Make your Breakfast Magical with this Amazing Unicorn Bread
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A rainbow sprinkle covered unicorn quick bread recipe, perfect to serve as a sweet breakfast treat after a unicorn sleepover party.
For another colorful and sweet breakfast treat consider making a giant pop tart with pink frosting.
Unicorn food is super trendy right now, and I am here for it.
I love making bright, colorful, fun foods.
I have been creating quite a variety of unicorn dessert recipes lately, and today I have an amazing unicorn breakfast recipe for you.
That’s right — finally something to serve the morning after a unicorn sleepover party.
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Unicorn Bread
You can think of unicorn bread as banana bread’s wild younger cousin.
It is fun, colorful, and the kids will love it.
But don’t get me wrong, the adults will go crazy for it as well. I mean who can resist banana bread covered in icing?
Gel food coloring is used to die the batter different colors, which are then alternated in the pan. Adding in lots of sprinkles of course.
Once baked, the bread is then covered in sweet icing and then doused in rainbow sprinkles.
The result is a super colorful breakfast bread.
It kinda has a cool tie-dye vibe as well.
And I can assure you, it is as delicious as it is beautiful!
If you are looking for more unicorn party ideas, you will love our unicorn dessert cups, unicorn bars, unicorn jello cups, and unicorn cookies.
Unicorn Bread
Ingredients
Bread:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 2 large eggs
- 3 ripe medium bananas mashed
- pink, purple, and neon green gel food coloring
- ½ cup rainbow sprinkles
Icing:
- 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 3 Tablespoons milk
- rainbow sprinkles for topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F and spray a 9 x 5 loaf pan with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- Using a standing mixer, or hand mixer, beat together the sugar and butter until smooth and creamy.
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time, until well combined. Mix in the mashed bananas.
- Add dry ingredients to wet, mixing until just combined. Do not overmix.
- Divide the batter into 3 bowls. Add a few drops of food coloring to each bowl (one pink, one purple, and one green) and mix well. Stir in additional food coloring as needed to reach your desired color.
- Using an ice cream scoop or ¼ cup measuring cup, scoop a few dollops of each color batter into the loaf pan, then add sprinkles. Continue layering scoops of batter and sprinkles until you have used up all your batter.
- Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 45-65 minutes. Allow the cake in the pan for about 10 minutes, then remove from pan and allow to cool completely.
- Whisk to combine powdered sugar and milk in a medium-size bowl. Pour over cooled cake then top with sprinkles.
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A 9×9 pan? Or a loaf pan?
I would suggest a 9×5 loaf pan, although a 9″ square cake pan would also likely work 🙂
Self rising flour!
Do I need to let it cool before doing the icing or do it when hot?
Allow the bread to cool for 10 minutes, then turn it over onto a wire rack and spoon/pour the frosting on top.
Can you share what kind of sprinkles you used for unicorn bread please!!
This was a while ago so I am not sure of the exact brand, but rainbow sprinkles or something like (affiliate links) this or this would be perfect!
is there a substitute for the bananas? My grandchildren do not like bananas.
The base of this recipe is a banana bread so for this recipe there isn’t a substitute but you can try using another quick break recipe and just using food coloring to color the batter, then add the glaze.
I googled what can be used in place of bananas and applesauce was recommended. You can only use so much applesauce (or it will make the dough too wet) so you’ll have to experiment a little and tweak some of the other ingredients, lol. We’re going to try it with applesauce and see how it turns out 😀
Elizabeth, I do not like bananas but love banana bread……maybe they would too 😉
I have a granddaughter that would love this but is allergic to eggs. Is there any way to make it without the eggs?
I am sorry but I am not experienced with egg-free baking. But you can use your / your granddaughter’s favorite egg-free quick bread or pound cake recipe and just divide and color the batter to make it “unicorn bread”. Oh and add some sprinkles and a glaze as well if desired.
Does it have to be a gel food colouring ?
You can use regular food coloring but make sure that you don’t add too much or it could thin out the batter.
Would adding chocolate chips to this mess up the rainbow affect?
I think it should be fine.