What could be more romantic than a dinner of heart-shaped pizza? A dinner of heart-shaped pizza that begins with heart-shaped breadsticks, of course! 

To make heart-shaped sticks, first start with a medium dough ball (one pound). Divide the ball in half (photos 1 & 2) and with your hands flatten one half into a tear drop shape.

Lightly flour your rolling pin, dough, and work surface and roll the dough into a larger tear drop shape about a half inch or so thick (photo 3).

Using a knife or roller pizza cutter cut a triangle out of the top. Then take the almost heart shaped breadsticks and round out the top a bit and adjust the shape to a lovely roundish heart shape. Brush off excess flour while doing this. Then using your pizza cutter or knife make vertical cuts through the dough either side of the middle, leaving some dough uncut at the top of the heart. Then make two more cuts, one for the left ventricle, one for the right (photos 4 & 5).

Carefully slide your uncooked sticks onto a screen or pan and cook just like regular breadsticks.

Serve to a loved one and watch them rip your heart apart and devour it.

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