Cupcake Emoji — Copy and Paste
The cupcake emoji, spelled as one word in Unicode however you type the search, with its codepoint and the reason it shows as a box on older phones. Cake pop and cake topper are answered honestly below.
Tap any tile to copy it. Nothing is sent anywhere — the copy happens in your browser.
Repeat it 100, 1000 or 10,000 times
100 copies — 499 characters.
One word in Unicode, two words in the search box
The official Unicode name is Cupcake, one word, and the codepoint is U+1F9C1. Plenty of people type it as “cup cake”. Either spelling gets you here, but if you go looking in a character map or a font tool, search the one-word form or you will find nothing. It is drawn as a single cake in a fluted paper case with swirled frosting on every major platform; the frosting colour and whether there is a cherry on top are the vendor’s choice.
It is younger than the rest of the cake set, and that shows
Cupcake was added in Unicode 11.0 in 2018, eight years after Birthday Cake and Shortcake. That is the practical difference on this page: a phone, tablet or e-reader that has not had a system update since 2018 has no glyph for it and will show an empty rectangle. The older characters below have no such problem.
| Character | Official name | Codepoint | Added |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🧁 | Cupcake | U+1F9C1 | Unicode 11.0, 2018 |
| 🍰 | Shortcake | U+1F370 | Unicode 6.0, 2010 |
| 🎂 | Birthday Cake | U+1F382 | Unicode 6.0, 2010 |
| 🥞 | Pancakes | U+1F95E | Unicode 9.0, 2016 |
| 🧇 | Waffle | U+1F9C7 | Unicode 12.0, 2019 |
The candles version is at birthday cake emoji and the rest of the sweet row is on the cake emoji hub.
Cake pop and cake topper, straight
There is no cake pop character. Nothing in Unicode is a ball of cake on a stick. The two substitutes people reach for are 🍭 Lollipop, U+1F36D, which is a spiral disc on a stick, and 🍡 Dango, U+1F9C1’s neighbour at U+1F361, which is three or four Japanese rice dumplings on a skewer. Dango reads closest to a cake pop, but it is dango, and a Japanese reader will read it as dango.
“Cake topper emoji” is asking about a physical object. A topper is printed or cut card stuck into a cake. What you copy on this page is text — a codepoint, not an image. To print one you need an image file, and the drawing of 🧁 on your phone is Apple’s or Google’s or Samsung’s copyrighted artwork, not a free asset. Emoji-shaped toppers sold commercially are usually redrawn from scratch for exactly that reason.
Characters with cake in the name that are not cake
🍥 Fish Cake With Swirl Design, U+1F365, is narutomaki — a fish-paste garnish for ramen. 🥮 Moon Cake, U+1F96E, is a Chinese mooncake for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Both are real cakes in name only and neither belongs in a birthday message.
Caveats
- No skin-tone modifier, no variation selector. Single codepoint, copies clean.
- Screen readers announce it as “cupcake”.
- Username fields usually reject it. Display names and bios usually keep it.
- If it shows as a box for one person in a group chat, their device is too old for it — send 🍰 instead. The other desserts are on ice cream emoji.