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National Bundt Day 2025
Today is National Bundt Day, and I find it comically thematic that it falls on a Saturday. We’ve come full circle on another week, and it’s as sweet as it is funny-looking.
Hole In One
The Bundt cake. For some sweets lovers it’s the ultimate retro dessert. Still others write off this dense confection as pure kitsch. ~Kathy Hunt
Although it was all the rave in the 90s, the actual Bundt cake pan was created by Nordicware in 1950 to present a modern take on a classic European ring cake.
When you absolutely, positively must have a cake that looks like a jello mold, it’s time to bake a Bundt.
I can speak from experience that when you have these ornate cake shapes, you absolutely must have that hole in the middle to ensure that it bakes all the way through.
There is nothing sadder than an apparently baked cake with a blob of batter lurking in the middle.
And the icing?
I love a good solid layer of frosting on my cakes, but when it comes to the repeating geometric shapes of this tasty ring of cake; you want to show that shape off by covering it with a drizzle of frosted glaze.
One of the most iconic Bundts is a deep black Devil’s Food cake with a pure white coating of drippy frosting.
I have to admit that the Spice Cake ring with a drizzle of cream cheese frosting depicted above looks absolutely amazing.
With the holidays fast approaching, I could even see making a fun Rainbow Chip Bundt and drizzling alternating stripes of red and green frosting and topping it with the Funfetti sprinkles included with the frosting. That would be festive as heck.
It’s A Bundt!
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) – Bundt Cake Scene
Well, they’ve gone and done it. Making today a holiday celebrating this unjustly derided cake has got me all hungry for cake!
I can’t just go around eating cake all the time, as much as I’d love to.
I need vegetables! I need meat! I need all the things that cake is not.
In order to justify eating some more cake, because I’ve had my nutrition.
And there we are.
I grew up with an expectation of dessert.
You eat your meal. You get your dessert.
Unless, of course, the meal doubled as dessert.
Mom didn’t hesitate to have waffles for dinner, just for a bit of variety.
If you had waffles for dinner or something similarly sweet, you didn’t really need dessert. That was covered.
If only I knew then what I know now, I could have had a sort of anti-dessert.
Leftover hamburgers without buns or condiments =
Meat Cookies!!!
Hear me out now. It’s not as crazy as it sounds.
Leftover hamburgers, straight from the fridge.
You just eat them like cookies and they are the savory alternative to a sweet main meal like waffles.
Some people make the waffles savory by topping with chicken and gravy, but that’s a thing in itself.
Meat cookies, y’all. Don’t knock them ’til you’ve tried them.
The Secret to Making Your Best-Ever Bundt Cake
Long Haired Cake Enthusiast
People associate long hair with drug use. I wish people associated long hair with something other than drug use, like an extreme longing for cake. And then strangers would see a long haired guy and say, “That guy eats cake!” “He is on bundt cake!” Mothers saying to their daughters, “Don’t bring the cake eater over here anymore. He smells like flour. Did you see how excited he got when he found out your birthday was fast approaching? ~Mitch Hedberg
Hate to tell you, Mitch. When people see me, they are definitely thinking exactly that and they’re not wrong.
I have to lay off the cake in order to get a good report at the doctor’s next time around.
That is to say, I need to eat it in much more moderation than I did in reaction to my austerity plan this time last year.
I still feel as if I essentially missed Christmas last year.
I skipped too many of my favorite holiday treats in a failed effort to drive my A1C down.
I was too late starting my story and was writing desperately from day to day instead of being mostly done by the time Thanksgiving rolled around.
Work was super intense, and trying to write episodes the day before they were to drop was hectic as hell.
The spirit was barely there, and I had no time or mental bandwidth to watch any of my seasonal favorites.
It was barely okay. It wasn’t horrible, but it was not quite okay.
Unacceptable.
This year, I’m already 42% done with the story.
I’m not sure that I’ll have it complete before 🦃 Thanksgiving Day 🥧, but I’ll be close enough to the end that I’ll be able to finish it up on my weekend writing retreats instead of writing desperately the day before it’s needed.
It’s coming along nicely with laughs, tears, faith and fun. I hope you’ll enjoy it when it begins dripping out.
As always, there’s an Intro on Thanksgiving Day and the first episode shows up on Black Friday.
💡🎄🌟 Goodness & Lights 🌟🎄💡, don’t miss it!
That’s all for today. See you back on Wednesday for playing Monopoly…