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^ No, trust me is made of mascarpone.
I've provided a link on page 1.

Wex, not all Italian cheesecake is made from mascarpone.

# Italian-style cheesecake uses ricotta or mascarpone cheese, sugar, vanilla extract, and sometimes barley flakes. This type of cheesecake is typically drier than American styles. Often, small bits of candied fruit are added.

Also, on the culinary uses and challenges of cheesecake . . . .

in Italy, cheesecakes use ricotta;

Italian-style cheesecake uses ricotta or mascarpone cheese, sugar, vanilla extract, and sometimes barley flakes. This type of cheesecake is typically drier than American styles. Often, small bits of candied fruit are added.

I know there are in fact, two distinctly different versions of cheesecake, one is a cake; the other is pie.
Thank you Wex Major and Koshionos, you're absolutely right.
The cheese pie is more like a pudding and is made with cream cheese and whipping creme, the cheesecake is baked, using a springform pan.
Wex Major, I like to use at least two different cheeses and I say the more the better.
I will agree with TPM, that cheesecake is really a dessert since the cheesecake crumbs are of a different texture but a properly baked cheesecake should be the exact hight of the springform pan you're using and it should slice as easy as cake, not messy like pie.

I dont even like cheese so cheese cake has to be doing something right to make me love it. And I do think its more cake and not even close to a pie sometimes =p

Newyork style Cheesecake is generally a CAKE not a pie, dude

Ah well... I guess we'll never know what it is

I thought I invented CheesePie!

Anyhow, CheeseCake is just that, a cake made with cheese. It only has some pie feature. It's the shape that make it a cake.

I would like to get some CheesePie... Pie is better than cake....

Its not a pie its a cake.

Its made out of cheese.

CheeseCake