Cream fat, sugar, vanillin sugar and salt. Stir in eggs bit by bit. Mix cocoa, baking powder and flour and stir into the dough in a sieve. Grease a star shape (1 litre capacity).
Pour in the dough. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ gas: level 2) for approx. 50 minutes. Turn the star out of the tin onto a cake rack and let it cool down. Soak gelatine in cold water.
Melt the chocolate coating in a hot water bath. Cut the star once across. Cover the top of the star with the chocolate coating. Roast the flaked almonds in a dry pan and let them cool down. Press the pistachio quarters, bark chocolate and flaked almonds into the moist couverture.
Drain the cherries on a sieve. Roughly chop the chocolate. Squeeze the gelatine and dissolve. Whip cream until stiff and stir in gelatine. Fold in chocolate and cherries. Spread the chocolate-cherry cream on the lower half of the star, put together.
Results in about 16 pieces.