5 Days Until a Gluten Free Christmas: Pumpkin Roll

This might be my favorite dessert of all time, and if you make it you will understand why. It is hard to put down a fork when you have this dessert in front of you.

A flavorful pumpkin and spice cake roll filled with sweetened cream cheese.

This recipe and description comes from suretalent-books.com

Pumpkin Roll Ingredients
¼ Cup Glutinous Rice Flour
¼ Cup Tapioca Flour
½ Cup White Rice Flour
1 Teaspoon Xanthan Gum
1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
2½ Tablespoons Cinnamon
½ Teaspoon Ginger
Dash Nutmeg
3 Eggs
1 Cup Sugar
¼ Cup Vegetable Oil
1 Teaspoon Lemon Zest
1 Teaspoon Vanilla
¾ Cup Canned Pumpkin
¼ Cup Powdered Sugar (reserved for later)

Cream Cheese Filling Ingredients
8 Ounces Cream Cheese
5 Tablespoons Butter
1¼ Cups Powdered Sugar
1 Teaspoon Vanilla

Pumpkin Roll Instructions
In large bowl, combine flours, Xanthan Gum, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg, mix. Set aside for later use.

Place eggs, sugar and oil in mixing bowl and beat on medium-high speed for 2 minutes. Add lemon zest, vanilla and pumpkin; mix. Add pre-mixed dry ingredients; mix. Evenly spread batter into jelly roll pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray. Bake at 375° for 16 minutes. While the roll is baking, take a kitchen towel (has to be as large as jelly roll pan) and lie flat on the kitchen counter. Take the ¼ cup of powdered sugar and evenly sprinkle on the towel. Once the roll is baked, turn out onto towel and begin rolling up the towel/roll. Allow to cool completely.

Cream Cheese Filling Instructions
Place cream cheese and butter in mixer and cream together. Add remaining ingredients; mix.

Assembly Instructions
Take completely cooled pumpkin roll and carefully unroll until flat. Take cream cheese filling and spread evenly over pumpkin roll surface. Carefully roll the pumpkin roll (without the towel) and place in refrigerator to allow the filling to set (at least 3 hours). Cream Cheese Pumpkin Roll can be wrapped in foil sprayed with cooking spray (to avoid sticking). For presentation purposes, dust with powdered sugar.

I can tell you that it is every bit of good as it looks. I have one of these a year to myself and it rarely makes it more than 2 days. I highly recommend it to anyone!