Recipe: Mini Holiday Muffins (using maraschino cherries)

Mini Holiday Muffins

1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, separated
1 Tablespoon maraschino cherry juice
1 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
24 Maraschino cherries
1 cup pecans, finely chopped
Powdered sugar

Cream butter and sugar together. Mix in beaten egg yolks, cherry juice, flour and baking powder.

Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into mixture.

Grease mini muffins tins and sprinkle bottom with chopped pecans.

Place 1 teaspoon dough in each and place cherry on top. Add another teaspoon full of dough and sprinkle top with pecans.

Bake at 350F for 10 minutes. Remove from muffin tins and roll in powdered sugar while still warm.

Makes 24 mini muffins
Source: Iowa Egg Council