Chocolate cherry tarts

24 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 tablespoons Butter
½ cup Sugar
1 Square baking chocolate --
Melted
1 Egg
½ teaspoon Vanilla
1¼ cup All-purpose flour
⅛ teaspoon Baking soda
¼ teaspoon Salt
8 ounces Cream cheese
½ cup Sugar
1 Egg
½ cup Maraschino cherries --
Finely chopped
24 Maraschino cherry halves

Directions

Cream butter and sugar; blend in melted chocolate. Add egg and vanilla; beat well. Sift dry ingredients together and blend into chocolate mixture.

Roll pastry to ⅛-inch thickness on lightly floured pastry cloth. Cut circles with 3-inch cookie cutter and place in buttered tartlet pans or shallow muffin tins. Blend cream cheese, sugar, and egg; fold in chopped cherries. Place 1 tablespoon filling in each tart. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from oven, top with cherry half. Chill. Yield: approximately 2 dozen tarts.

Recipe By : Elizabeth Powell File

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