How to Make Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Icing

Video Transcript

"Hi I am Georgette Rampone with Expert Village. We have our spice pumpkin cupcakes in the oven. We are going to check and see if they are done. We are inserting our chopstick inside and it is clean. Now they are finally done. Let's get these guys out of the oven while we finally can. I am going to transfer them to a cool cookie sheet so that they can rest and cool. I like to cool them in the pan because it is very difficult to take the out of the pan while they are hot. While they are cooling let's make icing. For this incredible icing we are going to be using cream cheese. I snip the end, and squeeze it all into my bowl. That is 8 ounces of cream cheese, one cube of softened butter, and a cup and a quarter of powdered sugar. That is all going to go in at once. The powdered sugar was sifted. Now this is what makes it so special. This is vanilla bean paste. When you put this in your icing you will not only have the flavor of vanilla but you will have all the little specks of vanilla bean too. It is a very fun icing to eat. We are going to be using a half teaspoon of vanilla bean paste. Now the last ingredient is a half teaspoon of brown sugar. This is what makes the icing stand out from so many other cream cheese icings. This looks a little stiff. The reason it varies is because cream cheese varies from the time of the year. Sometimes there is more liquid in the cream cheese than others so this one needs a little more liquid. I am going to put a little tiny bit of milk, maybe just a teaspoon, and that will thin this down just too spreading consistency."