Dear Barb: I am confessing right now that I cheated and made the Christmas Eve pumpkin roll on December the 8th.
I got it flipped, rolled, frosted and re-rolled with no breakage.
I didn't run into any trouble eating it either. I made it in honor of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Let's face it. Without that there wouldn't be a Christmas Eve. Right?
Barb's Famous Christmas Eve Pumpkin Roll
3 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 3/4 can pumpkin, 1 tsp lemon juice, 3/4 cup flour, 1 tsp ginger, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp nutmeg, 2 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 cup chopped pecans.
Beat eggs for 5 minutes on high. Add sugar, pumpkin, and lemon juice. In another bowl sift all dry ingredients and add to pumpkin mixture. Grease and flour a 16x11 jelly roll pan or cookie sheet. Pour batter and sprinkle pecans on top. Bake 15 minutes at 375 degrees. While hot, flip onto towel sprinkled with powdered sugar. Roll with towel and cool for 3 hours.
Filling: 6 oz cream cheese, 4 oz butter, 1 cup powdered sugar, 1 tsp vanilla. Mix until fluffy, spread filling on cake, roll back up, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to eat.
Enjoy!
The pumpkin roll looks delicious, as is your blog (one of my favorites). How about sharing the recipe?
Posted by: Barbara | 12/10/2013 at 01:53 AM
It looks great Carol, it rolled up beautifully, you are obviously an expert pumpkin roll maker. xx
Posted by: Amy at love made my home | 12/10/2013 at 02:14 AM
One thing I know for sure, there is some seriously good food making going on in that house of yours!
Posted by: barbara | 12/10/2013 at 07:11 AM
Christmas Eve cannot be celebrated too often. You may call on me whenever you need to be enabled.
Posted by: jeanette, mistress of longears | 12/10/2013 at 10:45 AM
Looks goooooooood!!! I am keen on trying this next autumnn, when pumpkins are abundant. It's hard for a Northern gal to live in the Southern Hemisphere. Especially this time of year when all the glorious baking smells are blown in from your end of the planet!!
Posted by: Bobby | 12/10/2013 at 12:38 PM
Oooooh la la! That looks like a tradition in the making. Will try this as soon as I can. Thanks so much for the recipe.
Posted by: Leslie j. Moran | 12/10/2013 at 07:47 PM
Oh YUM! That looks delicious! Do you serve it cold or warm it up? I'm thinking spice tea would taste so good with this. We're still in the deep freeze here. I'm staying indoors, knitting my brains out!
Posted by: Joan Clarke | 12/11/2013 at 05:52 PM