Treacle, Glucose Syrup, Maize Starch, Invert Sugar Syrup, Wheat Flour (Wheat flour, Calcium carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Liquorice Extract, Modified Potato Starch, Flavouring, Vegetable Oils (Palm, Sunflower), Glazing Agent (Carnauba Wax). Pontefract cakes (also known as Pomfret cakes and Pomfrey cakes) are a type of small, roughly circular black sweet measuring approximately .75 in (19 mm) wide and 0.16 in (4 mm) thick, made of liquorice, originally manufactured in the Yorkshire town of Pontefract, England. Classic Taveners Pontefract Cakes the liquorice sweet with an enviable history. Still popular today, liquorice sweets are seeing growing demand as shoppers return to them or try them for the first time.