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Easter isn’t far away and you know what that means – plenty of bunny, chicken and egg-themed dishes! Easter rainbow unicorn toast is a tasty breakfast or snack for kids. This Easter treat comprises colorful cream cheese toast with cute sprinkles and the kids will love it. Of course, this colorful dish isn’t just for Easter. It’s an extra-special dish that’s also a lot of fun for birthdays or other special occasions.
Colorful sprinkles and cream cheese pair with thick toast slices to make unicorn toast. Unicorn toast is playful, sweet and tasty, and always makes a great start to the day.
If you like colorful dishes, you might also enjoy pink pancakes, rainbow cookies, rainbow layer cake, or some of these colorful Fruity Pebbles recipes.
Rainbow Unicorn Toast Ingredients
A complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
Bread: Use thick-cut bread because it’s the sturdiest. You can also use a medium-cut loaf or even slice your own.
Cream cheese: Remember to take it out of the refrigerator about half an hour before making rainbow toast. This is because cream cheese spreads easier when it is at room temperature. Full-fat delivers the richest flavor.
Food coloring: Choose food coloring gels or dyes in any four pastel shades you prefer. You can use any colors you want and you don’t have to use pastel shades for the sprinkles and cream cheese.
Sprinkles: To decorate the dish. Any colors will work.
How to Make Rainbow Toast
For more detailed instructions with weights and measurements, jump to the printable recipe card.
Toast the bread: The first step in making this Easter treat is toasting the bread.
Color the cream cheese: Meanwhile, divide the cream cheese into 4 separate containers and add a drop or two of food coloring to each one.
Assemble: Spread one cream cheese mixture at a time over the toast and then add the sprinkles on top.
Substitutions and Variations
Flavor the cream cheese: If you want to, you can add another flavor to the cream cheese such as vanilla extract for example. Almond extract or orange extract would also be good.
Sprinkles: These come in various shapes, sizes and colors and there are certainly plenty of different kinds to choose from. The pastel sprinkle shades do look especially pretty for Easter though.
Serving Suggestions
With brunch: Add some sweetness and color to your brunch, perhaps also serving breakfast tacos or bacon and eggs Benedict, or even a hash brown casserole.
As a snack: Pair your unicorn toast with a cinnamon dolce latte or perhaps a coconut cottontail tequila margarita!
How to Store Unicorn Toast with Sprinkles
Store: Leftover toast doesn’t really keep well. It just becomes soggy. So only makes as much unicorn toast as you need.
Freeze: It isn’t suitable for freezing.
Top Tips
Get the color right: If you want a bolder shade, add more food coloring and mix again. Bear in mind it’s easier to add more colur if needed than to add too much and end up with a shade that’s too dark.
Serve it immediately: Easter rainbow unicorn toast is best served as soon as it’s made while it’s still hot.
Make it for other occasions: Try pink and red for a Valentine’s Day take on this breakfast or snack for kids. Green would be great for St Patrick’s Day. And then you have red and green for Christmas, orange and black for Halloween, or any other variations you can come up with.
Sprinkles and Cream Cheese Toast FAQs
Well you could, but the toast will get a bit soggy so it’s best to serve these as soon as they’re ready. Looking for something you can prepare in advance? Try these Easter sugar cookies with sprinkles.
Since this is a sweet recipe, you probably want to avoid savory kinds like garlic and herb! However, you can use fruit flavored cream cheese or the plain kind. Whipped cream cheese is good too if you like that light, fluffy consistency.
Easter rainbow unicorn toast is easy to tweak. If you like, you can swap the sprinkles for slices of fresh fruit. Banana, apple, peach, raisins, and strawberries are just some options. You can also use wholegrain bread instead of white or reduced-fat cream cheese.
Easy Unicorn Toast Recipe
Easter Rainbow Unicorn Toast
Equipment
- Toaster
Ingredients
- 4 Slices bread, ½-inch thick
- 1 Block cream cheese, at room temperature
- food coloring, 4 different pastel colors
- sprinkles, colorful
Instructions
- Place bread slices in toaster and toast to your liking.
- Cut cream cheese into 4 equal pieces and place each piece into a bowl.
- Add 1 or 2 drops of food coloring to each bowl of cream cheese and mix well. You will have 4 different colors of cream cheese.
- With a butter knife, spread a small amount of each color of cream cheese (one at a time) on each piece of toast. You will have a stripe of each color on each piece of toast.
- Top with sprinkles and serve immediately.
Notes
Serve it immediately: Easter rainbow unicorn toast is best served as soon as it’s made while it’s still hot.
Make it for other occasions: Try pink and red for a Valentine’s Day take on this breakfast or snack for kids. Green would be great for St Patrick’s Day. And then you have red and green for Christmas, orange and black for Halloween, or any other variations you can come up with.
Nutrition
If you are looking for a colorful Easter breakfast for kids, this recipe is perfect. Pairing toast with sprinkles and cream cheese, Easter rainbow unicorn toast is quick and easy to prepare and tastes so good. Now, you can’t say this isn’t the prettiest toast recipe you’ve ever seen!
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Bella Bucchiotti
Bella Bucchiotti is a Canadian-based syndicated food, travel, and lifestyle writer, photographer, and creator at xoxoBella. She founded xoxoBella in 2015, where she shares her love for food, dogs, sustainability, fitness, crafts, outdoor adventures, travel, and philanthropy to encourage others to run the extra mile, try new recipes, visit unfamiliar places, and stand for a cause. Bella creates stress-free and family-friendly recipes for weeknight dinners and festive feasts.
There was no leftovers. This has got to be my new favorite recipe from your site!!
This recipe is the bomb! So flavorful and easy to prepare! Absolutely my new fave.
This toast was fun to make. I always make it with my kids
This looks fabulous, what a clever idea for toast! I think my daughter will love it.
What a yummy Easter breakfast treat! My kiddos will love this
This is some fun toast! I need to make this for sure.
How cute is this?! If I served this to my kids they would go nuts!
Such a cute idea! I need to make it
This is just so cute!