1. Preheat oven to 180°C.

2. Cream the butter with a spatula.

3. Pour the sugar and salt over the butter and beat vigorously for a few minutes until the mixture whitens.

4. Add the eggs, flour and baking powder, then the melted chocolate and almond powder. Mix well.

5. Butter a mould and pour in the batter.

Drain the amarena cherries.    

6. Spread the cherries over the pastry, leaving a 1 cm margin around the edges.

7. Bake in preheated oven for 40 min.

8. Turn out onto a wire rack and leave to cool.