Pumpkin Cake Roll With Cream Cheese Filling

2Bleu's Note:

This is a very moist and flavorful cake with a deliciously creamy filling. Surprisingly, it's not overly sweet. From www.McCormick.com If you like this one from McCormick, you might also enjoy from them, Pumpkin Bread Pudding With Vanilla Butter Sauce. :)

• Total Time: 25 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 12

cake

• 1 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 3 eggs, beaten
• 3/4 cup canned pumpkin
• 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar

filling

• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar
• 3 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

other

• 1 cup finely chopped walnuts (optional)
• confectioners' sugar, for dusting

Directions:

1. CAKE: Preheat oven to 350°F Butter 15x10-inch baking pan. Line pan with wax paper; butter paper.
2. In a large bowl, mix (I used a wisk) the sugar, flour, baking powder, 2 teaspoons of the pumpkin pie spice and salt. Stir in eggs and pumpkin until well blended and smooth. Spread evenly in prepared pan. Bake 15-20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
3. Place clean kitchen towel on work surface; dust with 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar. Loosen cake around sides of pan with small knife. Turn out onto sugared towel, wax paper-side up. Fold 1 side of towel over short side of cake, then roll up cake jelly-roll style. Cool cake completely (I did it in the fridge).
4. FILLING: In a medium bowl, mix cream cheese, 1 cup confectioners' sugar, butter, vanilla and pumpkin pie spice until well blended and smooth. Stir in walnuts, if desired.
5. ASSEMBLY: Unroll cake onto towel. Peel off wax paper. Spread cream cheese mixture evenly over cake. Using towel, roll up cake and place seam-side down on serving platter. Trim ends of cake.
6. Enjoy right away or refrigerate until ready to serve. Sprinkle cake with additional confectioners' sugar just before serving.

Reviews

[Buzymomof3]

Yeah - I did it! I have never done a cake roll before, but I love the pumpkin ones so I crossed my fingers and it worked! Tasted great, really wasn't hard to do at all. Made for Let's P-A-R-T-Y! 2009

[bmcnichol]

This was my first time making a pumpkin roll. I followed the recipe as written other then I didn't dust mine with sugar and eveyone enjoyed it.

[sher440]

Everyone raved about it - not a crumb left! Not too hard to make...I never thought I could do this! It was perfect, easy, and beautiful when sliced on the platter. Everyone's asking for it again already. Thanks so much!