Cake Zine

Volume 2: Wicked Cake

Cake Zine is a hedonistic exploration of history, pop culture, literature, and art through dessert. The second issue, Wicked Cake, explores the sinister side of sweets, the horrors lurking beneath the buttercream. Over eighty pages of recipes, essays, poems, illustrations, and photographs, including:

Sohla El-Waylly’s recipe for death by chocolate cake: a multilayered monstrosity of cocoa meringue, devil's food cake, and dangerous ganache shards.
A lyric essay on schadenfreude and the merits of baking your enemies into confections by Jami Nakamura Lin.
A contemplation of obsolescence in the age of DALL-E by baker Bronwen Wyatt.
A comic by Priscilla Frank on the true story of a sixteenth-century cantankerous “witch” whose buttery shrovetide cakes kindled her demise.
Very wicked cakes by Bodega Cakes, Frosted Hag, and Lauren Schofield, photographed in an abandoned church by Chelsea Kyle.
An exploration of sirutteok, a Korean rice cake used to banish evil spirits in shamanistic rituals, by Giaae Kwon.
Plus a peek inside Sylvia Plath’s oven, an analysis of Courtney Love’s desire to “be the girl with the most cake,” a fiery condemnation of deepcakes in the age of “is it cake?” and a whole lot more.

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Contributors

Agnes Barton-Sabo
Alex Bandoni
Alex Citrin-Safadi
Annabel Hope
Arielle Gordon
Becca Stickler
Bronwen Wyatt
Chelsea Kyle
Eliza Dumais
Giaae Kwon
Haruka Aoki
Jami Nakamura Lin
Julia Rose
KC Hysmith
Kelli Huggins
Lauren Schofield
Lulu Prat
Madeline Bach
Makshya Tolbert
Marisa de la Peña
Megan Peck Shub
N. A. Mansour
Natàlia Pàmies
Natasha Phang-Lee
Olivia Lindsay Aylmer
Orfeo Tagiuri
Priscilla Frank
Reece Sisto
Renée Elizabeth Clarke
Sarah Kantrowitz
Sohla El-Waylly
Sydney Lopez
Taylore Glynn
Tyna Hoang

Stockists

NYC: Artbook at MoMA PS1, Casa Magazines, McNally Jackson (SoHo & Williamsburg), Archestratus, Head Hi, Abbode, Thirst Wine Merchants, Public Records, ByClio
Wassaic, New York: Ten Mile Table
Beacon, New York: Hyperbole
Philly: Yowie, Salt & Vinegar
DC: Lost City Books, Bold Fork Books
Maine: GOODS
Miami: Dale Zine
St. Petersburg, Florida: Kelev Magazines
San Francisco: Black Bird, Silver Sprocket, Heath Newsstand
LA: Now Serving, Hauser and Wirth, Skylight Books, Candid Home
Palm Springs: The Best Bookstore
Seattle: Book Larder, Drink Books
Bellingham, WA: Village Books & Paper Dreams
Portland: Providore Fine Foods
Atlanta: Press Shop
Brighton, MA: Super Bien
Somerville, MA: Wild Child
Phoenix, AZ: Monsoon Market
Berlin: She Said
Paris: Yvon Lambert, After 8 Books
London: magCulture
Bath, UK: Magalleria
CDMX: Casa Bosques, JO-HS
Toronto: Good Egg, Issues Magazine Shop, Kwento Bakery
Leeds, UK: Colours May Vary

Press

New York Times’ T Magazine, Vogue, Eater, The Cut, Vanity Fair, The Strategist, The Sunday Times, Grub Street

Volume 2: Wicked Cake

Volume 2: Wicked Cake

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