A rich scone with chopped cherries and orange zest?

Chocolate chip cookies with (dried) cherries and almonds or walnuts are delicious; might be fun to toss some chopped dark chocolate - or chips - and nuts into the muffins along with the frozen cherries. (Unless you're trying to make strictly healthy muffins, or something crazy like that ;-)

I would say a good sour cream muffin or coffee-cake-turned-muffin recipe for cherries! Here is one I've made before from Baking Bites:

http://bakingbites.com/2007/04/black-cherry-sour-cream-muffins/

I substitutes light brown sugar for white sugar and experimented with a tiny cake flour substitution but this is a really solid recipe.

Hope this helps!