What is the diffrence between cake and pie?

Question

Is it the size, the filling, the crust? If a cake dosent have crust, where does a brownie fit in, or where does cheesecake fit in since it has crust?

Answer 1

nothing but it is always better to say that: you better watch that pie-hole!!

Answer 2

A cake is a form of food that is usually sweet and often baked.Cakes normally combine some kind of wheat byproduct, a sweetening agent (commonly sugar), a binding agent (generally egg, though gluten or starch are often used by vegetarians and vegans), fats (usually butter or margarine, although a fruit puree can be substituted to avoid using fat), a liquid (milk, water or fruit juice), flavours and some form of leavening agent (such as yeast or baking powder).

A pie is a baked dish, with a baked shell usually made of pastry that covers or completely contains a filling of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards, nuts, or other sweet or savoury ingredients. Pies can be either "one-crust," where the filling is placed in a dish and covered with a pastry/potato mash top before baking, or "two-crust," with the filling completely enclosed in the pastry shell. Some pies have only a bottom crust, generally if they have a sweet filling that does not require cooking. These bottom-crust-only pies may be known as tarts or tartlets. One example of a savoury bottom-crust-only pie is a quiche. Tarte Tatin is a one-crust fruit pie that is served upside-down, with the crust underneath. Blind-baking is used to develop a crust's crispiness, and keep it from becoming soggy under the burden of a very liquid filling. If the crust of the pie requires much more cooking than the chosen filling, it may also be blind-baked before the filling is added and then only briefly cooked or refrigerated.

Answer 3

A pie usually contains some sort of fruit topping or fruit puree under a pastry topping, while a cake is anything that is mostly sponge, but can include fruit within the mixture. Cheesecake would actually be pie, but I think it's called cake because of the dimensions (and would you want to eat cheese pie?) Brownies come under sweets so neither cake nor pie.

Answer 4

Cake is more like bread with frosting. Pie is mainly filling and a crust. It's hard to explain.

Answer 5

cake is made with a batter or flour, sugar and stuff, usually decorated with icing or stuffs. pie is made out of a thin crust, filled with a filling of fruit or whatever depending on the kind of pie.

Answer 6

Cake has ingredients that make it rise when baked--baking powder, eggs. Pie shells have no ingredients that rise when baked. Brownies rise when baked, so are more closely related to cakes, as are cheesecakes because of the eggs in them.

Answer 7

its the shape, that makes the difference, pies are relatively round in shape. Cakes may be round in shape, but it made no sense since cakes can be made in many shapes.. Cakes are more art-based in designing it.

Answer 8

the difference is in the texture and the taste of the beholder.........