Ok… a friend, my brother and I have an ongoing debate, Cake vs Pie. Two enter the ring, only one can leave.
picture from dreamitico.com
picture from prioryfinepastries.com
If you had to choose one, what would it be? There are some winning characteristics of both, and some really great versions for each. Here is a limited list of selling points for both:
Cake: Frosting
Pie: Crust
Cake: Fruit
Pie: Fruit
Cake: Birthdays and Weddings
Pie: Autumn and Winter holidays
Cake: Cheesecake
Pie: Apple Crumb Pie
Cake: Ice Cream Cake
Pie: a la Mode
Cake: Cream
Pie: Meringue
Cake: more of an urban feel
Pie: more rustic.
The debate goes on.
I know both are great buf if you had to pick one, cake or pie, which would you pick and why/what are your favorite features and types?
I don’t eat much of either, but I’d go for a cake. Having cheesecake and ice cream cakes are enough to win the debate for me alone. You could go a route that could ease things, with the strawberry pie cake, I’ve only ever had one, but it was good.
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Strawberry pie cake? Wow
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Yea its nothing but a pie and cake combined. Bottom is cake then your strawberries on top of it topped off with pie crust. It has been so long since I’ve had any, but what I remember it was great. Every since your post I’ve been wanting one lol.
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Also you’re right. Cheesecake alone is a big gorilla in cake’s corner
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So tough….so I cannot have my cake & pie and eat it too?!?
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Hard choice, possibly have to choose pie. Simply because you can carry pie around easily to eat if its a small pie or a slice of pie. The crust makes it more manageable to eat on the run. My fav is cherry pie. Cakes are good if you are sitting down with a plate. And you can go for seconds 🙂
But ultimately, I love pies more 🙂
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Is this strictly from a dessert point of view? Because chicken pot pie and things certainly complicate the situation.
Either way, I’m voting for pie…so many delicious options. 🙂
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Chicken pot pie is damn good
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Remove one layer of cake, replace with pie, noms ensue
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Wow, brilliant
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I spent a few years catering, we’ve tried some pretty wild mixes. Some work, some, not so much
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This is really tough. I think I’d have to go with pie. I just attended a wedding where instead of a wedding cake there were eight different kinds of pie. It was brilliant!
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My two favorites are Caramel Apple Pie & Key Lime Pie. I love the caramel sauce drizzled across the crumb topping on the apple pie & the tartness of the key lime pie, as well as the graham cracker crust.
Carla Hall on The Chew has a recipe for a pie within a cake, so you don’t have to choose anymore. Here’s a link to the recipe:
http://abc.go.com/shows/the-chew/recipes/thanksgiving-chocolate-pecan-piecake-carla-hall
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Pie!!!
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Oh yum both of those pics look delicious! But I think I would end up going with pie….no cake…no definitely pie. No UGH. Oh geez I can’t decide. I like the pie in cake idea 😀
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Cake would kick pie’s ass every time!!
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I make a mean NY style cheesecake….I’ve been told it’s BETTER!! I LOVE that Italian cake with peaches and strawberries with whipped cream Hartford has a couple great Italian bakeries left over from the old mafia days…..But, there is nothing like a homemade apple pie in the fall!
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I don’t want to decide 😦 Hmph.! I like them both. But if you really twist my arm…I would choose pie. But only because I personally make better pies than cake 🙂
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I can’t decide because they are both so good with ice cream. So, I choose…ice cream!
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Great choice
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Cake.
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Definitely cake. You can only do so much with a pie, but cake… My arse is getting bigger just thinking about it.
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Nice
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Cakes or cream pies. Not a fan of fruit pies, though I will eat them if they are my only options. I prefer cream fill rather than fruit filling in cakes too.
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Cake is the hands down winner here. Hot chocolate fudge cake with ice cream.. You think you can get better than this? It’s literally heaven In food form.
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Wow
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Both Rex!! I have cake mood and pie mood. (And it’s great to have choices!!) 🙂
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Pie. But only if the crust is decent. Don’t put fruit or pudding filling on a piece of cardboard !
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Good point
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Pie. I can get no-sugar added pie more easily than sugar-free cake, Rex. And it tastes better, too,
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