Homemade heart shaped pizza is perfect for Valentine’s Day! It’s simple to make and share with your loved ones in only 1 hour.
Make this into any pizza you like including pizza caprese, chicken alfredo pizza or even Buffalo chicken pizza!
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Valentine’s Day Heart Shaped Pizza
If your family loves homemade pizza recipes as much as mine do, heart shaped pizza is the best way to dine this Valentine’s Day! Make it into a pepperoni pizza recipe or use whatever toppings you like!
Whether you serve this on February 14th or the days leading up to the holiday, it’s a great way to get in on the trend of heart pizza that has become a popular menu item at Papa Johns, Marco’s, Lou Malnati’s, Pizza Hut, Papa Murphy’s and more.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Homemade: We all know that homemade food comes from the heart, so really we are just combining the two into a heart shaped pizza!
- Made to order: Make your pizza-pie exactly how you like! Roll the dough into thick or thin crust pizza, use garlic white pizza sauce or make miniature sized heart pizzas.
- Romantic or family friendly: Serve this homemade pizza to your sweetheart for a romantic dinner date or have fun making it with the kids!
Heart Shaped Pizza Recipe Ingredients
Here is what I used to make my heart pizza, but feel free to customize how you like!
Find the full printable recipe with specific measurements below.
- Crust: I love to use my homemade pizza dough as the base but you could keep it even easier with a store-bought crust.
- Pepperoni: This is by far the most popular pizza topping as well as you can create little pepperoni hearts, but you can use what you like!
- Sauce: I love my homemade pizza sauce but again store-bought is great, too!
- Cheese: Freshly shredded mozzarella is delicious, but feel free to mix it up with provolone, cheddar, Parmesan or your favorite cheese!
- Olive oil: For brushing the pan, cooking spray works, too.
Substitutions and Variations
Valentine’s Day pizza is easy to customize with whatever favorite items you and your loved ones usually order on your pizza.
- Sauce: Using a different sauce like alfredo, basil pesto, or BBQ sauce all are great options.
- Additional pizza toppings: Extra cheese, mushrooms, bell peppers, olives, sauteed mushrooms, pineapple, use as many or little as you like!
- Meat: Make it one topping with your heart-shaped pepperoni, create a meat lovers with sausage, ham and pepperoni or get creative and use meatballs or chicken.
- Specialty: Just like your favorite pizza joint you might like to try spinach artichoke pizza, BBQ chicken pizza or chicken bacon ranch pizza.
How to Make Heart Shaped Pizza
This Valentine’s pizza is fun to make no matter the age! Gather your loved ones and follow these easy directions for a heart-shaped pie.
First, make the heart shaped pepperoni. Fold pepperoni in half then using kitchen shears, trim pepperoni into the shape of half of a heart. Unfold it and it will be a whole heart.
Shape dough into a pizza. Spread your sauce over the heart-shaped dough and sprinkle with mozzarella cheese. Place pepperoni hearts on top of the cheese then bake at 450°F for 15-20 minutes.
Expert Tips
- Make mini pizzas: This recipe for a heart shape pizza can also make four 6-inch pizzas. Start checking for doneness around 12 minutes.
- Whole grain: If you love a heartier dough with extra nutritional benefits try my whole wheat pizza dough.
- Fresh herbs: Add some additional fresh taste by topping it with fresh basil or parsley right before serving.
- Blind bake: Blind baking is popular when making pie crust and means to partially or fully cook your dough before filling it with toppings. This helps create a sturdier crust. Bake ‘naked’ crust for around 6 minutes first, top with desired toppings and bake for 10 – 15 minutes until done.
- Easy clean up: Either line your pan with parchment paper or brush pan with olive oil and a sprinkle of cornmeal.
Recipe FAQs
To make ahead use my yeast free pizza dough! That dough can be made up to 24 hours in advance and then just cover and store in the refrigerator until ready to use.
Sure! You will just need to roll your dough a bit thinner. Baking time will possibly decrease as well so be sure to keep that in mind.
No! It’s easy to make a heart pizza using the pinch and pull technique. Roll out pizza dough then start to shape dough into a heart-shaped pizza by pulling down the bottom crust into a point. Next, take one finger and push down the top middle part toward the center of the dough.
If you’re looking to make some good pizza at home make sure to preheat your oven 30 minutes before baking. Also, make sure your dough is at room temperature. Make sure to stretch the dough before placing on your sauce and toppings.
Serving Suggestions
Make your Valentine’s Day meal complete by adding some additional appetizers or sides! Beyond serving just this Valentine’s pizza, here are a few favorites I like to add to the menu:
- Olive Garden breadsticks
- Mini antipasto skewers
- Italian salad or a simple chopped salad
- Baked zucchini fries
- Caesar salad (our favorite)
Of course you can’t forget a Valentine’s Day dessert to share with your loved ones! Try strawberry sheet cake, chocolate covered strawberries or Valentine’s sugar cookies.
Storing
- Store. Store leftovers of your Valentine’s heart shaped pizza in an airtight container or ziploc bag in the refrigerator up to 3 days. Reheatpizza in the microwave, oven or enjoy cold.
- Freeze: Cool completely, wrap in plastic wrap then freeze leftover pizza in an airtight bag up to two months. Do not thaw, discard wrapping then reheat in the oven from frozen.
For more delicious pizza recipes try this breakfast pizza, sheet pan pizza, and BLT pizza!
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Heart Shaped Pizza
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Ingredients
- 1 pound pizza dough , homemade or store-bought
- 16 pepperoni slices
- ½ cup pizza sauce , homemade or store-bought
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450°F. Place flour on the counter. Place dough on a floured surface and let come to room temperature if it's been refrigerated.
- Fold each pepperoni in half. Using kitchen shears, trim it into the shape of half of a heart (it will be a whole heart when unfolded).
- Roll out the dough with a rolling pin or toss until 1/4-inch thick and a 16-inch circle. Cut a 2-inch slit in the top of the circle and shape into the top of the heart. Make the bottom of a heart by forming the bottom of the circle into a point.
- Lightly brush 1 Tablespoon oil onto a pizza stone or large baking sheet. Transfer dough onto the stone or baking sheet, reshaping if necessary. Spread sauce over the dough and sprinkle with mozzarella. Place the pepperoni hearts on top of the cheese.
- Bake 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown and bubbly.
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Nutrition
Nutrition provided is an estimate. It will vary based on specific ingredients used.
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Jamielyn Nye is the founder and recipe creator at I Heart Naptime. She is also the author of the I Heart Naptime Cookbook. Here you will find easy family-friendly recipes for every occasion.
Best V-Day dinner ever! My kids loved it last year and they’ve already requested it again this year. Those heart-shaped pepperonis are the CUTEST!
This was such a great way to add a smile to my little valentines! My kids LOVED it. Thanks for the inspiration.
Easy peasy! And a huge hit with my kids. I am making our pizzas hearts all the time!
We usually order pizza every V-Day but this year I made this cute pizza instead. Easy to make and it was a huge hit!
We loved this pizza, it was so delicious! The heart-shaped pepperonis are so adorable too
Thank you so much, I am thrilled I found this recipe. Mine came out just as cute as yours!
Love the heart theme! Tasted great!
Turned out great! Delicious! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed the heart shaped pizza for Valentine’s Day!