Sweetheart Salad is a healthy Valentine’s Day treat you and your kids will love. The fresh fruit is so delicious and sweet, but also good to eat. Valentine’s Day can be so overrun with candy that it’s nice to add something nutritious and festive into the mix.
Sweetheart Salad is a play of the classic Valentine’s Day candy, Conversation Hearts. I’ve never thought that the candy itself was that great, but I love the small pastel hearts and sweet messages. I often play off of them for my own creations. I love making cookies that look like them, but this year I came up with a simple fruit salad. Of course, there aren’t any messages, but the small colored hearts play off the idea. I will be serving this along side a heart-shaped sandwich for my little boys for Valentine’s Day lunch. The small heart cookie cutter came inside a set of many hearts.
- kiwi fruit
- bananas
- pineapple
- papaya
- cantaloupe
- strawberries.
- Slice fruit about ¼ inch thick and cut with the smallest cookie cutter you can find.
- If using bananas, serve right away or preserve color with a few drops of lemon juice. Enjoy!
Where to Find the Small Heart Cookie Cutter
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The key to Sweetheart Salad is using a small and sharp heart cookie cutter. It needs to be bite-sized. Most of us have larger hearts for cookies, but some fruit is small and also hard to cut through. The smallest heart in this heart-shaped cookie cutter set works beautifully.
This is such a great idea! I love the idea of having something healthier for Valentine’s Day!
Yay! Kids really have so much fun with these. I love how a simple thing like cutting fruit into hearts can bring them so much joy!
That’s great, Lauren! Have fun with it!
Thanks, Shannon!
So cute! So fun! So delicious!
Oh how fun to keep it a surprise!
So cute and easy. I love all of that fruit too! Thanks for sharing!
Such a sweet idea. Can’t wait to surprise my daughter with these in her lunch.
So cute, so simple! Now to find a mini heart cookie cutter
OBSESSED!!!! I actually have a heart cutter too!! Making this!
Absolutely adorable! Love it.
This is such a great idea!! I’m so excited to make this for valentines day!
So pretty! And healthy when so many options during this holiday involve chocolate!
This is such a cute idea!
This is a really fun idea! I’ll have to try it with my kids.
This is looks so fun!! It would be a great way to get littles to try new fruits and expand their tastes too! Sharing on my FB page!
I love a good healthy snack that is also festive for a holiday!
How cute and simple! Definitely doing this for my babes for Valentine’s day.
This is such a cute and wonderful idea! I have a bunch of heart cookie cutters, I know what I’m doing for breakfast for the family tomorrow!
This is so cute! It would make such a fun snack for the kids 🙂
Simple and cute!
This is so cute and looks delicious!!
this is so cute! my kids would love this for breakfast!
This is such a cute idea!
Yum! That looks really good! I’m sure my kids will love those heart-shaped fruits!
Belle | One Awesome Momma
Great idea! Or cover an angel food cake with these hearts for a fabulous dessert. Yummy!
I love it. Why am I imagining angel cake hearts too? Yummy 🙂