A couple of weeks ago, I got a nice email from the co-owner of the Nashville location of Nothing Bundt Cakes. The store just had its one-year anniversary last week and to help celebrate (and announce a new location in Cool Springs), she offered to have me come in and sample the cakes.
Look at all these bundt cakes!
I have to admit that I have driven past the store a number of times and have resisted. Just like I resist the cupcake stores and the frozen yogurt and ice cream stores. I rarely treat myself. Those kinds of things are reserved for special occasions, I tell myself (in order to avoid busting out of my clothes). But free cake? How could I resist? Also, it was a special occasion. Last week also happened to include my birthday. What better way to celebrate than with free cake? Well, with free good cake!
My birthday bundt! Pecan praline. Candle-less on purpose (ahem).
And good it is. Uh, was. These cakes are unbelievably moist. Even the notoriously dry red velvet. And the chocolate, too. Like a cake you’d bake at home, but even better (don’t get me started on chocolate bakery cakes, most of which I think are inedible). It was difficult to choose, but for my big birthday cake, I went with the pecan praline. For some reason, it just really spoke to me. It’s fantastic. It’s not better than the chocolate (which also has chocolate chips), but I just can’t have that much chocolate cake within reach. I’d get nuts. I’d eat so much I’d be sugarbuzzing for days.
Their store has all sorts of cards, gifts and all the little things you need for a party such as serving accessories, candles and even plates, napkins and forks already packaged.
But I did get some bundtinis that were chocolate. And some lemon, red velvet, and white chocolate raspberry. All excellent. All moist. And even the carrot cake is good! No raisin bombs or nuts, either. Just a bit of very subtle pineapple. And all the cakes are frosted with this butter-cream-cheese frosting that is perfect. The consistency and flavor are wonderful. The cakes come in bundtini (about the size of a cupcake), bundtlet (easily equivalent to 2-3 slices of cake) and 8- and 10-inch full size bundts. I tried some of all the sizes and the moistness and quality were all the same. Delicious.
But don’t take my word for it. You can try them yourself. They put out fresh samples in the store every day. And even better, here’s a chance to win a bundtlet a month for a “hole” year! Just leave a comment telling me which flavor you’d most like to try. Their flavors include: chocolate chocolate chip, red velvet, lemon, white chocolate raspberry, carrot, marble, white white chocolate, cinnamon swirl and pecan praline plus a featured flavor each month. This month’s flavor is pumpkin spice.
This contest is only good for the Nashville-area stores and will be open for entries between now and 6:00pm CDT, Friday, October 5, 2012. One entry per person. I will draw the winner at random and contact them shortly thereafter. If I can’t reach the winner within 24 hours, I will draw another, so be sure to leave a valid (weekend) email address!
Nothing Bundt Cakes
21 White Bridge Road
Nashville, TN 37205
615 354-6300
Monday-Saturday: 9:00am-6:00pm
Opening soon:
535 Cool Springs Blvd. #110
Franklin, TN 37067
(Next to Royal Thai and Newk’s)
Good luck!
ps–keep up with the Nothing But Cake news in Nashville by following them on Facebook!
Update: This contest is now closed. Congratulations to commenter #2, Kelly!
I’d go with carrot.
Ooh Carrot Cake. If you can make a really good, moist carrot cake with thick frosting (not the crusty stuff), I’m sold!
Also, how am I just now hearing of them??
An engineer company of ours sends us Nothing Bundt Cakes for our birthday. They come in this adorable three pack that everyone in the office covets.
I’d have to go carrot.
yum, red velvet! i noticed their version has chocolate chips, which definitely sold me on it!
Chocolate!!
I would say carrot, but pumpkin spice? Hel-lo.
white chocolate raspberry! no… pecan praline! um…all of them?
do they sell elastic waisted pants in the store as well, cause imma need them. i’m with you on pecan praline. sounds excellent.
I would go with chocolate chocolate chip…and then use my sugar buzz to clean all of the things!
