Volume 5: Candy Land

Cake Zine’s fifth issue, Candy Land, unwraps candy’s connections to the literal and metaphorical land. This indie literary food magazine contains over ninety-six pages of stories about food and culture across essays, recipes, fiction, and art.

• Conversations with the doomsday preppers prioritizing pleasure at the end of the world by Amy Rose Spiegel
• Sweet and surreal fiction by Sanaë Lemoine, Puloma Ghosh, and Celina Baljeet Basra - Recipes for dirt ‘n’ worms tiramisu, crunchy alegría, and crystalline kohakutou by Zoe Denenberg, Fabián von Hauske Valtierra, and Rie McClenny
• A reflection on growing up in the Hershey’s corporate candy town, a dissection of the contemporary tanghulu trend beyond TikTok, a brief but insidious history of banana candy and much more