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Afghans

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
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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

Kelz

So YUM XX

Liz

Very yummy first time doing afghans unfortunately it was let Abita to long in the oven and came out hard.. so end up doing a second batch and it was lovely definitely will be doing this more often

Gerald

This is perfect for all to understand.
God bless you all.

Mel

Love love

Mel

Missing home and wanted Afghans so made them. Absolutely Love them.

Cindy

Love this recipe

Amanda

I didn't realize that there is n9 baking powder or eggs in afghan biscuits. This recipe is very good.

Ivy

I love how nice and creamy it is

Raewyn Hine

Have been making Afghan's for many years. For the last 5 years have been selling them at our local church market. Now they are world famous.

Sonya Ihimaera

I love ❤️ these!

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