YOU SAID:
you can't have the cake and eat it
INTO JAPANESE
ケーキとそれを食べることはできません。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Cake and eat it.
INTO JAPANESE
ケーキ、食べています。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Eat cake.
INTO JAPANESE
ケーキを食べる。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Eat cake.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.