Roughly chop the chocolate. Mix pudding powder with 50 g sugar. Stir with 100 ml milk until smooth. Bring 500 ml milk to the boil, remove from the stove. Stir in the pudding powder. Let simmer for about 1 minute while stirring. Stir in half of the chocolate and let it melt in the hot pudding. Pour into a bowl and cover directly on the surface with foil. Let it cool down
Drain the cherries and collect the juice. Mix starch with rum until smooth. Bring the juice to the boil, remove from the heat and stir in the starch. Simmer for about 1 minute while stirring. Mix in cherries and let cool down
Whip the cream until stiff. Stir the pudding until smooth. Fold cream and remaining chocolate into the pudding. Pour into 6 ovenproof bowls. Beat the egg whites until very stiff, add 60 g sugar and salt. Pour the mixture into a piping bag with a large star-shaped spout. Spray large tuffs onto the pudding. Bake meringue tuffs under the preheated oven grill for 1-2 minutes until golden brown. Serve with the rum cherries
waiting time approx. 2 hours