I have to think of foods that were solid and easy to cut into shapes, I am sure there are plenty more ideas you will come up with, but these are just a few to get started.
Fruits, cheese, meats, and bread are always the easiest and certainly the quickest.
You may have a dinner party or anniversary or it's that holiday that you may like to make special.
From appetizers to entrees and desserts, just scroll through our heart-shaped foods, and enjoy breakfast lunch, or dinner.
Adapt away and use whatever you like for substitutes whether it's a premade store-bought brand or all homemade recipes, you can choose to cut times.
For those celebrating a holiday, you may want to try my 30 Appetizer and Side Dish Roundup or my Valentine's Day Roundup or recipes also.
Most of the instructions are visual and in the additions section below the hamburgers, meatballs, and pizza dough are all shaped by hand.
I will include all those ideas in my ideas in the recipe card below with links to recipes I used, and tips, just scroll to the bottom of this page.
Fun Foods
I love fun foods, sure you need a few tools but if you're really clever you can cut hearts out of food just with a sharp knife.
I never doubt creativity when it comes to food art, I keep mine quite simple and still get lots of compliments, plus there was nothing to it!.
Some of my recipes can be used like Homemade Tomato Sauce for my Meatball Recipe, or you can also use my Homemade Pizza Dough, but shortcuts are fine just buy your favorite premade foods to use.
I have listed many suggestions below to add some yummy ingredients you may have just a handful of leftover meat or vegetables that can be used in this recipe version.
One-pan casseroles are the best way to use up what's in the refrigerator and repurpose it for another great meal.
Don't worry if you don't have a large heart-shaped pan, see my two bowls below to cut into a heart shape easily for cakes.
Here are all the recipe links below with photos and delicious food art I have made over the years for my loved ones.
Brownie Jubilee
Grandma's Spaghetti and Meatballs
Mom's Baked Italian Burgers
Italian Parmesan Style Meatloaf
Pizza Dough Recipe
Strawberries
Strawberries can easily be cut with an appetizer-sized heart cutter, then dipped in white melting chocolate, rolled into colorful sugars to match any Holiday theme.
You can also use small skewers and alternatives with grapes, marshmallows, and heart-shaped strawberries, or any other fruits, watermelon, and cantaloupe that work great for cutting with cookie cutters.
Air Fried Hand Pies
Homemade Pop-Tarts
Easy to make homemade pop-tarts, just use your favorite recipe for Homemade Pie Crust or use refrigerated store-bought dough.
Using a heart cookie cutter, poke the dough with fork tines, add the jam of your choice, fill, and bake at 350 degrees until browned.
Cool them completely and frost them with Homemade Icing or canned store-bought frosting, add some colorful sprinkles and that's it!
Note: for brown sugar cinnamon pop-tarts filling use 1/2 cup light brown sugar, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, and 1 tablespoon flour, and mix together. For chocolate pop tarts, melt 1/2 cup chocolate chips with 2 tablespoons butter, then stir in 3 tablespoons powdered sugar and 1 tablespoon milk.
Homemade Soft Pretzels
Homemade Wonton Eggrolls
Egg in the Hole
Strawberry Shortcake Biscuits
Red Velvet Pancakes
Two Ingredient Nutella Brownies
Loft Cookies
Fresh Fruit Galette
Here are some of the Ingredients You May Need that I used(depending on what you choose to make
- hamburger and buns
- cooked spaghetti
- tomato sauce
- store-bought pie crust
- jam
- fillings for hand pies
- flour for rolling
- cheeses ( mozzarella, cheddar, or other soft large thick slices you prefer
- strawberries
- marshmallows
- pizza dough
- pepperoni
- grape tomatoes
- cucumbers
Tools You May Need
- several-sized metal heart cookie and appetizer cutters or if you're talented use a knife
- cutting boards
- round and square cake pans ( square turned to point up and cut two halves for the top of the heart, see photo above)
- wooden skewers
- heart-shaped pans
- measuring spoon
- saucepan to melt chocolate for dipping strawberries
- no heart-shaped pans? no problem see below: Make a heart-shaped cake without a heart pan. Bake one round and one square cake. Cut the round into halves. Place each half on the turned side of the point of the square cake.
Additional Heart Shaped Food Ideas and Tips:
- watermelon, cantaloupe, and pineapple cut into appetizer heart shapes on a stick
- any cheese or large pieces of meats and pepperoni can be cut with a small appetizer cut out heart and used on a plate or skewer
- poached eggs inside a metal heart-shaped cookie cutter or make a heart-shaped egg in the hole
- heart-shaped Rice Krispie Treats dipped in tinted pink white chocolate
- Italian sausage patties cooked cut into heart shapes with red peppers on top
- meatloaf, burgers, or meatballs can be made in a heart-shaped pan or shape by hand it on tin foil and bake it
- use wonton wrappers cut into hearts filled with my Eggroll Filling Recipe, moistened edges to press together, and air fry
- refrigerator biscuits cut into heart shapes for dinner rolls
- using a large heart metal cookie cutter cut around it on a piece of white fish or salmon
- cut out medallions in a heart shape with pork, chicken, or steak and grill it
- use my Homemade Pie Crust recipe or store-bought pie crust for my Air Fried Handpies or pop tarts(full recipe is in the printable card below). Note: For pop tarts, cut 2 pieces into heart shapes, fill with jam, and bake, frost, and top with sprinkles.
