Pumpkin Roll Cake
 
 
slightly adapted from Libby's.
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Ingredients
  • FOR CAKE:
  • ¼ cup powdered sugar (to sprinkle on clean kitchen towel)
  • ¾ cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
  • ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • ⅔ cup 100% pure pumpkin
  • FOR FILLING:
  • 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
  • 1 cup powdered sugar, sifted
  • 6 Tablespoons butter, room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • OPTIONAL FINISH:
  • powdered sugar for dusting
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Prepare jelly-roll pan; lightly spray pan. Place parchment paper on base of pan with excess going up the sides. Spray lightly again.
  2. Sprinkle clean, thin kitchen towel with ¼ cup powdered sugar.
  3. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ground cloves, nutmeg, and salt in small bowl. Sift flour mixture.
  4. Beat eggs and granulated sugar in large mixing bowl until combined. Mix in pumpkin. Fold in flour mixture until just combined.
  5. Spread evenly in prepared pan.
  6. Bake for 12-14 minutes or until top of cake springs back when touched.
  7. When done, immediately take out of oven and carefully run small knife around edge to release cake from sides of parchment paper.
  8. Turn cake out onto prepared kitchen towel sprinkled with powdered sugar.
  9. Carefully peel off parchment paper.
  10. Starting at narrow end, roll cake and towel together. Place cake, seam side down on wire rack to cool.
  11. While cake cools, beat cream cheese, 1 cup sifted powdered sugar, butter, and vanilla in mixing bowl until smooth.
  12. Once cake is cool, carefully unroll cake.
  13. Spread cream cheese mixture over cake. Reroll cake. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate one hour.
  14. For clean cake ends, use serrated knife to cut ½ inch off each end of cake.
  15. Dust with powdered sugar before serving.
Recipe by Every Kitchen Tells A Story at https://everykitchentellsastory.com/pumpkin-roll-cake/