Emergency Cupcakes

I got the call to make something sweet for a funral.  (It is a small town thing, everyone bakes, even if you don't know the person or their family.)  In an effort to make my life kind of easy, my mom decided I should make these from Semi Homemade's Sandra Brown.  It was not a good idea.  It was merely exhaustion from my job that allowed me to be bamboozled by Joann.  These were hands down one of the grossest things I have ever made.  There are cherries inside that caused the top to collapse, or as my mother said gave them "gun shot wounds."  Joann wanted to keep the magazine, but after shooting her the look of death she agreed to recycle it and never but it again.  The upswing was that they were crazy cute, and the people at the funeral liked them.