For the pastry dough: In a bowl, starting with the dough hooks of an electric mixer, then using your hands, combine together the flour, sugar, margarine, egg, and baking powder. Form the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling film and refrigerate.
For the cherry topping: Drain the cherries, however keep the cherry juice. In a small bowl, mix together the pudding powder, 1 tablespoon of sugar, and 3-4 tablespoons of cherry juice. Bring 250ml of the cherry juice to a boil. Once boiling remove from the heat and stir in the pudding powder mixture. Return the pot to the stove, and while stirring constantly bring everything to a boil for 1 minute. Remove the pot from the heat. Stir the cherries into the warm pudding.
On a lightly floured work surface, roll the pastry dough out so that it is larger in diameter then a spring form pan (ca. 26cm diameter). Alternatively you can roll the dough between two sliced open freezer bags. Grease and lightly flour a spring form pan. Place the pastry dough into the spring form pan and form an edge. Now pour the cherry pudding mixture into the spring form pan.
Preheat the oven (conventional oven 175°C / convection 155°C).
To prepare the crumble: Using your hands work 110g flour, 100g sugar, 90g margarine, 100g almonds and the cinnamon into a crumble. Evenly distribute the crumble on top of the cherry mixture. Bake the cake for 50-60 minutes until the crumble is light brown. Remove the cake from the oven and allow to cool completely.
Whip the cream in a tall mixing glass. Pour in the vanilla sugar and cream stabiliser and continue to whip. Remove the cooled cake from the pan. Spread the cream on top of the cake and dust with cocoa powder. If desired decorate the cake with more cherries.
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