A Bundt cake is any cake made in a Bundt pan. The pan was invented by Henry David Dalquist who, with his wife, Dorothy Margarite Staugaard, founded the Nordic Ware company in 1948 in Minnesota, where Leesa and I find ourselves this brisk Sunday morning. He was a chemical engineer and inventor and he cast the pan for the Minneapolis-based Hadassah Society (a group for Jewish women), which wanted to recreate traditional kugelhopf - a dense, ring-shaped cake. He called his invention a bund pan, for the German word that translates to bond or alliance. Dalquist may have added the T to put space between his product and the German-American Bund, a pro-Nazi group. But what happened next is nothing short of US culinary history.
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