Chocolate Cherry Tarts

ingredients:

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

methods:
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.