Pour the cherries into a sieve and drain very well. Collect the juice. Measure 250 ml of juice, heat it in a small pot, put it into a cup and hang up Glühfix. Let it draw
Cream fat, salt, vanilla sugar, sugar, cinnamon, cardamom and cloves with whisks. Stir in the eggs one by one. Mix flour, almonds and baking powder and stir in alternately with the milk. Carefully fold in 2 portions of cherries
Put them on a greased fat pan (32 x 39 cm), smooth them down and bake them in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for 30-40 minutes. Take out of the oven, let cool on a cake rack for about 30 minutes
In the meantime, cut the chocolate coating finely with a sharp knife. For the icing, stir icing sugar and 6 tbsp Glühfix cherry juice until smooth. Use the rest for other purposes. Spread the icing evenly on the cake. Sprinkle with chocolate coating and leave to dry
Waiting time approx. 20 minutes