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Hello and welcome to Cupcake Addiction's Best Ever Cream Cheese Frosting Tutorial where
I'll be showing you a recipe and tutorial for making the most delicious and perfectly
pipeable cream cheese frosting that you will have ever tasted.
Tools and equipment that we will be using today:
I've got an electric mixer with the whisk attachments on.
I've got my trusty spatula. I've got 5 cups or 40 oz. of icing sugar otherwise
known as confectioner sugar or powdered sugar. Now I will mention with this icing sugar,
I did measure it out unsifted so the unsifted weight or the unsifted amount is 5 cups, and
then I sifted it. Once sifted it does come to that 6, 6 ½ cups so make sure that you
are getting that unsifted weight. I've got a tablespoon of lemon juice.
2 teaspoons of milk. In my bowl over here, I've got 125 grams or
4 ½ oz. of softened butter, so just room temperature butter. It doesn't matter if that's
salted or unsalted. I've 125 grams or 4 ½ oz. of cream cheese.
Now cream cheese is usually kept in the fridge so I've popped mine in the microwave for about
45 seconds just to soften it down so that it's room temperature as well.
I've also got a spoon over here. To start off with today, we are going to mix
our butter and cream cheese together with that lemon juice. Now this frosting, the texture
of it and the consistency is all about the way you mix it. So we are going to start by
mixing this on a high speed for 5 minutes, absolute minimum of 5 minutes, and you'll
see why once we get through the mixing phase. So firstly we're going to add that lemon juice.
Now we add lemon juice because it just provides a little bit of a tart flavor and it takes
out some of the sweetness of buttercream frosting. Now at this point, I do just want to show
you, I've been scraping down the sides of the bowl with my spatula. And you can see
here, some of the darker yellow butter, that's the color that we started out with. This is
how beautifully whipped butter and cream cheese mixture. So you want to avoid this yellow
color. And when you know it's done, it will actually be this lovely light white color.
Alright, so that's looking beautiful. Now you should have something that looks like
this. So what you've got is a lovely, a whipped of butter and cream cheese mixture and it's
really nice and white as I mentioned -- really nice and fluffy. That's going to form the
base of our frosting. Now from here, I'm going to take this icing
sugar or powdered sugar and I'm just going to start tipping it into the bowl. So I don't
want to put the whole lot in. I'm just going to put in, maybe, about a third. Then we're
going to start that mixer on a low speed. Starting it on a low speed so I don't end
up with too much of a dust storm. And I'm going to gradually add in the other 2/3 of
that bowl as I'm mixing. Now, you'll see here as I'm mixing, it's actually
starting to get just a little bit too dry so that's what our extra 2 teaspoons of milk
are for. Just judge your frosting, if it is looking like it's wet enough and it's going
along nicely, you don't necessarily need to add that 2 teaspoons of milk. But I'm going
to turn that mixer back on and I'm just going to add in those 2 teaspoons of milk because
I just feel like this frosting needs a little bit more moisture.
Now we'll turn that speed right up to high. And we're going to let that go for another
5 minutes. So there you have your completed beautiful
cream cheese frosting. Now just have a look at the consistency of that. You'll see there
it's a really nice, spoon-able, pipeable consistency. You can run your finger through it quite easily,
holds itself quite nicely. Now I will also mention that your milk is
the way that you can control the firmness of this frosting. So if you want it slightly
firmer, a little less milk. If you'd like it a little bit moister, add a little bit
more milk. But just add about a teaspoon at a time because you don't want to put it in
too much and end up with a wet sloppy frosting. We hope you've enjoyed this great tutorial
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