Heart-Shaped Pizza

Feb­ru­ary is the per­fect time for a fun heart-shaped pizza (of course, birth­days & anniver­saries would be per­fect occa­sions as well)! And, with the help of La Romanella prod­ucts from Smart & Final, we made an espe­cially yummy one for din­ner! Not only was it super tasty, but the kids thought it was super fun…and loved the heart-shaped pep­per­o­nis!

Here’s what I used:

- Already made pizza dough, La Romanella pizza sauce, parme­san cheese, mozarella cheese, olive oil, pep­per­o­nis, and black olives.

Direc­tions:

I hadn’t made a heart-shaped pizza before, so I wasn’t sure how the dough would hold up. But, I was pleas­antly sur­prised. After rolling it out fairly thin, I just carved it into a heart shape. Then I used some of the scraps to make a bet­ter crusty edge. — Then, I cov­ered the dough in the La Romanella pizza sauce! I’m always ner­vous about try­ing new sauces because of the spices, but this one was per­fect! And, I love that I have left over sauce (in the freezer) to use for another pizza! - Time for top­pings! I thought about doing a chicken/artichoke combo because I love La Romanella’s mar­i­nated arti­chokes, but I’ve done a few related posts on that already (chicken & arti­choke pasta and spinach & arti­choke dip), so opted for our favorite ‘ole standby: pep­per­o­nis & black olives!

- I lay­ered some pep­per­o­nis right onto the sauce, but then also used a small heart-shaped cookie cut­ter to cut out some heart-shaped pep­per­o­nis. The scraps from that when straight onto the sauce too! - Then, top the pizza with moz­zarella cheese, cut black olives, and the heart-shaped pep­per­o­nis. The final step–which makes things a lit­tle extra tasty is brush­ing a light coat­ing of olive oil on the out­side crust & sprin­kling Parme­san cheese on it! Yum!- Bake accord­ing to your dough direc­tions, then, voila…deli­cious, heart-shaped pizza! Per­fect for upcom­ing Valentine’s fes­tiv­i­ties!

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You have view my shop­ping trip here to see some of the other great La Romanella prod­ucts available!

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