September 24, 2007

Pumpkin Cake Roll

Pumpkin cake surrounds cream cheese filling in this luscious cake roll.

Ingredients:
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup pumpkin
1 tsp. lemon juice
3/4 cup flour
1 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup ground nuts
Filling:
1 cup powdered sugar
2 three-oz. packages of cream cheese 4 Tbs. margarine
1/2 tsp. vanilla
Method

Beat eggs on high speed for 5 minutes. Add sugar gradually. Stir in pumpkin and lemon juice. Set aside. Stir together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. Fold into pumpkin mixture. Spread on greased and floured 10x15 sheet cake pan. Top with ground nuts. Bake at 375 for 15 minutes. Turn out on towel sprinkled with powdered sugar. Roll and let cool. Combine powdered sugar, cream cheese, margarine and vanilla. Unroll cake; spread on filling and roll back up. Keep refrigerated.