Red Velvet Pound Cake With Cream Cheese Filling

Super moist and super delish, this moist red velvet pound cake with cream cheese filling is truly the stuff dreams are made of.

A Cake With Deep Red Color

It’s got the hallmark of red velvet cakes with that chocolatey flavor and rich red color, and creamy frosting on top.

But I’ve taken it a step further and included a sensational cream cheese filling.

Yes, it’s even more moist and delicious with every bite as you work your way to the center of the cake.

This cake is perfect for dinner parties, birthdays, special occasions, or any time you need some cake in your life, which for me is basically every day!

Why Make Red Velvet Pound Cake?

I know you’ve seen red velvet pound cakes at the store. I have too.

But I’m telling you, making this from scratch is easier than you think. It also comes out with better results.

For this recipe, I am using my red velvet pound cake recipe and adding the cream cheese mixture.

This red velvet pound cake comes out with a tender crumb.

The tender cake itself is rendered even more spectacular with the sweet cream cheese filling. And the cream cheese frosting on top has a truly velvety texture.

You’re going to wonder where this recipe has been all your life. At least now, you can start making up for lost time and bake it today!

Ingredients For Red Velvet Cake With Cream Cheese

Red Velvet Cake

• All-purpose flour
• Unsweetened cocoa powder
• Baking soda
• Salt
• Sugar
• Eggs
• Vanilla extract
• Vegetable oil
• White vinegar
• Buttermilk
• Red food coloring

Cream Cheese Layer

• Cream cheese
• Sugar
• Eggs
• Sour cream
• Heavy cream
• Vanilla extract

Full printable recipe with measurements and instructions listed at the bottom of the post in the recipe card.

How To Make Red Velvet Cake With Cream Cheese Filling

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease a large Bundt pan with nonstick spray. Dust the pan with flour.
2. Add the flour, unsweetened cocoa, baking powder, sugar, and salt to a large mixing bowl and sift.
3. In another bowl, add the eggs, vegetable oil, vinegar, and vanilla extract, and mix well.
4. Pour in the buttermilk and mix well.
5. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix until combined.
6. Add the red food coloring and mix well. Keep adding liquid food coloring until you get the desired color.
7. Pour half of the cake batter into the greased and floured Bundt pan.
8. In another large bowl, add the packages of cream cheese and beat with a hand mixer until creamy.
9. Next, add the sugar, eggs, sour cream, vanilla extract, and heavy cream and mix well.
10. Pour the cream cheese mixture over the red velvet cake.
11. Pour the remainder of the red velvet cake over the cream cheese mixture and use a knife to swirl through.
12. Bake for one hour at 350 degrees or until a cake tester comes out clean.
13. Allow the cake to cool before inverting.
14. Frost the cooled cake.

Believe it or not, this red velvet Bundt cake recipe is a cinch to make.

Remember, a red velvet cake is a chocolate cake with red gel food coloring.

If you have all the ingredients in your kitchen, you can start baking it right now. But for some of you, you may need a quick trip to the grocery store.

Get your Bundt pan ready, and it will all flow from there.

Step-By-Step Instructions

Red Velvet Cake

Start by adding flour to a large mixing bowl.

Next, add the unsweetened cocoa to the bowl.

Next, add the baking soda and salt to the bowl.

Add the sugar to the bowl and sift the ingredients. Set the flour mixture to the side.

In another bowl, add the eggs and vanilla extract.

Pour the vegetable oil into the bowl.

Pour the buttermilk into the bowl and mix the ingredients until combined.

Pour the wet ingredients into the bowl with the dry ingredients and mix until combined.

Add the vinegar to the bowl just before adding the red food coloring.

The white vinegar is going to help bring out the red color.

Add the red food coloring and mix well. Once you get the desired color, pour half into the Bundt pan.

Sometimes a little bit of red food coloring will go a long way, and sometimes, it won’t. Start out with a small amount and go up from there until you’re happy with the color you get.

Cream Cheese Layer

Add the packages of cream cheese to the bowl and mix until creamy.

Next, add the sugar to the bowl.

Add the eggs, sour cream, and vanilla extract.

Pour the heavy cream into the bowl and mix the ingredients.

Pour the cream cheese layer on top of the red velvet cake layer.

Pour the remainder of the red velvet cake batter over the cream cheese mixture.

I took a knife and swirled it through, but you don’t have to. I just thought it would look pretty.

The center of the cake with the cream cheese frosting is honestly my favorite part.

It’s perfect for anyone who worries about having a cake with a dry center.

This cake will never disappoint that way. It’s moist through and through and so utterly divine!

Bake the cake for at least one hour or until the cake tester comes out clean.

Allow the cake to cool to room temperature. Once it does, you can carefully invert it onto your cake plate.

My Bundt pan wasn’t quite large enough, so it baked up a little.

I placed the Bundt pan on a cookie sheet covered with aluminum foil in case any batter dripped over the side.

Frost the cake and serve!

More Delicious Cakes

• Pound cake with sweetened condensed milk
• Gingerbread cake with cream cheese frosting
• Slow cooker chocolate cake
• Homemade chocolate cake
• Cream cheese pound cake
• Praline pecan banana cake
• Southern lemon pound cake
• Chocolate pound cake with sweetened condensed milk
• Carrot cake with applesauce
• Old fashioned pineapple upside down cake
• Strawberry lemonade cake from Dance Around The Kitchen

How To Store The Red Velvet Cream Cheese Bundt Cake Recipe

Store the cake in an airtight container and keep refrigerated. It does need to be refrigerated because of the cream cheese.

If you want to make a super moist red velvet cake, take a look at the recipe card below.

You can make it for July 4th to celebrate our great nation. Or to show your love on Valentine’s Day, or even bring some cheer for Christmas with the bright red color.

And naturally, this delicious red velvet cake will be adored any time you make it for friends and family, no matter the occasion!