Punsch-roll


Punsch-roll is a Swedish small cylindrical pastry covered with green marzipan with the ends dipped in chocolate, with an interior consisting of a mix of crushed biscuits, butter, and cocoa, flavoured with punsch liqueur.

Name

This pastry is often called dammsugare, referring not only to its appearance, but also to the supposed practice of the pastry baker collecting crumbs from yesterday's cookies for filling. Other names are arraksrulle and "150-ohmer"

Variations

The same pastry is called Træstamme in Danish and in Denmark. These however, are usually not colored green and no liquor is added to the cookie butter.
The Dutch variant is called a mergpijpje. The mergpijpje is cream-colored instead of green, and comes in two variants. A small variant with cream filling, and a large variant, reuze mergpijp, filled with cake and a layer of cream. The reuze mergpijp is sometimes also filled with a thin layer of berry jam.