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Fri, May 09, 2008

New Bundt Pan

Posted at 8:09 pm MDT to Technology

Costco is selling sets consisting of a very heavy cast-aluminum bundt pan and a bundt-shaped and -sized cake carrier. The pans come in several fancy patterns. I got one called a star, though it doesn't look very starlike to me. This shape is fairly simple. Some of the other options had lots of fiddly little details and I have a bad track record getting cakes out of bundt pans unbroken. There was also a simple 'party' shape, but that was totally boring. The star is a reasonable compromise.

The Costco sets are quite inexpensive -- about $12.00. so either the carrier or the pan is basically free. More than free: the pan alone is $35 on Amazon, and the carrier/keeper runs about $20.

I'll be baking another poundcake this weekend to try out my new toys. I think I'm going to try another non-buttermilk recipe or modify the half-pound cake I used last time. I

I'm not really fond of the gooey kinds of bundt cakes. Plain pound cake with just a little powdered sugar instead of frosting is probably my favorite kind of cake that doesn't have fruit in it. When I eat frosted cakes I tend to leave little frosting skeletons behind.

I have considered trying a spice cake recipe -- I found one for an applesauce spice cake that looks interesting -- but that has tactical problems. I can eat small pieces of plain pound cake for breakfast for a week. I think spice cake or other fancy cakes would get old fast.

I suppose I could cut a recipe in half and make one small loaf pan of spice cake, but bundt pans are more fun

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