Nordic Ware is a company based in St. Louis Park, Minnesota

St. Louis Park, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 44,126 people, 20,782 households, and 10,557 families residing in the city. The population density was 4,122.5 persons per square mile . There were 21,140 housing units at an average density of 1,975.0 per square mile...

 that introduced the Bundt cake

Bundt cake

A bundt cake is a dessert cake that is baked in a bundt pan, shaping it into a distinctive ridged ring. The d in "bundt" is assimilated into the t. The term is used chiefly in North America....

 pan in 1950. It was founded in 1946 by H. David Dalquist

H. David Dalquist

H. David Dalquist was the inventor of the Bundt cake pan, sold by his company Nordic Ware. After the cakes became very popular due to winning the 1966 Pillsbury Bake-off, Dalquist licensed the name to Pillsbury for use in their cake mixes. He later helped develop thermoset plastics used in...

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Their sign is painted on the Peavey–Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator near the interchange of Minnesota State Highway 100

Minnesota State Highway 100

Minnesota State Highway 100 is a state highway in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota, which runs from its interchange with Interstate 494 in Bloomington and continues north to its northern terminus at its interchange with I-694 in Brooklyn Center...

 and Minnesota State Highway 7

Minnesota State Highway 7

Minnesota State Highway 7 is a highway in Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with State Highway 28 and Big Stone County Road 1 near Beardsley and continues east to its eastern terminus at its interchange with State Highway 100 and Hennepin County Road 25 in St. Louis Park.For part of its...

. The grain elevator

Grain elevator

A grain elevator is a tower containing a bucket elevator, which scoops up, elevates, and then uses gravity to deposit grain in a silo or other storage facility...

 was the first reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete is concrete in which reinforcement bars , reinforcement grids, plates or fibers have been incorporated to strengthen the concrete in tension. It was invented by French gardener Joseph Monier in 1849 and patented in 1867. The term Ferro Concrete refers only to concrete that is...

circular grain elevator in the United States, and possibly in the world. Nordic Ware is a pioneer in the field of microwave cookware. They introduced the patented Micro-Go-Round, better known as the automated food rotator. The company also runs a competition every year "Bundts Across America," celebrating the best bundt cake creations.

Nordic Ware is one of the few remaining American cookware companies that produce their products almost entirely in the United States.