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🌈 Creative Rainbow Dessert Recipes and Ideas to Brighten Your Day
This collection of bright and cheerful rainbow dessert recipes, ideas, and pictures is sure to make you smile! You’ll find colorful recipes for all of your favorite rainbow sweets – including rainbow cakes, rainbow frosting, rainbow cupcakes, and more!
Rainbow Cake with Rainbow Frosting
This gorgeous rainbow-topped cake has a surprise inside! Underneath the fluffy white cloud-like frosting are bright stripes of rainbow buttercream frosting. Make it for a special birthday, party, or St. Patrick’s Day!
If you’re looking for an over-the-top celebration cake, this Gold-Topped Rainbow Cake is for you! It features eight layers of lemon cake, seven layers of rainbow frosting, and one incredible assortment of edible golden goodies on top.
This Rainbow Mousse Cake has seven gorgeous layers of cake and mousse in vibrant, fruity flavors. This rainbow cake recipe is perfect for any party or celebration!
Pot of Gold Cake Cups are perfect for St. Patrick’s Day, or anytime you need a little rainbow magic in your life! These dessert cups are served in mini black kettles, filled with cake cubes and frosting, and decorated with gold sprinkles and buttercream rainbows.
Those Pot of Gold Cupcakes above are rocking the ultimate edible accessory – 3-D Buttercream Rainbows! These fun frosting rainbow toppers are surprisingly easy to make, and they look SO fun on top of cakes and cupcakes!
Like rainbow desserts? Then you will LOVE this colorful rainbow frosting for cakes and cupcakes! This decorating trick is gorgeous, and super easy to do–you can make this bright buttercream icing in under 10 minutes.
Want to make a rainbow cake? Then you might want a rainbow cake topper as well! This homemade fondant decoration is easy, bright, colorful, and so fun!
Is there anything more fun than buttercream stripes?! For this Striped Buttercream Balloon Cake, we paired buttercream stripes with candy balloon lollipops, for the ultimate colorful birthday cake!
If you need a cold sweet treat, try this fun rainbow ice cream. Homemade, no-churn, vanilla-flavored ice cream with swirls of neon color!(via bitzngiggles.com)
These Unicorn Milkshakes are pure MAGIC! A rich, thick strawberry milkshake is topped with a rainbow of different sprinkles and candies to make a delicious drink fit for a unicorn.
These cute mini layer cakes are decorated with fruit roll-up pom-poms on top to look like mini gifts! They're perfect as a birthday cake recipe, or for any party or celebration.
This Piñata Cupcake recipe is SO FUN! Pack these delicious homemade vanilla cupcakes with rainbow sprinkles and watch them spill out when you take a bite.(via littlesunnykitchen.com)
These cute mini layer cakes are decorated with fruit roll-up pom-poms on top to look like mini gifts! They're perfect as a birthday cake recipe, or for any party or celebration.
Soft, perfectly sweet with a hint of citrus flavor, these Mini Unicorn Rainbow Donuts are colorful and gorgeous inside and out, with a swirled rainbow dough of different colors and a dreamy pastel glaze.(via theflavorbender.com)
This rainbow s’mores dip is everyone’s favorite! It’s super-crazy delicious, colorful, EASY to make, and needs only a few ingredients. This will be your family's new favorite colorful dessert! You could even shake it up by using white chocolate instead of the typical semi-sweet.(via thedecoratedcookie.com)
This Rainbow Swiss Roll Cake is the ultimate colorful rainbow dessert! It's vibrantly beautiful, and has a light, soft texture. An easy and foolproof recipe to celebrate everything rainbow colored and spirited.(via theflavorbender.com)
Looking for an easy spring dessert? These Pastel Rainbow Gelatin Cups are simple, kid-friendly, and so beautiful! Serve them plain, or top them with whipped cream and sprinkles!
Turn a box of cake mix and some food coloring to create rainbow colored batter for these easy rainbow cupcakes, complete with a candy rainbow on top!(via crayonsandcravings.com)
Cut into this Rainbow Unicorn Cake to reveal a swirl of brightly colored cake hiding inside. It's the perfect cake for birthday parties and pride month celebrations.(via hungryhappenings.com)
Rainbow Cake Push-Up Pops are bright, cheerful, and a fun twist on the usual cake and buttercream! Layers of rainbow cake and vanilla frosting are served in push-up pop containers. They're small, single-serving, and portable, perfect for parties!
These rainbow fairy bread lamingtons are the ultimate marriage between two classic desserts. Perfect for any day you need some sunshine and sprinkles in your life!(via aussiehomecook.com)
Rainbow Fruit Dip – A gorgeous pink lemonade rainbow swirl dip that pairs perfectly with fresh fruit or graham crackers. Serve it in a small bowl for individual dips, or one big bowl for a party.(via bitzngiggles.com)
Celebrate any special occasion with these Rainbow Cupcakes that are filled with vibrant colors. Light, buttery, and moist, these colorful cupcakes have a delicious vanilla flavor.(via lifebeginswithdessert.com)
Marbled White Chocolate Truffles are a delicious homemade candy! White chocolate truffles are coated with a marbled swirl of pastel colors to make these gorgeous treats.
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What a wonderful roundup of colorful rainbow desserts! I can’t wait to make one of these for my next party. Thanks for curating such a great recipe collection.
What a fabulous list! Everything looks so pretty and delicious! I think I’ll start with the donuts.
Aren’t they wonderful!? So many new rainbow recipes to try!
Oh my! So many great choices to choose from. These will keep the girls busy for a while. ๐
Come back and tell us which ones you enjoy most! Thanks for your comment ๐
So many wonderful Rainbow recipes perfect for St. Patrick’s Day! Going to try the Rainbow roll this weekend!
Let us know how it turned out! The rainbow roll is such a fun one ๐
What a wonderful roundup of colorful rainbow desserts! I can’t wait to make one of these for my next party. Thanks for curating such a great recipe collection.
You bet! I’m sure whichever dessert you choose will be a hit! Thank you for your comment!