1/2 cup Butter — softened
1 cup Sugar
2 Eggs
1/2 cup Buttermilk
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1/2 cup Semisweet chocolate chips
melted 2 1/4 cups Flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Baking soda
1 pinch Salt (opt)
1 cup Pecans — chopped
1/2 cup Glaced cherries — chopped
CREAMY CHERRY GLAZE- 1 1/2 tablespoons Cream
2 tablespoons Glaced cherries — finely
chopped 3/4 cup Powdered sugar — sifted
Beat together first 5 ingredients until blended. Beat in melted chocolate. Combine and add next 4 ingredients and stir until dry ingredients are just moistened. Do not overmix. Stir in pecans and cherries. Divide batter between 3 greased and lightly floured mini-loaf foil pans (6x3x2″), place pans on a cookie sheet, and bake in a 325~ oven for 45-50 minutes, or until a cake tester, inserted in center, comes out clean. Allow to cool for 15 minutes and then remove from pans and continue cooling on a rack. When cool, drizzle tops with Creamy Cherry Glaze. Yields 3 mini-loaves.