Cake at Stake

Not to be confused with Outbreak At Stake, or Cake.

The information in the article below contains spoilers for the BFDI series. Please watch the episode(s) if you have not seen them yet.

“	If I'm not mistaken, that means it's time for Cake at Stake!	”
	— Donut, "Questions Answered"

Cake At Stake(With Title) — Cake at Stake intro

Cake at Stake^{[note 1]} is a closed ceremony for the contestants who are up for elimination in Battle for Dream Island, Battle for Dream Island Again, Battle for BFDI, and Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two. The ceremony was introduced in "Barriers and Pitfalls".

At the ceremony, the safe contestants get a prize and one contestant is eliminated. The prizes in Cake at Stake are not always cake and are not always used to grant safety, with the prizes ranging from crackers to shovels.

In Battle for Dream Island Again, instead of commenting to vote, voters must rate separate videos (either with a like or dislike) tied to the contestants, the contestant with the most likes will be able to spin a wheel to get a prize, and the contestant with the most dislikes will get eliminated.

In Battle for BFDI, the Cake at Stake system changed again. At the voting screen, there is a letter in a bracket that stands for another character. The letter in the bracket must be commented to vote between the 48 hours after the release date of each episode. In Battle for BFDI, when a contestant is eliminated, they enter the Eternal Algebra Class Withfour.

In "X Marks the Spot", the voting system has changed, with the viewers now voting on who they want to save from getting eliminated (again with the letter in square brackets). The contestant who gets the least votes is eliminated and sent to the Big Rotating Building.

This same style of voting was also used in The Power of Two up until "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters", where it was modified: two teams will be up for elimination each episode, but voters will still only be able to cast one vote per episode, with the least-voted contestant on each team being eliminated. The location that the eliminated contestants are sent to is an upside down form of the Hotel.

In "Oneirophobe's Nightmare", the voting style was changed yet again. This time, votes are done via a poll in the description of the episode. Like with the previous style, voters have only one vote to save a contestant.

In "What's Up Bell's String?", the method was changed yet again. Now, with the same idea as double voting, instead of being able to save only one contestant, voters may vote to save a contestant on each of the teams up for elimination.

The intro has been changed a lot of times, varying from the simple saying of "Cake at Stake", to a "mini song" devoted to it, and changed back.

Order of elimination[]

BFDI[]

Episode 2: Flower - Regular cake used: All players except Snowball were thrown cake straight to their faces, and everyone except Tennis Ball, Golf Ball, "sam" and Flower received 0 votes.
Episode 3: Spongy - Key lime pie used: Most of the contestants criticized the choice of cake. Match requested a chocolate cake, and Firey said he loved chocolate. Pencil agreed with him and said she also likes ice cream cake. Bubble said ice cream cake was so delish.
Episode 4: Blocky - Ice chunks used. Most of the contestants got hit by the ice. Match got hit by her cake, Pen and Eraser got sent away after getting hit by their cakes, Firey melted his cake into a puddle which caused the grass to grow when the puddle touched the ground, and supposedly Pencil got sent away like Pen and Eraser, although it was revealed that Match was just hallucinating.
Episode 5: Woody - Ice cream cake used. The Announcer said he had a chunk of ice like last time, causing Pencil to overreact, but then the Announcer said he was kidding and said the cake was an ice cream cake.
Episode 6: Pin - Cupcakes used. According to Pen and Bubble, the cupcakes have the contestants' names on them. The Announcer then claims that wasn't supposed to be there. Pin also tried to use one of her two Win Tokens to prevent her elimination, despite her previously not using her Win Tokens in the previous Cake at Stake rounds, but she was too late to use it.
Episode 7: Needle - Key lime pie used again. Needle used Win Token, still was eliminated.
Episode 9 (Rejoin): Blocky rejoins - Regular cake used.
Episode 10: Teardrop - Modelling clay used.
Episode 11: Golf Ball - Imaginary cake used due to costs of cake. Golf Ball used Win Token, still was eliminated.
Episode 12: Coiny - No cake used.
Episode 13: Snowball - Fish "flavored cake" used.
Episode 14 (Elimination): Match - Fruitcake used.
Episode 14 (Rejoin): Spongy rejoins - No cake used but Bonus points equal to the loaves of bread that the contestants put in their individual basket.
Episode 15: Eraser - Nickels used.
Episode 16: Pen - Explosive blueberry pie used.
Episode 17: Blocky - Knives used.
Episode 18 (Elimination): Tennis Ball - Cracker used.
Episode 18 (Debut): David debuts - Yellow Tomato used.
Episode 19: Pencil - Shovels caked with mud used.
Episode 20: David - Ice cream cake used again. A regular (strawberry) cake explodes in space.
Episode 21 (Elimination): Ice Cube - No cake used.
Episode 21 (Rejoin): Flower - Pizza used.
Episode 22: Rocky - Yoylecake used.
Episode 23: Spongy - Cheese "cake" used.
Episode 24: Flower - Red velvet cake used.
Episode 25: Bubble and Leafy - Grand Cake (all the previous cakes mashed together) and cashew used (counting all prizes, Dream Island as well).

