This decadent red velvet cream cheese bundt cake features a rich, moist and velvety texture with a swirl of cream cheese filling, creating a delightful contrast. Made from scratch and topped with a sweet cream cheese glaze, it’s a heavenly treat for any occasion!
Why You Will Love This Red Velvet Bundt Cake Recipe
Each bite is better than the last, here’s why you will make this cake over and over again:
- Velvety Perfection: Experience the luxurious texture of a perfectly moist red velvet cake with a sweet cream cheese filling. A cream cheese glaze adds a delightful richness to every bite.
- Crowd-Pleaser: Whether it’s a family celebration or a gathering of friends, this cake is a guaranteed hit with its universally loved red velvet flavor.
- Make-Ahead Magic: This is a great cake to prepare in advance and enjoy stress-free entertaining!
- Festive: Dress this bundt cake up with Christmas, 4th of July, or Valentine’s themed sprinkles to make it festive for any occasion!
Love red velvet desserts? Try these easy red velvet crinkle cookies, decadent layered red velvet dream cake, and adorable red velvet cupcakes!
Ingredients Needed
Using common baking ingredients, hopefully you will have everything you need on hand. For full ingredient amounts and directions, scroll to the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post.
- Cream Cheese: Softened. Used for the filling and icing drizzle on top.
- Butter: Softened.
- Sugar: You will need both granulated sugar and powdered sugar.
- Egg
- Flour: Standard all purpose flour.
- Vanilla Extract
- Cocoa Powder: I used Hershey’s cocoa powder.
- Baking Soda
- Salt
- Sour Cream: You can substitute this for plain greek yogurt.
- Whole Milk: You can substitute this for buttermilk if you choose to, but skip the added vinegar if you do.
- Vinegar: White or apple cider vinegar is added to the whole milk to create a homemade buttermilk.
- Vegetable Oil: Any mild flavored oil will do. You can use melted butter instead, but the cake will be less moist.
- Food Coloring: To add the classic red color, I used red gel food coloring as it is very potent and you only need a little.
- Heavy Cream: Used to thin out the cream cheese icing, half and half is a good substitute.
How To Make Red Velvet Bundt Cake
There are three main components to this bundt cake, the red velvet cake batter, the cream cheese filling and the icing to drizzle on top. For full detailed directions see the recipe card at the bottom of this post.
- Prep: Preheat your oven to 350°F and grease a 10-inch bundt pan thoroughly.
- Cream Cheese Filling: Beat together cream cheese, butter, and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg, flour, and vanilla and continue beating until smooth. Set aside.
- Batter: Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix in vanilla extract. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, alternating with buttermilk mixture.
- Assemble: Pour half of cake batter into the bundt pan. Top evenly with cream cheese filling, leaving a 1-inch border around the edge of the pan. Top with remaining cake batter. Insert a butter knife into cake batter and lightly swirl cream cheese filling into cake.
- Bake: Place cake on middle rack in oven and bake for 60 to 70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Allow cake to cool completely (in bundt pan) before inverting onto cake plate.
- Frost: Beat powdered sugar, cream cheese, heavy cream, and vanilla extract for 2 minutes, until well combined. Drizzle on to top of cooled cake.
Baker’s Tips and Variations
A few tips, tricks and a few fun add-ins to make this red velvet bundt cake perfect:
- Room Temperature: Ensure all ingredients, eggs, butter and cream cheese are at room temperature for a smooth batter, frosting and filling.
- Do Not Overmix: Don’t overmix the batter; mix until just combined to avoid a dense cake.
- Cool Completely: Make sure to cool the cake completely in the bundt pan before removing, otherwise the cake may break apart while being removed. Also, if the icing is added on top of a warm cake, it will melt.
- Add-Ins: Chocolate chips (mini or regular sized) and chopped nuts are delicious additions.
How To Store Red Velvet Cake
This cake is a wonderful make ahead dessert as it stores great for a few days. Here’s how to store it:
- Fridge: Place cake in an airtight container (or wrap with plastic wrap) and store in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
- To Serve: Remove cake from the fridge and let it sit at room temperature for 30 minutes before serving.
