Recipe for Cherry Tassies

These cherry tassies are just bite size yumminess, they are perfect for tea parties or cookie exchange parties.

What are tassies?

Tassies - pronounsed tas-eez - are the contents of a cup or goblet. In short, it means these cookies are made in a cup...in this case a muffin cup. So they are indeed bite size.

These cherry almond tassies are delicious and beautiful since they are each topped with a maraschino cherry.

What is a maraschino cherry?

It is a cherry preserved in a syrup flavored with real or imitation maraschino. As for maraschino - pronounced mare-uh-SKEE-noh - it is a sweet liqueur distilled from the fermented juice of a bitter wild cherry. Most maraschino cherries you will find in the grocery store in the United Stattes, do not contain true maraschino but rather an imitation maraschino.

So topped with a cherry and loaded with butter, how can these tassies not be good huh?

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So why don't you try these cherry tassies and then come back and leave your review!

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Cherry Almond Tassies: Ingredients

1 1/4 cups of softened butter - 2 1/2 sticks

1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar

1 teaspoon of baking powder

1/2 teaspoon of salt

1 teaspoon almond extract

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1/4 teaspoon of rum extract

1 large egg

2 1/4 cups of unbleached all-purpose flour

1/2 cup of almond meal

Maraschino cherries with the stem - 36 cherries

Extra powdered sugar

Coarse sugar or regular granulated sugar

Cherry Almond Tassies: Method

In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and powdered sugar until it is well blended.

Add the vanilla, rum and almond extracts.

In another bowl, mix the flour, salt and baking powder together. Add this flour mixture to the butter mixture and blend.

Add the almond meal and mix again.

Place about 1 cup of powdered sugar in a Ziploc bag, shape your dough into 1 inch balls and place them a few at a time in the powdered sugar until they are well coated. Then press each tassie into 1 3/4 inch UNgreased muffin cups or into mini muffin paper cups placed in the muffin pan.