Is cheesecake a pie or a cake?

Is Cheesecake a pie or a cake?


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Dragon Slayer

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Well, where do you stand?

EDIT: Also, do you prefer pie or cake?

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Pie.
It has a crust and no cake structure, no springiness.
All cake has a fluffy springiness.

and before someone mentions fuitcak as the exception, fruitcake is not a cake. It is a monstrosity.
 

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Closer to pie in construction, but I'd go neither.

Cheesecake has enough difference from pie/cake and enough of its own variations to be its own category.

I would argue a french silk pie is the closest textural resemblance. Possibly key lime.
 

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I would argue a french silk pie is the closest textural resemblance. Possibly key lime.

Sure, but cheesecake is unique in its construction/ingredients from most pie.

It is different enough from traditional pies to be its own thing.

If I had to classify it as pie or cake, absolutely pie.
 

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Sure, but cheesecake is unique in its construction/ingredients from most pie.

It is different enough from traditional pies to be its own thing.

If I had to classify it as pie or cake, absolutely pie.

To a degree, but much like french silk, the finished product is not put in to the oven- the final step is refrigeration.

I would argue all cakes are cooked, yet not all pies are.
The crust, the pour, the cooling, the texture to a degree, all common traits cheesecake shares with dishes that are undoubtedly pie.
 

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To a degree, but much like french silk, the finished product is not put in to the oven- the final step is refrigeration.

I would argue all cakes are cooked, yet not all pies are.
The crust, the pour, the cooling, the texture to a degree, all common traits cheesecake shares with dishes that are undoubtedly pie.


Next question.

Is Ice Cream Cake a pie then?
 

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I think an Ice Cream Cake is just an Ice Cream pie.

Thus, what begs the question....... Are Eskimo Pies racist? Black on the outside, white on the inside.
 

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Cheesecake has cake in the name. It is a cake. If it were a pie it would be called cheesepie. I have spoken.
 

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Cheesecake has cake in the name. It is a cake. If it were a pie it would be called cheesepie. I have spoken.
Cheesepie just sounds gross lol so I think when they named it they chose cake instead to make it more appealing
 

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I made strawberry cheesecake for the first time ever this past Sunday.
it was a sugar free recipe and it was very good. Not nearly as good as regular
 
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I can’t believe I have to sign in for this shit. Why are you idiots arguing over cheesecake? It’s fucking delicious, end of fucking argument

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