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The humble vessel that turns chaos into something worth singing happy birthday to.
means A metal or glass baking dish, usually round or rectangular, that holds cake batter and gives the finished cake its shape as it bakes.
from A plain compound of two old words. 'Cake' came into English from Old Norse 'kaka,' brought by Scandinavian settlers and originally meaning a small flat baked lump rather than anything fluffy and frosted. 'Pan' is older still, from Old English 'panne,' a cooking vessel, with cousins across the Germanic languages and possibly a distant root in Latin 'patina,' a shallow dish. Put them together and you get exactly what it says: the pan you bake the cake in.
- springform secret
- Latch and removable base free delicate cakes intact
- bundt origin
- Inspired by a German Jewish kugelhopf mold, 1950
- dark vs shiny
- Dark metal bakes faster, browns edges more
- sales explosion
- A 1966 pillsbury bake-off win made bundts famous
nordic ware bundt pan — iconic fluted ring-shaped cake pan manufactured since 1950 in minnesota
le creuset stoneware loaf — french ceramic baking pan for pound cakes, produced since 1925
usa pan aluminized steel — commercial-grade rectangular cake pan with nonstick coating, widely used in professional bakeries