Valentine's Day - Heart Shaped Pizza!

Ever since our first Valentine's Day together (2001) my boyfriend, then finance and now husband and I have had pizza for dinner on almost every v-day. I just don't usually get too in to Valentine's Day, probably because my birthday is 3 days before!

Anyway, why would this year be any different? In a way it was. This was our first Valentine's Day in our home. Because of that I could have made a nice, fancy meal but why mess with success!

For the first time on Valentine's Day, however, I did make my own pizza, rather than calling Pizza Hut!

To be all cutsey I decided to shape the pizza like a heart. I didn't think I would be able to because I have a hard enough time shaping the pizza dough like a pizza! I was plesantly surprised at how easy it was! I will post pictures soon... I don't have the pictures on my work computer!

Heart Shaped Pizza

Ingredients
1 Trader Joes pizza dough ball (at room temp. for 20 minutes)
~ 1/4 cup marinara sauce (we don't like a lot of sauce)
handful of pepperoni
4 slices of cooked bacon, broken in to pieces
1 1/2 cups shredded cheese (desired flavor)
sprinkling of Italian Seasoning
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400
- Roll out pizza dough on a liberally floured surface
- Top with sauce
- throw on some pepperoni
- sprinkle with 1/2 the cheese
- top with remaining bacon and pepperoni
- top with remaining cheese
- sprinkle on Italian Seasoning
- Bake in preheated oven for 6-8 minutes or until cheese is melted and crust is golden brown

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