15 Colorful Pride Desserts

15 Rainbow-Inspired Desserts to Make During Pride Month

From frosted ombré cookies to multi-hued layer cakes, these celebratory desserts are perfect for Pride Month.

Updated on April 19, 2023

Ombrè Cookies

These frosted cookies offer tonal riffs on rainbow shades. A series of tinted buttercreams makes them the ultimate Pride Month dessert.

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Rainbow Fruit Tart

Stock up on every color of fruit you can find to crown this easy-to-make puff-pastry tart filled with freshly whipped cream.

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Frozen Rainbow Chiffon Cake

Ready for a Martha-level Pride dessert? This frozen confection isn't difficult to make, but it does take time and patience. You'll make five fruit sorbets and freeze them in layers in springform pans. Then, cover the frozen stack in seven-minute frosting.

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End-of-the-Rainbow Cookies

end of the rainbow slice and bake cookies with peanut butter cups — Johnny Fogg

It's your lucky day. Even after the parade ends, you can still enjoy these rainbow shortbread cookies.

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Rainbow Cake

Break out your gel food coloring to give this festive layer cake a technicolor effect. Alternate colorful layers with a light, lemony Swiss meringue buttercream frosting.

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Baked Cake Donuts

Here's a breakfast made for joyful pre-parade consumption: Take the fuss out of these crowd-pleasing treats by baking instead of frying them, then turn up the volume with colorful glazes and rainbow sprinkles.

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Ombré Sheet Cake

Hosting a Pride party? This potluck and crowd-friendly sheet cake brings the joy (and the flavor).

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Citrus Salad with Pomegranate Seeds

Looking for a healthy Pride dessert option? This fruity melange is resplendent with (almost) every color of the rainbow.

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Sprinkle Cake

You need a whopping 2 cups of rainbow sprinkles for this showstopper—half goes in the cake batter and half is used to decorate the frosted exterior.

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Chocolate Banana Pops

There's plenty of room for expression on these tiny banana pops. Use leftover chocolate and sprinkles to make Nonpareils Candies, too.

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Mini Chocolate Cupcakes with Multicolored Frosting

If tinting a cake seems too daunting, stick to working your magic up top. Use gel food coloring for first-rate flavor and consistency.

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Chocolate Ganache Heart Tartlets

If you love chocolate desserts, this is the treat for you. To take it to the next level, an array of hand-piped meringue hearts upstages the bittersweet base—and it perfectly symbolizes this month of love.

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Spiced Cupcakes with Citrus Glaze

A variety of glazes makes for a party-perfect platter. The only clash will be your guests fighting for the last one.

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Lovebird Cookies

Lovebirds in rainbow colors say it all. Use store-bought candies such as Sweethearts, gumdrops, jellybeans, and candy hearts to make their adorable features.

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Rainbow Sorbet Cake

This cake-less cake sandwiches colorful sorbet layers between discs of meringue.

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