5 Rainbow Desserts To Show Your LGBTQ+ Pride
Pride month is the most colourful month of the year and what better way to celebrate your identity than making some rainbow desserts to share? June is a time to celebrate who you are as a member of the LGBTQ+ community! Plus, any of these desserts can be modified to be any flag you want. Celebrate your identity and lean into the colourful month of Pride!
1. Rainbow Rice Krispies
Rice Krispies are a delicious, fun, and nostalgic dessert. This Pride month, dye your Krispies and layer them to make a rainbow!
Ingredients:
-8 3/4 cups Rice Krispies cereal (one box of cereal will be enough)
-2 10 oz Bags miniature marshmallows, divided
-Red, orange, yellow, green, and blue gel food colouring
-5 tbsp softened butter
Grease a loaf pan and separate your marshmallows into 5 equal piles
Mix one pile of marshmallows with 1 tbsp butter in a bowl and microwave for 1 minute. Add the red food colouring and mix with 1 3/4 cup Rice Krispies until combined. Press into the bottom of your pan.
Repeat the above step 4 more times using orange, yellow, green, and blue.
Leave in the freezer for 30 minutes to set. Remove and chop into pieces. Enjoy!
2. Rainbow Fudge
Fudge is hands down the best dessert in the entire world. If you disagree, then you need to make this dessert and reassess your life choices (kidding, but seriously, this dessert is amazing). Take pride in your baking skills (and your identity) and make this rainbow fudge!
Ingredients:
-3 cups white chocolate chips, divided
-14 oz sweetened condensed milk, divided
-red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple gel food colouring
Grease an 8″ x 8″ glass pan.
Combine 1/2 cup white chocolate chips with 3 tbsp plus 1 tsp condensed milk. Melt in the microwave for 30 seconds and stir. Add purple food colouring. Pour into the pan and let harden in the fridge for a few minutes.
Repeat the above step with blue, green, yellow, orange, and red food colouring.
Once the fudge is cooled, remove from the pan and chop into pieces. Share with friends or eat it all yourself!
3. Rainbow Ice Cream Cake
Rainbow cake is the classic rainbow dessert! Make this summery twist on the rainbow cake and bring it to a dinner party, backyard get together, or just bring it to pride. You can make this recipe vegan (and dairy-free for all you lactose intolerant people out there) by substituting the whipped cream for coconut cream, the cream cheese for a vegan cream cheese, and the milk for any plant milk you like!
Ingredients:
For the ice cream layers:
-20 oz cream cheese
-1/2 cup + 1/8 cup milk
-1 1/4 cups sugar
-5 cups homemade whipped cream (add powdered sugar to your whipped cream to make it stiffer)
-1 cup of purple grapes
-1 cup blueberries
-1 cup chopped kiwi
-1 cup chopped pineapple
-1 cup chopped peaches
-1 cup chopped strawberries
-purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and red gel food colouring
For the filling:
-5 cups homemade whipped cream
For the icing:
-2 cups homemade whipped cream
Mix the cream cheese, milk, and sugar together until combined. Fold in the whipped cream.
Separate the mixture into 6 bowls.
Puree or crush each fruit using an immersion blender and add to the ice cream mixture. Colour each bowl according to the fruit in it (ie. red for strawberries, green for kiwi, etc).
Using 2 circular cake pans, add the purple ice cream to one pan and smooth. Add the yellow to the other and smooth. Leave in the freezer for about 45 minutes until firm. Cover the frozen ice cream with 1 cup of whipped cream and leave in the freezer to set.
Add the blue ice cream over the purple and smooth. Add the orange over the yellow and smooth. Leave in the freezer for 45 minutes. Cover the blue and orange ice cream with 1 cup whipped cream each and leave in the freezer to set.
Add the green ice cream over the blue and smooth. Add the red over the yellow and smooth. Leave in the freezer for 45 minutes. Cover the green ice cream with 1 cup whipped cream and leave in the freezer to set.
Once frozen, remove cakes from pans and cover the purple/blue/green stack with a thin layer of whipped cream. Stack the yellow/orange/red stack on top of the purple/blue/green one. Freeze until firm. Cover with the remaining whipped cream and return to freezer one last time. Cut and serve!
4. Rainbow Cake in a Jar
Obviously, one rainbow cake is not enough. You need to make two. Or more, I won’t judge. This rainbow cake in a jar is not only a delicious cake, but it’s also super cute and just screams “love is love.”
Ingredients:
-1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter
-1 1/2 cups sugar
-2 eggs
-2 tsp pure vanilla extract
-2 1/2 tsp baking powder
-1/4 tsp salt
-2 1/2 cups flour
-1 1/4 cups milk
-purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and red gel food colouring
Beat the eggs until smooth. Add sugar and beat again. Add the eggs and mix well. Then, toss in the rest of the ingredients and mix until combined. Separate into 6 equal portions and dye these portions red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
Fill your jars just over halfway in rainbow order or have fun creating a tie-dye mix! Don’t mix it too well, or you’ll end up with a muddy cake.
Place the jars in a pan with high sides and fill the pan with around half an inch of water to keep the cake from browning.
Bake at 350 F for 35 minutes.
Let cool and top with buttercream or your favourite icing!
5. Rainbow Popsicles
Since pride month takes place in June, it’s gonna be hot. The perfect treat for pride month is a refreshing, fruity, popsicle!
Ingredients:
For the red layer:
-1⁄3 cup frozen strawberries
-1⁄3 cup frozen raspberries
-1⁄2 frozen banana
-2 tbsp yogurt
-1⁄3 cup water
For the orange layer:
-1⁄2 cup frozen mango
-1⁄2 frozen banana
-1⁄4 cup orange
-1⁄4 cup yogurt
-1⁄3 cup water
For the green layer:
-1 handful spinach
-1 frozen banana
-1⁄4 cup yogurt
-1⁄3 cup water
For the blue layer:
-1 tbsp blue spirulina
-1⁄2 cup frozen pineapple
-1 frozen banana
-1⁄4 cup yogurt
-1⁄3 cup water
For the purple layer:
-1⁄3 cup beet
-1⁄2 cup frozen raspberries
-1⁄2 frozen banana
-1⁄4 cup yogurt
-1⁄3 cup water
Toss each set of ingredients into a blender and blend until fully combined and smooth.
Pour the red layer into popsicle moulds and let sit until frozen. Layer the orange over top and let freeze. Continue with each colour until finished.
Enjoy!
