Love Cookies for Two for Valentines Day

NEW YORK - Jan. 29, 2014 - PRLog -- True love hath prompted no greater aphrodisiac than Dark Desire served warm with a glass of deep- red Port.

The love we sing of is celebrated baker Kelly Cooper's for her husband Curt and their shared passion for chocolate on the cool desert nights of Nevada in February.  The secret, decadent ingredient in Kelly's go-to Valentine's Day sweet is thyme, sealed into her oven-warm, bittersweet chocolate-melt topped cookie.  She calls this special cookie Dark Desire.  And on Valentine's Day, she serves it with ruby Port.

Cooper's ode to adventurous (yet easy) baking, Cookies for Grown-ups, dedicates an entire chapter to cookies intended for seduction;  each laced with one or more surprise adult ingredients and each cookie paired with a sophisticated beverage.   Just as we don't all fall in love with the same person, Ms. Cooper explains, each of us does not have an identical palate.  On Valentine's Day, choose the cookie and drink that lead to the heart you're courting.

For  scotch-and-soda lovers there's Cheers---a rum and orange companion cookie;  new romance delights in sparkling wine and Interlude---a white chocolate and fresh mint cookie treat;  sophisticated green-tea revelers fly to the sky with Saporita---a Valentine cookie of blue cheese, pecan, balsamic  vinegar and agave nectar.

Original cookies are the love letters of today.  They're much easier to bake than you may think. And each one is signed with your love.

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Two recipes and high-resolution photos available on request.  Please credit as follows:

Recipe:  From Cookies for Grown-ups by Kelly Cooper, Red Rock Press

Photo:  Photo by Frank Anzalone, from Cookies for Grown-ups by Kelly Cooper, Red Rock Press