Just in time for Valentine’s Day, our Red Velvet Bundt Cake recipe is the best cake to make. It’s a moist red velvet bundt cake with cream cheese frosting recipe that is absolutely amazing.
You’re looking at your next favorite dessert recipe, this red velvet bundt cake recipe, perfect for Valentine’s Day. It is an easy cake mix recipe, but it’s so good, you’ll think you picked it up from a bakery.
You can easily impress some friends and make this for a party or get-together. Pretty much red velvet anything works great for holidays because of its gorgeous red color.
We also have a wonderfully simple cream cheese frosting recipe that you will make with the cake mix recipe that works out perfectly to top this delicious dessert. It might even become your favorite dessert recipe to make.
Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make Red Velvet Bundt Cake, you will need the following ingredients:
- Red Velvet Cake Mix
- Instant chocolate pudding mix
- Sour cream
- Eggs
- Water
- White chocolate chips
- Cream cheese
- Butter
- Powdered sugar
- Vanilla extract
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How To Make Red Velvet Bundt Cake Recipe
Cake
- Preheat oven to 350℉.
- In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix and pudding mix, sour cream, beaten eggs and water. Stir in the white chocolate chips and pour batter into a bundt pan sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.
- Bake for 45-50 minutes, or until top is springy to the touch and a wooden toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool cake thoroughly in pan for about 90 minutes before inverting onto a plate. If desired, dust the cake with powdered sugar or top with cream cheese frosting.
Frosting
- Cream butter, cream cheese, and vanilla together, then add powdered sugar. Add more or less powdered sugar, depending on how thick you want the frosting to be. Spread or pipe frosting onto your cake.
Storage Suggestions
If you manage to have any leftover cake, these can store well if prepped appropriately. Once the cake has cooled completely, here is how you can store it:
- Counter: Store in an airtight container for up to 3 days are room temperature.
- Refrigerator: Store in an airtight container for up to 5 days in the refrigerator.
- Freezer: You can freeze completely cooled, un-frosted cake. First, wrap it either in plastic wrap or Press & Seal wrap. Plastic wrap tends to be a little difficult, and require multiple layers. However, we usually always have plastic wrap on hand. Make sure to label your frozen cake with the date made. Frozen cake can last in the freezer for up to 3 months
Frequently Asked Questions
It comes down to using a good non-stick pan and then I love using Baker’s Joy – it’s a non-stick cooking spray that has flour in it! I have always had success getting my cakes out when I use it.
You can also make up a cake goop recipe. Yes, I know that doesn’t sound appealing, but you can make it with just a few ingredients and store it in an air-tight container and use it to grease your pans before baking a cake.
Sugar Geek Show has a great cake goop recipe also known as a homemade pan release recipe that you will love and make baking a cake just that much easier.
The secret ingredient is a pudding mix! Just the mix itself, don’t prepare the pudding as directed but use the dry powder. It makes the cake so soft every time!
While many might think that red velvet cake is pretty much just vanilla cake with a couple of drops of red food coloring, there is a little bit more to it.
Red velvet cake also needs a little bit of cocoa powder, along with the buttermilk and vinegar flavors to make that exquisite red velvet flavor and texture in addition to the red food coloring.
Enjoy More Delicious Bundt Cake Recipes
Some days there’s nothing we want more than a slice of chocolate cake. Check out our comprehensive list of cake recipes here.
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- Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cake Recipe
- Lemon Poppy Seed Bundt Cake
- Pineapple Coconut Bundt Cake
Red Velvet Bundt Cake Recipe
Ingredients
Cake
- 15.25 ounces Red Velvet Cake Mix, 1 package
- 3.9 ounces instant chocolate pudding mix, 1 box, (you could also use vanilla if you wanted to)
- 1 cup sour cream
- 4 eggs
- ½ cup water
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
Frosting
- 8 ounces cream cheese, 1 package
- ¼ cup butter, softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat oven to 350℉.
- In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix and pudding mix, sour cream, beaten eggs and water. Stir in the white chocolate chips and pour batter into a bundt pan sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.
- Bake for 45-50 minutes, or until top is springy to the touch and a wooden toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool cake thoroughly in pan for about 90 minutes before inverting onto a plate. If desired, dust the cake with powdered sugar or top with cream cheese frosting.
Frosting
- Cream butter, cream cheese, and vanilla together, then add powdered sugar. Add more or less powdered sugar, depending on how thick you want the frosting to be. Spread or pipe frosting onto your cake.
Notes
Nutrition
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every time I make a bundt cake I have a hard time getting it to come out nice. Part of it always sticks to the pan, any advise?? Thanks!
-Emily
Just be sure to use a non stick spray. Pam came out with a new non stick spray that is for baking and has flour in it. It’s amazing!
I recently made this recipe, but did so as cupcakes, rather than a bundt cake. I ended up with 19 cupcakes and just enough frosting for all 19. I do not recall the baking time, I just “eyeballed” it (sorry I didn’t monitor that better for commenting).
This recipe is delicious! The cream cheese frosting is spot-on and the cake is moist and tasty.
I am always looking for yummy recipes, but easy ones….cupcakes just take too long. I have become a lover of any kind of bundt cake. This is a keeper. Took to work yesterday and every single piece of this cake was eaten up! Thank you – great recipe!
Hi, i can replace sour cream with greek yoghurt?
We have replaced sour cream with Greek Yogurt in other cakes and it has worked fine.
Could you pour this cake into two regular cake pans instead of a bundt pan?
It should work fine, just watch closely because that could alter the cooking time.
If I wanted to do this with a mini bundt pan, how long would I bake it?
I made this for a potluck once and it was absolutely delicious!! The problem is, my daughter is terribly allergic to the red dye (she throws up uncontrollably). Would it turn out the same with a devil’s food cake, or a regular chocolate cake mix? Thanks!
Hi Kate, you can totally swap out the red velvet cake mix for another 15.25 ounce cake mix flavor.
Can you use red velvet cake mix with instant pudding already in it
A red Velvet Cake mix with pudding in the mix will work with this recipe too. You will still want to add the instant pudding mix as listed in the recipe.
Thank you so very much for clarifying my question. I can’t wait to make this cake it looks very yummy
Helena
The recipe doesn’t call for any oil? So do we use it or not?
I was confused by the oil comments too. We just made it according to the directions above (no oil- just the mix, sour cream, eggs and water) and it’s delicious. I’ll be making another one this week to take to a holiday party and have a feeling this one will be gone by ten tomorrow at my office.
*and the pudding mix* left that off my original post.
That is right. There is no vegetable oil in this recipe.
the recipe doesn’t call for any oil. just the cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, eggs, water, and white chocolate chips.
Have not made it yet
But wouldn’t there be oil in the box cake recipe?
And do we just use the box cake mix but not follow the box cake instructions
There is no oil in this cake. Do not follow the cake mix directions on the box. Just follow the directions for this recipe. It will tell you exactly what to mix together. I hope this helps with any confusion.
I have made this cake the last three Christmas’s and everyone loves it. I just substituted semi sweet chocolate chips and eliminated the frosting. Just a dusting of confectionary sugar. Thank you.
Can I freeze this cake? if so, can I freeze it iced?
My daughter wants it for her bday cake and it will be traveling 7 hours in the car.
I figured i would make it, freeze it, and it would be ready to eat when i got there
This Red Velvet Bundt Cake Recipe should freeze just fine, with the frosting on.
Can you make cupcakes with this recipe?
Yes, these work great as cupcakes too!