5 Pieces of Vintage-Style Bakeware That’ll Really Take You Back

Updated on Feb. 12, 2025

Bake up the best of both worlds with bakeware that's the perfect blend of nostalgic and new. Here are our top picks!

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For cakes, bars and breads, you can serve up one satisfying dessert after another with this throwback bakeware! We focused on pieces that are cute without being kitschy, and designs that are clever enough to enhance a dish without totally stealing the show. This bakeware will get you ready to try your hand at all of Grandma’s best desserts. (Retro apron optional.)


Taste Recipes Bakeware on shelves in rustic environment

Taste Recipes Bakeware

Bake your family favorites in Taste Recipes Bakeware! Our pans features an embossed geometric design that increases the air-flow to food, creating evenly distributed heat for consistent baking every time. This beautiful geometric pattern is carried throughout most of the Taste Recipes product lines, adding style and function to the tools in your kitchen. Choose from baking sheets, a loaf pan, cake pans and more.

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Nordic Ware 9×9 English Shortbread Pan

With nine different designs, this shortbread pan is lauded for its non-stick quality and portion-perfect shortbread size. You can keep it traditional with 3-ingredient shortbread cookies or add lavender, cinnamon or chocolate for something special. Call them whatever you like—cookies, biscuits or shortbread. Just let us eat one!

Crow Canyon Home Enamel Jelly Roll Tray

In solid white with red trim, this enamel baking pan adds a bit of retro flair to whatever strikes your baking fancy. Roomy enough for cookies (oh lemon meltaways, how we love thee!) or a loaf of bread, this dish can be a versatile, hardworking addition to your kitchen collection.

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Nordic Ware Platinum Collection Heritage Bundt Pan
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Nordic Ware Platinum Collection Heritage Bundt Pan

This Bundt pan captured our attention for its impeccable quality, tried and true performance and stylish retro design. We love our Bundt cakes for holidays, yes, but also every other day that ends in “Y.” Here are our most gorgeous Bundt cake recipes. Forks up!

The Pioneer Woman 8x8 Pan

The Pioneer Woman 8×8 Pan

There’s something about stone bakeware that makes us think of days gone by, and that’s why we love this pretty pan from the Pioneer Woman. Floral and bird motifs will take you back to days spent in grandma’s kitchen.

Why don’t they make the decorative bakeware anymore?

For one, it’s just a matter of trends—decorative bakeware was at its height from the 1950s onwards, but stainless steel and single-colored ceramic pieces are more popular these days. It also comes down to construction, since many bakeware brands used lead-based glazes back in the day.