Finely chop the chocolate and melt over a hot water bath. Spread the meringue cake bases with the chocolate and allow to set. In the meantime, drain the cherries and collect the juice. Slice open the vanilla pod and scrape out the pulp. Stir the starch with some juice until smooth. Boil up the rest of the juice, sugar, vanilla pod and pulp and remove from the heat.
Stir in the starch and simmer for 1 minute while stirring. Stir in cherries and let cool. Remove the vanilla pod. Whip the cream until stiff and allow the vanilla sugar to trickle in. Add the stewed cherries to the tartlets, pour a cream stain on each. Serve immediately, decorated with chocolate shavings
Waiting time approx. 20 minutes