Ace of cakes staff

In November 2010, right around the time that Food Network formally canceled "Ace of Cakes," the NBC sitcom "30 Rock" (for which Duff Goldman once made cakes as a prop and for a cast party, per IMDb) featured an exchange in which Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) claims that the most intelligent thing she ever said came out of her mouth was "three years ago, when I said there should be more TV shows about cake." 

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The joke poked fun at cake-loving Liz Lemon and also at the TV cake show fad.

Why was ace of cakes cancelled

Around that time, viewers had their pick from "Ace of Cakes," "Cake Boss," "Fabulous Cakes," "Amazing Wedding Cakes," "Sweet Genius," "Cupcake Wars," Ultimate Cake Off," "Staten Island Cakes," and "The Cupcake Girls," to name only a bare few from a very crowded pack.

That's a major saturation of entertainment about one subject, to say the least.

And, as happens often to any fad that comes on quickly and intensely and hangs around for a while, it eventually began to wear out its welcome. Audiences and consumers often look away from the fad they on