2 tb Butter
1/2 c Sugar
1 Square baking chocolate —
Melted
1 Egg
1/2 ts Vanilla
1 1/4 c All-purpose flour
1/8 ts Baking soda
1/4 ts Salt
8 oz Cream cheese
1/2 c Sugar
1 Egg
1/2 c 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.
Yields
24 Servings