Cherry-Chocolate Cups - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. sugar
3/4 c. butter or margarine
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1 3/4 c. flour
1 1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 c. walnuts, chopped
1 (1 oz.) sq. unsweetened chocolate, melted
32 maraschino cherries, drained and halved

Preparation

Cream together sugar and butter.
Beat in egg and vanilla. Stir together flour, baking powder and salt.
Stir into creamed mixture; mix well.
Divide dough in half.
To one half add nuts and chocolate.
Press a rounded teaspoonful of chocolate mixture into the bottom and up sides of ungreased 1 3/4-inch muffin cups.
Place a cherry half in the center of each cup.
Top with a rounded teaspoonful of the remaining white dough and another cherry half. Bake at 375\u00b0 for 15 to 20 minutes.
Makes 32.