I Tasted 10 Nothing Bundt Cakes Flavors—These Are the 4 Best

Listen, I love cake as much as the next guy, but I’ve always found it amusing and mildly befuddling that there’s a whole-ass storefront dedicated to bundt cakes. Joke’s on me I suppose, because Nothing Bundt Cakes is, by all accounts, wildly successful. Launched by two home bakers in Vegas in 1997, NBC now has more than 600 locations in 45 states and Canada—there are 95 in California alone! People love bundt cake more than I ever could have imagined! 

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The bakery chain makes its signature ring-shaped, frosting-drizzled cakes in a slew of flavors and a handful of sizes: There are bite-sized Bundtinis, full-sized bundts, an even bigger Big Bundt, and then the Bundtlet, a personal-sized cake akin to a cupcake. We ordered Bundtlets in every flavor they had available at our local NBC location and tried them all back to back to find out which of the Nothing Bundt Cakes flavors are Big Bundt-worthy. 

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Classic Vanilla

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This is a wonderful, moist vanilla cake with really nice cream cheese frosting that has just enough salt and tang to offset the sweetness of the cake itself. The cake is definitely reminiscent of a grocery store cupcake, but I mean that in a good way. This is one of the best Nothing Bundt Cake flavors if you’re in the mood for a nostalgic treat.

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Rating:

9/10

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Carrot

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Even though these bundt cakes are small, I’d be hard pressed to make it through most of them. This one? Yeah, I could make it through a whole one. It’s redolent of all those warm spices you expect—cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, etc—but it’s not too sweet. The cream cheese frosting is a great complement to the complex spice cake base. Could the carrot be a little more prominent? Sure, but it’s good as is, too.

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Rating:

9.5/10

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Chocolate Chocolate Chip

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YUM. As the name suggests, this is a chocolate cake with chocolate chips in the mix. Fascinatingly, the chips don’t melt! How did they bake a cake without the chips melting? I don’t get it, but I’m glad they figured it out because the chips add so much nice texture and interest in addition to a really deep, dark chocolate flavor. This comes with cream cheese frosting, too, which makes it taste almost red velvet adjacent if you close your eyes. It’s moist as all get-out, too. This is a lovely little chocolate cake. 

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Rating:

10/10

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Best of the Bundts!

Oreo Cookies & Cream

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This isn’t just the best of all the Nothing Bundt Cake flavors we tried; the Oreo Cookies & Cream cake is one of the best cakes I’ve ever had. Normally, an Oreo cake would, by default, just be a sort of bitter cocoa cake with pasty frosting and maybe some cookie bits in the mix (in the cake or in the frosting). But this is a creamy-tasting vanilla cake that’s riddled with Oreo bits and, honestly, it’s kind of crazy how much Oreo flavor it packs. This is a rush-out-and-get bundt if you ask me. 

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Rating:

10/10

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Other Nothing Bundt Cakes flavors we tried:

White Chocolate Raspberry, Strawberry Cheesecake Swirl, Strawberry and Cream, Red Velvet, Confetti, Lemon