QUESTION
Hi Amanda,
My boyfriend and I are planning to have a pizza party this Valentine’s Day, so I was wondering if you could help us figure out how to make a heart-shaped pizza and organize the party.
Love,
Josie!
ANSWER
Hi Josie,
It’s a fun and festive way to celebrate Valentine’s Day, while everyone can get involved in making, designing, and eating their hearts out. It’s so cute to serve pizza in the shape of a heart.
Making pizza dough is actually quick and easy, and you can shape it into many creative shapes if you have never tried it before. Now all you have to do is invite your friends!
To have a successful pizza party, you’ll need:
Pizza Dough For Each Guest: Let each guest prepare their own ball of dough (and let them shape the hearts themselves, or they can assemble the LOVE in letters pizza).
Pre-prepped Toppings Buffet: Make your toppings buffet with grated cheese, tomato sauce, olives, mushrooms, peppers, pineapple, or whatever you like.
Labor of Love: Let everyone have fun with the ingredients and think about what would make their pizza the most delicious for them. Let them be experimental. If you’re feeling generous, you could bring some heart-shaped salamis or cheeses.
Party like no one’s watching: To keep Valentine’s theme going, here are some fun ideas:
- Punch all pretty in pink. Make a simple pink punch by mixing equal parts club soda, cranberry juice, and cherry juice.
- Will you be mine? Set up a station where guests can make their own Valentine’s cards, and provide paper lunch bags so that other guests can secretly write Valentine’s notes in them. Don’t forget supplies such as colored paper, tape, scissors, pens, pencils, markers, and stickers.
- Playing a guessing game. You can fill a big clear jar with Hershey’s kisses or cinnamon hearts and have everyone guess the number of candies inside. The person who guesses the closest to the real number takes home the entire bounty.
- Valentine’s Day pizza printables. You can print out some free, fun, and deliciously cheesy printable pizza valentines at home, with captions like “You stole a pizza from my heart!”
This simple, tried and true dough recipe will get you in the mood for Valentine’s Day! Please let me know how it goes.
Love,
Amanda!
