I made my first pumpkin roll and it turned out chewy. I don't know what I did wrong. Here is the recipe.

3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 large eggs
1 cup granulated sugar
2/3 cup LIBBY'S® 100% Pure Pumpkin

PREHEAT oven to 375° F. Grease 15 x 10-inch jelly-roll pan; line with wax paper. Grease and flour paper.

COMBINE flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and salt in small bowl. Beat eggs and granulated sugar in large mixer bowl until thick. Beat in pumpkin. Stir in flour mixture. Spread evenly into prepared pan.

BAKE for 13 to 15 minutes or until top of cake springs back when touched.

That doesn't seem like nearly enough flour to me. Anybody?

Aww, I see what happened there, where's the fat?
The fat in a recipe keeps the flour molecules from "gluing" together. Even sponge cakes have fat in them. The egg yolks are seperated from the whites and mixed with the sugar and wet ingredients. The whites are beaten then folded into the liquid and flour mixture then it's put into a pan and baked. But somehow there has to be fat of some kind to make your dough or batter none chewy.
So, you did nothing wrong hun. It's the recipe.

The pumpkin roll recipe I use has no fat in it either. I think the pumpkin is the "fat". Not sure why it didn't turn out, that is about the same recipe I use. Maybe you baked it too long? It doesn't take very long for that thin cake to get done. The recipe is ok - right amount of flour and no fat (looks about like the recipe Libby even posts for their pumpkin roll) I am betting the oven was too hot, or it was baked too long.

Here is the link to the Libby' recipe on their site: Pumpkin Roll

My has more flour, but also vegetable oil. (This is from Taste of Home magazine):

1 can (15 oz) solid-pack pumpkin
2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs, lightly beaten
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt

(My MIL has a tendency to leave things out or miscopy amounts when I get recipes from her. Always have to try to double check--kind of like on Everybody Loves Raymond.)