PEOPLE in Yorkshire eat cake the most times each week of any place in the UK, according to a survey.

Those living in God’s Own County eat cake two or three times a week, which also revealed the UK’s favourite cake.

Cheesecake has been voted Britain’s favourite cake, according to new research revealed to celebrate National Cake Day, which is tomorrow.

Cheesecake scooped 42% of the vote in a national poll conducted by food delivery app Foodhub, narrowly beating Chocolate cake (41%) Victoria sponge (32%) and the Brownie (31%).

Bakewell Tart (27%) and Christmas Cake (24%) are among the nation’s other choices with souffle being the least popular with only three per cent of the vote.

The study shows that 20% of the nation admits they eat cake every week, with a further 20% saying they now eat it two to three times a week.

Thirty per cent of the nation confess they eat cake as a regular snack in-between meals, with 20% having cake around dinner time and 15% having it at supper time. And though four in 10 Brits eat cake whenever they want, 30% save it as a treat for special occasions with only 13% having it as a dessert or pudding after a meal So how do we like our cake? Well, over a third of the nation prefers their cake plain (37%) but a quarter of us enjoy it with cream and just one in 10 Brits have it with custard. Cake with icing (34%) narrowly beats cake without icing (33%) as the UK’s preference.

Women are the UK’s main cake aficionados, according to the Foodhub poll of 2,000 adults. Not only do women eat more cake than men on a weekly basis, more of them also prefer to snack between meals on cake than their male counterparts.

Men, however, are more likely to share cake with their partner (48%) than women (37%).