Recipes Made with Cake Mixes
Raspberry Chocolate Fudge Red Velvet Cake
Make this in a 9-inch two-layer heart cake baking pan for Valentine's Day!
Ingredients
- 1 (18.25 ounce) box red velvet cake mix*
- 1 (3.9-ounce) box instant chocolate fudge pudding and pie filling mix
- 1 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup creme de cocoa or raspberry liqueur or brandy
- 1/2 cup cooking oil
- 4 jumbo or extra large eggs (at room temperature)
- 1 (12 ounce) jar seedless raspberry jam
- Vanilla buttercream frosting, old-fashioned 7-minute icing or chocolate fudge frosting
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour** a 10-inch Bundt or tube pan or wax paper-line two greased 9-inch heart-shape layer pans.
- In a large bowl, combine cake mix, pudding mix, water, creme de cocoa or raspberry liqueur or brandy, and oil; add eggs and beat at medium speed of an electric mixer for 4 minutes, scraping down sides of bowl as necessary.
- Fold in pecans.
- Spoon into prepared pan(s).
- Bake for 30 to 35 minutes (heart-shaped layer pans) or 45 minutes (tube or Bundt pan), or until a cake tester inserted into the cake layers or cake comes out clean.
- Let cake or cake layers cool for 10 minutes in pan(s), top side up for tube cake and upside down for Bundt cake.
- Turn out onto wire rack(s) to finish cooling.
- For heart-shaped cake, arrange one layer on a cake serving plate.
- Evenly spread raspberry jam over cake layer.
- Top with second layer.
- Evenly spread top and sides with frosting of choice.
- For tube or Bundt cake, spread frosting of choice over top and sides of cake.
- Sprinkle decorative confectioners' red sugar over cake as desired.
Notes
* 18.25 ounce boxes of cake mix have been replaced by 16.5 ounce and 15.25 ounce boxes. To compensate for the volume loss in a 16 ounce box, whisk 6 tablespoons all-purpose flour into the dry cake mix before proceeding with the recipe. To compensate for the volume loss in a 15.25 ounce box, add 1/2 cup + 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour and 1/4 teaspoon baking powder.
** For best results, use our Pan Release!