Today Im going to show you how to make a cake like this in adobe illustrator.(sorry I havent uploaded anything in a while)

Youtube Video Tutorial click here

STEP 1 2 ovals

use the ellipse tool to make 2 ovals like this, 1 above the other


STEP 2 Use direct selection tool

now click on the direct selection tool on the left tools panel(the arrow that is gray)

click on the circle, click on the top anchor(blue line at top of circle) and press erase(backspace), you should now have a half a circle(do that for both circles)


STEP 3 Make half circle join

Use the direct selection tool and select the right tip of each half circle and use Shift to select both circle

here's how you do it, click on 1 of the half circle, then hold down shift and click on its right tip, while still holding down shift key click on the other half circle to select it, and then click on its right tip too

now go to object path and join, they should now join and look like this


STEP 4 create and add an oval on top

Just like the oval that you did before make one again and add it to the top and it should look like this


STEP 6 starting the fun part with the gradients

select the bottom part the one which was joined and add a gradient to it on the right panel, and click on swatches and then click on radial gradient


drag out the gradient menu on the right panel

USE WHATEVER COLOR YOU WANT I USED PINK

(dont let go of it or it will just change the gradient to pink)
select the pink color(#EC008C) and drag it on to the black arrow on the gradients panel


Now add another pink color of ur choice to the white arrow on the gradients

if you want to use mine, heres how you do it

select the swatches menu on the right panel, then click on the icon that looks like 2 folders at the bottom and then, go to foods and then to sweets


now select the pink(#F49AC1) shown on the picture below

and then hold it and drag it onto the white arrow,



STEP 7  add a stroke

select the bottom part the one that was joined and then click on  stroke at the bottom left of the screen and double click on it and type in F59DB2 for color


now just select the top oval and just use the eyedropper and click on the bottom part with the gradient to make it look like the bottom part


now the top oval should already be selected, so hold down the shift key and click on the bottom part of the cake the one that was joined, now both should be selected

right click and group and now they should become one and now you just created the top layer of the cake



STEP 8 make copies

make a copy of the group of circle u just made and make the copy  a little bigger

select the copy, right click, arrange and send to back

you now have a second layer of cake, place the second layer under the 1st layer


now just make a copy of the second layer and make it a little bigger and, right click, arrange, send to back

now place the 3rd layer you just made under the second layer



Now its time to decorate


STEP 9 decorate

I used a brush to make the white design u see, but I downloaded the brush heres a link if you want to decorate it like mines
(this isnt my brush its uploaded by someone else)

when u have downloaded and installed everything, use any brush you want i used the art brush 23 and then used the paintbrush to draw a line and add it to each cake layer like this

NEXT i drew a heart and added it to the second layer just draw a heart using the paint brush and then use the eye dropper and give it the same color as the cake

NEXT the word LOVE use any font to make it I used english font here's the link
 im going to teach you a trick to added gradients to the font

select your font, then click to change stroke to none, the little square with red line going through at the bottom left below the fill

your font should be invisible since it doesnt have any fill or stroke, go to appearance on the right panel, and click on the upside down arrow(its circled in blue in the bellow picture) then add new fill


you font should come back black

 now on the appearance menu click on the blue upside down arrow and u should now see the swatches of colors to choose from click on the radial gradient same as the one used at the beginning of tutorial
KEEP THE GRADIENTS MENU OPEN AND DRAG IT OUT LIKE I DID


 click on swatches library menu(looks like 2 folders) then go to foods and then ice cream


 now u should see colors to choose from , select the pink, the first one you see on the second row and drag and drop it on the black arrow on the gradients menu


 NEXT decorate the top the way you want I used a bow

I dont know if your adobe illustrator has it but you can check by

going to the symbols menu right next to the swatches panel, then click on the 2 little folders at the bottom and then click on celebration and select the red bow


BE WARNED, its red, mines is pink because I edited it to make it pink, by double click it and click OK, then right click and click ungroup and adding pink that I wanted from the swatches panel, doing this would be another tutorial so Im sorry but I cant show you how to do it right now but u can do it urself its just changing the fills to pink by just click on the pink you want nothing hard

YOUR ALL DONE

your cake should look like this, if not then do back and start over