Pumpkin Roll

 

Pumpkin Roll

Moist pumpkin spice cake with tangy ginger cream cheese filling
Course: Dessert

Ingredients
  

Cake
  • 2/3 Cup flour
  • 2 Tsp cinnamon
  • 1 Tsp baking powder
  • 1 Tsp ground ginger
  • 1/2 Tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1/2 Tsp salt
  • 1 Cup sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 3/4 Cup pumpkin puree
Filling
  • 4 Oz cream cheese softened
  • 4 Tbsp butter softened
  • 1/2 Tsp vanilla
  • 1 Cup confectioners sugar

Method
 

  1. For the cake: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line a jelly-roll pan with parchment paper. Lightly grease and flour the paper.
  2. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, ginger, nutmeg and salt.
  3. In a separate bowl, beat the granulated sugar and eggs until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Mix in the pumpkin until combined. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the pumpkin mixture. Pour the batter out onto the prepared jelly-roll pan. Drop the pan twice on the counter to even out the batter and release any bubbles. Bake for 15 minutes.
  4. Meanwhile, dust a dishtowel with the confectioners' sugar. Immediately transfer the cake to the powdered dishtowel and gently roll from one short end to the other. Refrigerate on a pan or plate until completely cool, about 2 hours.
  5. For the filling: Combine the confectioners' sugar, cream cheese, butter and vanilla. Beat until light and fluffy.
  6. Unroll the cake and spread with the filling. Re-roll the cake and wrap with plastic wrap for 1 to 2 hours. Dust with confectioners' sugar before serving.