Reviewed: May 22, 2012

Good, but is this your recipient

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Yumyum

Cooking Level: Professional

Reviewed: Mar. 7, 2012

I'm rating this cake in the middle of the road. I'll explain. The cake being a box mix, mixed with other ingredients and not home made from scratch was still really good. Not that hard to make or follow to a T. I rate the cake a 5 star. I can't rate the frosting with the cake very well to what I was expecting. While it was also easy to assemble and ease of the ingredients. I didn't like the fact, that it didn't taste like cream cheese frosting with the listed ingredients. My daughter liked it but to say it was cream cheese frosting, I honestly can't. It was a pudding frosting. It didn't have the right style of flavor of a true cream cheese frosting....even with the cream cheese in the frosting. The pudding mix, totally over powered and masked the flavor intended for a red velvet cake with traditional cream cheese frosting. Sorry. It really didn't do justice to my taste buds and I wasn't thoroughly impressed with it. I am sorry I didn't like the frosting flavor at all. I'll make the cake again but not the frosting.

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mis7up

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Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Burkburnett, Texas, USA

Living In: Cave Junction, Oregon, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 12, 2012

This is okay. It works. C'mon, this is a cake mix, NOT a "from scratch" cake and as such it shouldn't be compared against the from scratch version. A little short on flavor perhaps, but then I find "the real thing" to have the same issue (except for the McCormick recipe). My criticism then, is not so much how it rates compared to a from scratch Red Velvet cake from your childhood you remember your grandma making so much as I don't like the big holes that appeared. Not attractive. But put this in a pretty cupcake liner (baked as cupcakes about 22 minutes), top with cream cheese frosting, and you've got a legitimately passable Red Velvet Cake.

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naples34102

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Living In: Mequon, Wisconsin, USA

Reviewed: Dec. 22, 2011

I decided to finally make a Red Velvet Cake to see what the hype was all about...Boy, was this a hit in my family...I gave a piece to my dghtr to take to work and it flew off her plate as soon as she unwrapped it...I drove to my other dghtr's workplace at lunch time and same reaction... Everybody just Looooved it!!!! Great, Great, Great Recipe!! Only thing was I used the recipe from Cream Cheese Frosting II and that was Awesome too!!! This is now our family favorite!

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tita819

Cooking Level: Expert

Living In: San Francisco, California, USA

Reviewed: Jun. 30, 2011

The cake itself was good. The frosting was just meh. Didn't matter - people at the office ate it up!

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MegHarmeyer

Reviewed: Mar. 18, 2011

YUM! I like to decorate with fresh sliced strawberries. Ive used the frosting recipe many times for other cakes, changing the pudding flavor to whatever goes with the cake I have.

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Diana

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Olympia, Washington, USA

Reviewed: Feb. 21, 2011

My cake turned out dry and a weird texture. I don't know if I did something wrong or what. I made my grandma's recipe and used it instead. It tasted alright but I needed it to be moister. Thanks I don't know why it turned out dry.

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Azkikn

Reviewed: Dec. 22, 2010

This cake is great. I did what others suggested and added more cocoa, but no other changes. I made this twice, once with regular cream cheese frosting and once with the frosting included in the recipe. Me (and my kids) really did not like the frosting from this recipe. Its pretty bland...I won't make it again.

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lyndat

Reviewed: Aug. 25, 2010

Perfect for a quick simple red velvet recipe. My friend requested red velvet for her birthday and I didn't have much time to do a whole thing from scratch, found and used this recipe. I was really happy with it. As suggested I doubled the cocoa powder and doubled the food coloring. It was moist and chocolaty. It was a hit with all my guests.

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