>>Howard:
If you love creamy buttery frosting like I do, then you've come to the right place! Let me show ya how to make a great buttercream. And basically, a buttercream, is just a handful
of ingredients: butter, confectionary sugary--or powdered sugar, vanilla or whatever flavorings
that you like, a little bit of cream or milk, a little bit of salt. So we take our butter and we can do this with
a stand mixer or a hand mixer, just easier for demonstration purposes to show you with
the stand mixer. And we're gonna beat that up, 'til it's nice
and creamy, takes just about 30 seconds. Now that it's nice and creamy, we're gonna
lower the speed and we're gonna add in our powdered sugar. We wanna make sure we lower the speed so the
powdered sugar doesn't end up flyin' all over the kitchen and all over us and it looks like some kind of
"I Love Lucy" episode. And once it's slowly mixed in, we can slowly
build the speed, and now we'll put in some of our cream. You can see it's really coming together nicely
now. Now we'll add a touch of vanilla and like
I said, you can add peppermint extract if you wanted to do cake for the holidays or
pumpkin extract. There's lots of extracts out there, to give
you whatever flavor you're looking for. Add just a little bit of salt. That salt will actually bring out the sweetness
in the sugar. And I think that's right where we wanted. Look at that! That icing! How beautiful, how light! Absolutely perfect. Mmm, okay! Now, if you wanted to turn this into a chocolate
icing, put that back down. And we're just gonna put a little cocoa. Lock that, turn it on slowly, just add a little
bit of cocoa powder here, beat that up. Start off slowly again, so you don't end up
with it all over the place, and as it incorporates into each other, we'll just beat up a little
bit more. You might wanna scrape it down, just so ya
get everything off the sides. Lock it, put it on, wipe my hands, beat it
one more time. I'm gonna rinse my hands a sec. And there you have beautiful chocolate frosting. I'll just make sure it's as good as it looks. Mmm! "OOH IT'S SO GOOD!!®" We actually have a whole page of homemade
frostings and icings on our website, so check those out as well. Mmm!