Bundt cakes are among the most popular sweets in the States, and Nothing Bundt Cakes is the name most people reach for. It is also the rare case where the brand answers the vegan question itself, in its own words, in a single sentence — and this page used to spend most of its length working around that sentence instead of quoting it.
Answer: no. Nothing Bundt Cakes states that it offers no vegan cakes and no egg-free cakes, and all nineteen flavours it publishes declare EGG, MILK and SOY. This is not a matter of asking your local bakery, and this page has stopped suggesting that it is.
What the Brand Says, Verbatim
From the Nothing Bundt Cakes FAQ page, fetched 31 July 2026:
“Do you have any vegan cakes? We don’t offer any vegan cakes at this time, but we do have gluten-free and dairy-free cakes.”
“Do you have any egg-free cakes? We don’t offer any egg-free cakes at this time, but we do have gluten-free and dairy-free options.”
And from the top of the ingredients page, printed in bold capitals, fetched the same day:
“FOOD ALLERGEN NOTE: OUR CAKES CONTAIN WHEAT, MILK, EGGS AND SOY AND MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF TREE NUTS, PEANUTS AND SESAME. CAKES ARE NATURALLY AND ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED.”
That is a brand-level statement, not a per-location one. The ingredients page is self-dated “Revised 05/2025” for the standard flavours, “Revised 04/2026” for the seasonal ones and “Revised 07/2026” for the pop-up flavours, so it is actively maintained.
Every Flavour, and What Each One Declares
Nothing Bundt Cakes publishes a separate ingredient statement and CONTAINS line for each of its nineteen current flavours. All nineteen declare EGG. All nineteen declare MILK. All nineteen declare SOY. The lines are not identical, though, and the differences are the useful part:
- EGG, MILK, SOY, WHEAT — Carrot, Confetti, Chocolate Chocolate Chip, Classic Vanilla, Lemon, OREO Cookies & Cream, Red Velvet, Strawberries & Cream, White Chocolate Raspberry, Banana Pudding Cake Made With NILLA, Biscoff Cookie Butter Cake, Lemon Raspberry, Peppermint Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Spice, S’mores made with HERSHEY’S, Strawberry Cheesecake Swirl.
- EGG, MILK, SOY (no wheat) — Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookie, Gluten-Free Lemon Raspberry.
- EGG, MILK, PECANS, SOY, WHEAT — Turtle Cheesecake Swirl.
Sizes do not change this. Bundtinis, Bundtlets, Bundt Cakes and Big Bundt Cakes are size variants of the same recipes; the nutrition guide gives per-size figures for the same flavour set and no size alters a CONTAINS line.
The Dairy-Free Answer Is Not a Vegan Answer
This is the one genuinely useful thing on the whole subject, and it has to be given in both halves or it becomes dangerous. The FAQ also says:
“Do you have a dairy-free cake? Yes! Carrot, which is always on our menu, and Pumpkin Spice, an annual seasonal flavor available in the fall, are considered dairy-free when requested with no frosting.”
Read that carefully. It is a dairy-free claim, tightly conditioned on removing the frosting. It is not a vegan claim, and the brand’s own records rule out reading it as one: Carrot’s published CONTAINS line is EGG, MILK, SOY, WHEAT and its ingredient statement names “EGGS (WHOLE EGG, EGG YOLK)” in the batter, alongside cream cheese and butter. Pumpkin Spice is the same. And the same FAQ says flatly that no egg-free cakes are offered.
A no-frosting Carrot bundt is, on Nothing Bundt Cakes’ own documents, still an egg-containing cake. If you avoid dairy for intolerance reasons, that FAQ answer is worth having. If you are vegan, it is not.
One further limitation worth naming precisely: the ingredients page states that its data “includes standard frosting.” So the published CONTAINS lines do not describe the no-frosting variant, and the brand publishes no separate record for it. The full composition of an unfrosted Carrot or Pumpkin Spice cake is simply not documented.
Gluten-Free Is Not Vegan Either
Two flavours are made with gluten-free ingredients: Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookie and Gluten-Free Lemon Raspberry. Both declare EGG, MILK, SOY. The FAQ adds: “However, Nothing Bundt Cakes is not a certified gluten-free environment.”
