Cream butter, 200 g sugar, eggs, salt, 2 sachets vanilla sugar and custard powder with the whisk of the hand mixer. Stir in curd and cream. Line the bottom of a well-closing springform pan (26 cm Ø) with baking paper and grease the rim. Pour in the quark mixture and bake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for 50-60 minutes
Wash the orange and peel the peel with a peeler. Squeeze the juice from the orange. Wash the cherries, remove the stalks, halve them and remove the stones. Boil up cherry nectar, 25 g sugar, 1 packet vanilla sugar, orange peel, cardamom, star anise and cinnamon stick. Mix orange juice and starch and stir into the boiling compote. Let simmer for about 1 minute while stirring. Remove from heat, remove spices, pour over the cherries and mix well. Let the compote cool down
Turn off the oven, open the oven door and let the cake cool down in the oven for about 30 minutes. Remove the cake and put it in a cool place for about 2 hours. Remove the cake from the tin and remove the baking paper. Spread cherry compote on the cake and dust the cake edge with icing sugar
waiting time approx. 2 1/2 hours