[Sca-cooks] Re: bundt cake?

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Mark Calderwood:
>At 08:50 17/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
>>that the cakey things baked in the
>>mini Bundt pans are indeed her poundcakes.
>
>Sorry question from an iggerant Aussie- what are bundt cakes (or bundt
>meetings?)- I heard it from American tv but have no idea what it is...(like
>your high school/uni terminology, that has me permanently confused)
>
>Giles

Various Germanic languages (although modern German may not now be one
of them, at least in this usage; my German dictionary is strangely
silent on this subject) use a noun like Bund to indicate a circle,
or, by extension, a collar, ring, or even to denote a union or
confederation.

Anyway, a bundt cake is characterized by being in a ring-shaped pan,
which is both attractive and has the advantage of the cake cooking
more quickly than a similarly-sized round pan: no middle to cook
through, so such a cake can be poufy and light due to high "oven
spring", without burning.

Adamantius