Our adorable miniature chocolate love hearts are the perfect homemade Valentine’s Day surprise for your sweetie this year. And they’re really simple to create — perfect for even the youngest of cooks!
Simple cake sprinkles are all that is required to dress up a little batch of homemade chocolate hearts, which look adorable when done so quickly.
The children will enjoy helping to make our heart chocolate for Valentine’s Day or to give to their mum as a homemade Mother’s Day gift this year.
Our adorable chocolate recipe makes a wonderful edible gift for friends and family.
All you’ll need is a couple of large bars of chocolate in your favourite flavour (white, milk, or dark) and some edible decorations to complete the project.
Any sort of cake sprinkle will work nicely in this recipe; simply choose your favourite chocolate and cake sprinkle combos to experiment with.
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Chocolate Love Hearts Ingredients
- 200g chocolate – white, milk chocolate or dark chocolate – choose your favourite.
- 30g cake sprinkles – you can use any cake decorations you like – even edible glitter works really well.
Equipment Needed To Make Chocolate Hearts
- Large saucepan
- Measuring jug
- Metal spoon
- Gift wrap or boxes if making as a gift
How To Make Chocolate Hearts
Our little chocolate heart recipe is quite simple to create, and you’ll be amazed at how beautiful the completed chocolates turn out to be.
- First melt the chocolate – do this by breaking up the chocolate into small pieces in a jug then stand the jug in a pan of boiling water and stir the chocolate until it melts.
- Take your heart shaped chocolate mould and fill the bottom of the love hearts with cake sprinkles.
- Next pour in the melted white chocolate.
- Put the heart chocolate in the fridge to set.
- Once set pop them out of the tray and wrap in tissue paper or put into little gift boxes.
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Make Our Chocolate Hearts Your Way
It’s quite simple to modify our chocolate heart recipe and take it in a new direction, letting you to truly express your personality through the design and style of the chocolates.
- Make different shaped chocolate – Use different shapes of mould – you don’t have to make love heart chocolates, you could make dinosaurs, spaceships, flowers – whatever you like
- Use different chocolate – Try different types of chocolate or even swirling a combination of chocolates together to make white and milk chocolate hearts.
- Make flavoured chocolate hearts – Try different flavoured chocolates – orange or minty hearts are good.
- Decorate them differently – Use different cake sprinkles or edible glitter, you could even use different sprinkles on each individual chocolate heart.
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More Heart Shaped Food
Heart shaped food is perfect for Valentine’s Day or any other occasion when you want to spoil your loved ones, and we’ve made a list of some of our favourite heart shaped recipes for you to try out.
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- Vegetable Tarts – super easy puff pastry tarts topped with delicious roasted vegetables and tangy feta cheese.
- Fairy Bread – dainty little heart shaped snacks for kids to make.
- Heart Shaped Pancakes – the perfect love heart themed tasty breakfast for Valentine’s Day
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Chocolate Hearts
Cute litte chocolate hearts for Valentine's Day
Ingredients
- 200g white chocolate
- 30g cake sprinkles
Instructions
- Firstly melt the chocolate - do this by breaking up the chocolate into small pieces in a jug then stand the jug in a pan of boiling water and stir the chocolate until it melts.
- Take your chocolate heart mould silicone tray and fill the bottom of the love hearts with cake sprinkles.
- Next pour in the melted chocolate.
- Put the chocolates in the fridge to set.
- Once set pop them out of the tray and wrap in tissue paper or put into little gift boxes.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 101Total Fat: 6gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 5mgSodium: 22mgCarbohydrates: 12gFiber: 0gSugar: 11gProtein: 1g
Nutritional content will vary depending on the exact ingredients you use and how careful you are with measuring - this nutritional information is given as a general guide only and may not be accurate - you should always calculate your own nutritional information especially if you have specific dietary requirements.
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