Hi,
I am looking for an easy, yet tasty red velvet recipe that I can use for sheet cakes. I would prefer to use a cake mix extender recipe, but will go all scratch if someone has a good one.

Thanks so much!!!

Is it helpful to use a red velvet cake mix instead of all that dye? I am looking at a lot of recipes that have 1-2 oz of dye! I need to make enought cake to feed 100 and I can't even imagine how much dye that will take! aHHHH!

The Cake Mix Doctor's recipe is good. It starts w/ a German Chocolate cake mix, and you add sour cream, pudding, and a few other things, plus a bottle of red dye. I personally think this is tastier than the Red Velvet mixes.

Duncan Hines (that I ONLY use when I'm "doctoring" it) Red Velvet. I use chocolate instant pudding, 4 eggs and 1/2 cup oil and 1 cup of water OR 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup Italian Cream Coffee Creamer. Nice and moist.

Beth in KY

I used the Southern Red Velvet cake recipe from this site last week and it was awesome and not hard to make at all. I used Americolor red to make it really red (making a heart cake) and it didn't affect the taste. I'm sure that the mixes have plenty of red food dye in them also.

I made a red velvet wedding cake using a modified mix recipe mostly because the cost of the red dye was almost as much as I made the entire cake for. I realize the cost shouldn't matter, but when you are doing things for a huge discount for people at church it does. Everybody loved it.

My biggest problem though was all of the little red velvet crumbs all over the kitchen. For some reason, it was ten times worse than any other cake I have made.

This is what I use..butter recipe yellow cake
1 tbls cocoa
3 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp van.
1 tsp. baking soda
1 stick melted butter
1/3 cup food color ( I usually use less)