This is the Nordic Ware Bavaria Bundt — a 10-cup cast aluminum Bundt pan with a more dramatic vertical-flute pattern than the Original Bundt. The design is inspired by the heirloom carved-metal bundt pans of Bavaria, Germany — the country the bundt shape originally came from before Nordic Ware’s founder adapted the design into the cast aluminum Bundt in 1950. The Bavaria’s deeper ridges produce a striking, architectural cake profile.
Cast aluminum heats evenly through every ridge of the design, and the nonstick interior releases the cake cleanly so the full pattern shows on the finished bundt. The 10-cup capacity is slightly smaller than the standard 12-cup Bundt — sized so the taller, more detailed profile fills out properly without the cake sinking. Dark graphite finish.
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.
