Name: Afghans Biscuits
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min

Ingredients

200g butter, softened
½ cup Chelsea white sugar
1¼ cups Edmonds standard grade flour
¼ cup cocoa
2 cups cornflakes
24 walnuts (optional)

Chocolate Icing
2 cups Chelsea icing sugar
25g butter, softened
2 Tbsp hot water
¼ tsp vanilla essence
2 Tbsp cocoa

Method

Preheat oven to 180ºC. Grease or line a baking tray with baking paper.
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Sift flour and cocoa. Stir into creamed mixture. Fold in cornflakes.
Spoon mounds of mixture onto the tray, gently pressing together.
Bake for 15 minutes or until set.
When cold, ice with chocolate icing and decorate with a walnut if wished.

Chocolate Icing:

For the icing, sift icing sugar and cocoa. Add the butter.
Add enough water to make the icing spreadable. Mix in the vanilla.

Add your review

Jessica

Comes out perfect evert time

Amazing!!!

Coral

Lovely biscuits ..used the Edmonds flour and recipe..

Chelsea

So good

Katrina pomana

Great recipe and so easy to follow

Alison

Perfect takes me back. Make them bigger

T Henderson

Delicious. My first time ever making this classic and this recipe did not disappoint. I would go as far as saying these were the BEST Afghans my family have ever eaten. Thank you Edmonds!