Drain the cherries and collect the juice. Boil up 1 sachet of vanilla sugar, cherry and orange juice. In the meantime, stir the starch with a little water until smooth. Bind the juice with the starch and bring to the boil again.
Fold in the cherries. Chill the compote. Drain apricots, halve and fold in just before serving. Meanwhile, for the waffle dough, mix the fat, sugar, 1 packet of vanillin sugar and salt with the whisks of the hand mixer until creamy.
Stir in the eggs one by one. Mix flour, poppy seeds and baking powder. Alternately stir in sour cream and whipped cream. Grease and preheat waffle iron. Put 1 1/2 tablespoon of dough in the middle of each waffle iron and bake until golden brown.
Bake about 10 waffles one after the other. Divide the waffles into the individual heart segments. Arrange the waffle hearts and compote on plates. Decorate with orange slices.