This bundt pan and I go way back. Before I lived in Charlotte. Before I went to cooking school.
I remember the day I bought it like it was yesterday ... except it was over 10 years ago. I was working as a consultant in Charlotte and still living in Miami. A new friend, who is now a dear old friend, was hosting her first Pampered Chef party and invited me since she knew that I didn't know anyone in town. So I went to her home, met her friends and family and bought this bundt pan. It was love at first sight. Okay ... glimpse in a catalog ... since it was about a week or so until I had it in my hands.
During the week between when I ordered it and received it, I went to the Barnes and Noble at South Park and browsed through cookbooks. I found the perfect cookbook with the perfect recipe for a vanilla bean poundcake. That recipe alone was worth the price of the cookbook.
During the week between when I ordered it and received it, I went to the Barnes and Noble at South Park and browsed through cookbooks. I found the perfect cookbook with the perfect recipe for a vanilla bean poundcake. That recipe alone was worth the price of the cookbook.I schlepped the bundt pan and the cookbook back to Miami (since my rental apartment kitchen was not equipped for baking) and made that first glorious poundcake. It was about the same time I discovered vanilla bean paste ... an efficient and cost effective substitute for vanilla beans ... it's the same end result without all the work. I don't use anything else ... 10 years later.
This is my winning trifecta ... my stoneware bundt pan, my vanilla bean poundcake recipe and Nielsen's Massey's vanilla bean paste. Don't you agree?
I schlepped them all back to Mooresville a year later where they live comfortably in their appointed spots in my kitchen. If there's ever a natural disaster or some other reason to leave home in a hurry, after I grab my passport I'm getting my bundt pan!
