Breakable Chocolate Heart
DIY Breakable Chocolate Heart – These edible heart-shaped gift boxes are fun to smash and delicious to enjoy with loved ones. Decorate and fill the chocolate shells with more sweet goodies for an extra special treat!
Why We Love This Breakable Chocolate Heart Recipe
Sure, a box of chocolate is a nice gift for your Valentine. But why not take things up a notch this year and give a fun gift that really WOWs them? We have fallen head over heels for this playful edible gift idea…
Make a Breakable Chocolate Heart for someone you love and fill it with small gifts like candy, truffles, chocolate-covered strawberries, or even an engagement ring! Then give it as a tasty surprise along with a tiny hammer for smashing, and let the recipient have at it. The best part about this edible chocolate heart recipe is that you can eat the chocolate after you smash it for a sweet treat! Remember hot chocolate bombs? This is a similar idea!
You can make one heart mold to place over the top of a gift or treat. Or make two heart molds to fuse together for a solid heart box. Whichever you choose, your recipient is sure to love it this Valentine’s Day! It’s also a super fun and unique way to celebrate anniversaries, birthdays, and more!
Equipment You Need
You can find breakable Chocolate heart mold sets on Amazon and in craft stores. Some of them come with multiple sizes of heart molds, letter molds to create words for the outside of your heart, and several hammers.
You’ll also need:
- Microwave-safe bowl
- Piping bag or squirt bottle
- Disposable gloves for handling chocolate
If gifting these hearts, you will most likely want to purchase cute bakery boxes and a tiny wooden mallet as well as well.
Ingredients You Need
- Chocolate – dark, milk or white chocolate (see below)
- Sprinkles or edible powder – optional, for decorating
For this recipe, you need chocolate melting wafers, also known as couverture chocolate.
Couverture is incredibly rich chocolate that has a very high cocoa butter content. It’s a more “pure” ingredient when compared to most chocolate candies, which are made with milk and other additives. Because of the quality it also melts terrifically, has a beautiful shine, and tastes deliciously decadent.
You can use your choice of dark, milk, or white couverture chocolate. Or use more than one type and layer by layer create a marbled heart to smash.
How to Make a Breakable Chocolate Heart
Pro Tip: 20 ounces of chocolate will make two large breakable chocolate heart halves. You can give them away separately, covering a gift, or fuse them together to make one larger puffy heart.
- For each mold, place 10 ounces of chocolate melting wafers in a microwave-safe bowl. Remove one handful of chocolate wafers to add later. This helps to retain the glossy exterior of the chocolate. (AKA cheaters’ tempering!)
- Microwave the chocolate candy melts in one-minute increments, stirring well between each minute. This will take approximately 2 to 3 minutes. Once the chocolate is mostly melted, add in the last handful of chocolate wafers. Stir vigorously to melt those wafers into the chocolate without placing them back in the microwave.
- Tap the microwave-safe bowl gently on the countertop to remove as many large bubbles as possible. Then pour the chocolate into the heart mold. Swirl around the mold making sure the chocolate reaches up to the edge on all sides.
- Then pour the excess chocolate back into the bowl.
- Place the heart mold in the refrigerator and chill for at least five minutes.
- If needed, reheat the remaining chocolate in the bowl for about 30 seconds. Then, pour the chocolate back into the heart mold and swirl around, creating a second coat of chocolate. Pour the excess chocolate out of the heart again. Place the mold back in the refrigerator to harden for 5 minutes.
- Once the chocolate heart is very firm, gently pull the mold away from each side of the heart. Once the edges are loose, carefully flip the heart over and gently peel off the mold. Repeat this process with the remaining 10 ounces of chocolate.
- Once both heart halves are made, you can use any excess chocolate for decorating.
- If making one large solid heart with both halves, decorate just the top. Fill the bottom with gifts and edible goodies.
- To close the hearts, pipe a chocolate line around the edges and gently lay the top over the bottom to seal.
Pro Tip: Be careful when touching the chocolate heart. Couverture chocolate has a lovely glossy finish. When you touch it, you dull the glossy sheen and leave fingerprints. Wearing clean rubber/plastic gloves helps with this.
