Cake or pie? You choose...

Given the choice, which do you prefer when offered dessert?

I personally prefer pie. Cake seems like more of a 'special occasion' dessert; pie to me seems like something you could have on a daily basis, much more simple. Few things are better than a nice slice of warm blueberry pie and a steaming cup of coffee after dinner...

Pie ... No cake ... No Pie .... No I meant cake .... No I really meant pie !!!!!!!


OK .... If I have to choose ... then I really like pie the best. Either Pecan or Chocolate !!!

what about Boston Creme Pie? Wouldnt you be having both?

I think I prefer pie or pie like things (tarts, etc) Much more variety and lighter, especially desirable in the summer with all sorts of great fruits.

I remember an old saying froma book I once read. this was written in the early part of the century and was mainly about the merits of eating outdoors:

"I'd rather eat pie outside than cake in the house"

I choose pie over cake any day. I like coconut cream pie, peanut butter pie, lemoon meringue pie, and then I like cobblers. At Thanksgiving, I LOVE pumpkin pie. Yes , I'll choose pie any day over cake.

I'm a pie guy. Pecan, Chess, Peach, and now I'm into Sweet Potato. Never met a pie I didn't like. I may take a drive out to Hico Tx. to the Koffee Kup diner to get a piece of pie on Bushie's recommendation.

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Originally posted by Kristi S.

Given the choice, which do you prefer when offered dessert?

I prefer embarrassing myself and asking for a small helping of BOTH! Darnit, don't be so cruel as to make me choose!

So far at least I'm in the minority. I'm not very fond of pie crust, so I'd rather have cake any day!

So far at least I'm in the minority. I'm not very fond of pie crust, so I'd rather have cake any day!

Like cake very much...LOVE pie.

A truly moist cake, though, makes it a close call.

Now are we talking real pies and cake here,---storebought pie is almost always better then mix cakes--but if its scratch vrs scratch---well thats a horse if a different color----so----Monday---Pie,Tuesday --cake,Weds--pie ala mode!,Thurs---cake alamode!, Fridayice crea on the porch under the stars---the cake and pie is gone!! Sat ---Cobbler!!!! Sunday----hmmmm looks like time to get more ckes and pie!

Pie, pie, PIE!! (Well, actually, since tiki mentioned COBBLER, my grandmother's blackberry cobbler was my original favorite dessert.)

You can keep every cake that's ever been made; I won't fight anyone over a cake.

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Maynerd, because of our "discussion" last week, I got a wild hair and drove up to Hico last Saturday to pick up a couple of cases of Dublin Dr. Pepper and eat at Koffee Kup. Had the chicken-fried steak and their homemade onion rings (OMG - ) !!!

For "dessert", I bought a whole Fresh Strawberry Pie to go. I brought it home on Saturday night, and by midday Sunday, my wife, daughter and I had finished it off. And it was a BIG pie!

I also found that they have a website: http://www.koffeekupfamilyrestaurant.com/about.htm

I usually favor pies. My all time favorite - French Apple which I can rarely find. I ordered a "French Apple Pie" and when I saw it I discovered it's what my mom always called Dutch Apple Pie (with the crumbs on top and no top crust). The French Apple I like has two crusts and icing on the top one. Have you seen a French Apple pie, lately? Maybe it's a thing of the past.

Favorite cake is Black Forest Cake -- yum yum

If I have a choice I'll take the chocolate one.

Definitely Pie, either apple (NO CRUMB TOPS!) or peach or buttermilk.

served cold please..be it pie or cobbler, I don't like warm desserts.

This may shock some of you but our now defunct super Kmart store used to make the best apple pie I've ever tasted.

The only way I like cake is mixed together with ice cream.

I vote ----PIE 98 times out of 100. Not putting down cakes at all...I like them also. But if the choice be made, let it be pie.

Of the store-boughts (fresh) I would vote for the COSTCO Pies-Extra Large and quite good, especially Pecan, but the mixed 3-berry is great also.
Of the store-boughts (U-bake)- Mrs. Smith's 46oz Pumpkin Custard and the M C Razzleberry.
For me the choice is always difficult when I go to the Moonlite BBQ After chowing down on all the meat items It is hard to really concentrate on the desserts. Regular Pecan Pie, Choc.Fudge Pecan Pie, Strawberry Rhubarb, Coconut Cream, Lemon, Apple, and Peach (in season), then the Peach and Blackberry Cobbler. The soft-serve machine is within easy reach of the dessert tray! Someday i think I will skip the BBQ entirely and just pig-out on the pies.

