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Zine

Cake Zineis 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-Wayllys recipe for death by chocolate cake: amultilayered monstrosity of cocoa meringue,devil’s foodcake, 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 witchwhose 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 Plaths oven, an analysis of Courtney Loves 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.