Recipe for tree trunks
The “træstamme” is a classic that we can all relate to, just like the “romkugle”. Both are a guilty pleasure that we love to keep to ourselves and only share with the very best of friends.
Together with its good cousin the “romkugle,” the “træstamme” is the baker’s answer to reducing food waste. Both are made from all the delicious cake that wasn’t eaten the day before. It’s a truly fantastic invention where the baker finds the very best remnants of the cake they didn’t sell the day before and adds a little extra love.
The cake contains a bit of extra goodness, as the delightful “træstammer” are wrapped in a delicious and fine layer of marzipan, with the ends dipped in chocolate.
It’s the perfect package; delicious cake, the right amount of marzipan, and a bit of delightful dark chocolate with just the right amount of bitterness for the rest of the cake.
So if you have some cake leftovers, for example after afternoon coffee, it’s just a matter of getting started.
If your guests are not the type to leave cake leftovers, then bake an extra large portion and cross your fingers that there’ll be some left for your own homemade “træstammer.”
Happy baking
Tree Trunks
Ingredients
- 400 gram cake leftover cake, most of it can be used
- 175 gram Dark chocolate Melted over a water bath
- 125 gram Raw marzipan
- 8.4 gram Rum Essence
- 40 gram jam
- 100 gram Dark chocolate for covering
- 400 gram Raw marzipan for wrapping the tree trunks
- Powdered Sugar for rolling out the marzipan
Instructions
- Melt 175 grams of dark chocolate over a water bath. While the chocolate is melting, break the cake leftovers and marzipan into smaller pieces and put them in a mixing bowl.
- Add jam (this time I used raspberry jam) and rum essence (or real rum). I use rum essence myself, as the kids love homemade tree trunks.
- Pour the melted chocolate into the mixing bowl and mix everything well until you have a uniform mass. On my mixer, it takes a couple of minutes at medium speed.
- Turn the dough out onto the table and form it into a ball. Put the dough in the refrigerator for about an hour until it is firm and cold.
- Roll the dough into a long sausage. Here it becomes a matter of taste - how thick do you want your tree trunks? Just make them the thickness that suits you, and set the long sausage aside for a moment.
- Here you can advantageously clean the tabletop so that there are no brown spots on your covering.
- Sprinkle the tabletop with a little powdered sugar and roll out the marzipan to a thickness of 1-2 millimeters.
- Now wrap your tree trunk sausage in marzipan and cut your tree trunks to the desired size.
- Place them in the refrigerator while you melt 100 grams of dark chocolate over a water bath to cover the ends.
- When the chocolate has melted, dip the ends of the tree trunks into the chocolate. Run the excess chocolate off on the edge of the bowl and place your delicious tree trunks back in the refrigerator until the chocolate has set (if you can wait that long :-)).
- Now it's just a matter of setting up the coffee, tea, or whatever you want to wash your delicious tree trunks down with on the table, and grab a tree trunk before they are all gone.
Notes
Give the chocolate 1 or 2 minutes and stir the chocolate about every 20 seconds, to ensure that the chocolate does not burn.
When all the chocolate has melted, it is ready.