I Want to Marry You Sweetheart Ham and Egg Breakfast

What’s more fun than making a Sweetheart Ham and Egg Breakfast for your honey?  Serving it on a red tray in bed!  My Sweetheart Ham and Egg Breakfast was really easy to prepare – it just took a bit of forethought and pre-planning, plus the right equipment.

I wanted my Sweetheart Ham and Egg Breakfast to have 3 sizes of hearts.  I had this pancake/egg heart-shaped ring that measures approximately 4″ x 4″, so I knew I wanted the rest of my breakfast items to be different sizes:

Here’s a link to this set on Amazon:  Norpro Nonstick Heart Pancake Egg Rings.

After thinking about it a little more, I decided that my ham and toast should be smaller than the egg, so I used my Foxrun cookie cutter set:

Here’s a link to this set on Amazon:  Fox Run Cookie Cutter Set.

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In the end, I decided to use the middle cookie cutter in this set for the ham:

I cut these cute little ham hearts from a 1-pound ham steak.  Depending on the size of your family, you can make a few and save the rest of the ham for another meal OR cut them all into hearts and save the scraps to make:

1. my Creamed Potatoes with Ham and Petite Peas
2. Green Eggs and Ham Quiche
3. Cheesy Country Potatoes with Ham
4. or Denver Quiche.

Or, Tiffany’s:

1. Broccoli, Ham and Cheese Quesadillas
2. or her Cheesy Ham and Broccoli Bake.

Don’t throw away those ham ends and pieces!

Then, I smeared the top of each ham heart with seedless raspberry jam just because I like it sweet!

Then, I cut out my favorite toasting bed into smaller hearts than the ham.  I did this because there was less waste – I was able to cut 2 hearts from each slice of bread and I saved the scraps for the Coots.  I placed them all on a cookie sheet and browned them under the broiler, turned them over, slathered them with melted butter and broiled the other side.  And, more seedless raspberry jam just because!

I then plated it up – so pretty!  I put the fried egg on a bed of arugula so that it would “pop” against the white plate.

Then I decided to make a simple arugula and grape tomato salad to balance out all the jam smeared on practically everything.  Here’s a close-up:

I meant for these to look like Bonnie’s from The Pin Junkie, but I tried to do it from memory instead of looking up her post on Pinterest!  I failed miserably!

{PHOTO SOURCE:  The Pin Junkie)

Here’s Bonnie’s so that you can learn to do this right!  How to Make Tomatoes Look Like Hearts.

Here’s a collage to pin to your Pinterest board…thanks for sharing!

Oh, one more thing…need a red tray?  Here’s one just like mine, available on Amazon:

Here’s the link:  Kotobuki Red Lacquer Tray on Amazon.

And, here’s the recipe for my Sweetheart Ham and Egg Breakfast:

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Oh…here are recipes for those leftover ham pieces:

Denver Quiche

Creamed Potatoes with Ham and Petite Peas

Green Eggs and Ham Quiche

Cheesy Country Potatoes with Ham

Tootles,