This is the Nordic Ware Classic 9×13 covered cake pan — a heavy-gauge aluminized steel rectangular cake pan that comes with a plastic snap-on lid. The 9×13 is the most-used cake pan size in American kitchens: sheet cakes, brownies, pan cornbread, peach cobbler, chicken enchiladas, mac and cheese for a family of six. The included lid is what turns it from a baking pan into a transport-ready dish.
Bake the dessert in the oven, let it cool, snap on the lid, and it goes straight into a car for a potluck, a school fundraiser, a holiday dinner at someone else’s house, or a work lunch. No transferring to another container, no foil-and-hope-it-stays-put. The pan is oven-safe and built to hold up to decades of use, while the lid handles short-term storage and travel.
Nordic Ware has been manufacturing bakeware in Minneapolis, Minnesota since 1946. The company invented the Bundt pan in 1950 and still casts, spins, and coats every piece in its Naturals, Bundt, and cast aluminum lines at that same Minnesota factory — one of the last family-owned American bakeware makers still building its core products at home.
