24 Red Velvet Recipes, Because There’s No Such Thing as Too Much Cream Cheese Frosting

Before we get to other creative riffs, let’s start with the O.G. We love this traditional recipe because it calls for both white vinegar and buttermilk.

Dessert for breakfast? Don’t mind if we do. These come together in a flash, thanks to boxed red velvet cake mix. As delightful as these flapjacks are, don’t get it twisted: The four-ingredient cream cheese icing is the real star.

The light-as-air filling is truly revelatory. It contains tangy cream cheese and rich butter, but Marshmallow Fluff is the secret to its nostalgic sweetness.

Just the finale for your date night menu. The recipe makes two tiny cakes, so you won’t have to worry about testing your willpower around leftovers.

Cake-flavored vodka is a thing. A sweet, glorious thing. Grenadine takes over for red food dye on the color front.

We’re betting Santa Claus will be blown away when he finds these snow-topped delights by the tree.

A fraction of the frosting, ten times the tang. Chocolate cream sandwich cookies in the crust also up the cocoa-laced ante.

You won’t find any cream cheese in these handhelds. Instead, they’re topped with cookies-and-cream frosting and thick chocolate ganache.

Wow everyone at brunch with these baked, sprinkle-clad beauties. Feel free to top them with drizzles of both basic glaze and chocolate icing.

Yup, we’ll be gifting these to everyone on our Christmas list. Roll the outsides of the macarons in mini chocolate chips for extra crunch.

A few dashes of rose water in the cream cheese frosting and bittersweet chocolate cupcakes gives the dessert a fragrant, floral makeover.

Don’t feel like using red food coloring? Freeze-dried raspberries will offer both tart, fruity flavor and a pink hue to the ice cream.

Fact: Nutella makes *everything* better, and these gooey cookies are no exception. We wouldn’t blame you for going double duty with a smear of cream cheese frosting.

A red velvet cookie crust meets heaps of condensed milk, shredded coconut, two types of chocolate chips and chopped pecans.

The cake natural color is made possible by beet purée and powder. Chalk the gluten-free recipe up to ivory teff (a mild grain), sweet rice and oat flours.

The healthiest red velvet cake of all time, in liquid form. We’re talking bananas, beets, dates and a generous amount of cocoa powder.

These marbled stunners require less than an hour of your time. We’ll be eating our brownie warm with a scoop of chocolate ice cream, thank you very much.

We have a feeling your kids are going to love licking the marshmallowy crowns off these cookies, just as much as they’ll like poking their thumbs into the dough.

Swirls of cream cheese-spiked vanilla cake and red-dyed chocolate cake make a delectable base for tangy cream cheese glaze.

You know those soft-baked supermarket cookies dressed in an uber-thick layer of frosting that are impossible to quit? These 30-minute gems taste just like that.

You won’t even have to turn on the stove to pull off these poppables—just melt the white chocolate coating in the microwave.

A pile of melty toasted marshmallows tastes good on just about everything. But on a brownie with a graham cracker crust? That’s plain divine.

Instead of topping the cookies with cream cheese frosting, the tangy pièce de résistance is baked into them.

Psst: There’s a surprise at the bottom of every mug, so start sipping. (OK, we’ll spill: It’s a round of freshly baked red velvet cake.)