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Pumpkin Roll Cake

Just in time for Fall festivities, Jack Whittemore a Math teacher at West Mecklenburg H.S. and a part time Pampered Chef Consultant would visit my culinary classes every October to demonstrate how to prepare his pumpkin roll. My students then applied their newly gained knowledge and prepared hundreds of these as a part of their required entrepreneurship project. Every year the project was successful with people coming back every year to purchase them.

Description

How to make a Pumpkin Marzipan Garnish Color marzipan using orange food coloring. Make a small ball with the marzipan. Flatten the top and the bottom of the ball, using your hands. Using the edge of a spatula press into the rounded surface vertically. Each line around the ball is about the same distance around. Gently push a clove on top for the stem. With green and brown decorating icing make a stem and leaf.

Ingredients
  • Cake
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2/3 cup cooked pumpkin
  • ¾ cup flour
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • Filling
  • 2 T butter
  • 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
Directions
  • Grease a cookie sheet or jelly roll pan and line it with wax paper.
  • Mix the first 7 ingredients together in a mixing bowl until the batter is smooth.
  • Spread the batter over the wax paper, making sure the batter evens out to edges and corners.
  • Bake 15 minutes.
  • Take directly from the oven and turn onto a clean dish towel that has been sprinkled with powdered sugar.
  • Using a knife, gently separate the wax paper from the pumpkin roll (edges and corners will need careful attention).
  • Roll up pumpkin roll in the dish towel and refrigerate (can be fixed the day before).
  • Mix the last 4 ingredients with a mixer; blend until smooth. Remove pumpkin roll from the refrigerator, gently unroll and remove the dish towel.
  • Spread the filling over the entire roll, from end to end and re-roll.
  • Refrigerate until ready to serve. To garnish sprinkle sifted confectionary sugar on top and cut into rings to serve.

Categories

DessertCakeAmericanHolidayVegetarian