Recipe: Tasty Afghan biscuit/cookie

Afghan biscuit/cookie. New Zealanders have a real soft spot for the chocolate and cornflake Afghan biscuit. The biscuit, also known as a "cookie," is topped with chocolate icing and walnuts or flaked almonds. While the origin of the name is uncertain, there is one thing for sure; the biscuits are delicious and really easy to make.

The Afghan biscuit is one of the most traditional pastries in New Zealand. It is made with flour, butter, cornflakes, sugar and pure cocoa powder. The cookies consist of crushed cornflakes that are combined with butter, cocoa, and sugar to create a firm dough that is usually formed into flattened balls. You can cook Afghan biscuit/cookie using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Afghan biscuit/cookie

1. You need 3/4 cup of soften butter plus 1tablespoon.
2. You need 1/4 cup of sugar plus 2 US tablespoons.
3. It's 1 1/2 cup of flour self raising.
4. It's 2 tbsp of US measurement cocoa powder.
5. Prepare 3/4 cup of cornflakes or crushed weetbix or large rolled oats.
6. It's 1 of walnuts or coconut for on the top..

Afghans by default are a crumbly cookie and so over baking them is the worst thing you can do and also the easiest way to mess up the recipe. Put the butter and sugar into a bowl and beat together until light and creamy. Sieve the flour and cocoa together and stir into the creamed mixture. Grease or line a baking tray with baking paper.

Afghan biscuit/cookie step by step

1. Preheat oven 180°C or 350°F.
2. Cream together the butter and sugar.
3. Add flour and cocoa.
4. Add cornflakes last so as not to break them up too much..
5. Put spoonfuls on a greased oven tray and bake for about 15 mins..
6. Leave them to cool.They firm up as they cool..
7. Ice with chocolate icing and top with walnuts or coconut.They melt in the mouth when cooked right.I used half cornflakes and half weetbix for mine..

In a large bowl beat Tararua Butter, Chelsea Caster Sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. Sift in the Edmonds Standard Grade Flour and cocoa, add the cornflakes then stir thoroughly until the mixture is combined. Place heaped teaspoonfuls onto a baking tray, squeeze mixture together gently if necessary then press. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, sift together flour and cocoa and mix into butter mix, then fold in corn flakes and coconut. Put teaspoonful balls onto lightly greased or baking paper covered trays.

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