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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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