Best Homemade Red Velvet Brownies (2024)

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Read the full disclosure here.

This recipe for these decadent homemade Red Velvet Brownies are the best! Made from scratch, these vibrant red velvet brownies are super fudgy, with rich chocolate flavor, perfect for Valentine’s Day and more!

Check out 25 Drool-Worthy Red Velvet Dessert Recipes. these Mini Red Velvet Brownies, Red Velvet Cake Donuts and this roundup of 20 Valentine’s Day Brownies To Love!

Why We Love This Homemade Red Velvet Brownie Recipe

I love how lovely these red velvet, milk-chocolate based brownies make these homemade red velvet brownies pop with red gorgeous color that we cannot ignore!

Red velvet brownies have a special chocolatey flavor. It’s a unique mix of flavors, and when you top it off with cream cheese frosting, they get even tangier!

Plus we love the chocolate flavor that comes through each swooning bite of deliciousness! Seriously irresistible fudgy brownie recipe!

These Homemade Fudgy Red Velvet Brownies Are Completely Over the Top!

Mouth-watering, gooey and utterly indulgent, these chewy red velvet brownies are the perfect treat and satisfy your sweet tooth. With their deep red color, rich cocoa flavor, and cream cheese frosting, these delectable treats will bring a special touch to any dessert table!

I go crazy when brownies are baking in the oven, ESPECIALLY when it’s these amazing brownies! These lovelies are perfect to serve for Valentine’s Day or anytime you get the urge for a different kind of brownie twist!

Use High Quality Ingredients for Homemade Red Velvet Brownies

These homemade red velvet brownies are made with highest quality ingredients like Ghirardelli Milk Chocolate Baking Chips, Ghirardelli 100% Unsweetened Cocoa Powder and Land O’Lakes Unsalted Butter.

The butter and chocolate melted together gives these brownies that glossy, crackly sheen on top that we simply adore. Yum!

Amazingly, this recipe doesn’t include buttermilk or a white vinegar, which is commonly used in red velvet cake recipes, but since we’re making brownies, we can forego those ingredients in this recipe.

Plus, when you add cream cheese frosting, there is no other better match than red velvet brownies with cream cheese frosting!

It’s hands down a love match made in heaven and these are a Valentine’s Day sweet treat sure to get some attention!

Ingredients You Need

Homemade Red Velvet Brownies Recipe

• unsalted butter
• Ghirardelli Milk Chocolate Chips
• eggs
• granulated sugar
• brown sugar
• salt
• vanilla extract
• redgel food coloring
• all purpose flour
• baking powder
• Ghirardelli unsweetened cocoa powder

Cream Cheese Frosting

• cream cheese
• unsalted butter
• salt
• vanilla extract
• confectioners sugar

How to Make The Best Homemade Red Velvet Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting!

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Line a9×13baking panorbaking dishwith foil and very lightly grease the foil with vegetable shortening, like crisco.
3. Melt milk chocolate and butter in microwave until melted or use a small saucepan, melt the butter over your lowest setting, then add the milk chocolate chips stirring constantly with a small whisk until melted and smooth.Turn off heat and let set.
4. In a large mixing bowl, add the eggs, vanilla and sugars together and whisk together. Then whisk in the red food coloring.
5. Next, whisk in the cooled down melted chocolate mixture into the egg/sugar mixture until combined and smooth. Make sure the melted butter isn’t hot, so it doesn’t curdle the eggs when you add it.
6. Add flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder together and stir together with a silicone spatula until mixture is completely combined.
7. Pourred velvet brownie batter and spread out evenly into your prepared baking pan.
8. Bake 40 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean and transfer pan to cooling rack and let cool for 15 minutes.
9. Refrigerate, covered until cooled to frost or let brownies come to room temperature before frosting.
10. Makes 12 large or 24 smaller brownies for 9×13 pan.

You can make these brownies in an 8×8, 9×9 or 9×13 pan. Just adjust the servings in the recipe card below.

How to Make the Cream Cheese Frosting

1. Place cream cheese, butter, vanilla, salt, confectioner’s sugar and cream/milk in mixing bowl. Using a mixer, beat on medium high until well combined. Mix until smooth and creamy.

Frost the Brownies

1. Frost brownies with an offset spatula or use a piping bag and fill it with frosting and pipe swirls on top of the brownies.
2. Place back in fridge until ready and let them come to room temperature about 30 minutes before serving.

More Festive Decorating Ideas!

If you want to get really festive, you can also cut out brownie hearts by using a heart-shaped cookie cutter after the brownies have been well chilled for nice cut outs.

To make them more festive, place a dark or milk chocolate heart-shaped Dove candy in the center. Add Valentine sprinklesor even drizzle with melted chocolate.

Add somewhite chocolate chipsto your brownie batter for a fun red and white treat!

Storing Fudgy Homemade Red Velvet Brownies

Can be stored up to 2 weeks in sealed container or inplastic wrapatroom temperatureor in therefrigerator.

If your brownies have toppings or fillings like cream cheese, they should be kept in the fridge in an airtight container.

Fudgy homemade red velvet brownies and cream cheese together is such a decadent sweet treat! Take these to the holiday party! Everyone will love this red velvet brownies recipe!! Kiss! Kiss!

More Red Velvet Treats

• Red Velvet Cake Donuts with Cream Cheese Frosting
• Easy Dreamy Red Velvet Cream Cheese Poke Cake
• Valentine Red Velvet Party Blast Cookie Pie
• Red Velvet Luv Truffles
• Red Velvet Cake Donuts with Cream Cheese Frosting (Of course)
• “American Beauty” Retro Red Velvet Cake
• Chocolate Covered Hazelnut Cheesecake Bites
• 7 Layer Red Velvet Bars
• Red Velvet Tuxedo Brownies
• Ultimate Trash Brownies

I adaptedthis recipe from this cookbook,Extreme Brownies by Connie Weis.