Maraschino Cherry Cupcakes

These cherries remind me of Babycham with a cocktail stick with a maraschino cherry and cinzano with lemonade. They do have a good flavour and I thought they would be a type of Retro Maraschino Cherry Cupcakes.
Here are some of my ideas:
Use a basic vanilla cupcake recipe or a chocolate cupcake recipe.
Add chopped maraschino cherries to the batter/mixture if you wish, chop fine as large cherries tend to sink to the bottom.
Make a butter cream topping and add some of that syrup from the cherry jar to get that flavour.
Whip double cream and add some syrup to the cream, pipe or swirl by hand onto the cupcakes.
Top off the cupcakes with a maraschino cherry.
Add some grated very dark chocolate with 70% cocoa for a rich adult cupcake recipe

These links get to the bottom of what
Maraschino cherries are MARASCHINO CHERRIES
This tells all the history of MARASCHINO
This is an interesting article on the nutritional value of

NUTRITION OF THE MARASCHINO CHERRY



Thanks for reading and has anyone any other ideas for using maraschino cherries in or with cupcakes? Please post in comments so we can all try them.

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