December – May 2103
Afghans are a traditional cookie in New Zealand, common in bakeries and coffee houses. They’re made with cocoa powder, butter, flour and cornflakes, topped with thick chocolate icing and a walnut. Wikipedia describes them better than I can:
“The recipe has a high proportion of butter and is relatively low sugar, giving it a soft, dense and rich texture, with crunchiness from cornflakes rather than from a high sugar content. The sweetness of the icing offsets the low sugar and the cocoa bitterness. The origin of the recipe and the derivation of the name are unknown.”
I was surprised to hear about cornflakes being an ingredient as you certainly can’t taste or sense them in the cookie. I don’t really have anything to compare this to, but if you feel like trying one, there’s a recipe in Wikipedia. They’re pretty good. –Cyndi
