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