Chocolate-Cherry Cupcakes

Directions

1. 1
   Preheat the oven to 350F.
2. 2
   Put the butter in a heavy-bottomed pan on the heat to melt.
3. 3
   When nearly completely melted, stir in the chocolate.
4. 4
   Leave for a moment to begin softening, then take the pan off the heat and stir with a wooden spoon until the butter and chocolate are smooth and melted.
5. 5
   Now add the cherry jam, sugar, salt, and eggs.
6. 6
   Stir with a wooden spoon and when all is pretty well amalgamated stir in the flour.
7. 7
   Scrape and pour into the muffin baking cups in their pan and bake for 25 minutes.
8. 8
   Cool in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes before turning out.
9. 9
   When the cupcakes are cool, break the chocolate for the icing into little pieces and add them to the cream in a saucepan.
10. 10
    Bring to the boil, remove from the heat, and then whiskby hand or electricallytill thick and smooth.
11. 11
    Ice the cupcakes, smoothing the tops with the back of a spoon, and stand a cherry in the center of each.