🍰Shortcake Emoji
Generally, sending a 🍰 means someone wants to express that something is sweet, delicious, or enjoyable. It's a simple way to show you appreciate something nice.
The 🍰 emoji represents a slice of cake, usually a shortcake or something similar.
- Unicode
- U+1F370
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :cake:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🍰 Shortcake emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as cake slice emoji.
Shortcake emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F370. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Shortcake emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :cake:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F370.
How to type the 🍰 Shortcake emoji
No picker to hand? The shortcake can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Shortcake emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the shortcake as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Shortcake emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around shortcake for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🍰, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🍰 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the shortcake and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🍰 means in other countries
In Japan, “shortcake” means a specific strawberry sponge cake tied to Christmas — very different from the biscuit-based version elsewhere.
A strawberry sponge cake, the default Christmas dessert bought or ordered by nearly every family.
Refers to a biscuit-based cake with berries and cream, more of a summer dessert.
Before you send it: Around December it reads as a Christmas nod in Japan — elsewhere it’s just a summer berry dessert.
What 🍰 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the 🍰 Shortcake emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F370 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🍰 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E74A, KDDI au E4D0, SoftBank E046.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Shortcake was approved as U+1F370 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🍰 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.