Drain the cherries and collect the juice. For the cherry punch 1⁄4 measure l juice, bring to the boil in a small pot. Hang the mulled wine spice in it, pull it for about 10 minutes and let it cool down.
Grease a fat pan (approx. 32 x 39 cm; at least 3.5 cm deep). Cream butter, sugar, vanilla sugar, 1 pinch of salt, cinnamon, cardamom and cloves with the whisk of the hand mixer. Stir in the eggs one by one.
Mix flour, almonds and baking powder and stir in briefly, alternating with the milk. Fold in 2 portions of cherries.
Spread the dough on the fat pan and bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: level 2) for approx. 40 minutes. Let cool down for about 30 minutes.
Finely cut the chocolate coating. For the icing, sieve icing sugar and stir with 7-8 tbsp. cherry punch until smooth (use the rest of the punch for other purposes). Spread on the cake, sprinkle with the couverture and let it dry.