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Bundt
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bundt
English
Etymology
en ine-pro *bʰendʰ-
From en de Bundkuchen, from de Bund tied together + de Kuchen cake. The style of mold in North America was popularized in the 1950s and 1960s, after cookware manufacturer Nordic Ware trademarked the name Bundt and began producing Bundt pans from cast aluminum.
Pronunciation
bŭnt, en /bʌnt/
en ʌnt 1
Noun
thumb|A Bundt cake pan (en baking pan)
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en baking pan en countable A baking pan with a hollow, circular, raised area in the middle.
10 May 1985 L. N. Halliburton; w:Ruth Reichl Restaurants: Down-Home Dining in the Marina https://web.archive.org/web/20191215072331/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-05-10-ca-18376-story.html “Sock-it-to-me” cake, a yellow cake made in a Bundt mold, was filled with walnuts and cinnamon and served fresh, soft and warm.
9 January 2005 Elaine Woo H. David Dalquist, 86; Made Bundt Cake Pan https://web.archive.org/web/20190825014709/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jan-09-me-dalquist9-story.html Bundt mania raged through the next two decades. With the introduction of novelty Bundts in shapes including a rose, a star, a cathedral and a Christmas tree, annual sales climbed to 1 million pans. One chef was so moved by Dalquist’s legacy that he rushed not to his kitchen but to his desk to compose this verse: / Regarding the casket, / May I be blunt? / Screw the coffin, / And bake me in a Bundt!
19 November 2018 w:Nigel Slater Nigel Slater’s perfect Christmas recipes https://web.archive.org/web/20181119085847/https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/nov/19/nigel-slater-recipes-christmas-feast-trout-tartare-turkey-leg-quince-pies-recipes I use a Christmas tree Bundt cake mould, available from larger cookware shops, but you can use a regular 22cm Bundt or kugelhopf tin.
en Bundt cake.
9 January 2005 Elaine Woo H. David Dalquist, 86; Made Bundt Cake Pan https://web.archive.org/web/20190825014709/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jan-09-me-dalquist9-story.html They whipped up Banana Mini-Bundts and Bundt cakes of sour cream and dried cherries and posted photos of their creations in honor of Dalquist, who was buried Friday.
en 2007 Susanna Short Quick Orange Kiss Bundt Bundt Cake Bliss: Delicious Desserts from Midwest Kitchens Saint Paul, Minn. Minnesota Historical Society Press 93 https://archive.org/details/bundtcakeblissde0000shor/page/93/mode/1up 978-0-87351-585-6 Many people like ice cream with their Bundt cakes, and why not? Sometimes, however, poorly presented ice cream can ruin the good looks of a slice of Bundt.
1 December 2023 Ella Quittner Flamboyant as Ever, ’70s-Style Desserts Are Making a Comeback https://web.archive.org/web/20231201190153/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/t-magazine/70s-desserts-bundts-black-forest.html And at Claud in the East Village, the chef Joshua Pinsky’s pistachio Bundt is cut on the bias to reveal a pale chartreuse crumb.
22 January 2024 w:Alan Connor Crossword roundup: the problem with the trolley problem https://web.archive.org/web/20240122130408/https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/crossword-blog/2024/jan/22/crossword-roundup-the-problem-with-the-trolley-problem The runners-up are Albery’s “Broken bucket and sponge?”, which has gained a “?” because as far as I understand it, a Bundt might be – but is not obliged to be – a sponge;
Derived terms
en Bundt cake
Further reading
Bundt cake
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