Happy New Year to all. We are currently restocking our site. We are making rock and tablet in the shop and this is now available online. However we are awaiting our main traditional flavoured rock supplier to finish making their handmade sweets too and to catch up after the holidays, as soon as we can we will be adding them to the website.

Pontefract Cakes

Pontefract Cakes

Regular price
£1.75
Sale price
£1.75
Tax included.


Liquorice rounds, chewy and softer than some other liquorice sweets. 

These distinctive 2cm printed discs were originally created in Pontefract, Yorkshire - hence the name.  Liquorice being produced in the area dates back in records to the 17th Century, gaining popularity for not only its sweet taste but reported medicinal properties.

Ingredients; Treacle, glucose syrup, maize starch, invert sugar syrup, WHEAT flour (WHEAT flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), liquorice extract, modified potato starch, vegetable oils (palm, sunflower, coconut), flavouring, glazing agent (carnauba wax). 

Made by Taveners