Try challenging yourself this Valentine’s Day to see how many foods you can turn into a heart shape. Here are a few ideas to get you started, but I am confident you can come up with many more.
Breakfast
Pancakes: Pancakes are easy to turn into heart shapes. You can carefully spoon the dough onto the pan to create a heart shape, or carve the shape out with a knife.
Eggs: Scramble a few eggs and pour them inside a heart-shaped cookie cutter that has been set over a small frying pan.
Lunch
Sandwiches: Create your favorite sandwich. It can be peanut butter and jelly, bologna and cheese, or tuna fish. Take your heart-shaped cookie cutter and cut a heart shape out of it.
Dinner
Pizza: Roll out your pizza dough and then shape it into a heart. Top with pasta sauce, mozzarella cheese, and pepperoni. For added cuteness, cut the pepperoni slices so that they resemble hearts.
Hot Dogs: Slice one hot dog at a right angle about a third of the way down. Repeat with a second hot dog, but this time cut at a left angle. Join the two angles together to make a heart shape.
Snacks
Strawberries: Simply split a strawberry in half. They have a natural heart shape after you split them down the middle.
Rice Krispies Treats: Follow the recipe on the Rice Krispies box to make your treats. Once they harden, you can chisel out heart shapes to serve for dessert.
Raspberry Cupcakes: Create your favorite cupcakes and then ice them with a light pink icing. You can make the icing pink simply by adding a few drops of red food coloring to a jar of vanilla or cream cheese icing. Now paint a seedless raspberry jam heart on top of the icing with a food paintbrush.