Scale
arrow_back Recipe

Recipe Git v1

Pumpkin Roll

Cookbook | Recipes | Ingredients | Equipment | Techniques | Cookbook Disambiguation Pages | Recipes | Dessert | Holiday

Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 10 Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: featured, medium difficulty, recipes for cake, recipes for dessert, recipes using baking soda, recipes using butter, recipes using egg, recipes using ground cinnamon, recipes using powdered sugar, recipes using pumpkin, recipes using white sugar, united states

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3APumpkin_Roll)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3APumpkin%20Roll&oldid=4587427

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 1 cup (220 g / 7.8 oz) white granulated sugar
  • 3 eggs, beaten
  • ⅔ cup (80 g / 2.8 oz) canned pumpkin
  • ¾ cup (110 g / 3.9 oz) flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ¾ cup (75 g / 2.6 oz) chopped pecans
  • 1 package (8 oz / 230 g) cream cheese
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 Tbsp butter
  • 1 cup (125 g / 4.4 oz) powdered sugar

Directions

Cake

  1. Preheat oven to 375 °F (191 °C).
  2. Mix sugar, eggs, and canned pumpkin in a large bowl until well blended.
  3. Using a second bowl, mix flour, salt, cinnamon, and baking soda.
  4. Fold dry mixture into larger bowl with pumpkin mixture.
  5. Line rectangular cookie sheet with greased parchment paper or waxed paper. Make sure to extend over the sides of the cookie sheet.
  6. Pour batter evenly onto the lined cookie sheet.
  7. Sprinkle batter with the chopped pecans.
  8. Bake at 375 °F (191 °C) for 15 minutes.

Filling

  1. Set aside ⅛ cup (15 g / 0.53 oz) of the powdered sugar; it will be used later.
  2. Whip cream cheese, vanilla, butter, and remaining powdered sugar until smooth.
  3. Set aside.

Assembly

  1. Lay a clean dish towel on a flat kitchen surface.
  2. Evenly sprinkle towel with the powdered sugar that was set aside earlier.
  3. Once the cake has been completely baked and before cooled, flip onto the towel with the powdered sugar.
  4. Loosely roll cake, then cool completely to allow cake to set.
  5. Once cooled, unroll cake.
  6. Spread filling over cake.
  7. Roll cake and filling up in a spiral.
  8. Wrap in foil or plastic wrap and freeze.
  9. Once frozen, remove foil and cut into slices while still frozen.

Notes

Any chopped nuts may be substituted for the pecans.