Nordic Ware Heritage Bundt Pan

I’ve always wanted a Bundt tin and this one didn’t disappoint. I bought some cake release spray and that has helped reduce the risk of any cake staying in the tin. The tin creates a striking cake shape that is impressive, especially when decorated accordingly, using the strong edges to drizzle icing or melted chocolate.

All NordicWare bakeware is made of outstanding quality materials, this Heritage Bundt Tin is fabulous too. I have a number of pieces collected over many years and recently added this beauty to my arsenal. The heavy thick metal conducts heat evenly into your cake mixture, & gives stunning clean cut lines on turning out. No other brand compares. The pictures show a Deeply Rich Orange Bundt cake which is free from eggs and butter but very moist - it's totally vegan with healthy ingredients. It cooks to perfection in the Aga baking oven, placed on the grid shelf on the floor of the oven, bake for 40 minutes, rotating halfway, then slide the cold plain shelf onto the 2nd set of runners down, for a further 10 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean or 95 C is reached in the very centre of the cake mixture (not the tin!). This is my first use with this new Heritage Bundt tin. I greased it with Wilton cake release brushed into all the nooks & crannies prior to use, the cake simply slipped out, it sat in the tin for 15 minutes before turning out, as one should always do with baked goods to allow them to shrink in from the edges. I can’t recommend highly enough, a joy to bake with as always. Katy Thompson - Home Economist & Aga Specialist

I ordered this tin in the hope of getting it by 1st June to make a dairy-free cake for my grandson's first birthday. The very nice looking recipe had been made in this tin. I got a despatch update telling me the tin would arrive actually on June 1st...which would be too late, so I was a bit sad. But wonderfully there it was on my doorstep a day early, and I made a really wonderful apple cake which was a big success. The tin is really expensive, but I will use it a lot now. It is very sturdy and ( having oiled and floured it ) the cake turned out perfectly, despite having sticky apple and sugar mix in the cake. This is the very best cake tin I own and I think my family will be getting sick of it as I shall be using it so much. And I was SO pleased that it was delivered so promptly. Thank you !

For years I've had the same old bundt tin that was passed down to me by my mother. Recently, no matter how much I greased the tin, it had been holding onto some of the cakes & ruining the overall design. I took to the internet & read a lot - a LOT - about which new bundt tin I should invest in. The same answer kept turning up: Nordic Ware. Rave reviews all over the internet, and it's easy to see why. The tin has a great weight to it, it feels sturdy & I have no doubt that it will last me for years to come. There's a coating that makes greasing & washing the bundt tin very easy. Since purchasing, I have made three different cakes in my tin & each one has slid straight out without any issues. I was slightly worried that the shape of the tin wouldn't hold the shape in the finished cake, but I needed have been - each cake has come out as perfectly as I had dreamed! Could not recommend more!

I bought this for myself for my 60th birthday :-) And made my own birthday cake (it's a tradition! I'm the only cake maker in the house). I made Raymond Blanc's lemon loaf cake in it - one and a half times the quantities in the recipe which was just the right amount for the tin. And used his apricot and lemon glaze. Then drizzled thinned chocolate ganache on it and plonked some raspberries on. It looked lovely - it tasted lovely - although have to say we all prefer a cake with a filling for birthdays - I might experiment how to do something like that. I usually use the Wilton cake spray on these Nordic tins but didn't have any so used the lashings of butter people mentioned and floured it and was not happy with the layer of butter on flour on the outside of the cake. It turned out fine but had a layer of stuck on flour - I brushed most of it off. In future I'll stick to the Wilton cake spray. We've used the pirate ship tin a few times so I know the Wilton cake spray works a treat on these Nordic tins and better results in my opinion.

This is my first Nordic Ware cake tin and I am blown away by the quality. Most (ie cheaper) cake tins are made from bent or pressed metal. This one however is made from cast aluminium. This means that it is incredibly strong (you could park a car on it and it wouldn't bend), and thanks to the bulk of metal, guarantees nice even heat distribution. I don't know what surface treatment it has been given as it does not look like the normal Teflon type non-stick coating, but boy is it slippery! I just baked my first cake (caramel apple and pecan), and by way of experiment, did not grease or flour it. Once cooked it just slid out the pan beautifully! The design is just stunning and really lends itself to having icing dribbled over it so that it runs down the grooves. I cant wait to bake some more, and try other ideas - I note that one reviewer used it to mould a rice salad - great idea that I will copy at Christmas when we have a house full.

Overall message is the non-stick partly works, but take the time and effort to fully brush in a coating of cooking margerine to help the non-stick work. And don't soak or clean the non-stick away! This is my second tin. The first tin failing was my fault that the non-stick failed, as I left it to soak in hot washing up liquid water and used a sponge to clean it. It had worked to release the cake four times before failing. This second tin worked the first time, and then failed twice, with the cake fully sticking to the sides. I have been cleaning this second tin with only warm water and a cloth. I was origanlly using a spray oil and a light dusting of flour to coat the inside before baking. I have now changed to using a brush to completely coat the inside with cooking margerine, and then adding a light dusting of flour too. This new approach has worked with only a couple of small areas sticking, but able to release with some encouragement.

This tin is pricey, and it took ages to arrive because it came from the US, but sometimes you get what you pay for. It produced an impressive looking cake for little effort and will last a lifetime. No problem getting the cake out of the tin using a bakery spray. Think of it as an investment in cake!