BFDIA[]

Episode 2: Donut - Regular cake used.
Episode 3: Dora - Regular cake used 2 times in a row.
Episode 4: Teardrop - Regular cake used 3 times in a row.
Episode 5: Match - Donut's 3 corpses used.
Episode 6: Puffball - Yoyleberries used.
Episode 7: Rocky - Asbestos cake used.
Episode 8: Firey - Asbestos cake used 2 times in a row.
Episode 9: Yellow Face - Plane ticket out of the sinking Clubhouse used. Yellow Face used Win Token, still was eliminated.
Episode 10: Gelatin - Gasoline from Lewis's second car's trunk used.
Episode 11: Spongy - Regular cake with Jack's hair used.
Episode 12: Ice Cube - Pineapple Leaves, Basket with propeller and Star Stickers used.
Episode 14: Golf Ball - Poisoned Instruments used.
Episode 15: Ruby - Teardrop cake used.
Episode 16: Bomby - A single grain of Rice used.
Episode 17: Pencil - Birthday Cake (Vomited) used.
Episode 18: Nickel - Steak used.
Episode 19: Fries - Bubble Tea used.

BFB[]

Episode 2: Pencil - Regular cake used.
Episode 3: Leafy - Earths used.
Episode 4: Bracelety - Regular cake used (covered in Barf Bag's barf, except for Bomby and Barf Bag's).
Episode 5: Liy - Fortune cookies used (containing Bracelety's signs, except for Pie's).
Episode 6: Roboty - Tangerine Juice used.
Episode 7: Loser - Poppers topped with a grain of sugar used.
Episode 8: 8-Ball - Firey Speaker Box's remains used.
Episode 9: Stapy - Regular cake used.
Episode 10: David - Pin's embroidered strawberry cake used.
Episode 11 (Rejoin): Leafy rejoins - Photo Cake used.
Episode 12: Match - Burger used (called Yarnburger in .fla files).
Episode 13: Firey Jr. - Soup used (cooled down using Ice Cube).
Episode 15: Dora - Happy thoughts used.
Episode 16: Spongy - Specks of dust used.
Episode 18: Balloony - Duct tape used (only for Leafy).
Episode 19: Spongy - Salt lamps used.
Episode 20: Ruby - Air used.
Episode 21: Loser - No cake used.
Episode 22: Taco - Broken flower pot pieces and pieces of Donut's diary used.
Episode 23: Bubble - No cake used.
Episode 24: Blocky - Have Cots used.
Episode 25: Firey - Water and Lava from Firey's Ferris Wheel used.
Episode 26: Woody - Carrot Cakes used.
Episode 27: Lollipop - Bugs used.
Episode 28: Leafy - Gold medal used.
Episode 29: Teardrop - Silver medal used.
Episode 30: Gelatin - Grand Cake used for the second time chronologically.

BFDI:TPOT[]

Episode 1 (Debut): Winner & Price Tag debut - Purple Tomato (Mangosteen) for Winner used.
Episode 2: Pie - Regular cake used.
Episode 3: Foldy - Cheesecake with glass shards in it used.
Episode 4: Saw & Cloudy - Burritos used.
Episode 5: Naily & Remote - Ramen noodles used.
Episode 6: Eggy & Fries - Folders of attack plans to sneak past Four and X used.
Episode 7: Clock & Lightning - To join Bottle in the Yoyle Pit.
Episode 8: Cake & Rocky - Glue used.
Episode 9: Puffball & Coiny - Wooden slabs and nails used. Teardrop was eliminated after the challenge due to losing.
Episode 10: Nickel - Moon shards to glue to the Hotel's roof used.
Episode 12: Bomby & Bell - Sliding down Bell's string.
Episode 13 (Debut): Pencil & Liy debut - A master key to the hotel used (given to Liy).
Episode 13 (Elimination): Barf Bag & Needle - Items from the Storm used.
Episode 14: Eraser & Gaty - A picture was taken for each safe contestant.
Episode 15: Basketball & Robot Flower - Cake is host-dependent.
Episode 16: Pin & Ice Cube - Four and X's cakes with Fanny and Ice Cube's shattered remains used.
Episode 17: Pillow & Yellow Face - Drawings made by Bottle used.

