Adding Sugar to Red Velvet Cake

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Jennifer Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I am going to show you how to make this delicious traditional Red Velvet Cake. Our next step now that our butter is creamed, is to add the sugar. We are going to add 1 1/2 cups of granulated sugar. You just want to scoop that right in to the 1 cup measuring cup and once it is full, you just want to level it off. Fortunately with granulated sugar, you don't have to worry about sifting it because that is not going to make a difference in its texture. There is 1 cup and here is a half cup and do the same thing, just level it off with the scoop and we are going to put that in. We are going to start at a lower speed just to get the sugar incorporated into the butter a bit before we turn it on to a higher speed to fully mix the two. Now as you can see the butter and sugar have been mixed together because there is so much more sugar than there is butter, it is going to have a very grainy texture to it. Unlike with cookies when you are making a cake with this, it is not going to be as creamy and whipped as if you have equal amounts of butter and sugar. So you are going for a grainer texture and you can see we are there, so it is time for the next step. "