The last few years I’ve grown pumpkins - and some years more than others. This year I only ended up with about 30 pumpkins whereas the year before I had over 80. But I still have lots of frozen pumpkin from years before.

Lest you think it is amazing that I have frozen pumpkin in my freezer - it’s actually not hard AND we don’t have canned pumpkin here so if I do want to have pumpkin to eat, I have to cook it up and freeze it or dry it or can it. I have dried some but I have plenty in my freezer as well.

I decided to make Libby’s Pumpkin Roll recipe a few days ago. Here’s the recipe I used.

Now mine doesn’t look quite as perfect as the one in the picture on that website, but mine was decent looking - and very tasty!

I had decided on Tuesday to make it - it is quite a bit more work to make than a simple pumpkin bread, so I usually need to decide more than the day before to get myself excited about making it (I’m not really into cooking anymore now that the kids are all gone). I usually make something to take to church for our little group so after church we can have a snack.

In this picture, I put one batch of spices right into the Kitchen Aid mixer bowl and the other two into the little glass dishes.

I didn’t show it, but I took the pumpkin out of the freezer the day before so it would completely thaw. I put the bags into a Tupperware container on the counter and let them get to room temperature. I then measured the pumpkin out as needed in the recipe. I made it up 3 times in order to make three pumpkin rolls. When I do that, in order to be a little faster, I measure out the spices and things into containers at the same time - sort of like chain piecing! It seems easier for me and I am less likely to make mistakes that way.

From then on, I mix all the spices and flour and sugar together as you would most any cake. It is a spongy type cake - and not a regular typical cake as in a cake mix. I lined a “jelly roll pan” with wax paper and then buttered and floured the paper.

I’ll put the steps here below with descriptions on it. Click on the arrows to see how I made it/them.

Start by dusting a clean kitchen towel with powdered sugar

Once you mix up the ingredients, put it in a jelly roll pan with waxed paper

Put it in the oven for 13-15 min.

This is what the baked cake looks like.

Once cooked, turn the spongey type cake upside down

Take off the waxed paper carefully trying not to tear the cake.

I sprinkled the top of the cake with more powdered sugar though the recipe doesn't tell you to.

Roll up the hot cake together with the clean kitchen towel

Roll it up completely.

Place it on a wire rack to cool completely.

While the cake is cooling, make the filling. I then put it in the fridge to get colder and a little thicker.

Several hours later after the cake is completely cool, carefully unwrap it - remove the kitchen towel. Work with delicate hands.

Keep the cake that is now formed into a roll sort of rolled up. Try not to let it crack.

I worked with a cookie sheet under it and a piece of plastic wrap on top of the cookie sheet as shown.

Very gently, open the cake roll back up and place filling on top of the cake roll.

Spread the filling to the edges.

Roll it back up. I simply couldn't get pictures of it in process as I needed both hands and to work quickly. Once wound back up, wrap the plastic wrap around it to hold the filling in.

After it is well wrapped in plastic wrap, refrigerate for at least an hour. I left mine in the fridge overnight.

Here is how mine looked. Very happy with how it turned out!

A little closer.

Cut slice

These slices made several people very happy on Sunday!

I hadn’t originally thought I would actually make a blog post from it - but Rachael suggested it - so I am. I raised the pumpkin I used in the rolls in my own garden, so it makes them extra special!

The cake is moist and tasty and the cream cheese filling is amazing.

I found a video for you!!! I differ with the cool the cake only 1 hour. I found it worked great for me at 3 hours - completely cool.

So exactly what does this have to do with quilting?

Nothing. Not really.

But if you want to find fabrics with pumpkins in them, check out our website here.

When we harvested our own pumpkins, we used our black truck’s back end to put them in - but this fun panel shows that ubiquitous red truck!

Have a great day wherever you are reading this!

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