Maori Biscuits

Ingredients 

• 125g butter 

• ¼ cup sugar 

• 1 level cup SR flour 

• 1 dessertspoon cocoa 

• 3 handfuls coconut 

• 2 handfuls cornflakes 

Method 

Cream butter and sugar. Sift SR flour and cocoa together and add to creamed butter and sugar. Add coconut and cornflakes and bind as well as possible. (You’ll need to use your hands for this.) Have flat tin well-greased (or lined.) Press the mixture about ¼ inch thick and bake in a moderate oven. Ice thinly with chocolate icing while hot. Cut into fingers. Allow to cool.