Brett's Pumpkin Roll

Today Is My Brother Brett's Birthday and I would like to honor him by posting his notorious Pumpkin Roll!  He brings this every year to our Thanksgiving meal and I can't get enough of it.  I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do.  

PUMPKIN ROLL

Beat 3 eggs

Add 1 cup of sugar

Beat again

Add:

2/3 cup pumpkin

1tsp salt

1tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp cinnamon

3/4 cup flour

Combine and beat

Grease cookie sheet (must be 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1)

line cookie sheet with wax paper

spread mixture on wax paper

bake 18 minutes @350 degrees

While baking, cover a tea towel (a very thin towel used for bread) with powder sugar using a sifter

Take pan the out of oven and let it fall on to the tea towel.  Peel off wax paper.  Roll up in powder sugar covered tea towel and put it in the fridge for 1 hour.

To make filling:

1 8oz cream cheese

1tsp vanilla

2 tsbls softned butter

1 cup powder sugar

Mix above ingredients

Take out pumpkin roll and unroll

Spread filling on flattened roll and roll back up and cover in foil and refrigerate for another hour and 

ENJOY!

My brother like to roll his tight and will say, "mines the best!" and I like to roll mine not so tight, so I can have a more "cakey" feel. So, roll as you please, just don't roll anything else ;) hehe

Happy Birthday Brett! I love you!