Afghan cookies ... a celebration of the new oven

Since getting our kitchen renovated last month I've been basking in the joy of having a working oven! While it was a little sad to see the Baroness Deluxe carried out to a rubbish skip (she had done well to last over forty years) it's so much fun to have an oven where the number on the dial is the temperature you get, and you don't need to rotate the items being cooked repeatedly during the cooking process. Today I've celebrated the shiny new Bosch by making some Afghan cookies to take to our friends' place on the weekend, and a home made pizza for tonight's dinner.

Afghans ... a NZ favourite ...

200 g (7 oz) butter

50 g (2 oz) sugar

175 g (6 oz) flour

25 g (1 oz) cocoa powder

75 g (3 oz) crushed cornflakes (or crushed Weet-bix)

Soften butter. Add sugar and beat to a cream. Add flour and cocoa. Lastly, mix cornflakes in. Put spoonfuls on a greased oven tray and bake about 15 minutes at 180 degrees C (350 degrees F). When cold, ice with chocolate icing and put walnuts or pecans on top.