Wash the cherries, remove the stalks, remove stones and, except for 4 pieces, roughly cut them into pieces. Cream 150 g butter, sugar, salt and vanilla sugar with the whisk of the hand mixer. Stir in eggs one after the other. Mix flour, baking powder and almonds and stir into the dough alternately with buttermilk. Grease the oval hollows of a muffin tray (9 hollows) or 9 individual oval forms (100 ml content) and dust with flour. Pour in the dough.
Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: stage 2) for 20-25 minutes. Take the tray out of the oven and after about 10 minutes turn the muffins onto a cake rack and let them cool down. Cream 40 g butter and icing sugar with the whisk of the hand mixer. Stir in cream cheese and cherry juice. Spread cream cheese cream on the cold muffins. Decorate with cherries and sugar crystals
30 minutes waiting time