Chestnut muffins

Ingredients:

- 500 g chestnut puree

- 1 Tb rum (optional)

- 85 g flour
- 1 tb baking powder
- 50 g butter (melted)
- 3 egg yolks

- 3 egg whites
- 1 pinch of salt
 
Preparation:

- heat oven to 350F 200°C (thermostat 6-7).
- Mix chestnut puree, egg yolks, flour, baking powder, butter
- Beat egg whites until stiff
- Fold in
- Pour dough in muffin tin
- Bake 15 minutes

(makes 24 mini-muffins and 6 regular size muffins)

I recently started craving chestnut muffins. I had a fabulous recipe that can't locate, so I just decided to improvise and whip up something. It was quite a success - in fact I could barely keep my son away from the muffins for 2 minutes to take a photo.