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No, to have in this instance means for the cake to exist in your possession.
Once you eat it, you don't have it anymore. You can't share a cake you ate, or put it back in the fridge, or add more sprinkles, it's ceased to be a cake.
So have your cake and eat it too is impossible. The saying means something is an impossible desire.
Aye. I think part of the confusion is that... Who has a cake without having the intention of eating it? Another is that we tend to think of cakes as large objects that produce leftovers.
I would say to think about it as "to have your car, and to sell it, too," but we've reached an age of such rent seeking that people -- mostly car dealerships -- have been doing this for years.