Prepare your workspace: Gather all the ingredients for the cupcakes in one place. If you are using frozen cherries, defrost them. 30 minutes before cooking, remove the butter from the refrigerator. Preheat oven to 200°C.
Separate the whites from the yolks. Set the yolks aside for now, and pour the whites into a large container and beat with a mixer or blender until fluffy and hard peaks form. Add sugar and beat again. Properly whipped protein has a white color and a stable structure - it does not spread.
Add the yolks to the whites, then mix well. A mixer will do the job faster, but you will still have to check the consistency by hand.
Take another deep bowl, pour milk into it, add butter. Whisk until the butter dissolves
Pour the butter and milk mixture into a container with the eggs. Add 2-3 drops of food coloring and mix well until the color is uniform.
In a separate bowl, mix flour with baking powder, add a pinch of salt. Then, stirring constantly, add the flour to the liquid ingredients. Mix with a whisk or spoon, but not with a mixer - it will scatter everything.
If you have mixed the dough well, it has acquired a homogeneous consistency of thick sour cream, without lumps, then you can now add cherries.
Place the muffin tins on a baking sheet or in a baking container and pour the dough into them - approximately to the middle, maybe a little more.
Bake the cupcakes in the oven for 25 minutes at 200°C. Check readiness with a toothpick: if it comes out dry, it means the muffins are ready.
Such cupcakes can only become the basis for your culinary imagination. Decorate them as you wish (with icing, powder, cream, confectionery flowers or chocolate figures) and serve!