Red Velvet Cake Mix Brownies

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Red velvet is one of our favorite flavors of all time. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in the south, but I’m obsessed with anything red velvet! These simple red velvet cake mix brownies have become one of my easy go-to recipes to whip up at home when I’m craving my favorite flavor combination of red velvet and cream cheese icing. It’s also perfect for Valentine’s day! To make this recipe even simpler and quicker, we used pre-made icing.

What you’ll need

red velvet cake mix
eggs
vegetable oil
cream cheese frosting

Make the batter
Preheat the oven to 350°F and spray your 8×8 dish with non-stick spray. In a mixing bowl, mix together the cake mix, eggs, and vegetable oil. The batter will be pretty thick. Pour brownie batter into the baking dish and smooth out.
Bake
Bake for about 20-25 minutes or until you get that great brownie edge on the sides and the inside is still slightly soft. Depending on how you like your brownies, you can adjust the bake time so that the brownies are more fudgey (less time) or more cake-like (more time). We prefer ours more cake-like so we baked it for 25 minutes.
Pipe icing
Let your brownies cool. While the brownies are cooling, put about half of the cream cheese frosting into a piping bag fitted with your desired piping tip. If you don’t have a piping bag, you can use a sealable plastic bag and just cut a corner. You can also just forgo piping the icing and spread the icing evenly on top of the brownies. Enjoy!

What we learned making this

What if I like my brownies more fudgy?

We baked ours for 25 minutes and we found it pretty perfect for our preferences. The edge pieces were more cake-like but the inside pieces were more a little more fudgey. If you prefer it to be less cake-like, you can definitely try baking it for a shorter amount of time.

These red velvet cake mix brownies with cream cheese frosting are perfect for Valentine’s Day but also great for any day of the year! A few of our other favorite dessert recipes include our S’more Brownies, Chocolate Hazelnut Croissant Bread Pudding, and Lemon Pie! Our most recent recipes include: