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Afghans

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

30 mins
Prep Time
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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.

Products used in this recipe

Edmonds Standard Flour 1.5kg FOP

Standard Grade Flour

Add your review

Lisa W

A classic for a reason. Yummy.

Shirl Barclay

This was the most favourite cookie as I grew up and still is

Aaron Lewis

Good old fashioned Afghan,can't beat it

Susan

Super quick and easy, plus very economical. This is my go to recipe for baking

Darlyne

All time classic in my household. Never fails to please.

Soleman

Jst whipped it up b4 we were going to the park

Annie Simmons

I have enjoyed Edmonds cookbook since I was in primary school.

June Watson

Please can you tell me why my aphgan biscuit mixture won’t hold the shape and spreads across the sheet?

Theresa

Easy recipe, with the nicest biscuit. Thank you Edmonds

Narmie

These are my favourite go to biscuit.
I use Weetbix instead of cornflakes.

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