- Freeze: Wrap individual cake slices tightly with plastic wrap and then place in a freezer safe plastic zip top bag. Freeze for up to 3 months. Transfer to fridge to thaw overnight before serving.
Red Velvet Cream Cheese Bundt Cake
Ingredients
Cream Cheese Filling
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 4 tablespoons butter, softened
- ½ cup Dixie Crystals Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Red Velvet Cake
- 2 ⅓ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ¾ cups Dixie Crystals Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 ¼ cups vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cup sour cream
- ½ cup whole milk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- a few drops Red gel food coloring
Optional Cream Cheese Icing
- 2 cups Dixie Crystals Confectioners Powdered Sugar
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 10-inch bundt pan with baking spray or butter and flour it. Set aside.
- Prepare cream cheese filling first. In a stand mixer, beat cream cheese, butter, and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add egg, flour, and vanilla and continue beating until smooth. Set aside while preparing cake batter.
- In medium bowl, mix flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- In large bowl whisk together vegetable oil, eggs, sour cream, milk, vanilla extract, and vinegar. Beat in flour mixture until well combined. Add red food coloring, until desired color.
- Pour half of cake batter into prepared bundt pan. Top evenly with cream cheese filling, leaving a 1-inch border around edge of pan. Top with remaining cake batter.
- Insert a butter knife into cake batter and lightly swirl cream cheese filling into cake. Do not swirl too much; you just need to swirl knife a couple of times through layers.
- Bake for 55 to 65 minutes, until center is set and a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Allow cake to cool completely (in bundt pan) before inverting onto cake plate.
- While cake cools, prepare icing. Beat the powdered sugar, cream cheese, heavy cream, and vanilla extract together for 2 minutes, until well combined. Place in a piping bag and pipe on to top of cooled cake. Serve immediately, and store leftovers in the refrigerator.
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I know it wouldn’t be as good but could I start with red velvet cake mix? I have one I need to use. How would I dr it up ? Could I take the cake mix and use just for dry ingredients and then use other items from recipe for Bundt cake? Please respond if you can shortly. I would like to make this cake today. Looks amazing
Hi Glinda! I’m sorry, but I haven’t tried it using a cake mix. If you try it, please let us all know how it turns out!
I made this today. Great recipe . Thank you for sharing. Easy directions . Turned out wonderful. Will definitely make again.
How much red food coloring?
Hi Evelyn! Just enough to color your cake batter a deep red color. If using gel food coloring, you will need a few drops. If using standard red food coloring, you could need anywhere from 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon. It depends on the brand and how concentrated it is. Hope this helps!
Made this cake today by request from my nephews girlfriend for her birthday. It’s beautiful but it doesn’t taste like a red velvet cake.
Has anyone tried this with Gluten free flour? I don’t want to waste the ingredients trying it out……anyone?
I have successfully used Bob Red Mills 1-2-1 gluten free flour on many regular recipes and it turns out great.
Para mí red velvet significa Excelencia de la repostería….
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For those that couldn’t see the link.
Your desserts really look tasty, can’t wait to try them
I would like to know the recipe for this Wonderful cake. You know how much of what.
I need the receipt for this cake
can’t eat chocolate. what could I use instead of cocoa?
I would recommend finding a different bundt cake since the chocolate is a big part of the flavor of this cake. If you still want to make it, I would use flour in place of the cocoa. But just know it will not taste the same!
I would substitute 3 Tbls (flavor of your choice) instant pudding powder for the cocoa. Pudding plays nice in cakes. I’ve added it to cookies, frosting, and other baked goods too, just to create custom flavor combos, with good results. Jello powder is also really fun to play with – not only for flavor, but awesome color effects too!
How do i get the recipe?
It’s linked right at the bottom of the post: https://tinyurl.com/y7yvyxm3
Can coconut oil be used in place of all or some of the vegetable oil?
I haven’t tried it, if you use the liquid kind, it should be fine. But if you use the solid coconut oil, I can’t promise how it will turn out.
Where is the recipe? I don’t see it anywhere on the page.
