is cheesecake a pie or cake?

I'd say more on the cake side if anything, but it's kind of it's own catagory, don't you think?

There are cheese pies, with cheesecake filling that are baked in pie shells (or the uncooked type), but they don't really taste like a true cheesecake. A true, New York-style, cheesecake is made in a springform pan and has a crust on the bottom, and about 1" up the sides, with filling about 3-4" above that ....It would resemble a cake more than a pie, but isn't really either one

age old question of some things. I think it is a pie.

Boston Cream Pie and Washington Cream Pie: Cake or pie??

they are pound cake with custard filling in the split cake. Boston has chocolate drizzle on it, Washington has powder sugar on it.

Pies or cakes? Who cares! They are all just plain good.

actually it is neither...

it belongs in the family of cheese based tarts.... which tart is an open topped pie.....

It comes under the heading of pie, because cakes rise, cheesecake does not.....

some cheeseakes are even made like a custard....

Cheesecake originated from ancient Greece. It was served to the athletes during the first Olympic Games held in 776 BC.

Cake is a form of food that is usually sweet and often baked. Listed as a variety of cake: cheesecakes use mostly some form of cheese (often cream cheese, mascarpone, ricotta or the like), and have very little to no flour component (though it sometimes appears in the form of a (often sweetened) crust). Cheesecakes are also very old, with evidence of honey-sweetened cakes dating back to ancient Greece.

Well, it's definetly not a cake. By definition, it would quailfy as a pie, if it has a crust. A crustless cheesecake, however, would be another story.

Alton Brown settled this debate on one show: cheesecake is a pie, specifically a custard pie.

Neither; pies have a crust & a filling; cakes are made from batter.

It's more of a custard.

It's a pie. There is no wheat in the filling.

i think its more of a tart!

but out of the 2, i would say it was a cake, otherwise it would be called a cheespie haha