The Power of Bundt Cake, by Harlean Carpenter
I stood in a discount store
mesmerized by
a six dollar time machine
as it brought forward
fragments of images
of things that all
smelled like childhood
smiled as I thought
about bringing it home
and when we talked later
I told you
I bought a Bundt cake pan today
and you knew exactly
what that meant
We sat in a thing
between nostalgia and awe
as we reached back
reliving on the tongues of our minds
Bundt cakes from
our mother’s kitchens
and when you said
you liked the cinnamon best
how freeing it was to say
I like it too
but the lemon is my favorite
all the while knowing
the first Bundt cake I made
in our home in my new pan
would be cinnamon
but for the first time
not because
three older louder sisters
liked the cinnamon best
I will serve you
cinnamon Bundt cake
at three-thirty in the afternoon
just like our mothers did
in the years before we ever knew
there would be us
and when I set
the round white plate before you
it will be every snowball
I never got to throw
at your laughingly retreating back
as you ducked into
the fort where I wasn’t allowed
because as you never tired
of reminding me
I was just a girl
Our fingertips will brush
as we reach for our forks
to make up for every time
we never got to hold hands
rollerskating down the hill
that our parents warned us about
or maybe
we won’t use forks at all
but will instead hide in a blanket fort
built with living room furniture
and imagination
and eat Bundt cake
with our fingers
maybe it will start to rain
and we will pretend our fort
is a pirate ship
a deserted island
a dungeon in the castle
of an evil king
And then maybe years from now
when one is gone
and the other is looking back
it will seem
like we had more time
____
I prefer lemon.
Considering I was just lamenting how no one has lemon cake on their menu…and that my grandmother ALWAYS made my brother and I lemon bundt cake as children…I have to go with lemon.
Lemon! One of my all time favorites!
That bday pecan praline sounds pretty good….and sounds like the closest thing to caramel. Which I LOVE.
Chocolate chocolate chip would be my first choice, though cinnamon swirl and pumpkin spice really speak to me this time of year. But ultimately, chocolate.
Hmm, I am a sucker for marble cakes so I’d have to go with that. Although red velvet is a very, very close second.
As a crazy citrus lover, it should come as no surprise that my answer is ‘lemon.’ fun giveaway!
chocolate chocolate chip! (plus this month I would be all about the pumpkin!)
Ooooh, I’ve driven by this place on my way to Target and wanted to stop in so many times! I’m crossing my fingers for good luck, because Friday the 5th is my birthday
I would LOVE to try the pumpkin spice flavor, because I’m feeling especially inspired by squash lately!
Pecan praline
I make a killer chocolate, chocolate chip version with optional caramel bourbon glaze and no one is going to top my mama’s lemon, but I am intrigued by the white chocolate raspberry flavor. I too scoff at White chocolate, but when done right and teamed with raspberry it could be really really good.
Oh, wow. Lemon. For breakfast. Chocolate for dessert.
I’d like to try their red velvet
This is too hard, but I have to go with carrot.
lemon, or maybe lemon? lemon. final answer. but wait – pumpkin spice?! haha. I don’t know. I guess I’d have to decide in the moment, but I know [from too much experience] that all of the flavors I have tried have been great!
Chocolate chocolate chip!
I love the pumpkin!!
Lemon for sure!!
I would love to try them all…but if I had to pick just one right now….my taste buds are saying….white chocolate raspberry!
Oh, this decision is hard… I would like to try pecan praline.
Thank you for this opportunity, Lesley!
Carrot, please! We are not dessert people, but my husband LOVES carrot cake and cream cheese icing and I have followed suit. Can’t wait to shop the Cool Springs locale!!!
(And I missed your birthday? Boo. Happy Belated from me!)
Well since I have sampled most of them (and they are AMAZING!), I must say I didn’t know they have a White White Chocolate–YUM! Sounds awesome!
Just one choice? Eek. I’m going to say LEMON!
I’m a total Lemon freak!!! But I also love White Chocolate anything and anything with Cinnamon…
The white chocolate raspberry is calling my name!
Pecan praline! yum!
Pecan praline! Thanks for the giveaway!
oh, I love love love their chocolate chocolate chip. I want to try the pumpkin! And the cinnamon.
Chocolate chocolate chip
that white white chocolate. cake is my thing. period. I even bought the vodka. once. I had too… so yes, count me in. !!!
This is impossible. Carrot. No, lemon. Or chocolate chocolate chip. But pumpkin spice sounds nice, too, since the little coffee stand across from my work just *discontinued* the pumpkin spice latte. ARGH!
What a generous giveaway! I’d love to try their Lemon Bundt cake! Sounds delicious!
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lemon, no doubt
The carrot has no nuts? Awesome! I love carrot cake, but don’t like nuts. I do like nut butters, though. But not peanut butter.
Actually, I’d prefer to taste the lemon.
cinnamon swirl sounds yummy
Mmmm… Carrot Cake!
Yay! How do I claim my monthly bundlet?