mixer down to the lowest speed, take our butter that has been sitting in the refrigerator, add it to the meringue base all at one time. we are going to turn the mixer on to the high speed for five minutes and turn it down, turn it off. scrape the sides down with our spatula and let it sit at speed 1 for about 10 or 15 minutes until it's blended. it's blended when there is no more butter chunks at the bottom of the bowl.
coming up in our next segment we are going to show you how to assemble the cake and then decorate it. 