Monday, September 13, 2010

Pumpkin Roll

I didn't want everyone to think we had gotten lazy with the recipe posting and moved on to "reviewing" restaurants.   AND I wanted to post yet another seasonally appropriate pumpkin recipe.  So basically this was a situation that I could not pass up...had to post!!

3 eggs

1 cup sugar

2/3 cup pumpkin

3/4 cup flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 tablespoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon salt

Combine eggs, pumpkin, and sugar together in a bowl and mix together well.  Combine dry ingredients together in a separate bowl and then combine with the pumpkin mixture.  Mix well - consistency should be smooth.  Spray a medium jelly roll pan with baking spray.  Put a piece of wax paper on top of the greased jelly roll pan, pressing into the bottom and the sides, and making sure that there is extra paper sticking out over the edges (so that you can pull this off later).  Spray the wax paper with the baking spray as well (the object is to make sure that the pumpkin roll does not stick).   Pour pumpkin mixture on the top of the wax paper, and bake for 15 minutes at 350 degrees.

While this is baking, mix up the filling:

8 ounces cream cheese, softened

4 tablespoons butter, softened

1 cup powdered sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Mix these ingredients together until smooth and creamy.  Remove the pumpkin cake from the oven and let cool for a few minutes.  Next, remove the cake from the jelly roll pan by flipping the pan onto a clean tea towel, cake side down.  The jelly roll pan should lift off easily, leaving the waxed paper.  Peel off paper.  Spread the cream cheese filling over the whole pumpkin cake evenly.  Next, start rolling the cake (while it is still warm) so that it looks like a big swiss cake roll (from one end to the other).  Make sure the roll is as tight as you can get it.  Wrap the roll in waxed paper and chill in the fridge until you are ready to slice and serve.

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