No, it's pie It's actually a tart Cheesecake transcends definition View Results. Pumpkin spice and everything nice: Fun fall activities. Navigate Left. Navigate Right. Home Contact About Staff. Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Share via Email. Search Submit Search. Activate Search. Scroll to Top. Close Modal Window. All comments will be approved by the website moderator. Comments containing inappropriate language will not be approved. Cancel reply Your email address will not be published.
Comment Spam Control Field. Verification Field. Reply Recommend Share. Pie rules. The name only takes you so far. There are a few of classes of pie. Most standard pies as opposed to pocket pies are round, not much more than a couple of inches tall, and wider at the top than at the bottom. Pies, traditionally, have two types of crust: the pastry crust and the crumb crust.
Inside a pie can be just about anything, but when I think of pie, two categories stand out: fruit and custard. Fruit pies are things like apple, blueberry… you know what a fruit pie is. A custard pie is milk or cream mixed with sugar and egg yolk and some additives, and usually baked. As I say, there are other variations pecan, peanut butter, pudding, etc.
With a minor change in appearance, any pastry that is a crumb crust filled with custard and baked, in my mind, is a pie. The addition of cream cheese is no more a disqualifier than the addition of bourbon would be. By your definition, then what is my cheesecake because it doesn't have a crust so it would not qualify as a pie by any definition.
Well, really the height depends on the style of cheesecake. I will admit to favoring the New York style cheesecake as the form I was describing. Already a subscriber? Log in. Get the print magazine, 25 years of back issues online, over 7, recipes, and more. Start your FREE trial.
To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. If you buy something from an Eater link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics policy. Somehow, even though it is clearly not a cake, there are people in the world who still believe that cheesecake is a cake.
That issue being settled, a further question remains: Is cheesecake a pie? Or is it a tart? Here to present their arguments are impassioned cheesecake-semantics experts Helen Rosner, executive editor, and Emma Alpern, copy editor, who each take different and perhaps surprising sides in this battle:.
Cheesecake is a pie. Neither is slab pie , so clearly being baked in a pie pan is not a necessary condition for piehood. So are chess pie and lemon meringue pie and also many other pies. A pie is defined by being a filling atop a crust. Also you are a nerd. It turns out language is inconsistent! Cheesecake is pie. A cookie cake , therefore, indeed falls into the category of cakes despite just being a large version of a different type of dessert.
Like cookie cakes, ice cream cakes are a popular dessert in the form of a cake. Unlike cookie cakes, however, ice cream cakes often lack what makes a cake, well, a cake. Ice cream cake is primarily made with ice cream —meaning frozen cream or milk along with butterfat , sugar, and flavoring. That means it lacks the flour and the baking aspects that define what a cake is.
Things get a little more complicated with more intricate ice cream cakes that have layers of sponge cake in between the ice cream layers. No one wants a baked puddle of ice cream, after all. Names are one thing, but taste is something else entirely. Tempt your linguistic tastebuds with another debate: which is tastier, macaroons or macarons? Feedback See Today's Synonym.
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