Do you consider cheesecake a cake or a pie?

[binary solo]

Gourmet said:

binary solo said:
Cake, it's a cake.

A pie crust is universally either pastry or bready. The cheesecake base is never either of these. It is a crumbed biscuit (cookie for Americans) base. Since a biscuit (cookie) is basically a hard, flat cake a cheesecake is basically like a thin, hard crumbled cake with an extremely thick and dense layer of a cream cheese icing.

It has the appearance of a pie, especially when baked, but the content is pure cake.

This did not make sense at all.

 

The pastry itself IS a cake. Just because pies have pastry that does not make them anything like cake as you are implying to happen with cheesecakes. Cake+large filling = pie. Cheesecakes are pie, and have cake on the bottom and sides like every other pie.

No, pastry is not a cake.