Best Pumpkin Roll Ever.

Submitted by pittgal

"This is a great dessert for the holiday season. People love it. It is perfect to give as gifts as well. It is from Epicurious, but I made some changes to the ingredients."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 16
• Yields: 1 roll
• Serves: 10

ingredients

• 236.59 ml sugar
• 177.44 ml all-purpose flour
• 4.92 ml baking powder
• 14.79 ml ground cinnamon
• 0.61 ml nutmeg
• 0.61 ml ground cloves
• 0.25 ml salt
• 0.25 ml ground ginger
• 3 large eggs, beaten to blend
• 157.80 ml canned solid-pack pumpkin
• 29.58 ml powdered sugar
• 226.79 g package cream cheese, room temperature
• 236.59 ml powdered sugar
• 29.58 ml unsalted butter, room temperature
• 4.92 ml vanilla extract
• powdered sugar

directions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Butter 13x9x5/8-inch jelly roll pan.
3. Line pan with waxed paper; butter paper.
4. Mix first 8 ingredients in large bowl.
5. Mix in eggs and pumpkin.
6. Pour batter into prepared pan, spreading evenly.
7. Bake until tester inserted into center of cake comes out clean, about 15 minutes.
8. Lay kitchen towel on work surface; dust with 2 tablespoons powdered sugar.
9. Cut around pan sides to loosen cake. Turn out cake onto sugared towel, waxed-paper side up.
10. Fold 1 side of towel over 1 long side of cake, then roll up cake jelly roll style.
11. Cool cake.
12. Combine cream cheese, 1 cup powdered sugar, butter and vanilla in medium bowl; beat to blend.
13. Unroll cake; leave on towel.
14. Peel off paper.
15. Spread cream cheese filling evenly over cake.
16. Using towel as, roll up cake and place seam side down on platter. Trim ends of cake.
17. Dust cake with powdered sugar.
18. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.).
19. Cut cake crosswise into 1-inch-thick slices and serve.

Reviews

[tlg71567]

This was awesome!!! So good and so easy. I trippled the recipe and took them to a wedding. They were gone quickly and everybody loved them. I will definitely be making this again and again. Yummmmm!!!