Buttermilk Chocolate Bread

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
2 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 pinch salt
1 cup pecans
1/2 cup glaced cherries
1 1/2 tablespoons cream
2 tablespoons glaced cherries
3/4 cup powdered sugar sifted

Instructions

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.