These colorful cakes, fruit desserts, and salads are so much fun! 🌈
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The philosophy of "live life colorfully" is best when embodied figuratively and literally! Yes it's great to live a positive, fun life full of new experiences, ideas, and people who color each day with a beautiful aura. And at the same time, it's also important to live (and eat) in color with all things bold, bright, and fun. Whether that's through your colorful home decor, outfits, or dinner plate, a little color is always a good idea. These rainbow food ideas will not only light up mealtime but your whole day!
Rainbow food is trendier than ever these days. If you're Instagram feed looks anything like ours, it's filled with rainbow-swirled bagels and colorful fruit tarts galore! Looking to join in on the fun? Try one of these rainbow recipes for your next get-together or celebration. Not only can you make these cute ideas for a birthday party or a St. Patrick's Day dessert, but they also make for a tasty after-school snack or weeknight treat. You could build out an entire rainbow meal with these recipes, starting with the rainbow fruit skewers, then moving on to the rainbow pizza, and finally finishing it all off with a slice of rainbow cake. Heck, you can have a whole menu theme of colors including red, orange, yellow, and green food ideas. You'll also want to add the rainbow sangria to your list of easy co*cktail recipes—just layer in colorful fruit and you have one delightful sip!
Whether you're looking for fun recipes to make for a party, or you just want to try your hand at a new dish, these rainbow recipes are guaranteed to brighten your day.
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Rainbow Fruit Skewers
These fruit skewers are so kid-friendly thanks to their bright color pallet and the scrumptious donut hole at the end, but they're a great treat for people of all ages! It's a fun way to get your fruit in for breakfast or dessert.
Get the Rainbow Fruit Skewers recipe.
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Fruit Pizza
Take pizza night to the next level by serving this colorful fruit pizza for dessert. It features a myriad of colorful berries and cut fruit artfully arranged atop a sugar cookie crust. It's like a color wheel but edible!
Get Ree's Fruit Pizza recipe.
3
Chickpea Salad
Chickpeas are known for the beige hummus spread they're commonly used in, but when paired with an assortment of colorful veggies, they make a delicious and nutritious rainbow salad! Bursting with tomatoes, cucumber, bell pepper, red onion, avocado, feta, and lots of herbs, this refreshing salad is the perfect side dish for any time of the year.
Get the Chickpea Salad recipe.
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Confetti Snack Cake
Confetti cake is a classic for birthdays, but it's perfectly acceptable to make on an ordinary day when you need a colorful pick-me-up! The petite vanilla cake is covered in (and embedded with) rainbow sprinkles for the ultimate whimsical delight. Cut the snack cake into 12 adorable mini squares and share it with friends, or keep the rainbow all to yourself!
Get the Confetti Snack Cake recipe.
5
Ultimate Winter Salad
Artificially colored foods are fun, but the best (and healthiest) way to truly taste the rainbow is with a hearty salad. This winter salad is bursting with flavor and color, as it calls for bright, seasonal ingredients like butternut squash, apples, and pomegranate arils.
Get the Ultimate Winter Salad recipe.
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Rainbow Fruit Tart
A dramatic assortment of rainbow fruits makes this simple tart look very impressive! To really get the colorful effect, use fruits like mango, blueberries, kiwi, raspberries, and strawberries.
Get the Rainbow Fruit Tart recipe.
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Rainbow Cookies
This classic Italian cookie has three layers of color, but it's the almond flavor, jam filling, and chocolate topping that makes it so delicious!
Get the Rainbow Cookies recipe.
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Rainbow Veggies with Dill Dip
Give your crudités the rainbow treatment by arranging them by color! It's a fun way to serve veggies and dip.
Get the Rainbow Veggies with Dill Dip recipe.
9
Rainbow Cake Mix Cookies
Rainbow sprinkles are the key to making these easy cookies a colorful success. The best part is that they're ready in just 25 minutes!
Get the Rainbow Cake Mix Cookies recipe.
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10
Rainbow Ice Cream
Get a taste of the rainbow with this colorful summer treat! The no-churn vanilla-flavored ice cream is made without a machine so it's super easy.
Get the Rainbow Ice Cream recipe at Julie's Eats and Treats.
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Rainbow Brownies
These fudgy "cosmic" brownies have a thick layer of chocolate frosting and rainbow-coated candies for decoration. They're out-of-this-world good!
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Rainbow Chicken Skewers
This rainbow recipe doubles as a healthy dinner idea. The grilled skewers are layered with red, orange, yellow, and green peppers, plus red (purple) onion and diced chicken.
Get the Rainbow Chicken Skewers recipe at The View from Great Island.
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Rainbow Bagels
Making homemade bagels is exciting enough as it is, but making homemade rainbow bagels? Now we're talking. Serve these with rainbow sprinkle cream cheese for the full colorful effect.
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Rainbow Cupcakes
Top vanilla cupcakes with a tower of gorgeous rainbow frosting. Follow this blogger's step-by-step guide on how to get the frosting just right.
15
Rainbow Petal Cake
It's all about the decorations with this rainbow vanilla cake. While the blogger admits the petal design is a little time-consuming, it's still surprisingly easy to create.
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Rainbow Cheesecake Bars
If your definition of rainbow involves neon colors, then these cheesecake bars are for you! Top them with whipped cream and rainbow sprinkles for an extra burst of color.
Get the Rainbow Cheesecake Bars recipe at Inside BruCrew Life.
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Rainbow Pizza
This might be the prettiest way to get all your veggies in! You can copy this cauliflower crust version or use your favorite pizza dough instead.
18
Rainbow Layer Cake
Instead of a cake with a rainbow outside, you can hide the bright colors for an amazing reveal. The time spent making each layer will be totally worth it.
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Rainbow Sangria
Colorful fruit takes center stage in this white wine sangria. You can arrange the fruit in the individual glasses or in the pitcher.
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Rainbow Snack Board
Every nibble you could possibly crave is found on this rainbow snack board. Sweet, savory, salty—you name it!
