Preparation. Cream fat, sugar and vanilla sugar. Stir in eggs one after the other. Mix flour, cornstarch and baking powder and stir in by the spoonful. Pour the dough into a greased ring form (24 cm Ø) lightly sprinkled with breadcrumbs.
Bake in the preheated oven (electric oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 2) for 40-45 minutes. Turn the cake onto a cake rack and let it cool down. For the filling, stir pudding powder and sugar into 8 tablespoons of milk until smooth.
Bring the rest of the milk to the boil, add the mixed pudding powder and bring to the boil while stirring. Pour into a bowl and allow to cool while stirring several times. In the meantime, cut the cake horizontally three times.
Cream butter, stir in the cooled vanilla pudding by the spoonful. Spread the lower cake ring with the jelly, place the second ring on top and spread with 1/4 of the butter cream.
Place the third base on top and fill in the same way. Cover with the last bottom. Spread the rest of the cream all around, keeping 2-3 tablespoons of cream for decoration. Fill these into a piping bag with star-shaped spout and chill.
Knead marzipan and icing sugar, roll out 4 mm between 2 layers of cling film. Cut out 12 crescents, place them on the cake, squirt a dab of buttercream in the middle and decorate each with a drained maraschino cherry.
Results in about 20 pieces.