29 heart-shaped foods — beyond chocolate — to buy for your Valentine

Love is not only in the air this Valentine’s Day, it’s also on the plate.

However you plan on spending the unofficial end of cuffing season — a romantic evening with a sweetie, an extra love-filled day with your kids, a Galentines or Brolentines event with friends or a cozy solo night in — there are tons of heart-shaped foods in stores right now that you can use to show your love in a very literal (but also adorable) way.

So, go beyond chocolate and candy this Valentine’s Day — with bagels, doughnuts, pasta, cereal, chicken nuggets, pretzels and … meat. Yes, heart-shaped meat. For your convenience, we’ve rounded ’em all up here.

Bread, cereal and pasta

Barilla Love

Barilla is bringing back its heart-shaped pasta once again! Called Barilla Love, the limited-edition product is available on Amazon and at select retailers nationwide.

Bellita Pasta Heart-Shaped Pasta

Bellita Pasta is selling heart-shaped pink pasta on its website in honor of the most romantic day of the year. The pretty pasta is made with red beets to give it a beautiful hue.

Bojangles’ Heart-Shaped Bo-Berry Biscuits

Bojangles’ fan-favorite Heart-Shaped Bo-Berry Biscuits are back at participating locations. The heart-shaped biscuits feature Bo-Berries (aka blueberries) and are drizzled with vanilla icing.

The chain recently announced that 10% of all proceeds of the biscuits will be donated to charity.

Cheerios

Heart-shaped Cheerios cereals are back on store shelves, just in time for the holiday. Several varieties are available, including traditional Cheerios, Very Berry, Strawberry Banana, Fruity, Honey Nut, Frosted, Chocolate, Apple Cinnamon.

Panera BAEgels

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Panera is shaping its Cinnamon Crunch bagels into hearts, aka BAEgels. They’ll be available in limited quantities in select New York City cafes on Feb. 13 and 14.

Pastabilities Eat Your Heart Out Pasta

Pastabilities is offering 14-ounce bags of its Eat Your Heart Out Pasta. Made with durum wheat and natural vegetable powders (for coloring), the pasta comes in two heart shapes and colors.

Desserts

Dairy Queen’s Red Velvet Blizzard Cupid Cake

Usually a heart made of ice is a bad thing, but when Dairy Queen brings back its Red Velvet Blizzard Cupid Cake, it’s a perfect icy treat to share with that special someone on Valentine’s Day.

This heart-shaped dessert features DQ’s Red Velvet Blizzard Treat — made with DQ vanilla soft serve, red velvet cake pieces and cream cheese icing — layered with more red velvet cake pieces, cream cheese icing and vanilla soft serve. Each Red Velvet Blizzard Cupid Cake serves two to four people.

The Red Velvet Cake Blizzard Treat is also available on its own as part of DQ’s Valentine’s Day offerings, in a non-heart-shaped Blizzard cup.

Krispy Kreme Hearts in Bloom Collection

Krispy Kreme’s new Hearts in Bloom collection features four new heart-shaped doughnuts in a flower bouquet box. Here are all the heart-shaped doughnuts you can choose from, available at participating locations:

• You Make My Daisy Doughnut: This unglazed heart doughnut is stuffed with white Kreme and covered in strawberry flavored icing. It’s finished off with yellow icing and a daisy candy piece.
• Love You Bunches Doughnut: This unglazed heart doughnut is full of chocolate Kreme then coated with red icing, green stems, and pink and red confectionery curls.
• Blooming Heart Doughnut: This unglazed heart doughnut is full of cookies and Kreme filling then covered with purple icing and hearts in bloom sprinkles.
• You Are My Sunshine Doughnut: This unglazed heart doughnut is full of caramel flavored Kreme then coated in chocolate icing, a green stem and a sunflower candy piece.

Paris Baguette’s Valentine’s Day Menu

Through Feb. 14, Paris Baguette is offering a Valentine’s Day menu that includes a chocolate-covered strawberry heart cake, a double chocolate Frasier cake, an I Love You Chocolate Cake, a chocolate-covered strawberry supreme croissant and a chocolate-covered strawberry king cream doughnut.

Pillsbury’s Hearts Shape Sugar Cookie Dough

Returning this year is Pillsbury’s Hearts Shape Sugar Cookie Dough, part of its seasonal collection. These ready-to-bake cookies require no mixing or slicing, and are available now for a limited time at select retailers nationwide.

Sweet Loren’s Barbie Pink Heart Shapes Sugar Cookie Dough

Sweet Loren’s has partnered with Mattel’s Barbie to create the most adorable heart-shaped pink cookies that are made naturally pink using plants. Like all products from the brand, the cookies are made with better-for-you ingredients. They’re also gluten-free and vegan.

