Is cheesecake a pie or a cake??!
Answers: I have no idea which one it is but me and my siblings have been fighting over what it is!! Help me!!
This is an idea that I originally heard expressed by Alton Brown on Good Eats, in the episode "The Trouble with Cheesecake". Most of the information there is from that episode.
Yes, cheesecake isn't cake at all; it's pie. Cakes don't have a crust and they have a fair amount of flour in them. Cheesecakes have a crust but no flour. Cakes also tend to rise a fair amount when cooked and have a lot of air in them at the end; cheesecakes don't.
Cheesecakes bear the most resemblance to a cream pie. Cream pies are basically just pudding or custard in a pie shell. Cheesecake filling is a custard with cream cheese providing the dairy, instead of milk. That makes the result firmer, but it's the same idea.
So? So when you're making a cheesecake, treat it like a cream pie, not like a cake. That means:
* You generally blind bake the crust.
* You have to cook it without heating it too fast or it will curdle. That's why cheesecakes are baked in a bain-marie (water bath). [For cream pies, the custard is cooked separately from the pie shell, so no water bath is needed, just gentle heat.]
* It's eggs that make the whole thing thicken when cooked. Overcooked eggs are bad (in baking, less so at breakfast), so you don't want to overcook a cheesecake.
AB suggests that most cheesecake failures are caused by expecting the cheesecake to behave like a cake, which it isn't. Hopefully, this meme will lead many to better cheesecake experiences.
One more result of this that I'm not so sure about but might experiment with: You can cook a custard in the microwave--it's foolproof, with no possilility of curdling. The same might apply to cheesecake, but I suspect you'd get more of a sticky mess than a nice firm cheesecake.
I always thought it was a pie.
CAKE
Cake.
A pie has a crust and a filling and sometimes a topping or top crust. Pies are generally fruit or cream.
A cake is a sweet leavened product that is a batter that raises when baked. It can have a filling between layers and generally has a frosting or topping. They are generally round.
Cheese cake seems like a pie because it has a crust. The filling is cream and often has fruit as the topping. It is like a cake because the original had some leavening in the filling and rose when baked. Not all do today. Some cheese cakes are baked in a cake pan and have a bottom instead of a crust . They do have leavening and rise when baked.
I think its a cake
ooh good one! i would just call it delicious. but if you had to choose... i guess cake since it's in the name.
Is this Jessica Simpson?
It's a cake.
well its called cheese cake because its a cake made with cream cheese silly goose!
Cake, because cheesepie sounds likes an affectionate term between over-familiar lovers.
im gunna go with cake because it says cheesecake
if it was a pie wouldnt it be called cheesepie?
or would they think that was too wierd to put as a name
but still..i think its cake... :)
pie... they call it a custard pie... it has a crust... cakes dont have crusts...
its kind of the both
cheesecakes that arent baked definitely cant be pies cause pies have to be baked
and this says its a cake:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/c...
A CAKE duh!!!!!!
i never thought about it but it has the word cake in it so it must be a cake. a cheese-cake lol. all i care about is how good it is :)
It's a pie.
Pie/cake...duh amanda! gosh u sound lik 1 of my friends! her and her siblings r always fighting over silly stuff lik this :) hope i helped
It's cheese CAKE !
Get it cheese CAKE!
So It's CAKE, Not PIE!
If It was a pie , why not call it CheesePie!