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Rainbow Grilled Cheese Recipe

Modified: Feb 23, 2025 · Published: Apr 3, 2023 by Dannyelle Nicolle-Ramjist · This post may contain affiliate links · 1 Comment

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These rainbow grilled cheese sandwiches are easy to make at home using regular food coloring, and so much fun for the rainbow lover.

rainbow grilled cheese sandwich cut in half on a cutting board.
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What's better than a regular grilled cheese? A rainbow grilled cheese! This rainbow grilled cheese recipe is easy and so fun and perfect for celebrating something special, or making an ordinary day into a celebration. We love rainbow food like our Rainbow Poptarts, or our Rainbow Rice Krispie Treats. We made ours for St. Patrick's Day, but a rainbow grilled cheese would also be great for a rainbow, unicorn, or art themed party, or for celebrating Pride.

Rainbow grilled cheese sandwich on a cutting board.

Why We Love This Recipe

  • We already loved the great taste of grilled cheese, adding rainbows turns good to great!
  • The rainbow cheese pull can not be beat.
  • This kid-friendly recipe is easy to make and a great one to do with children.
  • All you need is cheese, bread and food coloring so you probably have all the simple ingredients to make it at home right now.
  • It only takes around 15 minutes to make, so it's quick!

Kid Friendly

These are easy to make and a very kid friendly recipe. Children might need a little help with the actual grilling, and grating. But there's plenty of food coloring drops to add, stirring, piling of cheese, and buttering to keep kids busy with this easy rainbow grilled cheese recipe.

Half of a rainbow grilled cheese sandwich on a plate.

Ingredients:

  • Food Colouring -We created our colors of the rainbow using white cheese and food dye. If you're uncomfortable using food dyes, there are natural food colorings available at specialty shops. We used inexpensive liquid food coloring for ours. You could also use gel food coloring for this recipe. Use the primary colors and mix them for the secondary colors. If you want darker colors, just add more drops of food coloring.
  • Cheese -We mainly used mozzarella cheese. It's a great cheese for this because it's white so it takes the dye easily, it's inexpensive, and it has a mild taste, which tends to appeal to kids. It's also a great melter, and has a really good cheese pull factor, meaning you'll get those lovely stringy bits when you pull the cheese apart. We also added in a little Swiss cheese, for flavour, but also for an increased cheese pull factor.

Tip: The thick cheese layers really add to the rainbow factor. With a good amount of cheese, you'll be able to see each colour well, and get a great cheese pull when you pull your sliced sandwich apart.

  • Bread -A good crusty white bread works great for this sandwich. We sliced ours quite thickly, which worked great with a thick layer of cheese.  The thick cheese layers really add to the rainbow factor. With a good amount of cheese, you'll be able to see each colour well, and get a great cheese pull when you pull your sliced sandwich apart.

Variations

You could also try using white cheddar, havarti, or provolone, or any combination of these and the mozzarella and Swiss cheese for different flavors.

Regular sandwich bread is a great and easy option for the bread.

Gluten Free: If you want to make your rainbow grilled cheese gluten free, you can substitute gluten free bread for this recipe.

Instructions

1. Begin by grating your cheese. Place shredded cheese into 6 different bowls. Use all mozzarella cheese, or mix in a few some Swiss cheese, or any other cheese you prefer.

2. Dye the cheese by adding around drops of food colouring to a bowl and stirring the bowl of cheese until it's fully combined and the cheese is coloured. To create the orange cheese use drops of red, and yellow food colouring. To make the purple cheese, use red and blue food colouring.

Six white bowls with grated mozerella and Swiss cheese in them, eached dyed a different color of the rainbow.

3. Next, butter the outside of each of the bread slices. Lay out the bottom two pieces of bread, butter side down, and arrange the cheese on top of the unbuttered side. Create six equal lines of coloured cheese in a rainbow pattern, in rainbow order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Divide the cheese evenly between the two cheese sandwiches. Then place the top slice of bread on each of the sandwiches, buttered sides out.

Making a rainbow grilled cheese sandwich with one slice of bread covered in rows of rainbow cheese, next to a plain slice of bread.

