A frosted cake with lit candles, as presented for a birthday celebration. The style of cake widely varies across platforms, though it usually has white frosting and strawberries,

Apple, Google, and Samsung's designs suggest a Japanese Christmas cake. Other vendors depict a chocolate, pink, and/or sponge cake.

Can occasionally be used as a playful reference to a person's "buttocks," inspired by the slang term "cake."

Birthday Cake was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.