Wash lemon, grate peel, squeeze juice. Cream butter and 100 g sugar. Separate 2 eggs. Stir in 1 egg and egg yolks separately. Add salt, lemon zest and milk. Mix flour and baking powder, then add bit by bit.
Grease the bottom of a springform pan (26 cm Ø) and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Pour in the dough. Beat the egg white until stiff, pour in 100 g sugar. Spread meringue on the sponge mixture, leaving a rim of about 2 cm wide. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for 30-35 minutes. Take out and let cool down. Wash, clean and stone the cherries. Stir 5 tablespoons cherry juice and starch until smooth. Boil up the remaining juice, 50 g sugar, vanillin sugar and lemon juice. Add mixed starch. Bring to the boil while stirring. Fold in the cherries and spread on the meringue.
Wash, clean and stone the cherries. Stir 5 tablespoons cherry juice and starch until smooth. Boil up the remaining juice, 50 g sugar, vanillin sugar and lemon juice. Add mixed starch. Bring to the boil while stirring. Fold in the cherries and spread on the meringue. Chill for 30 minutes. Serve decorated with small cream patches and sugar pearls
Waiting time approx. 1 hour