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Valentine’s Day Breakfast – Conversation Heart Toast

January 29, 2011 This post may contain affiliate links.

Start your Valentine’s Day off with this cute Conversation Heart Toast. Each heart-shaped toast is brightly colored and has a special message printed on it. Kids will love this fun Valentine’s Day breakfast.

brightly colored conversation heart toast served with jelly surrounded by conversation heart candies

As a child, receiving boxes of conversation hearts from my mom on Valentine’s Day was just so sweet. We only got candy on holidays or special occasions, so we always looked forward to our own special box of these unusual confections.

Although each heart was only a small little bite of candy, I wouldn’t pop a whole bunch into my mouth. Rather, I would examine each one closely, reading the mushy or corny little phrase printed on top.

I have vivid memories of trying to lick just the words on a heart, trying to taste the ink they used to print on the candy.  I remember pondering the question, “how did they get those tiny letters onto those little bitty hearts and why did it taste so sweet?” Technology wasn’t where it is today.

No one was printing people’s faces on candy back in the 70’s.  So conversation hearts seemed pretty cool and high tech to a little freckle-faced girl.  I just couldn’t figure out how ink of any kind could taste good. I was baffled, but I didn’t let it stop me from enjoying my sweet little hearts.

When I got a little older I learned to use food coloring to tint frosting for decorating cookies and cakes and realized that they use food coloring as their ink. Although I couldn’t make my own conversation heart candy, I did enjoy making conversation heart cookies decorated with vibrantly colored frosting and adorned with fun little love-related phrases.

I am a bit older now and have spent years (oh, so many years) using food coloring in so many different applications.  I’ve tinted frosting, chocolate, hard candy, marshmallows, cookie dough, cake batter, and modeling chocolate using different forms of food colorings.

I even colored stripes on corn dogs to create corn dog bumblebees here on this blog.

Today I am going to share one more idea for using food coloring to decorate your food.

This technique is so simple and it requires just a few ingredients: bread, milk, and food coloring. You will simply color milk with store-bought food coloring and paint it lightly onto bread before toasting.  Yep, it’s that easy.

CONVERSATION HEART TOAST

Ingredients:

2 slices thick white bread per person
1-2 tablespoons milk per color
primary and neon food coloring

Special Equipment Needed:

heart-shaped cookie cutter
pastry brushes
food safe paint brushes
(either brushes that are only used for
food or brand new paintbrushes)

Instructions:

brush colored milk over heart-shaped bread to create conversation heart toast

Use a heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut hearts out of each slice of bread. Pour 1-2 tablespoons milk into a small bowl, ramekin, or glass.

Squeeze in 1 drop of food coloring and stir.  Add more drops of food coloring until you achieve the desired color.  Create as many different colors as you desire.

The neon food coloring works great for these hearts.

Use a pastry brush to very lightly brush the colored milk all over one side of each of the heart-shaped bread slices.  Be careful not to oversaturate the bread or your toast will not get very crisp.

use red food coloring to write messages onto conversation heart toast

Pour 1-2 tablespoons milk into a small bowl and add 3 drops of red food coloring.  Add more drops of coloring until you achieve the desired shade of red.

Use a fine-tip paintbrush to write messages on each of your hearts.

The color will bleed if you have too much of the colored milk on your brush, so shake off excess colored milk before you paint your bread.

When you have finished decorating your hearts, toast them in a toaster or toaster oven.  You can also place them on a baking sheet and set them under a broiler set at low heat.

Broil for 2-3 minutes on each side until golden brown. Keep an eye on them as they can burn easily.  Serve your toast with your favorite spreads or create a conversation heart sandwich.

Express your love with food this Valentine's Day with Conversation Heart Toast. Write whatever message you please on the top and let your imagination run wild.

 If you are looking for other treats or gifts to make for Valentine’s Day,
you might like these other recipes too.

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Filed Under: Valentine's Day Recipes Tagged With: bread, Breakfast, conversation hearts

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Comments

  1. Tiffany Yang

    February 4, 2011 at 7:06 am

    You have so many fun ideas! I'm your newest follower! This recipe looks so easy, and it's perfect for Valentine's Day breakfast. I also love your corn dog bee idea. Gotta try it one day.

    Reply
  2. Beth Jackson Klosterboer

    February 4, 2011 at 12:00 pm

    Thanks Tiffany and welcome to Hungry Happenings. I'm sure your little one would be excited to find colorful Conversation Heart Toast on the plate this Valentine's Day.

    Reply
  3. jo

    February 8, 2011 at 5:26 pm

    I'm using this idea for my daughter's overnight 13th birthday sleepover this weekend! It's a Valentine/Birthday party…thanks! -jo from http://www.Ottlite.com/blog

    Reply
  4. Beth Jackson Klosterboer

    February 8, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    Hi Jo,

    I hope your daughter has a great birthday and that the conversation heart toast is a hit with her and her friends.

    Reply
  5. Mindie Hilton

    January 20, 2012 at 4:51 pm

    What a clever idea. Thanks for linking up at Bacon Time. Good luck!

    Reply
  6. Jocelyn

    January 23, 2012 at 12:56 pm

    This is an adorable idea!!!! I pinned it for sure:-)

    Reply
  7. Marla

    January 27, 2012 at 1:15 pm

    What a cute idea! My daughters will love this for Valentine's Day breakfast!

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      January 28, 2012 at 5:09 pm

      Have fun with your girls this Valentine's Day. They will have fun helping you make them or just eating them.

      Reply
  8. Annalea

    January 28, 2012 at 4:48 pm

    beth ~ this is the most cleverly brilliant valentine-themed food i've ever seen!!! i can't wait to make this for my family on v-day morning with scrambled eggs and toast! thanks for sharing 🙂 visiting from the 'be different act normal' link party.

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      January 28, 2012 at 5:08 pm

      Wow thanks. I hope your family enjoys the Valentine's Day breakfast.

      Reply
  9. Designed by Dawn Nicole

    January 31, 2012 at 2:34 am

    This is SO cute and creative. My kids love toast for breakfast and I have a heart sandwich cutter. They'll love this! 🙂 Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  10. 4you-withlove

    January 31, 2012 at 4:30 am

    Wow,this is so much fun! You are so clever! I think I'll have to do this on Feb 14 for my family….thanks so much for sharing this great idea

    Reply
  11. Lindsi B

    February 3, 2012 at 4:05 pm

    You are SOOOOo creative! hope you will link up to Fun Stuff Fridays
    lindsi (toysinthedryer.com)

    Reply
  12. Brenda

    January 18, 2013 at 2:03 pm

    What a sweet idea!! LOVE it!! Thanks for sharing! Pinning now 😉
    ~ Brenda @ ChattingOverChocolate.blogspot.com

    Reply
  13. Sara

    February 11, 2015 at 3:12 pm

    This is such a cute idea and I will definitely be trying it for my step daughter on Valentine's Day!! If I can get mine to look as cute as yours I will be adding it to my blog and will be sure to mention your page! Thanks!! ourfrontdoorlookingin.com

    Reply

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