Pride Cake with Royal Icing Rainbow
Royal Icing
Imagine cutting into a dreamy cake, decorated with a glowing rainbow made of cookie and delicate cream clouds. This Pride Cake isn't just a colorful statement, it's also a baking project full of love, creativity, and sparkle! ✨🌈
Whether for Pride Month, your best friend, or just for yourself – with this DIY guide you'll conjure up a colorful masterpiece that loudly proclaims "Love is Love." And the best part? The rainbow cookie is decorated with royal icing – we'll show you step by step how it's done. 🎨

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Your favorite cake recipe (e.g. vanilla or chocolate)
Buttercream or ganache for the crumb coat
Food coloring of your choice for the outer color
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Your favorite cookie dough recipe (e.g. shortcrust pastry or cookie dough)
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200g powdered sugar
1 egg white (or 1.5 tsp meringue powder + 2 tbsp water)
1 tsp lemon juice
Colorful food colorings (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple)
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Sprinkles of your choice (e.g. Spread Love Mix from Happy Sprinkles)
Piping bag with star tip
Whipping cream with cream stabilizer or SanApart, or white buttercream, for the cloud tuffs
Sprinkle Pen for precise placement of the sprinkles
Und so geht's:
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Bake your favorite cake recipe (e.g. chocolate, vanilla, or rainbow cake – how fitting!) and fill the cake as desired. Then coat it evenly with tinted blue buttercream. Into the fridge it goes – it's easier to decorate when chilled!
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Prepare your cookie dough and carefully shape it into a large rainbow (you can make a template beforehand). Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake golden brown according to the recipe. Let cool completely – otherwise the decoration will melt away later.
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Stir the powdered sugar with the egg white and lemon juice until smooth, until a thick icing forms. Divide into six portions and tint in the colors of the rainbow.
✏️ Tip: Use an edible food coloring pen to lightly outline the individual arcs on the cookie beforehand – this makes applying the icing especially clean.
Now you can apply each color one after another to your cookie using a piping bag. Tip: outline first…
...then fill in (the "flooding" technique). Let dry – ideally overnight.
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Grab your favorite sprinkles (e.g. Spread Love Mix) and sprinkle them around the bottom half of the cake – simply press on lightly.
Carefully place the finished rainbow cookie into the cake.
💡 Fixing tip: Use a dollop of royal icing to attach the cookie to the cake as well as to the cake plate – this provides extra hold.
Using a piping bag (star tip), pipe fluffy cloud tuffs: onto the cake, right in front of the cookie arch, and onto the cake plate, where the rainbow "lands."
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