Pumpkin Roll

I’ve grown up eating pumpkin rolls every year around Thanksgiving and Christmas time. My mother still makes them for me every year, but I learned how to make them because I love having them all year long. They aren’t just good for the holidays. I strayed away from making them because they always seem more of a pain to make then it was worth, but I gave it a shot, and they were a lot easier to make then I thought, and so worth it!

-Cake Ingredients-

-3/4 cup all purpose flour

-1 tsp baking soda

-1 tsp ground cinnamon

-1/4 tsp nutmeg

-1 tsp pumpkin pie spice

-1 cup granulated sugar

-3 large eggs

2/3 cup canned pumpkin (or homemade pumpkin puree)

-1 tsp vanilla extract

-Filling Ingredients-

-8oz softened cream cheese

-2 Tbsp softened butter

-1 tsp vanilla extract

-1 cup powdered sugar

-1/2 Tbsp of pumpkin puree (optional)

4. Combine the wet and dry ingredients and mix until smooth and no more dry batter is left.

5. Spread batter evenly on the prepared pan, and bake for 10-14 min or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean

6. As soon as your cake is done you want to take it off the pan, parchment paper and all onto heat safe surface and immediately start rolling the cake with the parchment paper from the short end. Go slow and carefully to try and not crack it. Put on wire rack once rolled and allow it to completely cool.

- Directions -

1. Line a 10×15 jelly roll tray or baking sheet that has an edge with parchment paper (you can lightly grease it before so the parchment sticks) and Preheat oven to 350º

2. In a large bowl mix together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and pumpkin pie spice

3.In another bowl mix together the sugar, eggs, vanilla, and pumpkin puree

7. While your cake is cooling go ahead and mix your cream cheese, butter, vanilla, powdered sugar, and pumpkin puree together for your filling.

8. Once cake is cool, gently unroll and smooth out your filling on your cake leaving ½ inch to 1 inch border, after you spread it out you want to gently re roll your cake up but without the parchment paper this time. And then you can roll up in parchment paper and tinfoil or just plastic wrap and let cool for at least an hour. Once chilled you can dust top with powdered sugar and slice to serve. Enjoy!

peanut butter balls

I’m always looking for easy to make and cheap snacks for my kids and if I can make it into a desert too then even better! This recipe is so so easy to make and its delicious. I personally love peanut butter anything and these I can make for the whole family as a snack in 10 min or less, and they are easy enough and yummy enough to also dunk in chocolate and call it done for a desert too!

-Ingredients-

1 ½ cups peanut butter

1/3 cup honey

¾ cups oats

½ cup chocolate chips

3 cups of chocolate melted (if dipping in chocolate)

-Directions-

1. Mix together the peanut butter, honey, oats, and chocolate chips

2. once well mixed divide into 12 and roll into small balls

3. if you are not using the melting chocolate then enjoy as is or refrigerate

4. if you are using melting chocolate then melt your chocolate according to package if you are using melting chocolate, if you are using chocolate chips or something other than melting chips take a medium size pan and put a cup of water in and heat to a boil, then take a smaller pan and put your chocolate in. take water off of heat and put pan with chocolate in the pan with water and stir till chocolate is melted and coat you peanut balls with chocolate and put on parchments paper to cool.