Oh shoot I just realized both strawberries and rhubarb are indigenous here. Is the real answer just whatever is local makes the best pie? Headasplode.gif
Yaya, a cake crust with an icing glaze. Cakes also have fruit filling between the layers sometimes. It's a cake ainec. Shame on this thread and you pie people co-opting cakes.
I want to encourage everyone in this thread who is thinking of buying to at least try making one. It doesn't have to be complicated. You don't even need a pan! You can do a free-form galette tart or simply fold it over the filling into a hand pie/tart.
For crust, follow the ratio of 3:2:1 flour:fat:cold water. You can mix by hand!
There are many filling recipes, but even some sliced apples with cinnamon and sugar and a tsp of flour to thicken the syrup is delightful and will please your soul.
The beauty of pies is their humble nature. Cakes are finicky. A pie can be made with just about anything. Make pies.
The beauty of pies is their humble nature. Cakes are finicky. A pie can be made with just about anything. Make pies.
Cakes are way easier to make than pies, so much easier to **** up a crust and have it come out terribly than slapping some buttercream on some cake rounds. Even boxed cake mixes are pretty good, but a tough, dense pie crust is the worst
Cakes are way easier to make than pies, so much easier to **** up a crust and have it come out terribly than slapping some buttercream on some cake rounds. Even boxed cake mixes are pretty good, but a tough, dense pie crust is the worst
I feel like I've never had a ****ty pie but ive had some ****ty cakes with bad icing and horrible texture and dry and generally not worth it at all. I'll deign to eat a store bought pie but most store bought cakes are hot garbage.
I have to think that the "pie is so hard" contingent has never made a pie. My pies don't look like dbz's but they are easy and way better than any cakes. Occasionally I have overbaked a crust but in general pie is hard to mess up.
Or I suppose it's possible people haven't made homemade cakes and experienced the many ways that a cake can fail.
Last edited by VoraciousReader; 07-09-2017 at 06:09 PM.
I have to think that the "pie is so hard" contingent has never made a pie. My pies don't look like dbz's but they are easy and way better than any cakes. Occasionally I have overbaked a crust but in general pie is hard to mess up.
I disagree. I have problems with the bottom crust being undercooked (raw) or wet/soggy.
I've tried blind baking the bottom crust but I can never get it quite right, to my anal satisfaction anyway.