This How To Make Rainbow Icing recipe is so easy! You could also call it unicorn icing or fairy frosting couldn’t you?! It looks pretty and tastes delish (bonus points: it’s vegan and gluten-free too — but you don’t compromise on taste at all). Also, you could totally make this part of your birthday party activities (ideas below…)
Ingredients for Rainbow Icing:
(makes enough for 12 large cupcakes)
- 1 cup (500mL) vegan butter substitute
- 3 1/2 cups organic icing sugar
- 1/4 cup unsweetened coconut milk
- 1 tsp (15mL) PC® Madagascar Bourbon pure vanilla extract
- Food colouring
- In a large mixing bowl, add softened vegan butter and whip with a hand mixer or stand mixer for 3 min to until it becomes a fluffy texture
- Slowly fold in one cup at a time of the icing sugar, and when all is added, whip again at a low speed for a few minutes until the texture is consistent
- Add in the coconut milk and vanilla extract, and whip again for a final 2 minutes
Rainbow Icing Instructions:
- Separate the icing into 6 small bowls
- Add food colouring to each to make the colours of the rainbow (red, blue, yellow, orange (red +yellow), green (yellow + blue), and purple (blue + red)
- Place the contents of each bowl into a separate piping bag and snip the ends
- Lay a piece of plastic wrap on the counter and pipe a line of each colour right beside each other, in the order of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple). Leave at least 2” of plastic wrap at each end of the piped lines
- Carefully roll the icing into a tube by lifting each parallel end of the plastic wrap
- Twist each end of the plastic wrap, and snip one end right where the icing begins
- Place the rainbow tube into a fresh piping bag, cut side down, and pipe out colourful rainbow swirls
You could make rainbow icing a birthday party activity (I’d say for ages 6 and up). Simply make the rainbow icing ahead of time. Then, cut a rectangle of plastic wrap and put it on each child’s place at the table. Pass down each colour of icing and let the kids pipe a line onto their plastic wrap (as in instructions above). Once the icing is twisted and the bag is snipped…the kids are ready to decorate their cupcakes.
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o my gosh amazing and so perfect to make for a summer time party ! my girls would just adore and get a kick out of all the colors
This looks amazing! Great job!
My daughter is having a Trolls birthday this coming month so this frosting is perfect!
I`m pinning this one. Looks amazing! Thanks for the tips!
Thanks for pinning 🙂
Love the idea! My kids always want me to make these whimsical icings and I thought it was more difficult but this seems pretty simple
Ha…this is so cute! 🙂
This is so cool, and just in time to put in my summer fun plan. My son is just now intersted in cooking.
This is so fun (and A LOT easier than I thought it would have been to make)!!! Thanks for sharing!
I thought it would be super hard too…it isn’t.
Rainbow icing is a great way to make cupcakes or cake extra special. I’d like to try it to decorate cookies too.
It kicks it up a notch doesn’t it? 🙂
Everybody needs to know how to make rainbow frosting—right? Thank you for sharing this simple idea at Tasty Tuesdays Archive. I will definitely be using this idea. Pinned and shared.
Oh my word, this is such a fun idea! Thanks!
This is an easy way to make this icing. Thank you for sharing at Dishing it and Digging it link party. We love having you and hope you join us again this coming Sunday. Have a great week.
Looks so cool on the cupcakes! Thanks for sharing the how-to! Pinned to share!
So much fun! Thanks for sharing on the Creative K Kids’ Tasty Tuesday. I look forward to seeing what you create next week!
What a fun idea! Thanks for sharing your tips on making rainbow icing at Snickerdoodle. Pinning.
I’ve never made rainbow icing but I will be now .
That looks like too much fun. Haven’t made anything like this before. Saved to try for later. Thank you.
Oh my gosh, this is so fun! I love this colorful frosting…what a great idea!
What a marvellous way to make this, I’ve shared so that my son, an avid baker gets to see it too.
What a fun project and yummy icing! Hope you are having a great day and thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday!
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Miz Helen
Very cool!