Afghan biscuits

• BISCUIT INGREDIENTS
• 150g butter
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup cocoa
• 1 cup plain flour
• 2 & 1/2 cups cornflakes *crush after measuring 75g
  
• ICING INGREDIENTS
• 1 cup icing sugar
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 2 tsp butter
• 1tsp vanilla essence
• 1 tablespoon boiling water
• Optional 1/2 a walnut per biscuit

1. Preheat oven to 180C
2. Cream 150g butter and 3/4 cup sugar
3. Add egg to the butter and sugar
4. Stir in cocoa and plain flour
5. Measure 2 cups of cornflakes then crush and add to the mix.
6. Measure teaspoon sized lumps of mixture onto a baking tray.
7. Bake for 12 minutes. They will be fragile while still warm, they set after they have been baked.
8. Leave the biscuits to cool.
   
9. Make the icing by stirring the butter in well with the dry ingredients then adding the boiling water and vanilla.
10. Put a small lump of icing on the top of the biscuit, you can add a walnut too.

*Note- The photo is of a double batch. I tried to make the biscuits as small as possible to have so many.