Cherry Snowballs

1/3 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 cups flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1/2 cup milk
2 egg whites
1 cup cherries

Cream butter and add sugar gradually. Mix and sift flour and baking powder, and add to butter mixture alternately with milk. Fold in egg whites stiffly beaten, and add cherries which have been drained as dry as possible. Put in six individual molds and bake forty minutes at 350 degrees.