Poll: Cheesecake pie or cake?

[Mookie_Magnus]

Cheesecake is essentially a custard pie, with the dairy and fat coming primarily from Cream Cheese, a sweet cow's milk cheese that was invented by accident when an american cheesemaker tried to recreate a soft cheese call Neufchatel. It is a pie, I don't know why it is called a cake... possibly because it resembles the shape and color of a cake... but it is a pie, it acts like a pie and tastes like a pie. The reason many cooks despise cheesecake is because they expect it to act like a cake... not a pie.

Culinary Knowledge FTW.

 

[pffh]

The cake is a pie?

Spoiler: Indeed it is

 

[Simalacrum]

i'm surprised no-one has brought up the Jaffacake (it is officially a cake, by the way)

i think its cause Jaffa Cakes only exist in England (i think) but REALLY? i never knew that lol

don't they have Jaffa Cakes in the USA? i've never really checked. they proved it was a cake on the basis that when a biscuit goes off it goes soft whereas when a cake goes off it goes hard and when a Jaffa Cake goes off it goes hard. therefore, it is a cake.

huh, thats quite interesting lol... as for Jaffa Cakes in the USA, the poor bastards don't know of its existence... seriously, ask an American what a Jaffa Cake is, chances are they don't know... they also don't know what they're missing out on

 

[SoonerMatt]

No. A cheesecake is a pie. Specifically, a custard pie. It is exactly the same as key lime pie (which is almost as delicious). Alton Brown did a whole show about it. This man is a professional chef. Will you doubt his word?

Yup, pretty much this.

Also, in this case, the cake is a lie.

 

[300lb. Samoan]

Wasn't the cake real in portal?

Spoiler: How real is a picture of a cake?

[http://img22.imageshack.us/my.php?image=notacake.jpg]

 

[PureChaos]

i'm surprised no-one has brought up the Jaffacake (it is officially a cake, by the way)

i think its cause Jaffa Cakes only exist in England (i think) but REALLY? i never knew that lol

don't they have Jaffa Cakes in the USA? i've never really checked. they proved it was a cake on the basis that when a biscuit goes off it goes soft whereas when a cake goes off it goes hard and when a Jaffa Cake goes off it goes hard. therefore, it is a cake.

huh, thats quite interesting lol... as for Jaffa Cakes in the USA, the poor bastards don't know of its existence... seriously, ask an American what a Jaffa Cake is, chances are they don't know... they also don't know what they're missing out on

i have a friend in America and i asked him if he'd heard of Jaffa Cakes. it turns out he hasn't. they reallt are missing out on that one.

 

[LordMarcusX]

This conundrum has troubled me for awhile. Does anyone know the answer?

Cheesecake is a pie. It's made like any other custard pie. But "Cheesepie" sounds gross.

 

[Rad_Brad]

C'mon Pie!! ;]

 

[Soulreaverm]

To decide between chicken and egg, we must first find which came first.

wrong, an egg cant come, therfore, the chicken came first.

/thread

I see what you did there.

I want to unsee.

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

The cake is a pie?

 

[Mardy]

Just plain cake, cheesecake reminds me of smegma for some reason.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

Cheesecake is clearly not a cake because it has a biscuit base. It is not really a pie either seeing as pies should have pastry. That means that banoffee and key lime pies are also not actually pies. It's all a huge conspiracy.

 

[Inarticulate_Underachiever]

HELLO CHEESECAKE!

 

[Flying Dagger]

no pastry. /thread.

 

[this_was_a_mistake]

I don't care either way, pie is delicious, cake is delicious, CHEESECAKE IS DELICIOUS!!

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

Man, don't you guys know it's an egg?
I mean common it makes total sense.

 

[Doug]

It's a cheesecake.

This or normal cake. I had cheesecake once, and it was very yummy.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

It has the word CAKE in it for a reason.

 

[Dark42]

My friends have spent endless hours arguing over this EXACT subject. After long hours of debate we all agreed that Cheesecake is actually a pie, and that Bostoncream pie is actually a cake. Trust me this is the truth, we even asked one of our Dad's that knew a real pastry chief and he agreed. Don't make me and my friends start this debate all over again.