Cake Decorating: How to Make Buttercream Icing

Hi, my name is Amanda Oakleaf. I am owner, head baker, decorator of Amanda Oakleaf Cakes in Winthrop, Massachusetts where we do custom cakes of all kinds -- wedding cakes, birthday cakes, sculpted cakes. Anything you can think of we can make it into a cake. And today I will be talking to you about cake decorating. And now we're going to make an Italian meringue buttercream, which is a cooked sugar folded into whipped meringue with egg whites, and butter gets whipped in in the end. So, we're gonna start. we have half a cup of water in our saucepan and we're gonna add one and a fourth cup of granulated sugar. and we wanna heat it up until it comes to a boil. And we wanna watch it with a candy thermometer to make sure it comes up to 248-250 degrees. So we just wanna give it a stir, make sure it dissolves, and then keep an eye on it with the candy thermometer. In the mean time we wanna add one cup of egg whites and then with the whisk attachment on your mixer, we wanna keep it on high speed until they get frothy. And then we're gonna add one teaspoon of cream of tartar. So we have the sugar syrup boiling and that's gonna reach 250 and we got the egg whites whipping. They're gonna be white and fluffy, they're gonna double in volume. Once they get to soft peaks stage, we're gonna add one third a cup of granulated sugar. And we just need to wait a few minutes for everything to come to temperature. And now our egg whites are at soft peak stage so we're gonna add our cup, our 1/3 cup of granulated sugar.

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[officialtinkerboy]

How much butter is used? It looks like over a pound, which seems like a lot.

[Kune73]

i just wanna ask how many of butter you use?

[tetekape]

how many cupcakes I can cover with this mix?????

[cheesecakelover4life]

Why would she hold the hot pan when she was mixing ..thts retarded js...

[ilovemydogs961]

cool

[princess67336]

I thought it was butter cream not italian merang -___-

[DCMACollectives]

@HZ2334 Do what Michelle Phan does (She has a video on here about this), cook it up! No need to waist yolks, eh? xD

[MeiSong135]

Hence the term /butter/cream people. If you're going to complain about calories, why are you watching a video on icing? All icing is made from a fat, a cream, and a sugar.

[shannyfbaby2010]

@ThePinkrose33 nope 6 sticks of butter is 3 pounds. 1 stick of butter is 8 ounces and 16 ounces is a pound so 8oz (1 stick) plus 8oz (1 stick) equals 16 oz ( 2 sticks) which is 1 pound

[shannyfbaby2010]

@bruqedoral you much had did it wrong the sugar must have been to hot and you undermix

[shannyfbaby2010]

@Ben67810 about 2 cake if you doing a 3 layer cake but at least 4 if not depends on how much frosting you use

[shannyfbaby2010]

@officialtinkerboy it 6 butter so thats 3 pounds