Yummy yummy Afghans

Afghans are such a kiwi classic. There seems to be a great deal of mystery surrounding how these biscuits got their name. From what I have read it has nothing to do with Afghanistan, but possibly to do with the colour of the bickies. Anyway! These are always super good, and I always use the edmonds recipe!!
Dunno how that dud walnut got in there in the middle!

Ingrediants:

200g butter, softened

1/2 cup sugar

1 1/4 cup flour

3 Tbsp cocoa

1 1/2 cups cornflakes

Chocolate Icing:  2 cups icing sugar, 1/4 teaspoon butter, 2 Tbspn water, 1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Walnuts to decorate

Method:

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Sift flour and cocoa. Stir into creamed mixture. Fold in cornflakes. Spoon mounds of mixture onto greased oven trays, gently pressing the mixture together. Bake at 180 degrees for 15mins or until set. When cold, ice with choc icing and decorate with a walnut piece.