Chocolate Cherry Tarts

2 tb Butter
1/2 c Sugar
1 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 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from oven, top with cherry half. Chill. Yield: approximately 2 dozen tarts.

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