- cut out bread into hearts, make toasted cheese, or fill with my Sandwich Filling Recipes of your choice
- Make my Loft Cookies recipe for a heart-shaped cookie bouquet
- Make heart-shaped cake pops
- Make heart-shaped pretzels from a Soft Pretzel Recipe
- Empanada heart-shaped, Hot Pockets Air Fried using flour tortilla, wontons all used for fillings air fry or pan-fried
- shape pizza dough, crescent roll dough (or even use English muffins cut into heart shapes) place on a cookie sheet and form a heart, proceed with sauce and cheese and bake
- Note: all hamburgers, meatballs, and pizza dough are shaped by hand in heart forms and cooked
- Always seal hearts with egg wash when filling any cutout shapes with filling in them
More Fun Foods We Love:
Tropical Beach Spa Cake
Maraschino Cherry Cake
Heart Shaped Air Fried Hand Pies
Heart Brownie Cherries Jubilee
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Make This a Fun Family Project
I love creating new ideas into shapes of food, get the kids to help you come up with ideas of foods they love.
Whether you're using fruits, vegetables, or even meats, heart shapes are easy to cut and cook.
There are so many possibilities to make a fun meal for your family friends or that special someone.
My holiday for Valentine's Day or an Anniversary is always festive with some of these ideas from start to finish for the day.
Don't miss trying some of these fun treats for your special someone out there.
Easy Heart-Shaped Foods
Prep time: 20 MinCook time: 15 MinTotal time: 35 Min
This is a roundup of heart-shaped foods to make any time for that special someone and perfect for Valentine's Day
Ingredients
- Heart-Shaped Tools You May Need:
- several-sized metal heart cookie and appetizer cutters or if you're talented use a knife
- cutting boards
- round and square cake pans ( square turned to point up and cut two halves for the top of the heart, see photo above)
- wooden skewers
- heart-shaped pans
- measuring spoon
- saucepan to melt chocolate for dipping strawberries
- Heart-Shaped Foods are Easy to Make, use your own recipes, or follow my links in the post.
- Shape meatballs or meatloaf with your hands to form a heart.
- any cheese or large pieces of meats and pepperoni can be cut with a small appetizer cut out heart and used on a plate or skewer
- watermelon, cantaloupe, and pineapple cut into appetizer heart shapes on a stick
- poached eggs inside a metal heart-shaped cookie cutter or make a heart-shaped egg in the hole
- heart-shaped Rice Krispie Treats dipped in tinted pink white chocolate
- Italian sausage patties cooked cut into heart shapes with red peppers on top
- meatloafmade in a heart-shaped pan or shape it on tin foil and bake it
- use wonton wrappers cut into hearts filled with my Eggroll Filling Recipe, moistened edges to press together, and air fry
- refrigerator biscuits cut into heart shapes for dinner rolls
- cut strawberry shortcake biscuit dough into heart shapes
- using a large heart metal cookie cutter cut around it on a piece of white fish or salmon
- cut out medallions in a heart shape with pork, chicken, or steak and grill it
- use my Homemade Pie crust recipe or store-bought pie crust for my Air Fried Handpies or pop tarts. Note: For pop tarts, cut 2 pieces into heart shapes, fill with jam, and bake, frost, and top with sprinkles.
- cut out bread into hearts, make toasted cheese, or fill with my Sandwich Filling Recipes of your choice
- Make my Loft Cookies recipe for a heart-shaped cookie bouquet
- Make molded-by-hand heart-shaped cake pops
- Make heart-shaped pretzels from a Soft Pretzel Recipe
- Empanada and heart-shaped cut-outs for Air Fried Taco's using flour tortilla, Homemade Eggroll Wontons
- shape pizza dough, crescent roll dough (or even use English muffins cut into heart shapes) place on a cookie sheet and form a heart, proceed with sauce and cheese and bake with cut-out pepperoni using an appetizer heart-shaped cutter and place on the pizza
- Note: all hamburgers, meatballs, and pizza dough are shaped by hand in heart forms and cooked
- Always seal hearts with egg wash when using any filling for cut-out shapes
- Recipes for Pop-Tarts:
- We use either homemade Pie Crust or Store-bought refrigerated package
- Fill with: any flavored jam IE: raspberry, strawberry, blueberry, cherry, or another kind you prefer
- More Fillings for Pop-Tarts:
- Brown Sugar Cinnamon: 1/2 cup light brown sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, 2 teaspoons cinnamon mix all together
- Chocolate: 1/2 cup chocolate chips, 1 tablespoon milk, 3 tablespoons powdered sugar, 2 tablespoon butter mix all together
- Frosting: used any kind of canned frosting
- Garnish: sprinkles or colorful sugars is optional
- 1 beaten egg to brush the tops and seal the edges
Instructions
- Roll out the dough and cut it into heart shapes using a cookie cutter (or use a knife using handmade templates), and cut-out the dough into squares, rectangular, or round shapes.
- Fill the center with the preferred flavors above.
- Seal with egg wash.
- Top with another piece of dough.
- Brush the top with more egg wash and poke holes in each randomly over the top with fork tines.
- Bake on a parchment-lined cookie sheet for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown on top and depending on the size you make.
- Cool completely, frost, and garnish with sugar or sprinkles.
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Ice Cream Cone Easter Baskets
Doll Cakes
Halloween Party Foods
Heart Shaped Foods
Sugar Cone Edible Trees