The calendar tells me it’s October… but you wouldn’t know that by the weather here.  Today it was over 90°F so I’m hard pressed to actually feel like it’s Autumn.  I’ve always said it’s difficult to get in the Holiday spirit and bake pumpkin pies on Thanksgiving Day when it’s this hot outside. I thought this year I would start a bit earlier in the season so that perhaps come actual Holiday Time, it will be somewhat easier on my psyche.  The first item…. a pumpkin roll with cream cheese filling.  And oooooh yeah, this one is good!

Those of you who visit my friend Jamie’s blog over at My Baking Addiction know what she did to us last weekend.  She “mistakenly” auto-published the beginnings of a post about pumpkin roll… but  {gasp} didn’t finish it.  She’s left us hanging… waiting… anticipating…  literally for days now!  I mean, we’re food bloggers – that’s like cruel -&- unusual punishment or something!!  We were all excited about seeing the pictures and trying out the recipe but… but… but… none of that was there :( Nothing but tantalizing prose that took us to the edge of the cliff…. and then unceremoniously dumped us on our collective keesters! LOL!! She later posted a notice that the entry auto-published by mistake and she’d finish it off early this week.  That gave us hope!!! While I can speak only for myself but my tummy was surely rumbling in anticipation!!  I now had pumpkin roll on da-brain!!  I had a fever and the only cure was more pumpkin roll ;-)  (those of you that’ve seen the Christopher Walken Cowbell sketch on Saturday Night Live will get that obscure reference right there hahahaha).  Valiantly,  I kept checking Jamie’s blog… several times a day,in fact, but still no update :(

Finally, left to my own devices, in a moment filled with desperation, I headed over to one of my favorite sites, All Recipes, and tried one of their pumpkin roll recipes.  Having never actually made a pumpkin roll myself, I had to kind of wing it… and I’m sure this can’t compare to what Jamie will share with us cuz, well, she says she’s got goo-gobs of experience and friends, we all know that can only mean one thing…. it’s gonna be goooooooood!.  But this one here actually turned out pretty darn good if I must say so myself.  The hubs is not a big fan of pumpkin but he liked it… saying it tasted more like spice cake than a screaming-in-your-face pumpkin flavor.  In fact, he had two slices saying the cream cheese filling is what made this really good.  I liked it a lot and I would consider making it again… but not until I’ve had a chance to check out what Jamie has waiting for us… someday… eventually… if she ever finishes off her entry…. cuz I for one still have a grumbling tummy ;-)

If you’d like to try this recipe, it can be found right here.  The only thing I did differently was to omit the nuts and the lemon juice. Other than that, I followed the recipe to a “t”.

Have a delicious day!