Afghans

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

30 mins
Prep Time
(124)
Afghans

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

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

Chocolate Icing:

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

Add your review

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!

Eden

Delicious!!

Awhina Stevens

This Afghan recipe is so yummy. I topped it with caramilk icing though.

Kathy

lovin it

A really good thing about this recipe is it is so easy

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Marjorie

Great memories from my childhood.

Squiggles

I absolutely hate this recipe I followed all the steps and it came out burnt to the crisp and I tried again and still after 8 mins of cooking burnt. I'm sorry to leave such a bad review but I didn't have a good experience with this recipe but therefore it may have been me the chef.

Marie D

These are a firm favourite whenever I make them and always get requested.

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