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eet the big boys: sturdy, Bundt hadn’t knocked anyone’s socks
moist, sensible pound cakes, off when it first appeared in the 1950s.
traditionally baked in tube Then in 1966, Ella Rita Helfrich, of

and Bundt pans, needing lit- Texas, entered her Bundt-baked Tunnel
tle fuss and feeding many. They’re at of Fudge Cake in the Pillsbury Bake-Off
home in the morning, at mid- and won $5,000. The Bundt rose
day, for dessert, or even to stardom and Bundt-mania
just before bedtime. In spread in the United States.
both the straight-sided Cakes baked in Bundts
tube pan and the fluted became symbols of domesticity. No

Bundt pan, the thick and dense cake suburban coffee klatch or office potluck
bakes evenly because of the hollow center lunch was complete without one. And
tube. It allows heat to come up through today these Bundts have branched out
the middle of the cake, which shortens into miniature sizes and even star-
the baking time of these thick batters and shaped pans.
allows them to rise more dramatically. As you can see from the scope of
Tube pans have been around for- this chapter, I could have written an en -
ever, but it was the Bundt that made tire book on the versatile pound cake.
cake-baking history. Based on the de - Although there are pound cake mixes on

sign of the German kugelhopf pan, the the market, you can use almost any mix