afghan biscuits

March 24, 2009

My favourite biscuits are Afghans. The recipe is from my favourite baking cook book, Edmonds. They have some old school recipes on their site. Dinner recipes include all sorts of things you can put on top of puff pastry! This cook book is a tradition in my family, my grandma and my mum had one, and I got mine when I was 9yrs old (see below). It is a New Zealand book and has been around for nearly 130yrs.

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Afghans are chocolate biscuits with some kind of cereal in them (usually cornflakes but I used Milo cereal), with chocolate icing and walnuts on top…sooo good. They have loads of butter so are wonderfully crumbly. Before…

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After…

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Here’s the recipe…

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Enjoy! I am.

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