From his kitchen to yours, Mountain Home resident Joe Howard will share his favorite recipes with his readers. Sometimes I might just stray from the recipes and share my other 2 cents.

Pumpkin Roll

Posted Wednesday, November 2, 2011, at 6:55 PM

Very good for the Holidays

Cake

3-Eggs

1-Cup sugar

2/3-Cup pumpkin

3/4-cup flour

1-Teaspoon baking soda

1/2-Teaspoon cinnamon

1-Cup diced walnuts.

Extra powdered sugar, for dusting

Filling

8-ounces cream cheese softened

1-Cup powdered sugar

1-Tablespoon unsalted butter, room temperature

1-Tablespoon vanilla

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

Generously grease a jelly roll pan, place a piece of wax paper on it and grease that as well

Place the eggs and sugar in a large bowl and blend with a mixer until creamy and sugar is dissolved.

Add pumpkin, baking soda and cinnamon. Mix until just combined

Pour batter into jelly roll pan, sprinkle walnuts evenly over top of batter.

Bake for 15 minutes

While the cake is baking spread a tea towel on counter and sprinkle a generous amount of powdered sugar over the towel about about the area of jelly roll pan (This works best by putting a couple tablespoons of powdered sugar in a small strainer and shaking it gently over the area of the towel)

When the cake is done, turn onto the sugared towel, carefully peel away the wax paper, and loosely roll the cake in the towel Set aside for 20-25 minutes

While the rolled cake is resting, prepare the filling. beat together the cream cheese, powdered sugar and butter until creamy.

Then mix in the vanilla.

Unroll the cake and spread the filling evenly over the entire surface to within about 1/2 inch from the edges.

Re-roll the cake, firmly but gently so the filling doesn't get squeezed out making sure there are no air pockets inside.

Wrap tightly in aluminum foil and freeze

Slices best when frozen, allow slices to sit a room temp for about 5 minutes before serving

Will keep, frozen for several months tightly wrapped with foil.

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YUM!!!! I gotta try this! Glad to see you got the picture thing going.

-- Posted by royincaldwell on Wed, Nov 2, 2011, at 8:31 PM
It looks very good!

-- Posted by KH Gal on Thu, Nov 3, 2011, at 7:22 AM
I love pumpkin pie and cookies, this might be my next favorite! If I was good, I would make it for our Peeps meeting.... (but I bet I'm too lazy/unorganized to do it)

Jessie

-- Posted by jessiemiller on Thu, Nov 3, 2011, at 8:13 AM
No Roy I haven't even worked on trying to do the picture program, you can put one picture on your blog entry.

It is good Bonnie, I have never made it but my youngest has and I always enjoyed it.

Jessie it does take a bit of work to get it to turn out all in one piece.

-- Posted by Eagle_eye on Thu, Nov 3, 2011, at 9:11 AM
That does it, I won't try something like that when a few people are coming. The pressure would be too much for me!

-- Posted by jessiemiller on Thu, Nov 3, 2011, at 9:30 AM
Wasn't trying to scare you off, it not that hard to do. Removing it from the pan, and rolling it up the first time just have to use a bit of care and it will work out. Besides it can be frozen and should be to cut, so following the recipe you would know how it turned out and make it in advance and leave it in the freeze until the Peeps time. So go for it.

-- Posted by Eagle_eye on Thu, Nov 3, 2011, at 9:43 AM
hmmmmmmmmm... you do have a point. Well, you just might be surprised. I will have the advantage of already knowing if it turned out, so can run and get some other something.... YOu might have "Unscared" me on! or off, sumthin like that ...

I wanna impress the Peeps!

-- Posted by jessiemiller on Thu, Nov 3, 2011, at 10:05 AM
Joe, if you have a laptop, bring it with you and if Jessie will let use her internet connection, I'll set it up for you.

Roy

-- Posted by royincaldwell on Thu, Nov 3, 2011, at 7:55 PM
Hey! That is a good idea! Why didn't I think of it?

-- Posted by jessiemiller on Thu, Nov 3, 2011, at 11:17 PM
I don't have a laptop so that is out. Thanks for the offer tho.

-- Posted by Eagle_eye on Fri, Nov 4, 2011, at 5:02 AM
Joe

This looks really really yummy! I don't have a Jelly Roll Pan so can it be made without that kind of pan? What about using a cookie sheet?

-- Posted by MsMarylin on Mon, Nov 7, 2011, at 10:31 PM
MsM, you probably do have a jelly roll pan, this link explains it better than I would.

http://whatscookingamerica.net/Q-A/JellyRollPan.htm

-- Posted by Eagle_eye on Tue, Nov 8, 2011, at 8:56 AM
Ha Ha Yup I got one of those..... I call it a cookie sheet Lol! Thanks Joe

-- Posted by MsMarylin on Tue, Nov 8, 2011, at 11:22 AM
Well, Joe, I went to Mike's house, I could come to yours. Only if you agree. I want to see your pictures too! How old is your PC?

-- Posted by jessiemiller on Wed, Nov 9, 2011, at 8:06 AM
JYD Eu de Pumpkin! Now that's funny. I have a scentsy with that scent... LOVE IT! Though I don't think the name starts with ewwwww

-- Posted by jessiemiller on Wed, Nov 9, 2011, at 8:08 AM
Jessie, I don't know how old this computer is, it was given to me.. I think I still have plenty of memory and the hard drive is big enough. I am using windows XP.

I could use the help if you want to come by. Have no idea what you schedule is but Tue or Wed nites are best for me or on the weekend.

-- Posted by Eagle_eye on Wed, Nov 9, 2011, at 1:30 PM

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