Apparently coffee cake has no coffee in it so we really can’t believe anything anymore.

Oh but mine does… the glaze is powdered sugar and espresso.

My life has been a lie. That sounds incredible.

To 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).

I’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

To confuse matters more, in this part of EU the coffee cake is made with coffee and tea cake is made without tea.

pie you have pumpkin with

You owe me a new keyboard and monitor tyvm

Were you drinking hot computer tea when you read that comment?

Oyster stout shouldn't have oysters in, but usually does.

The cake is a lie.

This sounds good but not the kind of coffee cake I’m used to

yellow or moist white cake (or marbled cake) with butter crumble brown sugar top and an espresso glaze. The coffee cake of coffee lovers.

Reading this thread I can't help but feel like HN readers need a reactordev recipe book.

But coffee cake is the cake you have with coffee, not made from it.

Not true. Standard staple in my oarents house was coffee cake made from coffee with walnuts.

well maybe pumpkin pie is a pie you have with pumpkin

Wait until you learn about Tunnock’s Tea Cakes.

There's no tea, and they aren't cakes - but there is a whole fresh Tunnock in every one!

Next you are probably going to tell me black forest cake is not made in the black forest any more.

It’s only Black Forest cake if it comes from that region of Germany. Otherwise it’s known as Chocolate Cherry Conifer Cake.

American coffee cake doesn't have coffee, but English coffee cake does.

Wait until you find out what baby food is really made of.

In Australia it’s known as “butternut pumpkin”. Anyway I always used kabocha squash.

+1 kabocha rules in pie

In most places in the world, the word “pumpkin“ refers to squash. A squash pie is also a pumpkin pie.

Yes, 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.