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     Title: Chocolate Cherry Tarts
Categories: Desserts, Pies, Chocolate, Cheese
     Yield: 2 dozen

     2 tb Butter
   1/2 c  Sugar
     1 oz 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 F for 10 to 12
 minutes. Remove from oven, top with cherry half. Chill.

 Recipe by Elizabeth Powell

 From: Deborah And Ron Horton

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