The Best Red Velvet Bars start with a dressed up boxed cake mix with a creamy homemade buttercream frosting!
THE BEST RED VELVET CAKE BARS RECIPE
Make some sweets for your sweetie! These Red Velvet Bars are a deliciously easy dessert. It starts with a red velvet boxed cake mix and is topped a creamy homemade buttercream frosting. Inside the bars are little bits of white chocolate chips. So, they not only taste amazing, they look so pretty too!
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Like the recipe but don’t care for red velvet? That is what is great about using a boxed cake mix as a base. You can use whatever cake mix flavor you love. All the cake mix flavors will work with this! And the buttercream frosting? Outrageously good!
INGREDIENTS NEEDED: (FULL RECIPE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST)
for the bars:
red velvet cake mix
unsalted butter, softened to room temp.
large eggs
white chocolate chips
for the buttercream frosting:
unsalted butter, softened to room temp.
powdered sugar
milk
HOW TO MAKE THE BEST RED VELVET BARS:
Spray an 8×8 inch pan with nonstick cooking spray or line with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 350f degrees. Mix together box cake, butter, and eggs with a hand mixer, then fold in chocolate chips.
Spread prepared mix into baking dish (batter will be thick). Bake for about 15-20 minutes or until top is firm. Let cool completely before icing. To make frosting, beat together butter, powdered sugar, and milk until thick and creamy. Once bars are cooled, spread white frosting out in a thick layer on top. 
Cut into squares before serving.
Enjoy!
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Ingredients
for the bars:
- 1 box red velvet cake mix
- 1 stick unsalted butter (1/2 cup), softened to room temp.
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
for the buttercream frosting:
- 1 stick unsalted butter (1/2 cup), softened to room temp.
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1-2 tbsp milk
Instructions
- Spray an 8x8 inch pan with nonstick cooking spray or line with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 350f degrees. Mix together box cake, butter, and eggs with a hand mixer, then fold in chocolate chips.
- Spread batter into prepared dish (batter will be thick). Bake for about 20-25 minutes or until top is firm and a toothpick insrted comes out clean. Let cool completely before icing.
- To make frosting, beat together butter, powdered sugar, and milk until thick and creamy.
- Once bars are cooled, spread frosting out in a thick layer on top.
- Cut into squares before serving.
White chocolate and red velvet – two of my favorite things in one package! Yes please!
I’m not much of a baker. I can cook, but baking is totally different language for me. So, thank you for using a cake box to make this recipe. Makes my life a lot easier. 🙂
I know the feeling Maggie! Baking is not my forte at all so I am ALL about shortcuts! Thanks for commenting!
What a great Valentine’s Day treat and so pretty to boot! <3
I am very puzzled about the recipe. I followed your recipe to the “t”, but without the cup of water that the box mix called for, it was so stiff that I could never have poured it into the 8×8 pan. So, I added 1 cup of water; that was much better. The cake tastes just fine, but I would like to make it again in the future, and I wish to do it correctly per recipe. Also, do you have a preference for the grand of Red Cake Mix? Please advise.
Hi Vivian! The batter should be thick. It’s like a brownie batter. Hope that helps! 🙂