Cake vs Biscuits: All Nutritional Differences

Biscuits vs. Cake

Cake is usually made from a combination of flour, sugar, eggs, fat, and leavening agent, whereas biscuit dough generally contains flour, fat, sugar, and leavening agent.

Cake is generally denser than biscuit, though there are some exceptions. For example, pound cake is a type of cake that is similar in density to a biscuit.

Biscuits are also typically baked at a higher temperature than cake, which results in a harder exterior. Cake is often served with frosting or icing, whereas biscuits are more commonly eaten plain or with butter. However, biscuits can also be served with jam or other spreads.

In general, cake is sweeter than biscuit, though there are some savory cake recipes. Biscuits are also more likely to be savory than sweet, though there are some sweet biscuit recipes.

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Less Calories in Cake

At first glance, you can see that in cake is less calories than in biscuit.

Cake has 290 kcal per 100g and biscuit 353 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 22%.

In cake and in biscuit most calories came from carbs.

See tables below to compare cake with biscuit in details.

Cake And Biscuit Nutrition Difference

• Calories:
  biscuit - 22% more than cake
• Carbohydrates:
  cake - 7% more than biscuit
• Fat:
  biscuit - 104% more than cake
• Saturated fat:
  cake - 150% more than biscuit
• Dietary fiber:
  biscuit - 0% more than cake
• Protein:
  cake - 10% more than biscuit
• Water:
  cake - 24% more than biscuit

More protein in cake

It is aslo easy to see see that in cake is more protein than in biscuit.

There is 7g per 100g of biscuit and 7.7g per 100g of cake so using simple math we can see that difference is about 10%.

More carbohydrates in cake

In cake is more carbohydrates than in biscuit.

There is 44.6g/100g of carbohydrates in biscuit and 47.7g/100g in cake so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 7%.

Less fat in cake

In cake is less fats than in biscuit.

The tables above show us that there is 16.3g/100g of fats in biscuit and 8g/100g in cake. In this case difference is about 104%.