pumpkin roll

On my search to a new and surprising recipe with pumpkin I found this roll cake.  This was especially interesting for me, as this kind of cakes is in fact a speciality of my mother.

Ingredients:

• 3 large eggs
• 60 grams of pumpkin, finely chopped
• 60 grams of pecans, finely chopped
• 60 gram flour
• 120 gram brown sugar
• a teaspoon of lemon juice
• a pinch of salt
• a teaspoon of baking soda
• 2 teaspoons of cinnamon
• half a teaspoon of ginger

• 50 gram butter
• 200 gram cream cheese
• 120 gram confectioners' sugar
• some butter-vanilla extract
• some lemon zest

Method:

• Preheat the oven on 180°C.
• grease a griddle with butter
• Beat the eggs and add the brown sugar, pumpkin, flour, lemon juice, salt, baking soda, cinnamon and ginger while constantly mixing everything.
• Spread the dough over the griddle
• Sprinkle the dough with the pecans.
• Bake for 15 minutes in the oven.
• Afterwards, let it cool down for 5 minutes.
• Sprinkle a kitchen towel with some confectioners sugar.
• Carefully remove the cake from the griddle and spread it on the towel.
• Fold the sides of the towel over the cake and roll it up in the towel.
• Let it cool down for 45 minutes in the refrigerator.
• Melt the butter and mix it with the cheese, confectionars sugar, the vanilla extract and some lemon zest.
• Carefully unroll the cake again, and spread the mixture over it.
• roll it up again and put it in the refrigerator until serving.