Birthday Cake

🎂 Birthday Cake is used almost exclusively for birthdays, which makes it unusually unambiguous. It also marks the anniversary of a company, a project or an account.

Pairs naturally with 🎉 and 🥳.

• Happy birthday! 🎂🎉

Candles on the birthday cake are an eighteenth-century German invention – the Kinderfest custom spread from there. Blowing them out with a wish came later.

In China and Korea long-life noodles are added, and the noodles must not be cut. In Mexico the birthday person gets their face pushed into the cake at the mordida.

• 🎂🕯️ – Birthday greetings – works even without any text.
• 🎂🍦 – Birthday Cake and Soft Ice Cream
• 🎂🍰 – Birthday Cake with Shortcake
• 🎂🍧 – Birthday Cake plus Shaved Ice
• 🎂🍭 – Birthday Cake and Lollipop
• 🎂🧁 – Birthday Cake with Cupcake

Easy to mix up with 🍦 Soft Ice Cream, 🍰 Shortcake or 🍧 Shaved Ice. They look alike but do not mean the same thing – when in doubt, check the name.