Intros[]

See also: Cake at Stake/Intro transcripts

Title	Photo	First episode	Final episode	Lyrics
Cake at Stake!		"Barriers and Pitfalls" (Season 1, Episode 2) "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?" (Season 5, Episode 1)	"Insectophobe's Nightmare" (Season 1, Episode 9) "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters" (Season 5, Episode 3)	Da-da-da-da-da-da, Cake at Stake!
Hork Glorp Gloop Doot (or cake eating sounds)		"Crybaby!" (Season 1, Episode 10)	"A Leg Up in the Race" (Season 1, Episode 12)	Hork hork hork glorp glorp gloop gloop gloop doot doot Cake at Stake!
There's Points Now		"Don't Lose Your Marbles" (Season 1, Episode 13)	"Rescission" (Season 1, Episode 19)	OMG! There's points now! Who'll go home? We'll just see... It's Cake at Staaaaaaaaaaaaake!
The Points Are Gone		"Gardening Hero" (Season 1, Episode 20)	"Insectophobe's Nightmare 2" (Season 1, Episode 24)	The points are gone. We are free of them now, but we look on, to the moment that we see: the next slice of cake. A step closer to the prize brought on by Cake at Stake.
The Points Are Gone (Joke Version)		"The Glistening" (Season 1, Episode 21)		The points are gone. We are free from them now, but we look on, to the moment that we see the next slice of cake, a step closer to the prize, brought on by Cake at Stake.
Season Coming to an End		"The Glistening" (Season 1, Episode 21)		Season coming to an end! Very few contestants left! Some of them are getting cake!!!!!!!!!! One of them is so at stake! It's cake at STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!
Cake at Stake Mashup		"Return of the Hang Glider" (Season 1, Episode 25)		Da-da-da-da-da-da, Hork hork hork glorp glorp gloop gloop gloop doot doot, OMG! There's points now! Who'll go home? We'll just see... The points are gone. We are free of them now, but we look on, to the moment that we see: the next slice of cake. A step closer to the prize brought on by CAKE AT STAKE! Aw, seriously?
Coiak At Stoiak! (changed)		"Get Digging" (Season 2, Episode 2)		Doy, doy, doy, doy, doy, doy, doy, doy! Coiak At Stoiak!
CaKe At StAkE!!!		"Get Digging" (Season 2, Episode 2)		[Screaming, out of tune] CAKE at STAKE! Cake AT stake!
Cake! At! Stake!		"Insectophobe's Nightmare 3" (Season 2, Episode 3)		Cake! At! Stake!
Cake at Stake! (TV Version)		"Zeeky Boogy Doog" (Season 2, Episode 4)		[No Lyrics. Just text saying the title in TV's screen]
CAKE AT STAKE! (Firey Speaker Box Version)		"Get in the Van" (Season 2, Episode 5a)		Cake at Stake!
Cake at Stake (Firey Speaker Box Version #2)		"Well Rested" (Season 2, Episode 6)		Cake at Stake-stake-sta-ta-take!
(SMASH!) (Rejected)		"Intruder Alert" (Season 2, Episode 7)		(SMASH!)
Cake at Stake, Lewis! (First version) (Rejected)		"Intruder Alert" (Season 2, Episode 7)		Ain't givin' up I ain't givin' up! There's cake at stake, Lewis!
I CAN STILL SAVE THIS!!!!! (Rejected)		"Intruder Alert" (Season 2, Episode 7)		(CHAOTIC PIANO SOUNDS) I CAN STILL SAVE THIS!!!!! No, TV, you can't. SAVE ME! AAAA (SNATCH!) [‎TLC Closes]
Cake at Stake, Lewis! (Second version)		"Meaty" (Season 2, Episode 8)	"Catch These Hands" (Season 2, Episode 9)	I ain't giving up! I ain't giving up! There's Cake at Stake, Lewis!
Cake at Stake, Lewis! (third version)		"Lots of Mud" (Season 2, Episode 11)		I ain't giving up! I ain't giving up! There's Cake at Stake, Lewis!
Gave up...		"Insectophobe's Nightmare 4" (Season 2, Episode 12)		I ain't giving up! I ain't giving up... I think I’m gonna… give up.
Cake at Stake Davidian Party		"PointyPointyPointy 🎵" (Season 2, Episode 14)	"Respect to the Wicked" (Season 2, Episode 16)	Da-da-da-da-da-da, Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake at Stake!
Cake at Stake WTF Chorus		"Start the Shift" (Season 2, Episode 17)		Caaaaaaaaake! Aaaaaaaaaaat! S- T̵͍̊Ḁ̵̽a̴͎͘Ả̸͎ǎ̴̠A̶̩̓Ạ̵̓a̵̦̓å̶̟A̸͓̐a̵̘͋ȧ̵͓a̴̠͠K̵̦̽k̶̟͂E̸̛͚ë̶͙́ẹ̵͝E̶̼͠!
Cake at Stake WTF Septet		"Airplanes in the Night Sky" (Season 2, Episode 18)		Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake! Aaaaaaaaaaaaat! Staaaaaaaaaaaake!
Nice To Know		"🥚" (Season 2, Episode 19)		Nothing's allowed to stay the same Friends and enemies sent away And the teams dissolve, and the hosts revolve The game keeps on changin' So it's nice to know there'll always be Cake at Stake! (Cake at Stake!)
Cake at Stake Remix (badum)		"Lick Your Way to Freedom" (Season 4, Episode 2)	"How Loe Can You Grow?" (Season 4, Episode 19)	Da-da-da-da-da-da, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake... at Stake!
Cake at Stake Remix #2 (caslit2)		"Today's Very Special Episode" (Season 4, Episode 4)		Cake, -short pause- Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake... -long pause- Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake... at Stake!
Four's Cake at Stake Dance		"Let's Raid The Warehouse" (Season 4, Episode 21)		It's time for Cake at Stake!
Purple Face's Cake at Stake Song		"The Game Has Changed" (Season 4, Episode 24)		La, la la! Cake at Stake! It's the time, where we are all... hap-PPYYY! And we have... fuuUUUUUUUN!
Announcer's Cake at Stake Rap		"BFB = Back from Beginning" (Season 4, Episode 28)		Welcome everybody to Cake at Stake. After this ceremony, this alliance will break; but you're not to worry as the rest of you will be in the finals. And that will mean the game will be in the finals.
Hey Two! (sung by Anko6)		"Gardening Zero" (Season 5, Episode 4)	Present	Hey Two! When you bake a cake, decorate and take it to the players who are safe, that's how you know it's Cake at Stake! (Stake-stake!) Cake at Stake!
Cake at Skate		"Seasonal Shift" (Season 5, Episode 15)		Cake at Skate!
Hey Four!		"The Power of Four" (Season 5, Episode 16)		Hey four! When you bake a cake, decorate and take it to the players who are safe, that's how you know it's Cake at Stake! (Stake-stake!) Cake at Stake!

