Rainbow flavoured milks

Provide a selection of chilled SPAR Flavoured Milks, alternating them at each party table place setting.

Rainbow sandwiches

Alternate white and brown bread sandwiches in 2 layers each, with 4 different savoury fillings to spread on each of the 4 slices– wrap the completed piles tightly in cling-film, to compress slightly, chill, then cut into dainty fingers or triangles.

Rainbow fruit skewers

Alternate fresh fruits such as strawberries, watermelon and pineapple chunks, kiwi fruit, green and purple seedless grapes, papaya, orange segments. Or, arrange loose fruit pieces on a large platter, in curved concentric rows depicting the rainbow colour order and shape.

Rainbow jellies

In a fairly shallow greased oven pan, set one jelly flavour at a time, pouring a new flavour jelly liquid over an already previously set layer, until you have built up at least 4 layers.  Cut strips and lift them out with a broad egg-lifter. Serve with vanilla custard.   Alternatively set the same layers in plastic see-through tumblers, and provide bright plastic teaspoons.

No time to bake and ice a cake?

SPAR Freshline Boston Loaf cut in half to give 2 semi circles – pipe rainbow icing lines on each
SPAR Freshline Iced Melting Moments, or SPAR Freshline Cup Cakes with a rainbow striped sweet popped in on top.

Rainbow Party Cake

Bake our basic slab cake and white icing recipe using the vanilla option instructions.
You may choose to bake the cake in 4 x square tins, rather than one large rectangular slab, to enable you to colour three of them different colours before pouring into the tins. Assemble the 4 cooled squares sandwiched as a double-layer rectangular slab with icing or jam, or layer as a high square cake (which is not as easy to cut into lots of little pieces of small fingers and may limit the effect of being able to have a large rainbow curve on top).  However, the effect of cutting through 4 colours is fun; your choice.

Steps to create the rainbow look

1. Using the bowl of white icing, colour some blue for the background sky, and spread it on the cake sides and wherever there will be no coverage by rainbow colours. Spoon on then fluff up a few fluffy white icing patches to represent clouds. 
2. Buy a bottle of blue, red and yellow colouring.  Use them for your three basic primary colours you need, as well as to mix together for the secondary colours such as orange, green, indigo and violet.  These colours can be mixed from the remaining white icing split between small bowls, one for each colour.
   • Red +yellow = orange
   • Red + blue mixed in increasing ratios = both indigo and violet tones
   • Yellow + blue =green
3. Mark in curved guidelines with a toothpick first.  Pipe on each curved line for each colour in the above order, from outside in, either in full, or sweeping off the cake edge as illustrated. 
4. While these lines firm up, create an edible Pot of Gold to place at one end of the rainbow.
5. On the cake board surrounds, sprinkle a generous layer of green-coloured coconut to represent grass, on which the pot can stand.

For an edible version of the pot of gold, use a hollow-Easter-egg chocolate mould, and spread melted cooking chocolate (or brown icing) on the inside. Unmould it when completely set.

For an inedible option, coat a ceramic or glass bowl. The children are bound to find a way to nibble off the chocolate coating!

Position the pot of gold alongside the cake with either broken pieces of Crunchie™ honeycomb chocolate, or gold-foil covered chocolate coins spilling out.

6. Sieve 500 ml SPAR icing sugar and stir in a tiny amount of warm water at a time, to achieve a fairly runny consistency. Divide it between 3 batch bowls for Primary colours first.

• Colour one batch red, and use a little for the red stripe. Keep aside the leftover red.
• Colour one batch yellow and use a little for the yellow stripe. Keep aside the leftover yellow.
• Colour one batch blue and use a little for the blue stripe. Keep aside the leftover blue.

Then use the 3 leftover Primary colours to prepare the Secondary colours:

• Mix just a little of the leftover Red, with some of the Yellow leftover, to give you Orange for the Orange stripe. Keep a little Yellow for your last mix.
• Mix most but not all of the last of both Red and Blue leftovers to make Indigo for the Indigo stripe.
• Add the last of the Red and Blue to darken the Indigo further for the Violet stripe.
• Use the last of the Yellow leftover, mixed with a little Blue colouring, to give Green for the Green stripe.

*Alternatively one can buy actual Green food colouring, and leave out this last mixing of colours to create Green.

7. Using a teaspoon, carefully spoon this liquid icing into the relevant colour space between each piped line, allowing it to flood and fill the gap completely. Move the icing with a toothpick which helps encourage it to spread.

• Don’t do the final rainbow icing stage more than 12 hours before the party, especially in humid weather, or you risk possible spoilage through unavoidable “bleeding” of the bright colours into the surrounding sky blue icing.
• Wearing a pair of disposable surgical gloves while working with so many food colourings is a great help in avoiding stained hands!
• It is well worth the extra time and effort to wash and dry out the piping nozzle and tubes between using each colour, to improve the chances of a professional look.

Free Rainbow Themed Party Printables

Click here for invite options. Add your information and either email or print out the required number on lightweight card.

If you're looking to add a bit more creativity to bring the whole 'Rainbow' theme together, we have supplied a few food labels, juice/water labels and thank you notes.

Have fun!