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.