Get the Complete (Printable) Breakable Chocolate Heart Recipe + VIDEO Below. Enjoy!
Ideas and Tips for Decorating
You can get super creative with this edible gift!
- Colorful sprinkles in all kinds of fun shapes, glitter sprinkles, nonpareils, and sanding sugar are great to add some flair to the outside of the hearts.
- Use a piping bag to drizzle a zigzag around the bottom edge of the heart, as we did, and quickly add sprinkles before the chocolate dries.
- Drizzle chocolate lines over the top of the heart and quickly add sprinkles to create patterns on top of the heart.
- Use gold or silver edible powder to brush a design over the top of a heart.
- Use the additional chocolate to create letters and write a message on the top of your heart. Then attach them with melted chocolate.
Ideas for Gifting
Fill the edible gift boxes with candy, truffles, chocolate-covered strawberries or other favorite sweets for your sweetie!
We lined the bottom of these hearts with edible rose petals and an assortment of truffles. Don’t they look so pretty?!
Give your heart away in a pretty box with a small hammer, so your loved one will know what to do!
Frequently Asked Questions
Absolutely! You can put themed colored candies inside the heart to have a fun and easy gender reveal!
Definitely, you should make your chocolate breakable heart exactly how you like it! You can use dark, milk or white chocolate. If you use white chocolate, you can add food coloring to make it any color you want!
Looking for More Delicious Gifts to Make? Be Sure To Try:
- Hot Chocolate Balls with Marshmallows
- Valentine Chocolate Bark Recipe
- Chocolate and Roses Truffle Spoons
- Chocolate Dipped Strawberries (Strawberry Pops)
- 3-Ingredient Chocolate Truffle Recipe
Breakable Chocolate Heart Recipe + VIDEO
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Ingredients
- 20 ounces melting chocolate wafers dark, milk, or white often called couverture chocolate
- Sprinkles to decorate if desired
Instructions
- 20 ounces of chocolate will make two large breakable chocolate heart halves. You can give them away separately covering a gift or fuse them together to make one larger puffy heart.
- For each mold, place 10 ounces of chocolate melting wafers in a microwave safe bowl. Remove one handful of chocolate wafers to add later. This helps to retain the glossy exterior of the chocolate. (AKA cheaters tempering)
- Microwave the chocolate wafers in one-minute increments, stirring well between each minute. (This will take approximately 2 to 3 minutes.) Once the chocolate is mostly melted, add in the last handful of chocolate wafers. Stir vigorously to melt those wafers into the chocolate without placing back in the microwave.
- Tap the microwave safe bowl gently on the countertop to remove as many large bubbles as possible. Then pour the chocolate into the heart mold. Swirl around the mold making sure the chocolate reaches up to the edge on all sides. Then pour the excess chocolate back into the bowl. Place the heart mold in the refrigerator and chill for at least five minutes.
- If needed, reheat the remaining chocolate in the bowl for about 30 seconds. Then pour the chocolate back into the heart mold and swirl around creating a second coat of chocolate. Poor the excess chocolate out of the heart again. Place the mold back in the refrigerator to harden for 5 minutes.
- Once the chocolate heart is very firm, gently pull the mold away from each side of the heart. Once the edges are loose, carefully flip the heart over and gently peel off the mold.
- Repeat this process with the remaining 10 ounces of chocolate.
- Once both heart halves are made, you can use any excess chocolate for decorating. Just be careful when touching the chocolate heart. Couverture chocolate has a lovely glassy finish. When you touch it, you dull the glossy sheen and leave fingerprints. Wearing rubber/plastic gloves helps with this.
I had a smaller mold, so I had to use less chocolate, but it turned out so pretty. Such a fun gift, can’t wait to make more for Valentine’s Day!
We received one of these as a gift last Valentine’s Day and wanted to make our own this year, this is the best tutorial, it worked perfectly! Thank you!
Oh my goodness, this was so fun to make!! So easy to follow along! It came out perfectly!
this is perfect for my closest friends! thank you for sharing this recipe!