Spanking Machine is the debut studio album by American punk rock band Babes in Toyland, released on April 16, 1990.

"Dust Cake Boy" was a different version than that previously released on 45 by the Minneapolis-based Treehouse Records in 1989.

It was recorded in 1988, before the band's sessions with Jack Endino, at Technisound Studio and produced by Brian Paulson.

The band also performed alongside Sonic Youth at 1991's Reading Festival,[13][14] which was documented by Dave Markey's music documentary, 1991: The Year Punk Broke.

Rolling Stone ranked Spanking Machine at number 27 on its list of the "50 Greatest Grunge Albums" in 2019, writing that Spanking Machine "was a perfect marriage of crunchy Midwestern punk and wry Northwestern malaise.