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Pastel Rainbow Cake

March 23, 2015 By Kerry Cooks 13 Comments

Pastel Rainbow Cake - so pretty and perfect for ladies lunches or Easter dinners!

Pastel Rainbow Cake - so pretty and perfect for ladies lunches or Easter dinners! Plus, it's topped with the most delicious thick cream cheese frosting!

You guys know that I love Rainbow Cakes, and I thought that a Pastel Rainbow Cake would be just the showstopper for your Easter lunches! It would be perfect with some pastel mini eggs arranged on top or around the bottom too.

Get the Rainbow Cake recipe here and the Cream Cheese Frosting detailed method here. And if you’re new to making a rainbow cake, read the frequently asked questions here.

The lovely thing about this cake is that you can choose your favourite colours and add enough gel food colouring until you get the perfect pastel shade for you. I’ve given the names of the shades I’ve used below, but you can be as creative as you like! Duck egg pastels would be beautiful, such as shades of teal and yellow.

You probably won’t believe me if I tell you that this cake is actually really easy to make!? Well, it is! My Rainbow Cake recipe is a simple victoria sponge with cream cheese frosting (which has the benefit of being absolutely delicious too!). The (extra large) cake batter is mixed up and then divided into different bowls where we add the gel colouring.

Pastel Rainbow Cake - so pretty and perfect for ladies lunches or Easter dinners! Plus, it's topped with the most delicious thick cream cheese frosting!

Sugarflair and Wilton are two of the most known brands, which you can buy online (click here) or in cake decorating shops. You might have one near you – in Nottingham there are two, but if you’re not sure, then online is probably your best bet and I give the links to buy them in this post. Lakeland also sell a range of gel food colourings, including Wilton and PME.

You really DON’T want to try to use any liquid (runny, watery) food colourings such as the types of ones you’d traditionally find in supermarkets, OR the Dr Oetker gel food colours that you can also now get in supermarkets. Using either one of those will result in a POOR result, trust me! If you’re going to go to the trouble of making a showstopping rainbow cake, let’s get it right!

The recipe is exactly the same as my bright and vivid Rainbow Cake so head over there for the ingredients and method for that and my Foolproof Cream Cheese Frosting too. 

Pastel Rainbow Cake - so pretty and perfect for ladies lunches or Easter dinners! Plus, it's topped with the most delicious thick cream cheese frosting!

The gel colours that I used are (with links to buy)

  • Pastel pink: Wilton Rose pink
  • Yellow: Sugarflair Primrose
  • Orange: Sugarflair Tangerine/Apricot
  • Green: Wilton Leaf Green 
  • Teal: Americolor Turquoise 
  • Purple: Sugarflair Lavender

You don’t have to use these colours by any means, you can create a pastel colour using almost any pink and just adding a very small amount of colouring (so you don’t have to buy the wilton rose, you can use any brands pink gel colouring. You can get 5 gel colours for £10.35 (correct as of March 2015) on eBay and the colours will last for years and be useful for making decorated cookies, and coloured cupcakes and frosting!

When you’re adding the gel colouring, add verrrrry slowly using a toothpick to put a drop of colouring in at a time (then discard – don’t re-use the same toothpick) until you have the exact pastel shade you’re looking for! 

Pastel Rainbow Cake - so pretty and perfect for ladies lunches or Easter dinners! Plus, it's topped with the most delicious thick cream cheese frosting!

 I can just see this cake topped with mini eggs and little Easter chicks for a showstopping Easter bake! If you love sprinkles as much as me, you might want to get some rainbow sprinkles online – the ones they tend to sell in shops aren’t TRULY colourful rainbows…!

x Kerry

 

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  1. Tilly Tezel says

    May 26, 2018 at 1:36 am

    Kerry, I ABSOLUTELY love yOur RECIPEs!

    ThE rainbow Cake was a real CROWD pleaser for my work charity fundraiser, i’ve received loads of positive comments and i was thrilled with the final look and taste – my best bake so far!

    Keep doIng what you do best

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  2. Vicky Cristina says

    March 23, 2017 at 4:25 am

    You look great and I love this rainbow cake idea!

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  3. Diane @ Life of Di. says

    March 26, 2015 at 2:00 am

    I can’t wait to make a Rainbow Cake for Charlotte at some point. I think she’ll get a kick out of it! I think by 2.5/3 years she’ll be able to appreciate it 🙂
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    • Kerry Cooks says

      March 26, 2015 at 10:31 am

      Definitely! It would be so cute for a birthday party 🙂

      Reply
  4. Munchies and Munchkins says

    March 24, 2015 at 1:43 pm

    I remember one of the first recipes I saw on your site was your famous rainbow cake. They seriously look divine. Perfecto. I HAVE to try it one day.
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    • Kerry Cooks says

      March 24, 2015 at 2:43 pm

      The inner squealing when you cut into it is DEFINITELY worth it!

      Reply
  5. Jasmin Charlotte says

    March 23, 2015 at 11:17 pm

    Ah this looks ahmazing!! You definitely have the rainbow cake crown for sure. One day I will make one. I need to put it on my bucket list!! x

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  6. Jen says

    March 23, 2015 at 8:44 pm

    I love your rainbow cakes, not made one myself yet but I really should. The pastel colours are just perfect for spring 🙂
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  7. sarah says

    March 23, 2015 at 4:16 pm

    agh..that’s meant to be spring pastel colours!

    Nosebag NI

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  8. sarah says

    March 23, 2015 at 4:14 pm

    Definitely the Queen of Rainbow Food! Love these spinning pastel colours. I’ve never made a rainbow cake. One of these days..pinned for future reference. 🙂

    Nosebag NI

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  9. Helen says

    March 23, 2015 at 2:26 pm

    This is SO pretty – almost (but not quite) too pretty to eat!
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  10. Janie says

    March 23, 2015 at 10:47 am

    Kerry, it’s adorable!You really are the queen of rainbow food 🙂
    Janie x
    Janie recently posted…Dairy Free Easter CookiesMy Profile

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    • Kerry Cooks says

      March 23, 2015 at 10:51 am

      Why thank you so much!! *runs off to make a rainbow crown*

      Reply

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