Cake or pie

[grandpa]

My birthday is imminent. It's unavoidable.

This year, someone offered a choice. Would I like cake, or pie? I opted for the pie - pumpkin pie. I'll be sure and let you know how it was :)

What would you choose, and why?

[Gibble]

What does Cheesecake fall under?

[grandpa]

What does Cheesecake fall under

The belt line.

[digitalghost]

LOL @ Grandpa.

I prefer chess pie. Unless I'm offered German apple cake, but given my druthers, I always ask for blackberry or huckleberry cobbler.

[ceestand]

My brother has an obsession of mandating that anything (in the cake or pie format) be called pie if it is served with it's filling parallel to the plate and called cake if it's served on it's side.

[Syzygy]

Birthday cake I'm familiar with, but what's a birthday pie?

Sounds like a strange American concoction, surely?

Over there, do you also have wedding, Christmas, Eccles, angel, upside-down, victoria sponge and jaffa pies?

Birthday cheer on the day!

;-)

Syzygy

[King_Fisher]

Boysenberry pie, warmed up, ala mode.

or

Angel Food Cake...I don't wait around for birthdays to have either one...KF

[rocker]

Key Lime Pie

[LifeinAsia]

Sweet Cherry Pie.

Ahem. ;)

[justgowithit]

Well, it's technically not dessert but I can't get enough of chicken pot pie. HHhhhhmmmmmm.........

[Propools]

Pie, but I'm not gonna say which kind. To me........All Pie is Good. :)

[grandpa]

chicken pot pie

Only if the chicken pie and pot are served separately. Hmm, it IS my birthday, I could ask.

[rocker]

Only if the chicken pie and pot are served separately. Hmm, it IS my birthday, I could ask.

In that case you should get a cake and pie. Munchies

[LifeinAsia]

<old math major comes out of hiding>
3.14159...
<old math major goes back into hiding>

[Marcia]

Ice cream pie. Yum.

[Laker]

Boston Cream Pie!

It's a cake [whatscookingamerica.net]! ... no, it's a pie [en.wikipedia.org]!

Have your cake and ...
(have a happy birthday ;-)

[ann]

happy Birthday Grandpa.

I like lemon pie made a little on the tart side and my favorite birthday cake is choclate with cherry icing between the layers and on top with chocolate icing piped around the edges...YUUMMM!

Ann

[vincevincevince]

cake, or pie?

For a birthday, the answer is surely birthday cake. Rich fruit cake, covered with marzipan and iced with royal icing. Painted and sculpted decorations mandatory. Candles wherever possible.

If the birthday cake option is a sponge 'cake'... then I'd probably risk the pie. No matter what the shops claim, sponges aren't real cakes and have more in common with insulating foam.

[grandpa]

I'll be sure and let you know how it was

In a word, bad.

Somehow, the idea came up for this pie to become a pumpkin cake. It wasn't my idea, and I let it roll.

This was, without a doubt, the worst cake I've even been treated with. Absolutely horrible. But the laughs we had, priceless.

Next year the choice will be cake, and I'm baking it.

[ken_b]

Strawberry Rhubarb pie from fresh and hot from the oven with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

[mcavic]

What does Cheesecake fall under?

Cheesecake is interesting. Despite the name, it resembles a pie. But where I come from, it's the only pie that's acceptable as a birthday dessert. :)

[wyweb]

Speaking as one who has considerable experience in both fields (pie and cake), I second the vote for Strawberry Rhubarb pie.

[weeks]

Stick with the classics. A yellow cake with a chocolate butter cream frosting. (Please, no decorations. Candles are ok.)

[jbinbpt]

Took the wife apple picking today and baked her an apple pie for her birthday.

[Matt Probert]

No matter what the shops claim, sponges aren't real cakes and have more in common with insulating foam.

Shops? SHOPS!?

Cakes don't come from shops (unless one is luck enough to be in France) they come from one's kitchen! <bg>

And on the subject of cakes, it has to be fruit cake. Real, home made fruit cake, served with a mug of steaming tea (an assam blend made with a little milk)

Spot the Englishman?

<BG>

Matt