Food Blog Watch: Heart-Shaped Food for Valentine's

Heart-shaped food is practically irresistable this time of year, and the food blogosphere has found a myriad of ways to turn ordinary food into the shape of a heart. Here are fifteen different foods shaped like hearts -- some are obvious candidates and others, not so much.

These are just a handful, of course. Have you seen any particularly clever or pretty heart-shaped food this year?

Photos above are in bold below.

• Sugar cookies

• Peppermint marshmallows

• Soup croutons

• Strawberry ice cream

• Breakfast eggs

• Potato and cheese empanadas

• Greens and cheese pie

• Fortune cookies

• Peppermint patties

• Cranberry tarts

• Ravioli

• Conversation heart mini cakes

• Jell-O

• Whoopie pies

• Flourless chocolate cake

(Images, clockwise from top left: Ezra Poundcake, Rapskernoel, Erin Cooks, La Tabla de Nana)

Comments (6)

ooo! I made heart shaped oreo cookies!
http://kitchengraffiti.blogspot.com/2009/02/homemade-love.html

posted by kitchengraffiti on February 13th 2009 at 10:44am
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i hate heart-shaped food. good food shows love, no oh-so-sweet-gimmicks necessary.

posted by Linksaussen on February 13th 2009 at 10:50am
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If I plonked a plate of heart-shaped food down in front of my husband, he would most likely be bewildered, and then nervous that expectations were going to rise across the board for Valentine's Day.

posted by heather77 on February 13th 2009 at 10:59am
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Oh my, peppermint patties! What a great idea. If you're a little more cynical, behold the bleeding heart cupcake: http://www.yumsugar.com/1024600

posted by aliciak on February 13th 2009 at 11:56am
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Well, personally, my eight-year-old would love it if I made her conversation heart cakes. And since I'm not married, I think I'll be doing just that. I appreciate it for the occasion, not for everyday and everyone.

posted by Kimber on February 13th 2009 at 12:59pm
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I think it is a fun and whimisical way to eat, even if it is only once/year. I plan to do the same for my almost one-year old daughter when she is old enough to understand.

posted by rosebud on February 13th 2009 at 1:33pm
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