I never met a pie I didn't like, then along comes a little place in Portland called "Saint Cupcake" OMG, they are to die for, every decadent combo you can imagine, and you don't have to feel super guilty because you can get a tiny cupcake, just a bite. I sound like a foodie, don't I?

Oh, team cupcake for sure! I've never heard them called "fairycakes", so cute. I'm not a big fan of pie and would choose cupcakes or cake every time.

Team Pie. I've gotten to the point where I don't really like anything cake-ey unless it's homemade. I've had bad luck with cupcake shops particularly. Great idea, Khris.

Team pie for sure. My favorite's are old school: rhubarb and sour cream raisin.

Please sign me up for an Angie lemon cupcake with cream cheese frosting. Mmmmmmm. If you throw it far enough, Angie, you might be able to hit me- I'm only two states south.

This is a tough one, but I think I'm on team pie. At least most of the time...

This one is a hard one for me too, but I guess I am on team cupcake. I LOVE red velvet cupcakes with good cream cheese frosting.

I HATE store bought cupcakes though. That fake frosting makes me gag.

I love banana creme pie... yum.

My initial reaction was "cupcakes," but the reality is that I am almost always disappointed by cupcakes. I love the idea of them so much, but the reality of them so often disappoints. And I think the best pie beats even the best cupcake.

All of which is to say... Team Pie.

Cupcakes is a fairly new "terminology" for them where I live - I've grown up with them being "Patty Cakes" - cupcakes were American (like your cookies are our biscuits!). But these days, everything is "cupcake"... and I have to say, it does make me sad... nothing against you lovely US ladies, but I like retaining our uniqueness! (this "cupcake" trend probably started 5ish years ago... to me anyway!)

And don't even get me started on pumpkin as a sweet! Its a vegetable and you serve it mashed with potato or roasted ROFL!!!

I am Team Pie - I also love a good apple, or apricot, or pineapple, or pineapple meringue, or rhubarb pie etc etc etc and I figure seeing as cheesecake comes in a pie shell, it counts as pie too LOL

But having said that, I have nothing against a good "patty cake" - but my kids live on them, so I do prefer grown up choices when I indulge!

My Grandma made the best apple pie every Sunday. I rest my case.

I also call cup cakes fairy cakes.

We have fairy cakes, but never knew about cream cheese frosting... I'm going to investigate this as it sounds good. I'm making fairy cakes this afternoon for the children when they get home for tea (hoping that builds up my stash of 'good mummy' points for a bit...) and this thread is making me hungry. I'll just take the butter out to soften...

PS not voting for a team - can't cope with food teams as I sit on the fence!

Theresa- yes, I count cheescake in with pie as well. Cheesecake is the ultimate pie-gasm if you ask me

Pie. REAL key-lime pie. From my favorite restaurant on Emerald Isle, NC.
Now I'm DYING for some!

Definitely pies (only the sweet variety though). Cupcakes always come with frosting (very often butter cream and if there's one thing that I can't eat - it actually makes me phyiscally ill too - then it's butter). And there are just so many delicious types of pie out there, mmmmm.

I am curious to try cream cheese frosting though, to me that's a very American thing, you don't see that over here. Wondering if I would like it or not...:-)

Ooooo cupcakes. Though I do the love apple crumble the school kitchen makes, does that count as pie? x

Team pie. I had a birthday cherry pie instead of a birthday cake for many, many years.

Not that I'd say no to a cupcake right now though!

Cherry pie is my husband's default birthday dessert. I almost forgot this year, came home to a note on the kitchen table that said, "Is there a cherry pie in my future?" So of course there was.

Cupcakes - but only with cream cheese frosting. Buttercream makes me gag too!

I pretty much second everything Theresa said.

Except that growing up in Australia, while my pumpkin experience was and is predominantly savorry - I love roasted pumpkins and pumpkin in stews and curries, but more prosaically eat it just steamed in the microwave most nights - we did have pumpkins scones (you should know about those, as a QLD girl!) which were sweet, and my mum even make pumpkin custard and pumpkin icecream occasionally.

I am on team pic, although I am not that keen on piecrust. Favourites are cheesecake, lemon meringue and rhubarb.

I find cupcakes a disappointment, but recently tried two winners; caramel mudcake and rhubarb and white chocolate.

Team Cupcake! I currently have a huge crush on the Red Velvet flavor.

I really don't like pie. There is not a single kind of pie that I like. The best I can do is eat the fruit filling out of the crust but then it is too sweet. Cupcakes for me please. I could never have imagine that buttercream frosting makes some people nauseous. The things you learn around here. Admittedly I like to dose my frosting. I never eat all of it.

High five Scarlet. The idea that the combination of butter and sugar can make anyone anything less than gleeful is alien to me. I feel sorry for those people My existence would be joyless without it...

Team pie - more specifically cherry or peach. Or cobbler or strudel. Not a big fan of cupcakes - too sweet for my taste. Although it seems like I am constantly surrounded with them at all the kinds' parties we go to, so it might be just overload

Hmm, at first I was going to stay on the sidelines. Then Marianne mentioned cherry pie...

So team pie it is. Fruit or berry, but not too sweet. I enjoy both, the filling and the crust. I trust the opinions of cupcake lovers here, so maybe it's just that I hadn't had a good cupcake yet?

First time I tried American pumpkin pie I wasn't impressed. Now I can't get enough.
(I also enjoy savory pumpkin)

Scarlet, I was at the county fair last weekend, and there was a cupcake stand where they were selling frosting straight up in little shot glasses -- sprinkles optional!