Roughly chop the nuts. Finely chop the candied orange peel. Coarsely chop chocolate and cherries. Mix quark, eggs, salt, sugar, vanilla sugar, cinnamon, cardamom and butter with the whisk of the hand mixer. Add flour and baking powder and knead with the dough hooks of the hand mixer.
Knead in raisins, nuts, candied orange peel, chocolate and cherries. Line the muffin baking troughs (12 troughs) with 2-3 paper sleeves each. Spread the dough evenly with a tablespoon into the troughs. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ gas: level 2) for approx. 25 minutes. Remove the tray from the oven, let it cool down on a grid, lift it out of the trays and serve it dusted with icing sugar and decorated with cherries