Originally posted by Bushie
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What a cool looking little place. What pies they have. If ever I find myself in the middle of the lone star state...

Pie and then for desert Cake. Rex in Hot expensive San Diego. Thank the Gods for airconditioning.

Make mine pie, especially warm blueberry a la mode. If you like pie I recommend the book "American Pie: Slices of life (and pie) from Americas Back Roads" by Pascale Le Droulec. The author drove the length and breadth of the USA in search of pie and in the process finds some pretty interesting people. Each chapter includes at least one pie recipe, haven't tried any yet but they sound wonderful.

Oh My, I pick pie. At the Spruce Street Sandwich Shop in Ogallala, NE, Homemade sour cream raisin can't be beat. MC'S Razzleberry is the best store bought.

BUT

I could be tempted by a home made red velvet cake!!

The Lady

I'll have to disagree with tiki in that I almost never like store-bought pies but think cakes from mixes are just fine, and often better (moister) than many from-scratch cakes I've eaten. I'll chalk it up to the fact that my mom makes awesome pie crusts and the most amazing apple pies. When you grow up on that it's hard to do store-bought. I hate the gooey fillings in commercial pies. That said, I prefer cake, anyway. I love German chocolate with coconut pecan frosting, or a simply yellow cake with chocolate. As for pies, apple, I prefer crumb toppings, but two-crusts will do.

My mom's filling (THE best!) is simply apples (usually Empires) sliced rather thinly, cinnamon, a little sugar, and a few pats of butter on top. She stacks the apples really high, slicing them right into her bottom crust, and then layers a thin, flaky crust over the apples. Best apple pie, really!

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Originally posted by Al-The Mayor-Bowen

I vote ----PIE 98 times out of 100. Not putting down cakes at all...I like them also. But if the choice be made, let it be pie.

Of the store-boughts (fresh) I would vote for the COSTCO Pies-Extra Large and quite good, especially Pecan, but the mixed 3-berry is great also.
Of the store-boughts (U-bake)- Mrs. Smith's 46oz Pumpkin Custard and the M C Razzleberry.
For me the choice is always difficult when I go to the Moonlite BBQ After chowing down on all the meat items It is hard to really concentrate on the desserts. Regular Pecan Pie, Choc.Fudge Pecan Pie, Strawberry Rhubarb, Coconut Cream, Lemon, Apple, and Peach (in season), then the Peach and Blackberry Cobbler. The soft-serve machine is within easy reach of the dessert tray! Someday i think I will skip the BBQ entirely and just pig-out on the pies.

Thank you for reminding me of the Costco pies.. so big..so yummy~! I prefer the strawberry rhubarb from there.

Pie. Pumpkin. Every birthday going on 40 years. That's the ticket.

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Originally posted by Jennifer_4

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Originally posted by Al-The Mayor-Bowen

I vote ----PIE 98 times out of 100. Not putting down cakes at all...I like them also. But if the choice be made, let it be pie.

Of the store-boughts (fresh) I would vote for the COSTCO Pies-Extra Large and quite good, especially Pecan, but the mixed 3-berry is great also.
Of the store-boughts (U-bake)- Mrs. Smith's 46oz Pumpkin Custard and the M C Razzleberry.
For me the choice is always difficult when I go to the Moonlite BBQ After chowing down on all the meat items It is hard to really concentrate on the desserts. Regular Pecan Pie, Choc.Fudge Pecan Pie, Strawberry Rhubarb, Coconut Cream, Lemon, Apple, and Peach (in season), then the Peach and Blackberry Cobbler. The soft-serve machine is within easy reach of the dessert tray! Someday i think I will skip the BBQ entirely and just pig-out on the pies.

Thank you for reminding me of the Costco pies.. so big..so yummy~! I prefer the strawberry rhubarb from there.

ME TOO! ME TOO!---Janie and are both BIG fans of there strawberry-rhubarb---but there is,unfortunately, no Costco near us---oh well---guess i will just have to settle for those pies from the Amish bakery at the farm down the road!!!What a shame!!!

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Originally posted by forurlungsonly

[purple]I'll have to disagree with tiki in that I almost never like store-bought pies but think cakes from mixes are just fine, and often better (moister) than many from-scratch cakes I've eaten.

AHHH---i see that you need to come on down and meet the chuch ladies--beleive me---NO mix cake can compare to the rich,moist and elegantly decorated multi layer masterpieces that come from the kitchens of southern black church ladies!!!!!!and those rum soaked mountains of sweet from my Italian aunts werent so shabby either!!!

