Afghans

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

Kiwis are proud to call this chocolaty, crunchy classic their own.

An NZ favourite, Afghans are rich, chocolatey biscuits with a satisfying crunch from cornflakes. Topped with a generous dollop of chocolate icing and a walnut, they’re simple to make and always a hit. Perfect for filling the biscuit tin or sharing with friends over a cuppa.

30 mins

Prep Time

(135)

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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

Puna Cunningham

Chocolate Afghans are my favourite biscuits,im going to bake some.

Annita

After growing up with Afghan biscuits back when I use to live in NZ, after moving to Australia they’re now my kids favourite biscuit. My youngest even loves the flavour so much she’ll try eating as much of the uncooked mixture as she can before they’ve even had the chance to be cooked!
Love the crunchy flavour, very moorish.
As we have a child with nut allergy’s, I sprinkle coconut after they’re iced with chocolate icing instead of the walnut - still very yummy

Tasha

I've made this recipe 4 times in the last weeks here in Oz and they are a true winner. I am no baker by any means and one thing my sister said to do was roll the mix and then put it in the fridge before baking. Heat the oven up and 15 to 30 mins later pull the biscuit log out and cut the biscuits and put on the tray to bake. This recipe is perfect and turned out Everytime which is a first for me hahaha

Fifi

Devine biscuit. Even make them over here in UK. Some memories are still perfect

Olive

They turned out kind of dry and crispy but not in a good way. Would not make again.

Anne they went flat

They went flat

Kim Aitken

I have been making these for years, perfect every time, i live in Australia and it is hard to get proper ingredients, especially the icing sugar, it is gritty over here