Cherry Chocolate Buns Recipes

Steps:

• In large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Beat in cocoa, granulated sugar, shortening, salt, egg and 1 cup of the flour with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on medium speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally.
• Stir in remaining flour and the cherries. Scrape batter from side of bowl. Cover and let rise in warm place about 1 hour or until double. (Dough is ready if indentation remains when touched.)
• Grease 18 regular-size muffin cups. Stir down batter by beating 25 strokes. Fill muffin cups 1/2 full. Cover and let rise in warm place about 40 minutes or until double.
• Heat oven to 375°F. Bake about 15 minutes. Immediately remove from pan to cooling rack.
• In medium bowl, mix all glaze ingredients until smooth and thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle over warm buns.

Steps:

• preheat the oven to 175c/300/f gas 4
• place all your ingredients into a bowl keeping back the cherries and coconut and use an electric whisk to beat together for at least 2-3 minutes
• add your coconut and quarter your cherries leaving 18 out to top before putting in the oven
• place mix in cupcake cases and place whole cherries on top of the mixture
• bake in the oven for 20 minutes or till skewer comes out clean. place on a colling rack when cooled these can be frozen for 3 months in an air tight container or last 2 days if not freezing

Steps:

• Sift the flour with the salt.
• Put all ingredients into a mixing bowl, beat hard for 1 minute (I use my hand held electric beater).
• Put mixture into 18 greased & floured patty pans.
• Bake for 15minutes at 180c.