A-Weigh We Go: A Cake Poll and Kitchen Scale Giveaway!
Saturday, January 30, 2010 
Bad Idea: Obsessively weighing yourself. It leads to non-enjoyment of cake, plus you're perfect the way you are (awww).
Good Idea: Obsessively weighing your ingredients when measuring them out for baking. Why? Weighing ingredients is common practice for professional bakers, allowing precision and control over the final outcome of your sweets, so that you'll have reliable results. Don't believe it? Check it out this entry on Brown Eyed Baker, where she experimented to see some of the real differences.
And happily, the supercool Eat Smart Products has kindly offered up one of their Multifunction Digital Kitchen Scales
How do you enter? It's easy! Simply weigh in (get it?) on the important question below, leaving your response in the comments section below:
Which do you prefer: pie or cake? Why?
Good luck!
The fine print: This giveaway is open to US entrants only, please. Winner will be able to choose their favorite color scale: they're available in red, white, silver, black chrome, and white chrome. The giveaway will be up until 12 p.m. PST on Sunday, January 31st; the winner will be announced shortly thereafter. Please include your contact information (email) in the comment form so that I know where to find you if you win!
UPDATE: THE WINNER! Congratulations to Laura from New Haven, CT who is definitely on Team Cake! Her prize has been sent out!
Thanks to everyone for participating in the cake poll!
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Reader Comments (274)
Honestly, I really like pie. The pleasure of eating fruit, even if it's covered with sugar, feels a little better to me than just sugar and butter - and the challenge of getting really good, flaky crust is something I enjoy. Cake is still delicious though! Red velvet ftw!
Definetly cake! I love the different things you can do with it...dress it up or dress it down. And the frosting is a plus.
Cake. Always and forever cake. I love fruit, but I vastly prefer it uncooked rather than baked and so most pies just aren't all that tasty to me. Unless they're French Silk. But, even then, I'd still generally pick cake over pie.
I love cake and would choose it any day!!!!
Definitely cake. I don't particularly care for fruit pies, just as a matter of taste, and they seem to be in the majority. Also, cakes have less margin for error -- just think of how many ways there are to mess up a pie crust!
Ooh!! hands down. What can I say cake is my happy spot!
Oooh that's tough...I'm going to have to go with cake!
PIE for me please. The variety, the intense flavors of the fillings, the slightly salty crunch of a crisp crust still warm from the oven.
Cake for sure since the definition covers a broader range options. "cakes" really covers a lot but to me Pie means crust and what goes inside.
Cake! I love cake + frosting; pie usually doesn't have frosting, unless it's your cookiecakepie which I made and love!
I really can't decide on either one, so I would have to say pie and cake are my favorites. Cakes are moist and delicious with buttercream and pies well you can have apple pies mmmmm...... so good.
CAKE!! Buttercream is my favorite sweet of all time, so I have to go with cake...unless there is a good pie that could be topped with buttercream.....
I prefer pie over cake because I'm picky about my frosting and it's too easy for someone to screw cake up. I do love me some cupcakes though!
Cake because icing is awesome.
I love both, but cake is my favorite. Mainly because cake has frosting, and I love frosting. A lot.
I love cake. Pie is good too, but I make pretty awesome cake, which is probably why I like it better!! ;-)
My daughter makes some amazing cake, so I would have to say I like cake better.
I love pie. :-)
I love cake, probably for the frosting.
Cake has to be my answer. Mostly because Cupcakes are single person cake perfections, and I find tartlets to be very messy(which is sometimes even more fun) but not great when checking out the cute barista or counter boy. =p
I'm guessing that I'm in the majority when I say that cake tops pie every time!
Cake!
Cake wins hands down
I prefer cake....I don't make a good pie crust, but I am still practicing...but I do neet a scales.
Definitely cake. Cake is more likely to have chocolate or peanut butter (or BOTH!) in it than pie. And I hate using a rolling pin, so pie crust is annoying to make. :)