Notes[]

In "Barriers and Pitfalls" and "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?" to "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters", the "at" in the Cake at Stake intro is pink and the intro fades out. However, from "Are You Smarter Than a Snowball?" to "Insectophobe's Nightmare", the "at" is green and there is no fade. This was probably the result of having to remake the Cake at Stake intro in its own separate flash (.FLA) file. The original Cake at Stake intro was found in the FLA source files for Scene 1 of "Barriers and Pitfalls".
In "Power of Three", the votes dropped for the first time.
In "Cycle of Life", there was no Cake at Stake as the Tiny Loser Chamber was too small to fit any more contestants at that time.
In "Insectophobe's Nightmare", the Cake at Stake was for the first ever rejoin. Blocky rejoined.
In "Crybaby!", the Cake at Stake intro changed to the cake eating version.
In "Don't Lose Your Marbles", the Cake at Stake intro changed to "There's Points Now" version.
In "Vomitaco", it was revealed David had 39 votes, and Announcer asked viewers to not vote him.
In "The Reveal", Pencil got her first vote by a YouTuber named englishcreamcakes, which meant that all original contestants had finally received at least one vote throughout the whole series.
In "Reveal Novum", 2 Cake at Stakes were done: one for the regular players in the first ever contestant vote, and one for the recommended characters for the first ever debut.
In "Rescission", Pencil became the player eliminated with the highest number of votes up to that point: 259.
In "Gardening Hero", the Cake at Stake intro changed to "The Points are Gone" (paper) version. David also had the most votes for elimination: 331.
In "The Glistening", the eliminated contestants vote for who should be eliminated next. Two Cake at Stake songs are also played.
In "Return of the Hang Glider", the final Cake at Stake in Season 1 was done to determine the winner of BFDI. This also featured the first double elimination, with Bubble and Leafy losing and Firey winning Dream Island. However, Bubble and Leafy did not go to the TLC, since Announcer released all the other 18 contestants, and BFDI Season 1 was over.
Throughout Battle for Dream Island Again, a different variation of the Cake at Stake song is played in every episode.
In "Zeeky Boogy Doog", Teardrop gets the most likes and dislikes.
In "Well Rested", the votes that were cast over 10 years ago were displayed, even though they were spoiled 7 years prior in "Welcome Back".
In "Intruder Alert", there is a record-breaking number of votes again, at 269,538. This is the first time, chronologically and release date-wise, that an episode received a 6-digit number of votes.
In "Welcome Back", there was no Cake at Stake, instead showing the votes for Well Rested.
In "Lick Your Way to Freedom", the first Cake at Stake intro got remixed, although the "at" is still pink and still fades out. This is used for the subsequent Battle for BFDI episodes.
In "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset", the intro was omitted.
- As a result, 2 Cake at Stake intros are played in the following episode.
In "What Do You Think of Roleplay?", "Return of the Rocket Ship", "The Four is Lava", and "The Escape from Four", the intro uses soundbites from Patrons who donated one dollar under the "Sing Cake at Stake" reward.
In "The Escape from Four", Spongy is eliminated with a record of 22,845 votes.
In "X Marks the Spot", the voting switches to saving the contestants.
In "The Hidden Contestant", Profily debuts and is eliminated via disqualification, marking the second instance of a double elimination, as Woody also left in this episode.
TPOT uses the original Cake at Stake intro from "Barriers and Pitfalls" until "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters".
In "Chapter Complete", the second ever vote to win takes place. Flower ends up winning BFB.
In "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters", double eliminations were introduced.

