Stir the soft fat, 175 g sugar and vanillin sugar until light creamy. Stir in the eggs one by one. Mix flour and baking powder. Alternately stir in 100 ml milk. Grease a baking tray (approx. 35 x 40 cm) and spread the dough on it. Bake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C / gas: level 3) for 20-25 minutes
Wash the cherries, pit them (drain the cherries from the jar, collecting 1/2 l juice). Mix starch and 5 tbsp. juice. Boil up the rest of the juice, 2 tbsp. sugar and lemon peel. Stir in starch and bring to the boil. Fold in cherries
Mix pudding powder and 60 g sugar in 100 ml milk. Boil 800 ml milk. Stir in the pudding, bring to the boil. Pour the pudding and compote in strips onto the base. Put in a cool place for about 3 hours
Roast the almonds. Whip cream until stiff. Cut cake into pieces and decorate