Red Velvet Brownies, a classic cake is made into rich, dense and delicous brownies. Smother them in cream cheese frosting and they’re dessert perfection.
This is the ultimate brownie!
Rich. Sinful. Decadent. Awesome.
Great for Christmas.
A MUST for Valentines!
Scary goodness on Halloween.
You’ll want to make these Red Velvet Brownies, but plan to share with only the most deserving friends!
For the Cream Cheese Frosting go here.
Outrageous Red Velvet Brownies
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A classic cake is made into rich, dense and delicous brownies. Smother them in cream cheese frosting and they're dessert perfection.
Ingredients
- 4 oz bitter-sweet chocolate baking bar, chopped
- 3/4 c butter
- 2 cup sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 (1 oz) bottle red food coloring
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line the bottom of a 9x13 inch cake pan with aluminium foil, allowing 2 to 3 inches to extend over sides; lightly grease or spray foil with non-stick spray. (For thicker brownies, use a 8x11.5 cake pan and add an additional 5 minutes to cook time.)
- Melt chocolate and butter in a large microwave-safe bowl (for melting chocolate tips see bottom of post). Whisk in sugar until all combined. Stir in eggs one at a time until just blended. Stir in flour and next 4 ingredients. Pour mixture into prepared pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool completely on a wire rack (about 2 hours) before frosting.
- Lift brownies from pan using foil as handles. Gently remove foil. Spread Cream Cheese Frosting* on top of brownies. Cut into squares. Store in refrigerator.
Notes
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For tips on Melting Chocolate click here.
*If you don’t want a lot of frosting, you may consider cutting this recipe in half.
For lots of kitchen tips, go here
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Oh my…now I'm hungry! Those look great!
A naughty treat for any occasion! Looks absolutely fabulous 🙂
Hey, new follower from the Blog Party over at Sincerely, Paula. These look amazing! Can't wait to give them a try. 🙂
xo,
Kristin
aboutagirl.ca
Oh My Word! These look so YUMMY! I want to take a bite of the one in the front lol! Wish I was at your house Paula! Thanks for sharing!
Oh my these looks fantastic, really need to bake some for myself 😀 I found you through Sweet 2 Eat Linky Party
WOW! No words…just drool!
Want one!
Decadent is right! YUM!
Visting from SITS. These sound so yummy. I love red velvet anything.
Oooh, so yummy! I'll take 2 batches please! Haha 🙂
I love Red Velvet… I can't wait to try this recipe! Yummy!
These look so good. Combine red velet + brownie = win! just pinned!
Thanks so much for sharing at Wednesday’s Adorned From Above Blog Hop!
Debi @ adornedfromabove.com
Angie @ godsgrowinggarden.com
Those look just so yummy! Stopping by from the Blog Hop.
OMGoodness…those sound (and look) amazing!
wow…looks and sounds just fabulous!!
Sound amazing! Love the red velvet.
I really think I might need to make this for my Mother as dessert on Christmas day. They look so delicious!
These look so yummy, dear! 🙂 And my husband LOVES red velvet. 😉
Thank you for linking up at Marvelous Mondays!
Oh my goodness…
it looks so very good!
I've heard of red velvet cake, but never brownies. These DO look delicious!! Visiting today from the No Rules Weekend Blog Party. 🙂
congrats on being featured at marvelous mondays! i can see why, these look so decadent and delicious! i'm pinning them for later 🙂
ohmy i am drooling just thinking about the red velvet brownies!!!
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elviemousse.blogspot.sg
I missed this in my reader! I was thinking of making regular ol' brownies later in the week, but Red Velvet Brownies sound a whole lot better 🙂
Those do look outrageously delicious!!!
Oh, WOW! Can't wait to make these. I'm visiting and pinning from The NY Melrose Family's Pinfest 2012 party. Thanks for sharing!
See, now I should have just tried your recipe instead of experimenting with cake mix. Mine turned out like cake instead of brownies and they look like hell. LOL. But at least they tasted good. I am going to do a post on Cake Mix Disasters with my red velvet thing I made yesterday. 🙂
lol! It happens remember the bundt cake I did for the March Spiked challenge? I do love these brownies.
Wow – looking forward to trying these. My kids love Red Velvet cake. I think these will be a hit.
I hope they love them, I sure do! Thanks for stopping by.
Stopping over from Cast Party Wednesday! I’ve been wanting to make red velvet brownies since I first saw them on Pinterest a year ago. These look delicious!
Thank you, they def are, make them now 🙂
Looks yummy. Where to cick to know more about metling tips?
