What is the difference between cake and pie?

Answer 1

you can't have your pie and eat it too.

Answer 2

Usually pie has some type of stuffing on the inside, like fruit, and the top layer is often a hard crust (alon with the bottom layer and edges). Cake is all-the-way through fluffy material, like brownies.

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Good Luck!

Answer 3

Pie is a filling baked in short-crust pastry. The filling can be savory or sweet.

Cake is a leavened confection, baked from a batter, and then sometimes iced or frosted.

The mathematical symbol is pi π. That has nothing to do with your Question :-))

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Answer 4

Cake is a sweet sponge bread with toppings like fruits, ice cream, chocolate and sweets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake

Pie usually have fruit filling and baked in crust. It could be different filling but fruits ones are the most common.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie

Answer 5

Pie is crust with fillings, cake is really sweet bread. Sorta. ;)

Answer 6

cake is made with dough and pie is a filling inside of a curst that doesn't rise

Answer 7

pie is filled with stuff(ie apples blueberries) but cake is a mixture of things (ie egg,flour ex.)

Answer 8

Normally, flour is not used in pies and almost always in cakes.

Answer 9

You can have your pie and eat it too!

Answer 10

One is a type of dessert, and the other is a mathematical symbol.