Drain the cherries well. Prepare a cup that holds 200 ml of liquid. Measure all ingredients with the cup indication with this cup
Roughly chop the chocolate. Beat the fat, sugar, vanillin sugar, 1 pinch of salt and cinnamon until creamy. Stir in the eggs one by one. Mix semolina, breadcrumbs, ground almonds, 1 cup of flour and baking powder. Alternately stir in rum. Dust cherries, except for 10 pieces for decoration, with 1 tbsp. flour. Fold in with chocolate
Pour the dough into a greased, breadcrumbed ring cake tin (approx. 22 cm Ø; approx. 2.5 l capacity), smooth it down. Bake in a hot oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C / gas: level 2) for approx. 1-1 1/4 hours. Turn out of the tin, let cool down
Roast the flaked almonds without fat. Heat the jam, pass through a sieve. Spread the cake with it and decorate with flaked almonds and the rest of the cherries. Let dry