Hala, thank you for alerting me, I didn’t realize that link was broken and have updated it now. Have a great day!
how can I make the red velvet brownies gluten free?
oh Candy, I’ll have to research. I haven’t explored gluten free baking very much. Let me see what I can come up with!
Ok, I found this great article for you on converting recipes to gluten free, also, a friend recommended Jules Gluten Free flour as a good flour to sub with. I plan to try this as well since I’ve only made pancakes and a couple pasta dishes gluten-free. I hope this helps. Here’s the article: http://www.sheknows.com/how-to/articles/810576/how-to-convert-a-recipe-to-gluten-free
Hi Paula,
Just wanted to stop by and say congratulations! I just checked my stats on last weeks Cast Party Wednesday and your Red Velvet Brownie recipe has had 384 clicks so far. Thanks for the great recipe! ~Sheryl~
WOW!!!!!! That makes me so happy!! Thanks for promoting it on facebook too. Looking forward to this weeks party. Thanks so much for letting me know!!
I’m working on my recipe for next month’s Dessert Challenge today…I’m not the last minute type person 🙂
I am soooo making these for my daughter and her boyfriend! They love sweets – especially anything red velvet/cream cheese – so they’re going to love these. Thanks for sharing – pinned the recipe!
Thanks so much, Kim. I could have sat and ate the whole pan! 🙂
These look great Paula, so fudgy and beautifully red. Pinned!
Thank you, I totally could have eaten the whole pan! 😉
Wow! This looks deee-licious! We’d love to have you share your recipe at our weekly Super Saturday Link Party ! Deb @ madefrompinterest.net
Do you have a good recipe for a really good, fluffy buttercream recipe?
Paula,
I love Red Velvet. I think it is so delicious and pretty. Maybe, because I am from the south. These Red Velvet brownies would make a great Valentine’s dessert.
Blessings and thanks for linking up with Saturday Dishes,
Diane Roark
You know I love RED VELVET. I just had to feature these today at
Blessings,
Diane Roark
I have never seen red velvet brownies before. What a great idea! Thanks for sharing!
Your recipe calls for 4 oz. bitter-sweet chocolate baking bar and I just want to confirm it needs bitter-sweet and not unsweetened. It just seems like it would be super sweet with 2 cups of sugar too, but perhaps that’s the way they are meant to be! Thanks!
Hi Jacqueline, yes, I do use bitter-sweet. They are really rich and sweet brownies. I haven’t made them with unsweetened before, but I think they would be good, as you mentioned just not as sweet. I tend to like really (REALLY) sweet desserts.
Sooooo looking forward to trying this!!!!!!! They look oh so delicious yums omnomnomnom omg I can’t wait will be buying the ingredients RIGHT NOW
I haven’t made these in a while, I think i”ll make them this weekend too. I hope you love them, they don’t last a day here.
Hi Paula,
Just wanted to let you know that we are featuring this recipe on our weekly Seasons’ Saturday Selections tomorrow. Please feel free to share this info with your readers.
Janette and Jordan
The 2 Seasons
I just made these tonight because one of my grandson’s really likes Red Velvet cake. These are absolutely delicious! Thank you for sharing your recipe for both the brownies and the cream cheese frosting. I’m going to try freezing them since I will have too many to share now but would like to also be able to put them out for New Year’s Eve and Day. I hope that will work. Have you ever tried freezing them before? I probably should have frozen some without the frosting as I’m not sure what will become of the texture of the frozen frosting. I guess I’ll find out!
I’m so happy you liked them. Reminds me my son wanted me to make more of them. I haven’t frozen these before, but I have frozen cakes with cream cheese frosting and it worked fine. I thawed it in the refrigerator. Have a great holiday, Vicki!
I saw this recipe noting it using butter and bittersweet chocolate instead of the usual vegetable oil and cocoa so I had to make it. I’m a huge fan of Trader Joe’s 70% chocolate and had a fresh bar so I had to make it this morning. WOW! Absolutely the BEST Red Velvet Brownie’s by far. I have made lots of them but this made a perfect dense but moist, almost cake but better brownie. I’m looking forward to your posts to try other recipes but this one is definitely a keeper!
Thanks so much Ken. I, too, tried all the other RV brownies and wasn’t happy. I adapted this from my Rocky Road brownies, which are my favorite. Real chocolate makes a world of difference.
Where is the recipe for the cream cheese frosting?
Sandy in Canada
Where is the recipe for the frosting?
Sandy in Canada
I just made these today for my church’s Memorial Day cookout. Best Red Velvet Brownie recipe EVER! I omitted the cream cheese frosting because of time constraints. However, I added two tablespoons of buttermilk and half of bag of white chocolate chips.