Pricilla's Pumpkin Roll

Total Time: 2 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 9 large eggs
• 2 1/2 cups extra finely granulated sugar
• 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
• 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
• 3 (8 ounce) packages philadelphia cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon real vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 in a large mixing bowl, beat eggs until light yellow.
• 2 add the remainder of the cake ingredients, except nuts.
• 3 blend on medium speed for 1 minute, then scrape the sides of the bowl and blend another 1-2 minutes.
• 4 remove bowl from mixer and stir in chopped nuts.
• 5 cover and place bowl in refrigerator for 15 minutes.
• 6 meanwhile,in another large mixer bowl,cream softened cream cheese and butter together until smooth.
• 7 gradually incorporate powdered sugar and then add vanilla and blend well.
• 8 cover and store butter cream mixture in refrigerator until needed.
• 9 preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• 10 grease or spray a jelly roll pan or lipped baking sheet.
• 11 remove cake mixture from refrigerator and spread one-third.
• 12 of the mixture into a rectangular shape about 11 inches by 14 inches.
• 13 bake 10-15 minutes until the edges of the cake start to brown.
• 14 remove from oven and loosen from pan with a spatula or wide turner.
• 15 place waxed paper over cake and place tea towel on top of waxed paper.
• 16 flip cake onto waxed paper and carefully remove baking pan.
• 17 roll cake from longest side with tea towel and set aside for 20 minutes.
• 18 meanwhile, repeat cake baking steps twice more.
• 19 after twenty minutes, unroll warm cake and spread with one-third of buttercream mixture.
• 20 re-roll cake; wrap in waxed paper or foil and refrigerate at least 4 hours or until served.
• 21 repeat filling remaining 2 baked cakes.
• 22 yield: 3 cake rolls.
• 23 servings each cake roll serves 8-10.
• 24 notes: cinnamon can be substituted for pumpkin pie spice.
• 25 walnuts can be substituted for pecans.
• 26 neufchatel cheese can be substituted for all or part of cream cheese but the filling will be softer.
• 27 the pumpkin log can be frozen for up to 2 weeks.