4. Place the sandwiches in a frying pan, and cook over medium heat. Flip the sandwiches when the first side is golden brown, and cook the other side to golden bread as well. You may want to put a lid on the frying pan, as an easy way to help the cheese melt well. 

An uncooked rainbow grilled cheese sandwich in a frying pan.

5. To serve your sandwich, make sure to cut the sandwich in half, in the opposite direction that your cheese is running so that when you pull it apart you have the rainbow effect with the melted cheese.

Storage

Your rainbow grilled cheese is best eaten as soon as it's made. If you making your rainbow grilled cheese for a party and want to dye your cheese ahead of time you can make it the day before and store it in a sealed container in the refrigerator, then cook the sandwiches right before serving.

A rainbow grilled cheese sandwich sliced in four on a wood cutting board.

Tip: Use a lid on your frying pan to help the cheese melt.  This traps the warm air, and with a thick layer of cheese like we used on this sandwich, really helps to make sure all the cheese is nice and melted.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you put food colouring in cheese?

Yes. Use liquid or gel food colouring with shredded cheese and stir to combine.

What food colouring is best for a rainbow grilled cheese?

We used regular liquid food colouring from the grocery store. You can also use a small amount of gel food colouring. Also look for natural food colouring dyes at the health food store.

How do you get the best cheese pull?

Use great melting cheeses like mozzarella and Swiss cheese. Make sure to add a generous amount of cheese to the sandwich. Ensure the cheese is fully melted by adding a lid to the pan as you grill it to hold in the heat.

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If you tried this Rainbow Grilled Cheese Recipe or any other recipe on my blog please leave a star rating and let me know how it went in the comments below. Thanks for visiting today!

A rainbow grilled cheese sandwich on a wood cutting board.

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A rainbow grilled cheese sandwich cut in half on a cutting board.

Rainbow Grilled Cheese Recipe

Grilled cheese filled with rainbow coloured strips of cheese.
5 from 1 vote
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Course: Sandwich
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes minutes
Servings: 2 Sandwiches
Calories: 1026kcal
Author: Dannyelle Nicolle-Ramjist

Ingredients

  • 4 slices bread
  • 2 tablespoon butter room temperature
  • 3 cups total of grated mozzarella cheese or a combination of mozzarella and swiss cheese
  • 5 drops food colouring -red, yellow, green, blue

Instructions

  • Begin by grating your cheese. Place ½ cup of shredded cheese into six different bowls. Use all mozzarella cheese, or mix in some Swiss cheese, or any other cheese you prefer, for a total of ½ cup of cheese in each of the small bowls.
  • Dye the cheese by adding around 10 drops of food colouring to each bowl and stirring the cheese until it's fully combined. To create the orange cheese use about 5 drops of red, and 5 drops of yellow food colouring. To make the purple cheese, use about 5 drops of red and 5 drops of blue food colouring.
  • Next, butter the outside of each of the slices of bread.
  • Lay out the bottom two pieces of bread, butter side down, and arrange the cheese on top of the unbuttered side. Crete six equal lines of colored cheese in a rainbow pattern, in rainbow order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Divide the cheese evenly between the two cheese sandwiches. Then place the top slice of bread on each of the sandwiches, buttered sides out.
  • Place the sandwiches in a frying pan, and cook over medium heat. Flip the sandwiches when the first side is golden brown, and cook the other side to golden bread as well. You may want to put a lid on the frying pan, as an easy way to help the cheese melt well.
  • To serve your sandwich, make sure to cut the sandwich in half, in the opposite direction that your cheese is running so that when you pull it apart you have the rainbow effect with the melted cheese.

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Notes

Make your cheese even darker by adding a few more drops of food coloring if you wish.
Place a lid on top of the pan to help the cheese melt while you're cooking it.
Want to make these for a party or get together? Prepare your cheese ahead of time, wrap the bowls with plastic wrap, and store in the refrigerator until you're ready to prepare and cook the sandwiches.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 1026kcal | Carbohydrates: 35g | Protein: 61g | Fat: 71g | Saturated Fat: 42g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 23g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 225mg | Sodium: 1639mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 5g
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  1. Dannyelle Nicolle-Ramjist says

    October 23, 2024 at 12:11 pm

    5 stars
    These are so delicious and so fun, and such a great recipe to make with kids.

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