Cookie cutters are not only for baking. Have some fun with food and use them to create new shapes on your plate. Use a heart shaped cutter on a piece of bread to create these five different cookie cutter ideas. You’ll have a lovely morning with these heart shaped sandwich ideas.


plates of different heart shaped sandwiches

Looking for ways to make your morning a little more special? Add some more interest to the table with these cookie cutter recipes.

Heart bread breakfast ideas

Try these 5 techniques to making a—heart themed—cookie cutter breakfast. Share these plates with someone you love. These toasts might even give you more of a reason to love your morning routine.

bread cut into heart shapes with a cookie cutter

This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. Please see here for more information on affiliate links.


Check your pantry

Before breakfast begins, make sure you have these items available. Here’s what you’ll need to make these heart shaped sandwich combinations.

Heart shaped cookie cutters – in both a large and small size. These come in handy for making other cookie shapes too.

Fun & flavorful toppings – to season the toast with additional spices and fun sprinkles.


Watch how to make them


5 Heart Shaped Sandwiches

Slices of cucumbers and cheese with heart shapes cut out of them. A red plate with a piece of bread and the heart shaped cucumbers and cheese on it.

Heart shaped vegetable cut outs

Use a cookie cutter to top your toast with vegetables in different shapes.

  1. Spread a layer of hummus onto a piece of toast.
  2. Use a small heart cookie cutter to cut sliced cucumbers and cheese into hearts.
  3. Layer the cucumbers and cheese on the toast.
  4. Sprinkle with everything bagel spice.
a red plate with a slice of bread cut into a heart shape, with cottage cheese and heart sprinkles on it

Sprinkled with love

Turn breakfast into a celebration by adding colorful sprinkles to the plate.

  1. Use a large heart cookie cutter to create a heart shaped piece of bread. 
  2. Toast the bread.
  3. Add a layer of cottage cheese.
  4. Best part, add the sprinkles
hand holding heart shaped bread and jelly sandwich

Linzer toast

Inspired by the jam-filled sandwich cookies, this sandwich has a jelly filling and window to see it.

  1. Use a large cookie cutter to create two heart shaped pieces of bread. With the small heart cookie cutter, remove a heart shaped hole from the center of one of the pieces.
  2. Toast the bread.
  3. Spread a layer of jelly to the piece without the hole. Top with the other piece of bread to close the sandwich. 
cream cheese on toast with a heart shaped design made from freeze dried berries, on a red heart plate

Crushed fruit

Sprinkle freeze dried fruit onto your toast while using the cookie cutter as a stencil to create a heart shape design.

  1. Fill a small bowl with freeze dried raspberries (or strawberries). Use the back of a spoon to crush the fruit into a powder.
  2. Spread a layer of cream cheese on a piece of toasted bread.
  3. Position the smaller cookie cutters on the bread and fill with the fruit powder. Use a toothpick to spread. Carefully lift the cookie cutter off the bread. Repeat to make as many hearts as you like.
Heart shaped egg in frame cooking in frying pan. Surrounded by pieces of bread and whole eggs.

Egg in a frame

Cooked egg in the center or a piece of toast.

  1. Use the heart shaped cookie cutter to cut a hole in the center of a piece of bread.
  2. Spray a non-stick frying pan with oil.  Place over medium heat.
  3. Add the bread to the pan and toast one side.
  4. Flip over and carefully crack an egg into the hole, make sure the egg fills the entire cavity. Cook until the egg white sets.

Save these Heart Shaped Sandwich Pins for Later


FAQS & TIPS


Do you have to use hearts?

NOPE! Use whatever cookie cutters you have (shapes, letters, numbers, objects) that match the holiday or party theme you’re celebrating.

More Breakfast Sandwich Ideas

LOOKING FOR MORE RECIPES?


Check out the recipe index where you can find the latest recipe or browse by meal type or category!

5 Easy Heart Shaped Sandwich Ideas for Breakfast
Tagged on:         

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.