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Personally, I would classify it as a pie. It's circular; cut into slices like the very popular pie chart; has the texture of pumpkin pie, and has a graham cracker pie crust.
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yeah, but lots of cakes are shaped and cut the same, though they rarely have crusts, that's what makes it a pie for me.
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Despite their names Ice Cream Cake and Cheese Cake have nothing to do with cake in the modern interpretation. Neither does the "cake" in "let them eat cake."
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You make cheese cake in a springform pan. There is such a thing as cheese pie, and you make it in a pie pan.
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Cheesecake made in a springform pan is a cake. However, what my family calls cheesecake is actually "cheesecake pie". And that's what I like best.
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I don't think the definitions of "pie" and "cake" are based on what they look like or what kind of pan they're made in. It seems to me the deciding factor is what goes into them. It is the ingredients that define the food.
On that basis, cheesecake is a custard pie. The use of "cake" in its name is simple enough to explain--whoever named it got it wrong. It happens.
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