bundt Cake's sweet little life was spared!

Nordic Ware's Bundt Cake pan received a second chance at life...thanks to the folks at New Good Housekeeping Cookbook who gave a prominent shout-out to the uniquely shaped cake pan in 1963, and later the Pillsbury Corporation in 1966, when the Bundt cake pan was used to create the award winning "Tunnel of Fudge" cake in the 1966 Pillsbury Busy Lady Bake-Offs.

The cake took second prize in the national contest…winning the baker $5,000…which was an enormous amount of money in that era, and as a result, Nordic Ware's Bundt Cake Pan sales skyrocketed to exciting new heights!

Ever since...the Bundt cake has become as American as apple pie. Bakeries across the country include Bundt cakes on their menus.

Bundt Cakes can be baked using any flavor combinations, served frosted or un-frosted and created with or without a cream, custard, fudge or fruit-based tunnel of filling, baked inside the dough.

There are two basic traits that constitute an authentic Traditional Bundt. Traditional Bundt cakes are 1) round and 2) have a hole in the center.

To keep the cakes trendy… modern Bundt cakes sometimes come in unique styles… and it is important to note that even Nordic Ware itself, now sometimes strays from the traditional round Bundt design, and some Bundt Cake pans are molded in unique shapes such as gigantic sunflowers, princess castles, holiday wreaths, and even a square Bundt cake pan…all with the hole in the center…of course!

Nordic Ware estimates over 60 million Bundt cake pans have been sold! Not bad...for a little cake that almost got discontinued and forever erased from our history!

The contemporary Bundt cake as we know it today…has gotten another new life due to the popularity Nothing Bundt Cakes, which was founded in Las Vegas in 1997 by friends Dena Tripp and Debbie Shwetz and offers premium, high-quality Bundt Cakes in a variety of sizes and classic flavors.

There are nearly 300 corporate and franchised bakeries in 39 U.S. states and Canada. Nothing Bundt Cakes has been named to several prestigious industry lists, including Franchise Business Review’s “Top 50 Franchises” and “Top 40 Food Franchises,” Franchise Times’ “Fast and Serious” for four years in a row, and numerous local and regional vote-driven “best of” lists.

The brand has also been featured by national media such as “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” Entrepreneur, The Wall Street Journal and CBS’ “The Talk.” For more information about Nothing Bundt Cakes, visit https://www.nothingbundtcakes.com.

Even if you can’t make the “Bundt Bash” be sure to visit Nothing Bundt Cakes of Orland Park, managed by Kathleen or Nothing Bundt Cakes of Mokena, managed by Mary! The two stores are locally owned by Bob Feldman and his family.