It’s linked right at the bottom of the post: https://tinyurl.com/y7yvyxm3
The frosting is liquid. More of a glaze. I even added an extra cup of powdered sugar and it’s still liquid. I think it’s way too much cream for that small amount of sugar.
Hi Michele, you beat the frosting for a few minutes, this whips the heavy cream (think whipped cream) making it into a much thicker frosting. If you do not beat the icing for 2 minutes as the instructions say, yes it will be very liquid-y.
Can you post the red velvet cake for high altitude? I live in Colorado
Hola gracias por las recetas
I tried the cake but the cream cheese takes so Long to cook and the rest of the cake dries up or burns any tips ?
Recipes look good and easy
My mother is trying to the cake but the recipe link keeps sending her to other deserts can somebody give me the recipe in the reply section please and thank you
Sorry for the issues Renzo! Here is the direct link and it should be working above again now as well:
https://www.dixiecrystals.com/recipes/red-velvet-cream-cheese-bundt-cake
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Hi mam
Can i get the exact mesurements of the ingredients of valvet red cake?
Your recipe got no measument??
Can this be made in a 9″ round? If so, what would the cook tone and oven temp be? Any idea?
Thank you
Temps and times please for 8 or 9 inch round pans.
I made this last weekend. Took it out of the oven at 60 min and it was burned. My batter was quite red but I put a lot of gel in it. It looked pretty but was not edible. I need to get my oven checked and calibrated.
I have made this twice. It does not turn out red like a red velvet cake should. It taste wonderful. I used a whole red gel dye still not red velvet???
Can this recipe be made with boxed red velvet cake mix? I’m looking for a short cut?
Yes, it should work fine!
Put regular sugar in the blender to make it finr….Any sugar will work…..use any manufacturers powdered sugar….this is a recipe endorsed by Dixie sugar so that is why it is recommended..sugar is sugar
This past weekend, I made this cake for our dessert after, Sunday dinner. It was also our family game night. I have a red velvet cake recipe, that I’ve been making for over 30 years! My son has a standing order for my red velvet cake recipe, until he tells me otherwise.
When I served this red velvet cake, I could tell by their faces it wasn’t good. I was the last one to take a bite and it was awful!! I’ll stick to my recipe.
I made the cake. It is moist & delicious. But, the cream cheese filling left a hole in the cake. What did I do wrong?
The above link is dead. Here’s the recipe:
http://www.dixiecrystals.com/recipes/desserts/cakes/Red-Velvet-Cream-Cheese-Bundt-Cake
You’re welcome!
This cake was AMAZING!!!!! The cake was quick, easy to make! I thought my frosting was a little runny, when I make again, I will add cream a little a time until it is consistency I like!
Sorry White powder sugar.
I am not able to find the fine crystal sugar? What can I replace it with especially the white
power sugar.
I couldn’t get the frosting to work at all. 1Tbs of vanilla sure seems like a ton of vanilla for a frosting. Mine looks tan in color because of the vanilla. 2nd, my frosting was almost like water and way too thin. Followed the directions as written. Something seems wrong with the frosting recipe but the cake is good.
I am in love with this recipe, my new fav go to dessert, yum!
Can someone repost the recipe?
Can someone repost the recipe?
I can’t find the directions for the recipe!! Help
Unfortunately the link on the recipe leads to an error page. Any other way one can download the recipe?
I was about to make this today, but it looks like the page was removed before I could start! Can the recipe be found anywhere else?
Hi there, I really want to make this tonight but when I click the link it shows a server error. I’ve tried from my computer and phone but neither work. Please help!!!
We are making this for Valentines Dinner tonight ❤️
P.S. Finding the recipe was easy Reading the blog post and able to read the word ‘RECIPE:’ follows by a link to the recipe was a piece of cake (pun intended)
Thanks for sharing such a scrumptious recipe!!!
I made the cake for Valentine’s Day. I wasn’t able to get the red color right and the cream cheese filling sunk but it was delicious. I used a glaze instead of frosting to cut the richness. It was perfect for us.
Can you make it as cupcakes/muffins instead? If so would the baking time or degrees on the oven be altered at all?
Thanks!
