Baking and reading are two of my favourite hobbies so you can imagine how happy I am when perusing the cookbook section of my local library. I love meandering through, taking my time to flick through the baking books to find the right ones to borrow.
Recently I discovered The Primrose Bakery Book (Martha Swift and Lisa Thomas), a beautifully presented baking book. It is named for the bakery in London that looks picture perfect and so cute.
There were quite a few recipes calling to me but the one I chose to bake first was Afghan biscuits. The authors called them Australia’s fav biscuit but I have to say, I had never even tried one until reading this book!
These easy chocolate cornflake cookies are a quick and simple biscuit to make and you probably have all that you need to bake them in your pantry right now. They were a hit with my colleagues at the newspaper, and also with Misses 8 and 10 in the lunchbox. A great all-round treat that takes mere moments to make.
The authors topped their cookies with chocolate buttercream but I left mine au naturel. This makes a small batch.
GATHER:
200 grams unsalted butter, diced, at room temperature
75 grams caster sugar
175 grams plain flour
25 grams cocoa
50 grams cornflakes.
LET’S GET TO IT:
Preheat oven to 180C and line a baking tray with non-stick paper.
Cream butter and sugar until pale and creamy, then stir in the flour and cocoa and beat until combined.
Use a silver spoon to stir in the cornflakes, trying not to crush them.
Heap a large tablespoon of mixture onto the baking tray and use a fork to slightly flatten.
Continue with all the dough, hen bake for 15 minutes.
Leave on tray for five minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
the hungry mum 
They look so good!
Cheers – they were really lovely. #allGone
Love the cornflake. Very special!
Dear Hungry Mum,
I love those crispy corn flakes in cookies. I don’t bake but I know I will add more than 50gms if I ever do! Happy new year and best wishes for 2016!
thanks – hope 2016 is a great year for you 🙂
These look wonderful. Happy New Year!
Thanks so much! Hope 2016 is a great year for you.
Thank you very much! 🙂
Sounds crispy and yummm
Thanks Lina~ happy new year 🙂
Wow.. Such a unique dish.. Loved it!
Cornflake cookies…… Soooooo good! They look the pimped version of what I used to make back when I was a teen. Can’t wait to give these guys a whirl. Yarm!
hmmmm yum! I love cookies with cornflakes in them. They’re on a realm of their own. So addictive! Happy New Year!
Cheers! I may just have to pop to shops for more cornflakes so I can make these again.
Making buns with cornflakes reminds me of my childhood….
I don’t think we had cornflakes growing up. We were more a toast-and-Vegemite family 🙂
Never put cornflakes in cookies – looks delicious and crunchy!
Although I’ve not hear of using corn flakes in cookies, I would have bought the cookbook because it must be the only written by a Martha that isn’t also a Stewart. Such a rarity! 🙂
OOOh, cornflake cookies are such a popular thing here! As are honey jumbles, another cornflake sweet treat that I may just have to blog about 😉
Growing up a Kiwi, we had Afghan biscuits all the time. And like the tussle over ownership of the pavlova, we think Afghans are a kiwi biscuit! I do love the dark chocolate taste of an Afghan xx
Ahhh, yet another Oz vs NZ food fight! I surrender – they are all yours x