I am going away on vacation this weekend for a week (the Bahamas- yay for me!) with friends and family. It's a friends birthday the day we arrive in the Bahamas and I was asked to bake a cake for him. Rather than saying, "No, the only thing in my hand you will find me with is a margarita" I said yes. Don't judge me.
I normally bake from scratch, however, I am not THAT crazy to do this on my vacation. So here's where you all come in: I need an easy, yummy, red velvet cake recipe from a mix. Did I mention it has to be easy?
Please help this Bahama Mama!
Well... I guess I'll have to wing it.
Thanks, I guess. 
hmmm...pdf seems to acting up. So, here it is, again:
Dump Cake
Ingredients
- 1 pkg. cake mix
2 cans fruit pie filling
2 sticks of butter (yum!) / margarine (ick)
Instructions
- 1. Grease a 9 X 13 cake pan (disposable = easy clean-up)
2. Dump pie filling in and spread evenly.
3. Dump on cake mix dry and spread evenly.
4. Dot small slices of butter evenly on top of dry cake.
5. Bake in 350 º oven until crust forms, 40 min. to 1 hour (white yellow: shorter, chocolate: longer)
Variations: The fun of making dump cake is in experimenting with various combinations of flavors of cake mix and filling.
- 1. Add a small can of crushed pineapple. Drain pineapple. Add half w/ juice to filling. Sprinkle remaining on top of butter.
2. Use only one can of pie filling and add one 8 oz. can drained, crushed pineapple.
3. Instead of dumping on dry cake mix, mix it w/ melted butter to form crumbs and put crumbs on top of pie filling.
4. Sprinkle chopped nuts on top of butter. Especially good: pecans with banana cake mix.
5. Use only one stick of butter. Melt it and drizzle all over the top. (BOOOO thats not fattening enough!)
6. Freeze butter and grate it evenly over cake. (messy, but it works to get a very even crust)
7. Flavor combinations (cake mix/filling):
- Yellow cake / most any filling very much like a mock cobbler
French vanilla/apple
French vanilla/cherry
French vanilla/peach
chocolate/cherry
chocolate/blueberry
chocolate/strawberry
spice/apple
banana/strawberry
- Yellow cake / most any filling very much like a mock cobbler
The only thing I want to add is from my own research Red Velvet box mixes are said to be dry.
There are a couple of doctored cake mixes here on CC, which I am assuming you already looked at before you waited for an answer here. But I thought I would mention it.
Hmmm.....
If your friend wants red velvet - do a dump cake with the red velvet cake mix, some kind of berry for the pie filling, and mix butter and cream cheese (1 stick butter, cream cheese - enought to compensate for the other stick of butter)to sprinkle over the top before baking.
Will they totally hate you if you renig on the cake? After all this is your vacation too- and a RED VELVET!!??? Although I might say that red velvet dump one sound very tasty! But I have a feeling you are a good friend, and a person who keeps her word(as I would do too!) Look for the doctored ones here on CC. Good Luck and WONDERFUL vacation!! 
When you arrive at the hotel, call the nearest restaurant/bakery and order a Red Velvet Cake, and wish your friend a Happy Birthday.
You can also do a trifle! I did that one time when I was going to make a german chocolate cake for a friend's wedding. (it was a very informal wedding). The cake came out sticking to the pan and since I was in another state - I just make a trifle with it! And it was a huge hit - so I named it "Mistake Trifle"! lol
Bake the red velvet cake mix as directed - let cool, then crumble it up in bite size pieces. Mix a packet of pudding mix (your choice of flavor) with a container of whipped topping. Put a 1/3 of the cake in bottom of trifle bowl, 1/3 of topping, 1/3 of cake, 1/3 of topping, remaining 1/3 of cake and topping and sprinkle some nuts on it. There you go!!! lol
When you arrive at the hotel, call the nearest restaurant/bakery and order a Red Velvet Cake, and wish your friend a Happy Birthday.
That's what I would do!! 
Maybe bring yourself a little tube of grocery store icing in a tube w/ a plastic tip and write a message yourself lol
You can also do a trifle! I did that one time when I was going to make a german chocolate cake for a friend's wedding. (it was a very informal wedding). The cake came out sticking to the pan and since I was in another state - I just make a trifle with it! And it was a huge hit - so I named it "Mistake Trifle"! lol
Bake the red velvet cake mix as directed - let cool, then crumble it up in bite size pieces. Mix a packet of pudding mix (your choice of flavor) with a container of whipped topping. Put a 1/3 of the cake in bottom of trifle bowl, 1/3 of topping, 1/3 of cake, 1/3 of topping, remaining 1/3 of cake and topping and sprinkle some nuts on it. There you go!!! lol
mmmmmmmmmmmm, if you do this I suggest the cheesecak pudding mix...then you'll have that cream cheese layer in there. Might even be able to BUY a storebought red velvet cake to crumble up?
thought --
is the resort/hotel even going to have an OVEN you can use????
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hmm....liquid B-day cake is sounding even better!
red velvet cocktail!
http://www.1001cocktails.com/recipes/mixed-drinks/106540/cocktail-red-velvet.html
use a candle for the stirrer! 
Are you traveling with the ingredients? Can you get them through customs? IF not it is pretty expensive to buy on the islands. We had family on the island who shuttled stuff back and forth from Florida because it was cheaper then buying on the island. May be cheaper/easier and less of a hassle just to buy a cake once you get there. Have fun!
Thank you all for your replies! 
I will have an oven to use- my family and I rented a 4-bedroom condo with full kitchen so I'm good in that department.
I told her the ingredients that I would need and she's going to purchase them. And when I say "she", I mean the birthday boys wife. If she has a problem with the ingredients.....oh well
We are bringing food from the states- it's not that hard. They're very strict on fruits and produce. But you can bring like popcorn, hummus, chips, etc.
I know, I know... I should've said no....but, but...but...I don't know.
Anyway, we'll see how it goes. I'm thinking about the dump cake....I'm ponder on it overnight.
So you make one of the different ones- dump 0r trifle- and call it "Island Red Velvet"
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