Total novice question but can I make this today so it is ready for tomorrow? Do I store in fridge or covered on counter?
Recipe suggest serving immediately or storing leftovers in the fridge.
Small Post Script……
Furthermore…..My cake was also prepared Gluten Free……..
This was my first visit to your webpage and recipes…..I prepared your Red Velvet Cream Cheese Bundt cake today, finding your directions to be very straight forward and complete.
We served the cake today at a local party and received nothing but positive comments….huge success.
Great Job, Novice Chef….keep the posts coming….
Not understanding the part with inserting the knife and your video doesnt show it….please explain further asap
Thank you,
Bobbie
I have tried to get the recipe but have failed many times. Followed your instructions and it would send me back after I clicked in the cake to get the recipe! So sad!!!!
I love this recipe and didn’t have a hard time getting the ingredients. My question to you is if I wanted to do this for 4th of July how do I make the blue icing. What cors would I need to combine. Thank you for the amazing recipes…love them
Could I make this with gluten free flour?
Yes I prepared ours Using a Gluten Free All Purpose Flour Blend……
The results were fantastic….
Hi, can you use buttermilk in place of the whole milk? And eliminate the vinegar? Thanks!
Yes you can.
I made this last evening and took it to work today. Everyone loves it! Even the people who don’t like cake. Very moist and not too sweet. A lot of people loved how the filling doesn’t taste like the icing. Definitely going to make this more!❤️
I could not find how much of the ingredients to make for valentine’s day
Can I use Heavy Whipping Cream in place of heavy cream?
Yes,heavy whipping cream and heavy cream are the same thing.
This looks amazing. Can’t wait to try it. i don’t know why people have trouble finding the recipe. I was able to go right to it.
I found it too! Not a issue. Thank you to who ever posted this recipe! Going to make for my Valentine!!
I put exact amount of cocoa called for and its like a chocolate cake. To much cocoa?
Under the 4th pic, it clearly says, Recipe, & just simply click on the link! I did so & it went straight to it! Reading is fundamental people!
For the Recipe: Look under the fourth cake picture where it says “Recipe: Red Velvet Cream Cheesecake Bundt Cake.”
Have searched several times and mostly find ads…..have never found the recipe for Red Velvet Bundt cake.
I would like to have this recipe ( Red Velvet Cream Cheesecake Bundt Cake ).
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Where’s the recipe????
you have to keep strolling down and you will see where it says “Recipe” and click on it and the recipe comes up.
But my question is, how do you make the sprinkles that’s over the cake? I didn’t see the recipe for that.
You don’t make those sprinkles. You can find them at Wal-Mart, Michael’s, etc. I bought mine at Walmart.
Ma’am, I need to watch how much surgar I intake. Can I cut some sugar from cake mix and icine and still come out with a nice cake? The stand mixer is buried somewhere in storage, cN I git er done with my hand mixer, just might take longer right? Thanks for your time and guidance. Sonny
This looks amazing but I’ve followed the link twice and it won’t give me the recipe! I’d love to make this for my husband since it combines his two favorite deserts.
I’m sick and tired of trying to get your recipes,please get off facebook,I can’t get back the time wasted!!!
Under the 4th pic where it says “Recipe, Red Velvet Cream Cheese Bundy Cake”, simply click the link & it takes you straight to it! Reading is fundamental!
Under the 4th pic where it says “Recipe, Red Velvet Cream Cheese Bundt Cake” simply click the link & it takes you straight to it! Reading is fundamental!
Amen! :)
It actually has a 404 error page not found message when you click that link.
Sicko and rude
If you scroll down just above the word save it will say recipe. Click on that. The recipe will come up. Hit the print button. I was able to print it out by doing this. Good luck.
Thanks for sharing the recipe! I used to love coming to your website but lately, it seems inundated with ads and sponsored links. I realize you spend a lot of time on the blog but compared to other cooking sites, this feels more overwhelming. I’m coming here less and less because of it. I hope you scale back and can bring back your lost readers.
How did you get Recipe. I have been trying ???
Where is heavens name is the recipe
That’s the most beautiful photo i’ve ever seen of a food.
I’ll try to do this tomorrow!!!