Recipe Details

Summary

Name: Chocolate Cherry Tarts

Category: Chocolate

2 tablespoons butter

1/2 cup sugar

1 square baking chocolate -- melted

1 egg

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1/8 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

8 ounces cream cheese

1/2 cup sugar

1 egg

1/2 cup maraschino cherries -- finely chopped

24 maraschino cherry halves

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

1/8-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.