Banbury cakes are a kind of spiced, currant-filled, flat pastry cake similar to an Eccles cake - although they are more oval in shape — once made and sold exclusively in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. Banbury cakes have been made in the region to secret recipes since 1586 or earlier and there they are still made today, but not in such quantity. The cakes were once sent as far afield as Australia, India and America.

Banbury cakes pre-date Eccles cakes by over 200 years, belying the claim that Banbury cakes are just oval shaped Eccles cakes.^{[citation needed]}

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