I agree with the poster about cake mixed with ice cream. I always get dissappointed in ice cream cakes, which to me should be half ice cream, half cake. Not many places do that anymore. Instead they are all ice cream, which is okay, but does not have that combination of textures.

Frozen cake is excellent too, and I freely admit my weakness for the Pepperidge Farm frozen cakes. No need to defrost for me!

I'm a birthday-pie type of person, myself. I just can't think of a cake that beats a pie. The closest cake would be Hummingbird cake (chopped bananas, chopped pecans, shredded coconut, and a little cinnamon in the batter, with cream-cheese frosting, for the information of you non-Southerners), but that can't hold a candle -- a birthday candle! -- to any of my five favorites: chess pie, Japanese fruit pie, buttermilk pie, sweet-potato pie, and pumpkin pie.

Today's my 40th birthday, and yesterday I baked myself a cheesecake. Cheesecake arguably originated as a pie -- note the crust. Can't wait to have a slice tonight!

My birthday pie today is going to be Shoo-Fly

Pie, pie, PIE!! (Well, actually, since tiki mentioned COBBLER, my grandmother's blackberry cobbler was my original favorite dessert.)

Bushie,
I was wondering if you might share your grandmother's blackberry cobbler recipe? Our blackberry bushes are loaded with berries and I need a good cobbler recipe. Oh, pie and cobbler over cake any day!

Thanks,
Allison

Yes, I have to agree-Cobbler is the best. We have a local cafeteria that offers about 3 different types of cobbler every day. Nothing is as good as warm cobbler with vanilla ice cream. Is cobbler a Southern dish. Do you guys up north have cobbler served in your restaurants

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Originally posted by minilops

Pie, pie, PIE!! (Well, actually, since tiki mentioned COBBLER, my grandmother's blackberry cobbler was my original favorite dessert.)

Bushie,
I was wondering if you might share your grandmother's blackberry cobbler recipe? Our blackberry bushes are loaded with berries and I need a good cobbler recipe. Oh, pie and cobbler over cake any day!

Thanks,
Allison

PIE...Homemade apple made with my own gravenstien apples hot with a slice of old Vermont Cheddar...Strawberry Rhubarb...Fresh Blueberry and a pie that I have just tried out here on the North California coast it is called olallie berry pie, baked at a great roadfood place called Duartes in Pescadero Ca. If only every day could be a PIE day what a wonderful world it would be.

i don't have a strong preference either way. It depends on what kind of pie or cake we're talking about and where it came from. I'll take my mom's pound cake or cobbler over any other pie or cake, homemade or store-bought. However, a good commercially produced german chocolate cake or cherry pie can be better than some of the home-made pies and cakes I've had.

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Originally posted by Bushie

Pie, pie, PIE!! (Well, actually, since tiki mentioned COBBLER, my grandmother's blackberry cobbler was my original favorite dessert.)

You can keep every cake that's ever been made; I won't fight anyone over a cake.

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Maynerd, because of our "discussion" last week, I got a wild hair and drove up to Hico last Saturday to pick up a couple of cases of Dublin Dr. Pepper and eat at Koffee Kup. Had the chicken-fried steak and their homemade onion rings (OMG - ) !!!

For "dessert", I bought a whole Fresh Strawberry Pie to go. I brought it home on Saturday night, and by midday Sunday, my wife, daughter and I had finished it off. And it was a BIG pie!

I also found that they have a website: http://www.koffeekupfamilyrestaurant.com/about.htm

Bushie, I'm Key Lime Pie green with envy!
BTW where in Hico did you get the Dublin DP?

That Strawberry pie a special of the day? I don't see it on their on-line menu.

The one "cake" I like is made from chocolate wafers and whipped cream. These chocolate wafers are sort of like the cookie part of an Oreo, but thinner and larger in diameter. They are a little hard to find.
You layer these wafers with whipped cream (preferably home made) in between until you create a "log". Cover the log with the remaining whip cream. Cover and refrigerate for a few hours. The whip cream soaks into the cookie wafer making it moist. It's delicious.

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Originally posted by Maynerd

The one "cake" I like is made from chocolate wafers and whipped cream. These chocolate wafers are sort of like the cookie part of an Oreo, but thinner and larger in diameter. They are a little hard to find.
You layer these wafers with whipped cream (preferably home made) in between until you create a "log". Cover the log with the remaining whip cream. Cover and refrigerate for a few hours. The whip cream soaks into the cookie wafer making it moist. It's delicious.

My mother used to make that. I'd completely forgotten about it. She called it Ice Box cake. And it was the only thing she ever made that was actually edible.

