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Sweet Potato Cake Roll

3 eggs
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup cooked, mashed sweet potatoes or yams
1 Tablespoon lemon juice
3/4 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup chopped pecans
confectioners sugar 
8 ounces cream cheese 
4 Tablespoons margarine
1 cup confectioners' sugar
2 teaspoons concentrated orange juice 
1/2 teaspoon grated orange peel or dried orange zest 

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a 10 x 15-inch jelly roll pan
with wax paper.  Grease and flour paper. In the large bowl of an
electric mixer, beat eggs at high speed for 5 minutes. Then add
sugar gradually. Stir in cooked  sweet potatoes or yams and lemon
juice. In a separate bowl, stir flour, baking powder, spices and
salt together. Gently fold into sweet potato or yam mixture.  Pour
into prepared pan and sprinkle with nuts. Bake for 15 minutes. Turn
out onto dish towel sprinkled with confectioner's sugar. Roll
together with towel and wax paper. Cool on wire rack. While cake
cools, prepare Orange Filling  Bring cream cheese and margarine to
room temperature. Place them in the large bowl of an electric mixer
and whip until fluffy. Add sugar and orange juice concentrate.
Beat until smooth.  Unroll cake, carefully peel off paper and spread
cake with filling. Roll cake up and wrap in new wax paper. Chill
2 to 4 hours

Serves: 12

Printable version: sweet-potato-roll.txt.