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You can make it with homemade butternut squash puree too, and it will taste better because of its sweetness. Give it a try sometime.
by redundantly 3y ago
You can make it with homemade butternut squash puree too, and it will taste better because of its sweetness. Give it a try sometime.
- reactordev 3y agoThat’s a butternut squash pie, not a pumpkin pie. ;) Try with pumpkin, nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves… it’s that old timer pumpkin pie taste.
- Waterluvian 3y agoApparently coffee cake has no coffee in it so we really can’t believe anything anymore.
- mikepurvis 3y agoBut coffee cake is the cake you have with coffee, not made from it.
- reactordev 3y agoOh but mine does… the glaze is powdered sugar and espresso.
- Waterluvian 3y agoMy life has been a lie. That sounds incredible.
- reactordev 3y agoTo be fair - coffee cake in the US is cake to have with coffee and doesn’t normally contain any coffee. In the UK and EU, coffee cake is cake with coffee. Likewise tea cakes in the US are cakes made with tea and tea cakes in UK and EU are cakes to have with tea. So… Not a lie, just a Spider-Man meets Spider-Man moment when you learn you can actually make coffee cakes with coffee (or espresso) and you can make tea cakes with tea (I prefer oolong).
- nrabulinski 3y agoI’m from the EU and I’ve never had coffee cake with no coffee nor tea cake with no tea. Very fascinating tidbit about the naming, TIL
- IndrekR 3y agoTo confuse matters more, in this part of EU the coffee cake is made with coffee and tea cake is made without tea.
- hyperthesis 3y agopie you have pumpkin with
- shrikant 3y agoYou owe me a new keyboard and monitor tyvm
- kybernetikos 3y agoWere you drinking hot computer tea when you read that comment?
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- edgyquant 3y agoThis sounds good but not the kind of coffee cake I’m used to
- reactordev 3y agoyellow or moist white cake (or marbled cake) with butter crumble brown sugar top and an espresso glaze. The coffee cake of coffee lovers.
- andytruett 3y agoReading this thread I can't help but feel like HN readers need a reactordev recipe book.
- nickt 3y agoWait until you learn about Tunnock’s Tea Cakes.
- twic 3y agoThere's no tea, and they aren't cakes - but there is a whole fresh Tunnock in every one!
- beAbU 3y agoNext you are probably going to tell me black forest cake is not made in the black forest any more.
- Waterluvian 3y agoIt’s only Black Forest cake if it comes from that region of Germany. Otherwise it’s known as Chocolate Cherry Conifer Cake.
- paholg 3y agoAmerican coffee cake doesn't have coffee, but English coffee cake does.
- bregma 3y agoWait until you find out what baby food is really made of.
- code_duck 3y agoIn Australia it’s known as “butternut pumpkin”. Anyway I always used kabocha squash.
- jessekv 3y ago+1 kabocha rules in pie
- jb1991 3y agoIn most places in the world, the word “pumpkin“ refers to squash. A squash pie is also a pumpkin pie.
- reactordev 3y agoYes, and pumpkins are squashes (Cucurbita) but pumpkin originates in New England USA where it refers to the orange squash gourd used to make Halloween carvings and decorations. Being that I'm from the US, this is "pumpkin". Not to downplay squash-based pastries or pies but there's only one pie that I will eat, day or night, no matter what - the beautiful, delicious, pumpkin pie. Plain, with whipped cream, with ice cream, with chocolate drizzle, with caramel.
- trws 3y agoI freely acknowledge that you can make a delicious “pumpkin” pie with butternut squash, but a real sugar pie pumpkin (use Halloween leftovers and their mealy starchy flesh at your peril) remains superior in my opinion. Sweet potato pie, though, can be absolutely delightful with no squash in sight. Just don’t call it pumpkin pie. ;)
- FiskFisk33 3y agoI've tried it and my experience is the exact opposite. I have good results with for example "Crown Prince" variety pumpkins, which I find far sweeter and tastier than butternut.
- notatoad 3y agoif you're looking for a good pumpkin pie alternative while pumpkins are out of season, sweet potato pie is also excellent.