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How to Draw a Cake

10 steps · Medium · about 8 min

Draw a cake in 10 easy steps, about 8 minutes. Free, with a printable worksheet.

Each picture adds one red line. Draw that line, then scroll to the next picture. Rub out any dashed helper lines at the end. First up: the top layer.

Step 1: The top layer
Start above the middle. Draw a flat oval with 5 frosting bumps in front. Add sides down to a smile.
Tip As wide as your hand: a short round can with a flat top.
Step 2: Top layer drips
From the left and right frosting bumps draw a narrow U drip down with a round blob at the bottom.
Tip Each drip hangs off one bump and comes back up to its other end.
Step 3: Cherry on top
Draw a round cherry in the middle of the top oval. Add a short stem and a fat leaf.
Tip The stem is 2 lines close together. Draw a line down the leaf's middle.
Step 4: The big bottom layer
From the top layer's foot draw a much bigger oval, 7 bumps in front. Add sides down to the bottom.
Tip Its back hides behind the top layer. Join the sides with a smile curve.
Step 5: Drippy icing
From the 3 middle bumps of the big layer draw long narrow U drips with round blobs: long, short, longer.
Step 6: Two cherries
On the ledge beside each bottom corner of the top layer draw a small round cherry with a short stem.
Tip Each cherry sits on the big layer, well in from the edge, touching no other line.
Step 7: A plate
Start left of the cake. Draw an oval plate behind it, a finger under the cake, back to the start.
Tip Skip the part the cake hides.
Step 8: Sprinkles
Between the 2 cherries draw 5 tiny tilted jelly-bean sprinkles. Add 1 more on the top layer between the drips.
Tip Space them out and keep them off the lines.
Step 9: Pink icing, tan cake
Colour the tops, bumps and drips pink, around the cherries and sprinkles. Colour the sides of both layers tan.
Step 10: Red cherries, green leaf
Colour all 3 cherries red with a white shine, and the leaf green. Leave the plate white.