Locations[]

Main article: List of Cake at Stake ceremony locations

Trivia[]

In total, there are 26 Cake at stake intros.
Counting the imaginary cake in "Lofty", "A Leg Up in the Race", "Let's Raid The Warehouse", and "Fashion For Your Face!", are the only episodes to have no prizes for the safe contestants.
"A Leg Up in the Race", "Spore Day", and "SOS (Save Our Show)" have the only Cake at Stakes where only one contestant is safe.
Cake at Stake sometimes uses character corpses as prizes. For example, Pie's corpse was used in "Bowling, Now with Explosions!", Donut's corpse was used in "Get in the Van" and the Firey Speaker Box was used in "Questions Answered".
"Get in the Van" is the only episode in the series where the winning team is also given cake, in a similar fashion to how contestants got cake for not entering the danger zone in BFDI.
The Chinese words shown in the Lewis and TV Edition are, in order: 面粉 (miànfěn; flour), 黄油 (huángyóu; butter), and 蛋糕 (dàngāo, cake).
In BFB, every even-numbered episode has had a proper Cake at Stake intro, and every odd-numbered episode has had either no Cake at Stake intro or a broken one. This was later broken in the 7th episode.
- After the split however, a majority of the episodes have no Cake at Stake intro.
In the BFB episodes "Questions Answered" and "This Episode Is About Basketball", it is revealed that Clock rings every time Cake at Stake is about to start. Likely referencing how he did the same thing in "Get in the Van".
- Cake at Stake may not have a consistent starting time as Clock’s hands have been in different positions in all three instances.
Dora, Bracelety, 8-Ball, Stapy, Foldy, and Profily are the only contestants who haven't received any prizes at Cake at Stake.
- Foldy is the only contestant to survive a Cake at Stake but not get a prize. This is because she was dead in a period where recovery was impossible.
Flower, Spongy, Donut, Liy and Loser are the only contestants who failed to survive their first Cake at Stake, later surviving their second one.
Spongy, Coiny, Bell, Foldy, Balloony and Basketball are the only contestants to be absent from a Cake at Stake.
"Take the Tower" is the only episode that has only one team member get a prize for being safe.
Donut, Cheese Orb, Pie, Firey Speaker Box, Leafy, Teardrop, Lollipop, and the Carrot Cake's are the only characters that were used as prizes for Cake at Stake.
Regular cake's light and airy structure would make it explode in the vacuum of space, but Ice Cream cake would stay in the same shape while in the vacuum of space, likely due to its denser structure. This is explained in "Gardening Hero."
While "Intruder Alert" and "Meaty" had the Asbestos Cake, the cake would not be edible in real-life, as Asbestos can cause lung cancer, such as Asbestosis and Mesolthelioma if inhaled or even consumed.
Michael Huang composed the intros.
Bottle is the only TPOT host to not have an altered Cake at Stake Intro.