An earlier version of this page called the chocolate chip cake “perhaps their only attempt to cater to consumers with diverse food preferences” and said the bakery includes a gluten-free option for it. There are two gluten-free flavours, not one, and the gluten-free one is the Chocolate Chip Cookie — a different item from the standard Chocolate Chocolate Chip. The underlying point the old page made, that gluten-free does not mean vegan, was right, and both flavours prove it.
Nut Cross-Contamination
This article previously carried no cross-contamination warning at all. The brand states one:
“Some of the flavors we offer contain products such as peanuts or tree nuts that are consistently present in our bakeries. In addition, some of our ingredients are manufactured in plants that process nuts. We do our best to control cross-contamination but cannot guarantee that it does not happen.”
What This Page Used to Say, and Why It Was Wrong
The old article reached the right headline verdict and then undercut it repeatedly. Six separate times it told readers to ask a bakery for a vegan version of a cake, which is the exact thing the brand publicly says it does not do. All six have been removed:
- “Nothing Bundt Cakes may offer to customize their cakes to your vegan needs. It is up to the specific location of their franchise and the chefs there.” — contradicted. The FAQ answer is brand-level, not location-level.
- “Ask your local Nothing Bundt Cakes bakery to omit the chocolate chips and substitute the dairy and eggs with vegan alternatives.” (Red Velvet) — contradicted.
- “You can ask Nothing Bundt Cakes for a vegan alternative.” (Carrot) — contradicted.
- “You can request the bakery to prepare a vegan-friendly cake personalized to your requirements.” (Pecan Praline) — contradicted, and about a flavour that no longer exists.
- “So ask the bakery if they can make one for you.” (Chocolate Chip) — contradicted.
- “You might try your luck by requesting to use a vegan white chocolate alternative for your order.” (White Chocolate Raspberry) — contradicted.
Nothing on nothingbundtcakes.com describes custom, special-order or substituted cakes in any dietary context. The only accommodation language anywhere is attached to the gluten-free answer — “we suggest you contact your preferred bakery to ensure that your needs are met” — and it is not attached to a vegan one.
Four more corrections:
- “The management has repeatedly assured us that they are in the process of including vegan cakes.” — there is no source of any kind for this. Nothing on the brand’s website says it, and “repeatedly assured us” implies direct contact that was never evidenced. It has been removed rather than softened.
- “Pecan Praline” had a section of its own, including a quoted marketing claim about grandma’s Streusel cakes. The words “pecan” and “praline” do not appear on the ingredients page at all; it is not among the nineteen current flavours. The section is gone.
- Red Velvet’s chocolate chips were described as a topping. They are in the batter, and the brand’s own sub-list for them names MILK FAT and MILK. The conclusion was right; the description was not.
- “Since its inception in 1997…”, “the most popular flavor at Nothing Bundt Cakes is classic vanilla”, “the star of Nothing Bundt Cakes is a fresh raspberry puree cake” and “red velvet… is a homage to their Southern heritage” — none verified from any brand page, and two of them contradict each other about which flavour is the flagship. All removed.
Also removed: a spliced marketing sentence about 2025 being “a great year to try baking your own” vegan red velvet, which asserted nothing; and roughly 400 words of third-party content — four named independent bakeries in California and Texas, plus three grocery brands, each with specific claims about their menus, shipping and history. None of it was about Nothing Bundt Cakes, none of it was verified against those businesses’ own published data, and it made up about a quarter of the article. It has been deleted rather than trimmed.
The Honest Summary
There is nothing uncertain here. Nothing Bundt Cakes publishes complete ingredient statements — better evidence than most food companies give you — and every one of them declares egg and milk. The brand then answers the question directly in its FAQ, twice, in plain language.
If you are vegan, this is a no, and no amount of asking at the counter changes it. If you avoid dairy specifically, the brand names two flavours — Carrot year-round and Pumpkin Spice seasonally — that it considers dairy-free when ordered with no frosting, while noting that it publishes no ingredient record for the unfrosted version. Those cakes still contain egg.
