Grease the baking pan, drain the cherries and have both ready

Mix the sugar, butter, eggs, flour, baking powder, vanilla sugar, bitter almond flavor and cocoa powder into a creamy batter

Put the dough in the baking pan and distribute it evenly

Spread the cherries on the dough

Pre-bake the cake at 180 ° for approx. 25 minutes

Toast the almonds and sugar in a coated pan

Deglaze the roasted almonds with milk

when the cake is pre-baked, distribute the toasted almonds evenly on top

Bake the cake for another 5-10 minutes at 180 °