Is cheesecake a cake or pie?!


Question: It's a pie. It is something with a crust and then filled. Pies and tarts are in that category. Cake doesnt' have a crust unless it's a wrapping done after it is baked or formed.

There is very little starch in cheesecakes (if any) which is the major difference. A cheesecake is a baked custard that is similar to a cream pie. Instead of using cream as a milk product, it uses cream cheese. And then there's the fact that the cream is usually cooked on the stove, while the cheesecake is cooked in the oven.

BlueSea - BTW - cake is cut into the same wedges as a pie....


Answers: It's a pie. It is something with a crust and then filled. Pies and tarts are in that category. Cake doesnt' have a crust unless it's a wrapping done after it is baked or formed.

There is very little starch in cheesecakes (if any) which is the major difference. A cheesecake is a baked custard that is similar to a cream pie. Instead of using cream as a milk product, it uses cream cheese. And then there's the fact that the cream is usually cooked on the stove, while the cheesecake is cooked in the oven.

BlueSea - BTW - cake is cut into the same wedges as a pie....

cake

I'd say it's more of a pie really. It has a crust!

But cheesepie makes me think of pizza.

Cake because the crust isn't pastry.

Technically it's a pie but it is normally listed as a cake.

This gets asks quite a bit on here, my answer is does it really matter. When done properly, that is baked rather than from a box, it has a cake like texture. It is round like a pie and cut into triangles like pie. Take your pick
Why can't it be a category unto itself?
And don't let this cause you to be sad :)

Ahhhh, Annie, you are correct! What was I thinking??? It's only Tuesday and I need it to be Friday already , sigh........
Thanks for the thumbs down, by the way, always nice to see them passed out. Can never figure out why people do that.
Someone here went ape nuts.

cheeseCAKE....that should pretty much answer your question...but who knows it could be a pizza...lol jk

Neither. Technically, a cheesecake is a 'tart' ... my husband was a professional chef, and he 'specialized' in making pastry, including nearly a hundred different kinds of 'cheesecake.'

According to a food network pie competition, it is a pie if the crust goes all the way up the side and a cake if it just has the crust on the bottom (or partially up the side).

it's neither a cake or a pie. it's a form of a tart.

A cheesecake is a sweet, often cheese-based dessert. The combination of its crust and soft filling (typically containing eggs, cream, and a soft fat-like cream cheese) means the various varieties often resemble custard based desserts like buttermilk pie or creme brulee more than traditionally firm cakes. This places it firmly in the pie category, rather than (as its name would suggest) that of cakes.

Cheesecakes can be made of ricotta cheese, havarti, quark or, more usually, cream cheese. Other ingredients such as sugar, eggs, cream and fruit are often mixed in as well. Flavourings such as vanilla or chocolate or even rum may be added, and a fruit topping, like strawberries or bananas, is frequently added. Typically, the cheese filling or topping covers a crust, which may be pastry, cookie, digestive biscuit or graham cracker-crumb. Sometimes the base is a layer of cake.

The word cheesecake is also used to describe the creamy, cheesy flavour of the dessert. In this usage, there are cheesecake yogurts, ice creams, brownies, and cookies. There are also savoury cheesecakes, often flavoured with blue cheese and served as hors d'oeuvres or with accompanying salads.

it's a pie

cheesecake is actually a pie

Cheesecake is actually a pie. In German cuisine, which historically claims its ancestry, cheesecake is considered a torte.
Other similar pies are banana, coconut, and chocolate cream pies (custard pies), chiffon pies, Bavarian cream pies, cream tarts (like Tarte aux Fraises)

Unlike standard cakes, cheesecake has very little flour in the cheese mixture, if any at all, depending upon the recipe

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I'd say a cake.

Well people call it a cake but to me it is more like a pie, I don't know, I call it cake cose that is what is is been called but if I had a choice I would call it pie!

I think it is mainly a pie





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