Warm up the milk. Put flour in a bowl, make a depression in the middle and crumble the yeast into it. Mix with lukewarm milk and some flour. Dust the pre-dough with a little flour and cover it. Let it rise in a warm place for 15-20 minutes.
In the meantime, wash the raisins, drain them and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of rum. Roast the almonds in a dry pan and take them out. Cream fat, sugar, vanillin sugar, salt and marzipan.
Stir in the eggs one by one. Add the fat mass to the pre-dough and mix everything to a liquid yeast dough. Finally, stir in almonds and raisins. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 15 minutes.
Grease a star-shaped baking tin (approx. 2 l capacity) and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Pour the yeast dough into the baking tin and let it rise again for about 30 minutes (dough will rise to the edge of the tin). Bake in the preheated oven (electric oven: 200°C/ gas: level 3) for approx. 40 minutes and cover if necessary at the end of the baking time.
Leave the cake to rest in the mould for 15 minutes, then turn onto a cake rack and let it cool down. Form 10-12 leaves from the marzipan. Halve the cherries and almonds. Mix icing sugar, lemon juice and about 3 tablespoons of water to a smooth glaze.
Cover the star with it. Decorate with marzipan leaves, cherries and almonds. Makes about 12 pieces.