Chocolate-Covered Cherry Cupcakes - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 cup all-purpose flour
    1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
    1/3 cup butter, softened (5 Tbsp plus 1 tsp)
    3/4 cup granulated sugar
    1 teaspoon baking powder
    1/4 teaspoon baking soda
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    1 large egg
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    1/2 cup milk
    2 (1 5/8 ounce) hershey milk chocolate candy bars, each broken in 12 squares
    12 maraschino cherries, without stems,patted dry with paper towels
    FROSTING
    4 ounces cream cheese
    1/4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine, softened
    2 teaspoons maraschino cherry juice
    2 cups confectioners' sugar
    Garnish
    1 hershey milk chocolate candy bar, melted
    stemmed maraschino cherry, patted dry
Preparation
    Heat oven to 350\u00b0F.
    Line 12 regular-size (2 1/2-in. diameter) muffin cups with paper or foil liners.
    Whisk flour and cocoa powder in a small bowl until blended; set aside.
    In a large bowl, beat butter, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt with a mixer on high speed 2 minutes or until well blended.
    Add egg and vanilla; beat 2 minutes or until fluffy.
    Reduce mixer speed to low; beat in milk (batter will look curdled), then the flour mixture just until blended.
    Spoon evenly into lined muffin cups Place a square of chocolate in center of each cupcake.
    Top with a cherry and another square of chocolate.
    Bake 18 to 20 minutes until a pick inserted off center comes out clean.
    Cool in pan on a wire rack 5 minutes before removing from pan to rack to cool com-pletely (cupcakes will sink in center).
    Frosting: Beat cream cheese, but-ter and cherry juice in a medium bowl with mixer on high speed until blend-ed and smooth.
    Reduce speed to low; beat in confectioners' sugar.
    Refriger-ate 15 minutes or until firm enough to spread.
    Frost cupcakes.
    To garnish: Top each cupcake with 1 or 2 cherries.
    Melt chocolate bar and scrape into a ziptop bag.
    Cut a tip off a corner of bag; drizzle chocolate over half or all the cupcakes.
    Cover and refrigerate until serving or up to 1 day.

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