Pour the cherries into a sieve and drain. Cream fat, vanilla sugar, sugar and almonds with the whisk of the hand mixer. Stir in the eggs one by one. Mix flour and baking powder and stir in alternately with the smoothie. Fold in cherries
Pour the dough into a greased and floured box form (30 cm long) and bake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for 50-60 minutes (stick test). Remove the cake from the oven, let it cool down for about 15 minutes and then turn it out of the tin. Leave to cool on a cake rack for about 2 hours
Melt the chocolate over a warm water bath. Pull the chocolate in fine strips over the box cake
waiting time approx. 2 hours