Valentine Ding Dongs

Hostess released a heart-shaped version of its classic soft chocolate cake with crème filling. Valentine Ding Dongs are topped off with red sprinkles and individually wrapped with “to” or “from” printed on the packaging — ideal for classroom exchanges, gifting to family and friends or sending to yourself. Self-love is in.

Meats

Chick-fil-A’s Heart-Shaped Trays

Chick-fil-A’s Heart-Shaped Trays are making a comeback through Feb. 22, while supplies last at participating restaurants.

Customers can order four different items to fill the chain’s Heart-Shaped Trays: a 30-count of Chick-fil-A Nuggets, a 10-count of Chick-n-Minis (during breakfast hours), a 6-count of Chocolate Chunk Cookies or 12 Chocolate Fudge Brownie halves.

Folks can use the Chick-fil-A app or website to find a store nearby offering Heart-Shaped Trays. They’re available for pickup or delivery.

Hormel Pepperoni Heart-to-Heart Kits

Nothing goes better with heart-shaped pizzas than heart-shaped pepperoni! Hormel Pepperoni just released its Heart-to-Heart Kits, available online through Feb. 11. The kits come with everything you need to have a delightful pizza feast.

Sweetheart Ribeye Kit

Goldbelly is partnering with The Shed BBQ & Blues Joint, an Ocean Springs, Mississippi restaurant, to provide the ultimate way to a meat lover’s heart.

The priciest item on the list, at $259.95, the Shed BBQ & Blues Joint’s Sweetheart Ribeye kit serves two and features a three-pound, heart-shaped ribeye, two steakhouse potatoes, rosemary butter, a fresh herb mop and special steak seasoning.

Meathearts

Sweethearts might be a classic Valentine’s Day candy, but some people prefer to be told “I love you” in jerky form.

Manly Man Co. has once again released Meathearts, a Valentine’s Day-themed box of jerky. For $27.50, customers can buy a package containing heart-shaped jerky pieces laser-etched with amorous sayings like “Beef Mine” and “XOXO.” This year, customers can choose from a 2.3-ounce box or a 4.6-ounce box.

Snacks

Jet-Puffed Hearts

Jet-Puffed, the brand that has previously released red-and-green holiday marshmallows and the divisive candy corn-flavored marshmallows, have come through again for your seasonal marshmallow needs. Returning to store shelves are Heart-Shaped Strawberry Marshmallows, available at Target and other retailers nationwide.

Linda’s Gourmet Latkes

Linda’s Gourmet Latkes has heart-shaped potato latkes available for purchase on Goldbelly. The 20-year-old company makes each latke with hand shredded potatoes that are molded into a festive heart shape. You can order them with apple sauce, salmon or creme fraiche. Options include large and bite-sized options in the original flavor as well as sweet potato.

Welch’s Fruit Snacks

Welch’s Fruit Snacks has the perfect way to show your love in your kid’s lunchbox. Juicefuls HeartThrobs are fruit snacks made with whole fruit and natural flavors. The gluten-free HeartThrobs are perfect for classroom exchanges and gifting, and are available at major retailers.

Pizza

Bertucci’s Brick Oven Pizza & Pasta

On Feb. 14, Bertucci’s is offering a Valentine’s Day dinner for two for $69.95. Customers can also add a heart-shaped pizza for $9.99.

California Pizza Kitchen

Through Feb. 16, CPK customers can take advantage of the chain’s Sweet Deal for Two, which starts at $55. Available for dine-in and takeout, the special lets customers choose one starter, two entrees (heart-shaped pizzas are on the menu!) and one dessert.

DiGiorno

DiGiorno’s Heartichoke Pizza will be available online for $2.14 at noon ET on select days in February, including Feb. 11 and 13 in limited quantities.

Happy Joe’s

Select Happy Joe’s locations are offering heart-shaped pizzas through Feb. 14.

Lou Malnati’s

For $83.99, Goldbelly customers can get two Lou Malnati’s Heart-Shaped Pizzas delivered to their doorstep.

Mountain Mike’s Pizza

Mountain Mike’s Pizza is cooking up heart-shaped pizzas at all locations through Feb. 28.

Papa Johns

Papa Johns is offering heart-shaped pizzas between Feb. 10 and 16 for $11.99.

Papa Murphy’s

Papa Murphy’s has heart-shaped pizzas, aka the HeartBaker Pizza, available through Feb. 14 for $11. It’s available in cheese or pepperoni.

Peter Piper Pizza

Peter Piper Pizza is donating $1 to local Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals in 11 cities for every heart-shaped pizza sold through Feb. 28.

Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut’s heart-shaped pizza is available Feb. 11-17 nationwide starting at $11.99. The medium pizza can be customized with one topping.