How to Draw a Slice of Carrot Cake

If you’ve been reading my website for a while, you’ll discover I love food and drawing food even more.

I have recently developed an addiction to drawing food in a kawaii style.

I love drawing sweet things and then adding little kawaii faces to them – these make cute stickers!

It’s also motivated me to open a sticker shop – details will be out soon!

In this post, I will teach you to draw a cute slice of carrot cake.

This is what you’ll learn by the end of this post:

add the finishing touches to the carrot cake

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How to draw a slice of carrot cake step by step – Easy tutorial for beginners

Please note that I’m using Procreate and drawing this digitally. You can even use Clip Art Studio as it is a beautiful software that most digital artists use, including Manga and Anime artists.

I talk more about how I got started with digital art here.

You can use any tool you want to make this drawing because the process basically is the same. You can use color pencils, pens or crayons – it’s completely your choice!

Let’s begin.

Step 1: Draw a simple cake slice first

Let’s just start by drawing a simple cake slice first.

We’ll start by drawing a simple and plain rectangle.

You don’t even need to use a ruler or make the rectangle perfect. Just draw a rectangle. This will give your carrot cake slice a very organic look.

Next, we’ll erase two spaces on top of the rectangle like this.

Now, we need to draw the cake slice.

So, from the left side of the rectangle, draw a line raised upwards like this. You can stop drawing the line when you’ve reached the center of the rectangle.

Now, we need to finish drawing the cake slice; simply draw a curved line like this meeting the other side of the rectangle.

And voila!

You’ve just learned how to draw a cake slice. You can even make this a cheesecake drawing.

But for this tutorial, we need to make this a slice of carrot cake.

So let’s move forward.

Step 2: Add details to the carrot cake slice

Now, I want to add some layers to this carrot cake slice.

So, I’m going to draw 2 L shapes – one from the top of the rectangle and the other from the bottom. Just follow the green arrows, and you’ll understand how to do this.

Take your time drawing this cake slice.

Once you’re done, you can now draw a cute carrot on top of the cake.

It’s just a simple triangle and a small squiggly line for the carrot head.

When people bake carrot cakes, they usually add little carrots to the cake made of sugar frosting.

Now, we’ve completed drawing the slice of carrot cake. You can add a small round plate underneath the carrot cake slice.

Draw a plate underneath the carrot cake slice

This will really complete your drawing.

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You can leave it like this or go one step further and make your carrot cake a little cuter.

I like adding kawaii faces to my food drawings so I will add 2 small round eyes and a “U” shaped mouth in the center of the carrot cake slice just like this:

And now, we’ve finished outlining the carrot cake!

You can color it any which way you want or you can follow my steps below.

Step 3: Color the slice of carrot cake

I’m going to color the frosting of the carrot cake a light cream color and the cake a camel brown color.

Carrot cakes are usually semi-brown so make sure you use a light to medium brown color when coloring your carrot cake.

You can color the plate underneath the carrot cake any color you want, but for this tutorial, I will use blue because I love blue so much!

Color the plate underneath the carrot cake slice

And lastly, color the carrot on top of the cake!

I will go with a bright orange and green to make the carrot cake slice pop with color!

You can add some details like blush spots under the eyes. I will also add some highlights. If you’re doing this digitally, check out this post to see how I color digital art.

And voila! We’ve learned how to draw and color a carrot cake slice!

Drawing Resources

I hope this tutorial was helpful to you and you enjoyed drawing this cute slice of carrot cake. You can even use this post as a reference of a slice of carrot cake drawing.

If you’d like to learn to draw more cute things, check out these books!

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If you want to see more tutorials on drawing kawaii animals and kawaii things, please leave a comment below on what you’d like to see next!

I will add more kawaii drawing tutorials (animals, food, and lots of things) to this blog, so keep a lookout!

If you are interested in drawing in a kawaii style and then selling clipart or merchandise on Etsy, check out this course!

My old bud Ilaria (we’ve been friends on Instagram back when I had Instagram) created this course! I’ve watched her grow from 0 followers, and I’m so, so proud of her!

And believe it or not, there is not 1 single good online course about learning how to draw kawaii art and then making physical stickers on the internet. I’ve been looking for a course like this for a long, long time.

And it’s finally here!!!

You can create your own stickers and print them and sell them on Etsy or any space! She goes into detail about how to draw the characters.

This is by far one of the best courses I’ve taken that is so cute and so educational.

The course is in English, and it’s amazing!

What do you need?

A sketchbook, Photoshop, and a graphic tablet so that you can draw the kawaii characters. If you want to make stickers, you’ll need a printer and sticker sheets.

Even if you don’t want to make stickers and just draw kawaii characters, this course is perfect!

Check it out here!

And if you are really keen on improving your drawings or you want to create cute kawaii animals and kawaii people, check out this second course by Sara.

Sara teaches you how to draw anything in a nice kawaii style. I really love these kinds of courses because they’re so easy to learn and it’s very easy to get clients because this is a really relatable drawing style.

It is in Italian but it comes with subtitles and it’s really easy to follow.