Grease a fat pan (approx. 32 x 39 cm; approx. 3.5 cm deep) and dust with flour. Wash the cherries, remove the stalks and stone them. Roughly chop the chocolate and put 2 tbsp aside for decorating. Cream fat, sugar, 1 packet of vanilla sugar and 1 pinch of salt with the whisk of the hand mixer.
Stir in the eggs one by one. Mix flour and baking powder, stir in portions briefly. Fold in chocolate.
Spread the dough on the fat pan. Spread the cherries on top. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200°C/circulating air: 175°C/gas: level 3) for approx. 35 minutes (the cherries will sink more or less into the dough depending on their size and variety).
Let it cool down.
If necessary, heat up the jam and coat the cherries with it. Whip the cream until stiff, while pouring in 2 packets of vanilla sugar. Sprinkle the cream with the rest of the chopped chocolate. Dust the cake with icing sugar before serving.
Add cream.