Ingredients for Homemade Icing

Video Transcript

"The cakes are in the oven, and now it's time to start the icing. Now the icing is no joke. It's a serious cream cheese icing. And we have all of the ingredients that we need here. We've got our confectioners sugar, butter, vanilla, and cream cheese. We're going to start by taking the butter and the cream cheese, and mixing those in first. Now this icing smells so good, and the texture's going to be so great, you're going to be licking your fingers when you're done. Let's go. So we're going to take our butter, and this is two sticks of butter. I've already melted my butter. You can either melt your butter in the microwave, or you can just let it sit out at room temperature. We're going to take our cream cheese, and we're going to add that in. That's a full eight ounces. And we're going to turn our mixer on and start to cream the two. I'm going to start out at a very low speed. And we're going to take our sugar, our confectioner sugar, and add that in. We're going to do about half and half. The texture's changing and the same thing when we were adding our cake flour to our mix, we're just going to take our time and mix evenly. I'm going to add the last half. And I'm just going to turn the bowl. I'm going to turn the speed up just a little bit more. We want to make sure that we mix all of the ingredients evenly. So I'm just taking it, and I'm pulling around the sides. Making sure that everything is getting in here. Now vanilla. This is the last step. We're only going to put about a teaspoon in here. We don't want to put too much because it's going to turn the icing dark, and we don't want that. And it might be a little bit too bitter. So I'm going to estimate about a teaspoon full. And really, the icing is to taste. So if you really like sugary, you know if you're just a sugar-holic, go ahead and taste. And add more, or if you just like a lot of cream cheese, you can always add more cream cheese. It's really to taste. So we're going to mix this in now. So now we're going to take this and we're going to go to the refrigerator. And we're going to leave it in for about fifteen minutes just so that it gets thick enough. Because once we pull our cakes out, we're going to let our cakes cool before we put on the icing. And we want to make sure that they're really cool because I can tell you, I've made a few mistakes. I've put the icing on, put the second layer on, and my cake slid. And it was like a lop- sided cake. It's not pretty and it's not fun to fix. So make sure that your cakes have cooled, and then make sure that your icing has sat in the refrigerator for at least fifteen minutes. And we'll be right back."