Heart Shaped Pizza Recipe for Valentine's Day or Date Night

Heart shaped Pizza is the best recipe to make for your boyfriend or girlfriend or wife or kids or your mom.

It looks adorable. Tastes delicious. And is the best gift for boyfriend for Valentine's Day.

If you are wondering what can I bake for my boyfriend for Valentine's Day? And these Valentine's Day cookies and these Valentine's Day Cupcakes seem too much for you. Just bake this heart shaped pizza!

Where can i get a heart-shaped pizza

Well, it's very easy to get a heart-shaped Pizza. You can get a heart shaped pizza from Papa Johns or Pizza Hut or Dominos or Boston Pizza.

But, I would always suggest you to skip that part and make it at home. It's just a 30-minute recipe and bonus - you save yourself so much money.

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Pizza hut heart-shaped pizza

When Love is in the air and you are planning for a cozy night with your boyfriend you'll definitely want to order in a Pizza Hut Heart shaped Pizza.

It'll be delivered in less than 30-minutes all you have to do is just tap!

But, wait, here are just 5-6 basic ingredients which I bet you have in your fridge and you can make this same heart shaped pizza for your boyfriend in that same 30-minutes.

Same recipe. Same taste (not to brag but this homemade heart shaped pizza is way too delicious).

And, trust me - wouldn't he feel more special that you took out 30-minutes for him to actually cook something for him rather than just tap and order which probably everyone else is doing already!

Ingredients needed to Make Heart Shaped Pizza?

• Pizza Dough (homemade or store bought)
• olive oil 
• pepperoni slices
• pizza sauce
• shredded mozzarella cheese
• grated parmesan cheese
• chopped parsley or basil optional

How to make heart shaped pizza

Making a Heart shaped Pizza is so damn easy! Here's how to make a heart shaped pizza for Valentine's Day or Date night from scratch.

• Step 1: Preheat oven to 450°F and line a baking dish or a pizza pan with parchment paper and set aside.
• Step 2: Cook Pepperoni - Place pepperoni slices in a paper-towel lined dish. Microwave on High for 15-minutes. Dab off any excess grease. Set aside.
• Step 3: Roll the dough into heart shape - My favorite part of the recipe! Lightly flour a surface. Roll the dough into heart shape about 15-16 inches tall. Fold the edges and press to create a crust.
• Step 4: Transfer - Transfer the Pizza dough into prepared pizza pan.
• Step 5: Brush the pizza dough with olive oil. Dock the crust with fork to prevent formation of bubbles.
• Step 6: Bake - Place it in the preheated oven and bake for 6-7 minutes.
• Step 7: Add sauce and Cheese - Remove from oven and spread pizza sauce on the top. Add shredded mozzarella cheese and freshly grated Parmesan cheese. Top with Pepperoni.
• Step 8: Bake - Return to oven and bake for another 8-12 minutes or until brown and the pepperoni is crispy.
• Step 9 - [OPTIONAL] - Remove from oven and top with fresh parsley or basil.

[pro-tip]: Let it stand for 5-minutes before cutting and serving.

How do you cut a heart-shaped pizza?

To cut a heart shaped dough from a pizza dough here's what you do:

• Lightly flour the surface.
• Roll the dough about 15-16 inches tall.
• Use a handy-dandy cutter and cut out the top portion of the heart.
• Take the bottom part and push it down a bit.

How to store Valentine's heart shaped pizza?

• Store - You can store remaining heart shaped pizza in a zip-log back in the fridge for 3-4 days. Reheat the pizza in the microwave or in the oven on a low setting.
• Freeze - To freeze unbaked pizza dough increase the yeast in the dough by about ¼ teaspoon. This will compensate for the yeast that dies during the freezing process.
  • Prepare the dough. Add the toppings that you like. But, don't bake it yet. Flash freeze it. Once it's frozen, double wrap with plastic wrap and then again with an aluminum foil.
  • Label and keep the pizza in the freezer for up to 2 months.
  • Bake directly from frozen until the cheese looks bubbly and golden brown.

Some Tips to Make the best Heart Shaped Pizza

• Microwaving Pepperoni - Although this step is totally optional. But, I highly recommend it. Microwaving the pepperoni releases the excess fat or grease which would have made our pizza greasy.
• Blind Baking - Blind baking the pizza in the oven is a process which makes the pizza dough sturdy enough to hold the filling. Blind baking the crust makes it crusty and sturdy.
• Easy Clean Up - Make sure you use a parchment paper for the pizza pan. This will help in getting out the pizza without it sticking to the pan.