Take a Look at Those Cakes

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{{Infobox album

| name = Take a Look at Those Cakes

| type = Studio album

| artist = James Brown

| cover = James Brown Take a Look at Those Cakes.jpg

| alt =

| released = December 1978

| recorded = 1978

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Funk

| length = 41:30

| label = Polydor

| producer = James Brown

| prev_title = Jam 1980's

| prev_year = 1978

| next_title = The Original Disco Man

| next_year = 1979

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Take a Look at Those Cakes

| type = studio

| single1 = For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes

| single1date = October 1978

}}

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{cite web|author=William Ruhlmann |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/take-a-look-at-those-cakes-mw0000842070 |title=Take a Look at Those Cakes - James Brown |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=2015-05-31}}

|rev2 = Robert Christgau

|rev2Score = B−{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=June 9, 1980|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rock/brown-80.php|title=A Consumer Guide to James Brown|newspaper=The Village Voice|location=New York|access-date=December 7, 2016}}

|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

|rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Charles R.|author-link=Charles R. Cross|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|chapter=James Brown|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/109 109]}}

|rev4 = The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul

|rev4score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul |date=1998 |publisher=Virgin |page=42}}

}}

Take a Look at Those Cakes is a studio album by the American musician James Brown.{{cite news |last1=Mullinax |first1=Gary |title=Four stalwarts of soul stick to well-trodden paths |work=The Morning News |date=Jan 21, 1979 |page=C4}}{{cite news |last1=Gibbons |first1=Chris |title=Not much food for thought on 'Cakes' |work=Bucks Examiner |date=Feb 9, 1979 |page=13}} It was released in December 1978 by Polydor Records. It was arranged by Brown and St. Clair Pinckney. The cover artwork was credited to Christoph Blumrich.