Cherry Corn Muffins

I don't quite know where the recipe ran off to, but I think it came from modifying one of Hannah Kaminsky's in the cookbook My Sweet Vegan. I headed over to the strawberry field about a month ago with the best intentions of picking a quart or two, but the fruit looked sparse and overtaken by weeds - yet another short season, victim to the terrible heat and humidity this year. The only things thriving are the tobacco fields.
However, on the cart amongst the already-picked strawberries were some crisp and shiny local cherries. They weren't the big sweet kind from the supermarket, but they looked irresistible. I had seen some gorgeous photographs of corn muffins with cherries perched on top the other day, so I cannot claim the idea as my own, but I did create the recipe myself: after pitting a cup or so of cherries by hand and folding them into the batter, I spooned the muffin tins full and placed a perfect cherry in the center of each soon-to-be muffin.
They came out of the oven looking cuter than ever. Om nom nom.