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I’ve never made a secret of the fact that Chrysta Wilson is one of my favorite baking experts. The author of Kiss My Bundt, Chrysta is best known for her cakes. But this baker knows her way around traditional, American desserts, including the chocolate chip cookie.

Over the years of our friendship, we’ve talked our way through dozens of recipes. But one of my favorites was our contemplations on the dessert classic, holy grail of biscuits, the chocolate chip cookie.

Why you’re going to love this cookie recipe

Ultimately, our intention wasn’t to make simply an aphrodisiac cookie but to figure out the elements that make a great chocolate chip cookie. A good cookie should be more than just sweet. It should have a good play between sweet, bitter and salty.

The addition of oats, almond meal and walnuts, pump up the aphrodisiac factor but they also give the cookie’s flavor complexity. Interestingly, these ingredients also bring to the final recipe some nutrients proven to support sexual health. (Read more about aphrodisiacs to understand how these foods offer the nutrition your body needs to support your sex life.)

Be sure to keep telling yourself that as you plow through a plate of warm cookies! We think our combination of ingredients is hard to resist.

What makes an aphrodisiac chocolate chip cookie?

The most notable thing to me about our musings on made-from-scratch chocolate chip cookies was that most of the ingredients that come together to make each of our ideal cookies is historically aphrodisiac. For example, we both agree that walnuts give the proper crunch. And we both happen to like the chewy body that aphrodisiac oats bring to a homemade chocolate chip cookie. And, of course, we both love the bitter richness and depth that dark chocolate chips bring to our favorite cookie dough.

Aphrodisiac Chocolate Chip Cookies

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This simple, made-from-scratch recipe upgrades the classic chocolate chip by layering it with aphrodisiac ingredients.

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American

Dish Type cookies

Cooking Style Baking

Seasonal Christmas, Father's Day, Holiday season, Valentine's Day

Ingredient chocolate

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 10

Total Time 25

Servings cookies

Author Amy Reiley and Chrysta Wilson

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup almond meal
1/2 cup quick oats
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
7 oz butter
3/4 cup brown sugar lightly packed
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 tsp vanilla
2 lg eggs
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup dark chocolate chips*

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Combine the flour, almond meal, oats, baking soda and salt in a large mixing bowl.
In a separate bowl, beat the butter, sugars, vanilla and eggs until creamy.
Gradually beat in the flour mixture then fold in the walnuts and chocolate chips.
Drop by rounded tablespoon full onto ungreased baking sheets and bake for 9-10 minutes until golden on the bottom.

Notes

*If you are a serious chocolate lover, you can toss in additional chocolate but we like the recipe with a more balanced chocolate to nut ratio.

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Amy Reiley

Eat Something Sexy's Creator & Editor-in-Chief Amy Reiley is the award-winning author of five aphrodisiac cookbooks. She has her Master of Arts in Gastronomy, awarded by Le Cordon Bleu and The University of Adelaide. She is also a Certified Nutrition Coach awarded by the International Sports Sciences Association and she is a California Certified Massage Therapist.

Amy is considered a leading authority on aphrodisiacs. Her work in aphrodisiacs is quoted in publications including National Geographic, The New York Times, Epicurious, Wine Enthusiast, Health and Playboy magazines. She speaks internationally on aphrodisiac foods and has brought her knowledge of aphrodisiac history and science to national television shows including The Today Show and CBS Early Show. She is a frequent guest on relationship and lifestyle radio and podcast shows and has been interviewed by BBC and NPR radio, Cosmopolitan radio and popular podcasts including My Dad Wrote a Porno.

Amy is also a freelance food, wine and health researcher and writer as well as a wine competition judge. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from Variety to The Daily Meal. She is an MSN content provider. And she is also a former wine editor for Gayot.com and wine & spirits editor of Las Vegas magazine.

Fun fact: Amy was the creator of the first ever comprehensive food and wine apps, Amy Reiley's Pocket Gourmet and Amy Reiley's Pocket Vineyard for Palm.

The Aphrodisiac Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe