Are you a PIE or CAKE person? And what’s your go-to kind?

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Brittany · Answer

Pie til I die. Coconut cream from Stella's Grocery in Richmond, VA is the best I've ever had.

Seems · Answer

Key lime pie: Sweet and tangy in one bite.

Annie · Answer

Forever Pie: Need I say more??

Gabriela Riccardi · Answer

Rhubarb Custard Cake: This Bon App recipe has been in my rotation for years. Sweet, tangy, and mixed totally by hand — I can bake it ahead and impress everyone with how the bright pink strips lie on top.

Lulu Lefferts · Answer

Mediocre cake > Medicore pie but Great Pie > Great Cake: Pie snob forever

LB · Answer

Chocolate cream pie from Quarter Sheets: A rich and saltier chocolate than other choco cream pies I’ve had. I just think Quarter Sheets has their desserts down.

Jes · Answer

Best Carrot Cake Recipe: Cake person. Specifically carrot cake. More specifically: Dorie’s carrot cake. This is the cake I will make if I love you.

LB · Answer

Princess Cake from Quarter Sheets: This is the most recent cake I’ve had, my first princess cake of hopefully many more to come. The cream is abundant, but lightly sweetened with most of the flavor coming from the tart raspberry layers and the marzipan. An exquisitely soft and fluffy cake.

Toby Nieboer · Answer

Apple pie with ice cream: Pie > cake, all day. I might flirt with key lime, but warm apple pie with a scoop (or two) of French vanilla ice cream is my true love. The dessert course of my death row meal.

Nicole · Answer

I’ve been making this cake since 2003: It’s from a cookbook my aunt and uncle got as a wedding gift, and it really is a slam dunk every single time. And don’t skip the slightly thin, fudgey frosting! To whoever put the recipe on their blog (linked here), bless you. The cookbook is called Bride and Groom First and Forever Cookbook (lol) in case you want to get it for like $2 on Thriftbooks. Worth it for the cake recipe alone.

Joyce · Answer

Olive Oil Cake Recipe • 5★: can pass for breakfast, or gussied up with fruit and whipped cream for dessert.

chio · Answer

earl grey cream pie republic of pie

Gloria · Answer

Seasonal pies <3: I’m a pie girl sooooooooo seriously and I’m really about it all year. Summer faves include strawberry rhubarb or tart Michigan cherry, fall time calls for apple or salted maple, and winter face currently is shaker lemon. I recommend making an all butter crust and don’t over work it.  Pie pie pie!

Kim g · Answer

Homemade Strawberry Cake: This cake is amazing! Made it & Took it to my son’s high school & it got rave reviews. Teachers emailed asking for the recipe which totally made my day!

alyssa swigart · Answer

Raspberry Cream Cake: this cake never fails me. i’m usually a chocolate person (and ina garden’s beatty’s chocolate cake is my perfect recipe) but in summer with peak season raspberries, there’s nothing better!

D · Answer

Pie, Pie My Darling: CAKE! By a place that makes the best vegan cake I've ever had. Pie Pie My Darling only makes cakes, but started by making pies exclusively. One slice is a real indulgent punch in the face, so like once or twice a year, and I'm good. If you're in Chicago, you can get a slice at Penelope's Vegan Taqueria in Pilsen or Handlebar in Bucktown.

Stella · Answer

Almond-Pear Galette: Classic and easy to prepare.

Babuji · Answer

Blum's Coffee Crunch Cake: This is my favorite cake for birthdays, a new turn on a famous old recipe.The honey comb comes in a separate bag so it doesn’t get soggy, to be arranged before serving. You can’t go wrong with anything from Valerie, but this is perfect.

Meez Stephanie · Answer

CAKE! Chocolate!: My go-to is this Nigella one. She says, “Chocolate cake is the basic unit of celebration”, ha ha.

And you..?

Katie · Answer

southern living peach cobbler: If it’s possible to be both a cake and pie person (how could I choose???), cobbler is the way to go. it’s got a cakey element and baked fruit! Add vanilla ice cream and some cinnamon? Yes pls. Any fruit will do!

Banana pudding or any kind of trifle also fit into this category.

L.E.A.H. · Answer

lemon meringue pie: My all-time favorite pie! I love cake too, but I’ll take a slice of lemon meringue over anything else.

Kaylan · Answer

House of Pies: Over 40 different pies daily and serving Houston since 1967 and open 24 hours in case you need a slice of Bayou Goo at 3am.

Brandi · Answer

rhubarb galette: Personally I’m team pie, but I’d go a step further and say galettes are my fave - they have a superior crust to filling ratio, IMHO. Huckleberry would be my obvious favorite but rhubarb comes in a close second.

B. A. Griffin · Answer

The Best Ever Homemade Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting: If you - like me - enjoy carrot cake, and, if you - like me - enjoy a carrot cake with all the shit in it, this one is for you!

Catherine Davis · Answer

Whole Foods Wild Berry Chantilly Cake: I love cake but I don’t bake. I never thought a grocery store cake could be good until my BFF told me about this one. (She’s very discerning about food- and everything else- ha) This cake is delicious and the perfect size for a small dinner party (6 inches).

Analisa Burns · Answer

princess cake from Quarter Sheets: really any cake from here

JV · Answer

Rainbow Cookie Cake (Cakes By Nerwan):

These days, friends don't really buy each other gifts so much as giant ten layer cakes to show how much we love you (and cake). We all gasped when this monster cake appeared courtesy of @Jesse Weinstein --adorned with birthday candles for a 36 y.o. casual bday gathering. It is cake, but it is also your favorite Italian cookie. Custom order and get this sweet and very special treat delivered from Astoria, Queens.

Daniela · Answer

Fat & Flour 9" Banana Cream Pie: Easily on my top 10 dessert list. I don’t normally dream about pie but this one has randomly crossed my mind multiple times now that we live on the opposite coast.

grace murray · Answer

by the way chocolate cake: I need both pie and cake in my life to make it whole but if it’s store bought, always cake. And specifically this gluten free delight that I find in the fridge section at Whole Foods

Coofandy · Answer

Erin Jeanne McDowell All Buttah Pie Crust: This is a great crust, and the lamination steps are easy and make a HUGE difference.

pino · Answer

carrot cake: ok carrot cake but also apple pie and pavlova cakes. ice cream cake, strawberry cake. i love dessert if u can’t tell

Chiara · Answer

Key Lime Pie: Key Lime Pie foreverrrrrrr no other girl is doing it like her. When I make it at home I use gingersnap cookies instead of graham crackers for the crust!

Jessica · Answer

Caramel Apple Pie from H-E-B: If you’re ever in Texas, H-E-B is our pride and joy (on par with our eponymous beaver, Bucky, the lone-star Hello Kitty) and the H-E-B bakery is the crown jewel. The Caramel Apple pie is incredible for all seasons.

They sell the pie in full or little half moons (very demure).

KG · Answer

Smitten Kitchen Any-Kind-of-Fruit Galette: There sure are a lot of cake people here! We had 8 different kinds of pie at our wedding 13 years ago. But galettes are the unfussy/impossible to screw up version of pie. I might make a nectarine and blackberry one tonight!

Katherine · Answer

Magnolia Bakery Hummingbird Cake: This flies a bit under the radar at Magnolia but a slice of this is THE thing to get (other than the banana pudding.) The cream cheese frosting is critical.

helen · Answer

Hershey’s Chocolate Cake: Rich, moist, delicious. I’ve made this for countless birthdays. Highly recommend.