Looks more like pie to me. Why call it cake?

They can call it what they want...It's AWESOME!

What kind ya like? I like the real dense thick NY style. That fluffy crap sucks. and not real sweet either with just a touch of lemon in it.

^ Agree. The stuff at Carnegie Deli in NYC is a big slice of heaven on earth.

maybe because there is no pie crust..?? my mom made hers with a some thin grahm-cracker around the edge tho...

My fiancee made me one for my birthday. Standard size cake....over 3 LBS!!!! It sure was good....URP!!

I like some cheese cake

It cannot be called a pie, Without a pie crust top.

^ pecan pie..??

And why do them call them buildings when they are already built?

NY style rules – accept no substitutes.

Of course, it could be that cheese cake is a transitional form, slowly evolving from the simple pie form to the more advanced cake stages.

The process takes millions of baking’s . . .

Call it what you want, I can eat the whole thing. Of course I would then get the cheese ****..

Cheesecake is not really a cake.......it is a type of pie (from most definitions).

Pie has some sort of crust, cake does not.

Cake generally is flour/egg/leavening agent........pie is not; it is usually just some sort of filling in a crust.

Of course, there are several examples which blur the lines........but cheesecake is a pie.

Cheesecake is great no matter what you want to define it as..............

Charlie

For the same reason plenty of other foods got their name. Meatloaf--hey, it's not like that is a loaf of bread, tater tots (no actual children harmed in the making, Ore-Ida assures me), hot dogs (cows lips, pig anus...but no actual dogs in there...I hope), etc.

Someone named it that.