It turns out cheesecake that uses the name of the cake is not a cake. It is a filling that is either on top of or surrounded on three sides by a crust, which is definitely not a cake. Cheesecake is in fact a pie. And it turns out cheesecake is also a tart. Oxford University Press describes cheesecake as "a flan or tart filled with curd or cream cheese."
Please read interesting writing by Helen Rosner and Emma Alpern from Eater here. Brian Geiger from Fine Cooking goes further with suggesting cheesepie name instead of cheesecake. But, he summed up with a nice clever statement, "It can also be a cake, but it can’t not be a pie."
Does this fact bother you? Please share your views here, if you care, of course.
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