Drain the cherries and collect the juice. Boil up the juice. Stir starch and 3 tablespoons of water until smooth. Bind juice with it. Stir in cherry brandy and fold in cherries. Let cool down
Cut marzipan into fine pieces. Mix the quark, marzipan and vanilla sugar with the whisk of the hand mixer until smooth. Add poppy seeds or grated chocolate
Alternately layer the poppy seed marzipan quark and the cherries in four dessert glasses. Chill for about 30 minutes. Decorate with mint
-Ground poppy seeds are available in health food shops: you can have them freshly ground or buy vacuum-packed (pack = 200 g). Keeps in the refrigerator for about 1 week
-If you do not want the cherries to thicken, you can take compote out of the glass (e.g. from Schwartau and Odenwald)