Shelly's Recipe

Pumpkin Crunch Roll

Category: Cakes

Serves: 10-12


Pumpkin Roll
1/4 cup powdered sugar (to sprinkle on towel)
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 large eggs
1 cup granulated sugar
2/3 cup LIBBY’S® 100% Pure Pumpkin

Cream Cheese Frosting
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
6 tablespoons butter softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup powdered sugar for dusting

Crunch Layer (optional)
1/2 Cup Walnuts, finely chopped
1/2 Cup Vanilla Wafers (about 12 cookies)
1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
1/2 Stick Butter {2 ounces)

1.Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2.Grease 15 x 10-inch jelly-roll pan; line with wax paper. Grease and flour paper. Sprinkle towel with powdered sugar.
3.Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and salt in small bowl. Beat eggs and sugar in large mixer bowl until thick.
4.Beat in pumpkin.
5.Stir in flour mixture.
6.Spread evenly into prepared pan.
7.Bake for 13 to 15 minutes or until top of cake springs back when touched. Immediately loosen and turn cake onto prepared towel, and carefully peel off paper.
8.Roll up cake and towel together, starting with narrow end.
9.Cool on wire rack.

Cream Cheese Frosting
1.Whip cream cheese, powdered sugar, butter and vanilla extract in small mixer bowl until smooth.
2.Carefully unroll cake; remove towel and spread cream cheese mixture over cake.***
3.Re-roll cake, then wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate at least one hour.
4.Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.

Crunch Layer -Optional
1.Melt Butter
2.In a food processor, pulse cookies to a fine crumb
3.Then Pulse walnuts to a fine chop
4.Add in Brown Sugar and mix well.
5.Add in Melted Butter and blend together.
6.place crumb mixture on cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes

Notes

**if desired add in the crunch layer after the frosting and before rolling the cake up. You may also use chopped nuts, such as pecans or walnuts.