I am food-design-challenged.  I can decorate a cake reasonably well (‘though not professionally), but ask me to make any other types of food in fun designs/styles/shapes, and forget it.  BUT…even I can handle a cookie cutter.  And cookie cutters can be used for so much more than cookies!

Heart-shaped cutters, being one of the simpler shapes, are even easier to use than some (no weird tiny crevices to force food out of), so Valentine’s Day can be a great time to play.  Here are a variety of ways (mostly gleaned from Pinterest) to use a cookie cutter for fun heart-shaped foods:

Making Heart-Shaped or -Decorated Foods with Cookie Cutters

• Cut the kids’ sandwiches into hearts.  Alternatively, cut a heart out of only one slice of bread and showcase the sandwich’s contents.
  
• If it’s cold outside, cut marshmallows or whipped cream (frozen on a baking sheet) with a heart-shaped cutter, and float them in hot cocoa.
• If it’s not cold outside, you can color some milk pink, pour it into heart-shaped ice trays, and float those ice “cubes”  in the kiddoes’ milk.
• That’s not really a cookie-cutter use, so how ’bout this one for the not-so-cold Valentine’s Day: Freeze ice cream on a rimmed baking sheet, then cut it out with cookie cutters.
  
• This pretty nifty trick is probably a little tougher than some of the others, but it’s also healthy!  Cut hearts out of apples in two different colors, then swap the pieces.
• A similar effect can be obtained by cutting two sandwiches – one on dark bread and one on light bread – and swapping their centers.  (These sandwiches should, preferably, have the same or complementary toppings!  I don’t recommend swapping the center of a ham-and-cheese with the center of a PB&J. 😉 )
• Cut cheese, lunch meat, and/or fruit into hearts.  Stack them, or spear them on wooden skewers for dipping.

• Mold fudge, no-bake cookies, or pancakes in a cookie cutter.  (For pancakes, you will, of course, need a somewhat larger cutter, and it needs to be metal, not plastic!  If all you have is plastic, you can cut the pancakes after they’re cooked.)
• If you’re topping a food with something — like powdered sugar — consider using a cookie cutter to define the boundaries of your topping.
• Cut bread for Toad-in-a-Hole or French toast.
• And of course you can use them for cutting out things one normally cuts with cookie cutters, like biscuits or oh, say, COOKIES!

Heart Cookie Cutter Set – 5 Pcs – Stainless Steel