To me, there isnt anything better in this world than a large slice of blueberry pie. Unfortunatly, I cant eat the berry pies anymore due to terrible heartburn (pumpkin too) so now i'm relegated to peach and apple. Not that thats a bad thing I suppose.

Pie- definitely pie- I love fruit pies, especially with streuselly toppings, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, peanut butter pie, toll house pie, cream pies. I could go the rest of my life without a piece of cake, but a pie? I love a good pie.

Pie, always, except rhubarb.

MMMMMM...key lime pie from Joe's Stone Carb in Miami. The original--no green food coloring here. Also, a fresh banana or coconut cream pie.

would have to depend on the occassion.. birthdays-- definitely CAKE.. but holidays-- pie.. especially pumpkin and mince meat.. and blue berry and apple and.........
guess i like pie more than i thought..hahah

My Italian Mother bakes the best pies, best cakes and best pastries.......unfortunately her daughter did not inherit the "cool hands" it takes to make fine pastry. (I once made a fresh strawberry tarte.....oh, the berries and the pastry cream were very good but the tarte crust was like cardboard and when one tried to push the fork through it, it went shooting off the plate and onto the floor!)
So when at Mom's I usually ask for her Blue Ribbon (State of PA) apple pie, or the lemon meringue, or the banana cream, or the "Harvest Pie" (pears, apples, cranberries).......oh lawdy, the list goes on and on.
For cakes, my favorite is her Easter Cake......but then there are the pastries and biscotti and hazelnut torte and nut rolls........

Can't decide...should I pick Carrot Cake or Pecan Pie?
The heck with it, I'll just make one of each, and a Sweet Tater Pie if I've got time.

Would ya'll PLEASE STOP that !!!!!

If I keep reading this will have to break down and bake!

I usually prefer cake, but only by a smidgen, and sometimes depends on who is making it!

Pie. My mother's sour cream apple.

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Originally posted by FoodLover2003

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Originally posted by Maynerd

I'm a pie guy. Pecan, Chess, Peach, and now I'm into Sweet Potato. Never met a pie I didn't like. I may take a drive out to Hico Tx. to the Koffee Kup diner to get a piece of pie on Bushie's recommendation.

Hi Maynerd! :) What is Chess pie?

It's about time someone answered you! Chess pie is from the South, but it's nothing short of heaven on earth. You wouldn't know it, to hear the list of simple ingredients. Poured into an unbaked pastry crust is a filling made by mixing togther plenty of butter, a few eggs, plenty of sugar, a pinch of salt, a teaspoon or so of vanilla extract and/or vinegar, and the tablespoon or so of cornmeal that makes it authentically Southern.

Then there's chocolate chess, buttermilk chess, lemon chess, pecan chess, coconut chess, etc. -- you get the picture.

Try some. It's good!

I automatically want to say cake, but now that I think abou it, when we're on vacation in the Southern U.S. or up in Northern MN, I order pie whenever I can.

I have very fond memories of finishing my breakfast with a slice of still warm chocolate cream pie from Margie's in Asheville, and my first slice of chess pie at the Boone Tavern Hotel in Berea, KY

Although, homemade white almond cake with vanilla frosting, or red velvet cake w/cream cheese frosting . . . Mmmmmmm. It's the frosting I fall for every time.

CAKE!! Italian creme cake comes in first then the strawberry creme cakes you find in Chinatown.
Cupcakes are cool too, the only pies i care for are pumpkin, boston creme, and French Silk.

I love a good cherry or peach pie with crumbly topping, but I have to say that a good, moist chocolate cake with the fluffy white frosting that you use hot water to make also makes my mouth water. I also make a really great cake called Better Than Sex cake where you bake a chocolate cake, pokes holes in it when it's cool and pour a caramel ice cream topping and sweetened condensed milk mixture over the cake and let it soak in. Then you spread Cool Whip over the top for your "frosting" and sprinkle crushed Heath Bars over top. It is pure Heaven!!

For my birthday last month, my two kids wanted me to have a cake so they could help me blow out my candles. To them it's not a birthday without a cake.

So I dutifully concocted what I thought would be my dream cake: a three-layer sweet-potato spice cake with coconut-pecan frosting in between the layers, and frosted with cream-cheese frosting on the top and sides. It was delicious. I ate half the cake, and then it hit me: I had created all my favorite pies in the form of a cake. What I really wanted in this cake was sweet-potato-pie-with-pecan-pie-with-coconut-chess-pie-with japanese-fruit-pie.

Next year, I'll have a pie instead. The hard part will be deciding which pie.