An individual cupcake in a liner topped with a swirl of frosting and sprinkles. The style of cupcake widely varies across platforms. The cake may be sponge or chocolate, the frosting pink or white, and the sprinkles rainbow or red.

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

Cupcake was approved as part of Unicode 11.0 in 2018 and added to Emoji 11.0 in 2018.