
Pumpkin Roll Cake with Beautiful Fall Pattern
Prep time: 30 min | Baking time: 10-15 min | Chilling time: 1 hr | Total time: 1 hr 45 min

This pumpkin roll is the most delicious fall dessert and perfect for your thanksgiving table too! It is made like a patterned swiss roll, so the presentation is gorgeous too, get ready to wow your loved ones!
Pumpkin Roll cake With Beautiful Fall Pattern
This pumpkin roll is the most delicious fall dessert and perfect for your thanksgiving table too! It is made like a patterned swiss roll, so the presentation is gorgeous too, get ready to wow your loved ones!
Prep Time 30 minutes mins
Cook Time 15 minutes mins
Chilling Time 1 hour hr
Total Time 1 hour hr 45 minutes mins
Equipment
- 10 x 15 pan
- Parchment Paper
- piping bags (optional)
- Toothpick (optional)
Ingredients
Pattern Batter
- 60 g sugar
- 80 g flour
- 60 g unsalted butter melted and cooled
- 2 eggs
- orange (red, green and yellow food color)
Pumpkin Cake Roll
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp all spice
- 1/2 tsp ginger
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup sugar (200 g)
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup pumpkin puree
Cream Cheese Filling
- 8 oz full fat cream cheese at room temperature (226 g)
- 4 Tbsp butter softened at room temperature (56 g)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup confectioners sugar sifted
Instructions
- Butter or oil the pan, line with parchment paper grease the paper and set aside
- Preheat oven to 375 F
If just making the roll without the design you can skip this step
- Mix the flour and sugar for the pattern batter
- Add the melted and cooled butter and 2 eggs mix till combined
- Divide this mixture into four and color with a few drops of food coloring. red, yellow, orange and green
- Transfer into four piping bags and snip the top
- Pipe stripes, alternating the colors along the width of the pan
- Bang the tray on the counter to get air bubbles out
- With a toothpick score the stripes, in one direction then the other
- Let the pan chill in the fridge while you make the cake
Pumpkin Cake Roll
- Oil 2 sheets of parchment paper the size of the pan and set aside
- Sift the dry ingredients flour, , baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, all spice, ginger, nutmeg and salt and set aside
- Beat the eggs vanilla and sugar together till lighter in color and thick
- Add the pumpkin and mix
- Add the dry ingredients and mix, do not over mix!
- Pour batter over the chilled pattern, smooth out and bake for about 12 mins
- It is ready when it pulls away from the sides slightly and when you lightly touch it, it springs back, do not over bake or it will be difficult to roll and crack
- take cake out of oven when done
- while still hot, place the parchment paper oil side down on top, put a chopping board or similar surface on top and flip it
- Remove the parchment paper slowly and gently to reveal the design
- Put a fresh sheet of parchment paper on top oil side down, chopping board on top and flip it again
- Gently roll up cake using the parchment paper and let it cool
Cream Cheese Filling
- While cake is cooling make the filling
- Beat the cream cheese, butter and vanilla extract together till smooth
- Sift the confectioners sugar and add it, beat till smooth
Assembly
- Gently unroll the cake
- Spread the filling evenly
- Gently roll up the cake, transfer to dish, cling wrap and let it chill in the fridge for an hour
- Trim the edges so its neat ( I added some fall leaves I made with fondant and painted with luster dust)
- Slice and serve
Video
Notes
Enjoy!
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