Adding Sugar & Vanilla for Red Velvet Cake Frosting

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jennifer Cail, and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to make this delicious, traditional red velvet cake. With our sugar and cream cheese creamed together, it's time to add our next ingredient which is one tablespoon of vanilla. We're just going to add the vanilla and then we're going to beat it in before adding the sugar. So let's just turn it on really quickly. With our vanilla beaten into our cream cheese and butter mixture, we're going to add two and half cups of powdered sugar. So we just want to scoop this in here carefully so that we're not spilling powdered sugar everywhere unless you're going for the snowy look in your kitchen. Now, with most icings and frosting, the measurements for the sugar are going to be not terribly exact. Because powdered sugar is so very powdered, it can absorb a lot of moisture including from the air so the level of humidity is going to affect how much sugar you actually need to add to the butter and cream cheese mixture to get the right consistency. So we're going to start with the two and a half cups and we'll see how it goes from there. Now that I've added my two and a half cups of powdered sugar, I'm going to slowly start mixing, gradually bringing the speed up as the sugar gets incorporated. With all of our sugar mixed into our cream cheese and butter, this is the nice spreadable consistency that you'll have with your cream cheese frosting."