Semi Homemade Red Velvet Cake

Saturday, October 3, 2015 Add Comment Edit

An interesting tasting cake, a soft flavor of chocolate with a deep red color cake.

Very intriguing.

If you like easy you came to the right spot, this is it.

Sometimes when you're in a hurry you need a quick fix, this will certainly not disappoint you.

Very moist and with just the right sweetness for frosting.

I enjoyed the frosting how it complimented this cake and flavors.

I love semi-homemade this one is a perfect blend of flavors!

Red velvet cake made with a cake mix and semi homemade with cream cheese frosting

You Can Really Feel Confident

This is the perfect dessert when you hate to bake or just plain in a hurry.

These ingredients will doctor up your cake to make it taste just like a cake made in a bakery.

It's super moist because of the buttermilk!

This is the best way to make a boxed cake mix taste homemade!

It's convenient less expensive using a few staple pantry ingredients to “doctor up” the mix.

The results will be a perfectly moist, red velvet cake that tastes like it came from a bakery.

We love red velvet cookies, cupcakes, pancakes, and this cake is wonderful if you're a fan!

Ingredients:

German Chocolate Cake Mix
eggs
buttermilk
canola oil
red food coloring
unsweetened cocoa powder
Frosting list:
whipping cream
softened cream cheese
powdered sugar
milk

Not a fan of boxed?

Many folks don’t like the idea of a boxed cake mix.

However, when you need something quick and don’t want to spend hours in the kitchen measuring, mixing and then hoping your cake is wonderful, that's when you need a cake mix doctored up like this recipe!

Scroll to the bottom for the printable recipe card if you would like to print it off.

Red Velvet Cake Mix Recipe

1 box German Chocolate Cake Mix

4 eggs

1 cup buttermilk

1/2 cup canola oil

1 bottle red food coloring

2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease two 9 inch pans or 13x9 sheet cake pan. Place everything in an electric mixer bowl and beat until smooth around 3 minutes. Pour into prepared pans. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or to package instructions. Use the toothpick in the center test to see if it's clean.

Frosting

3 cups whipping cream

4 ounces softened cream cheese

1 cup powdered sugar

4 teaspoons milk

Add the cream cheese to a mixing bowl and beat using a high powered electric mixer, whip just till blended. Add the cream and keeping beating on high until adding the powdered sugar until soft peaks are formed. Frost cooled cakes, keep cake refrigerated.

More Cake Mix Recipes To Try:

Banana Cake Mix Cake

Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

Carrot Cake that tastes like scratch!

Spice Cake Bars

What is Red Velvet Cake?

Red Velvet is completely different than a chocolate cake, contrary to some belief.

In the 1800's they actually used natural dye to make the color of this cake

They also used almond flour, cocoa, vinegar, buttermilk, and coffee and a chemical reaction to those ingredients enhance the color of the cake naturally.

Totally different cakes between chocolate and red velvet and they do not taste similar in flavor.

Years later when the food and drug passed red food dye to sell, the cakes in bakeries started using red dye.

Today, the cakes that are made still rely on using red food dye.

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Cake Mixes

You can use any cake mix to make this semi-homemade red velvet cake that German titled.

I have tried all brands and they all work fine for this recipe.

If you don't have time to make this yummy frosting recipe, try a can of cream cheese frosting, not as good but will do in a pinch.