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How to draw a birthday cake

Start with the top of the cake, with icing dripping down and finish with the last decorations and the sprinkles.

Finished, it has 39 areas to color: 44th of 50 here, counting from the simplest (one of the harder ones). Close to it: airplane and owl.

Main colors in the original emoji: tan, yellow and red.

The six steps

1. The top of the cake, with icing dripping down.
2. An oval glow above it, and the bottom layer of the cake.
3. Three candles and the first decorations.
4. One flame and more decorations.
5. Two more flames, more decorations and a shine line.
6. The last decorations and the sprinkles.

Print the sheets

How to draw a birthday cake: 6 steps

31 shapes over six steps, then a box to draw your own.

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How to draw a birthday cake: 4 big steps

Steps of 3, 6, 10 and 12 shapes, drawn bigger.

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Birthday cake to color

The finished drawing: 39 areas.

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Color and trace: birthday cake

Color it, then trace the word.

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New parts are black and what is already drawn is gray; how the sheets work. Draw something else: bus, car, castle, cat, cat face, cow, cupcake, dinosaur, dog, dog face, dragon, elephant.

Drawings adapted from Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0: turned into outlines, and checked so every area can be colored.