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[1] Broken peanut butter cups in a chocolate heart box (photo courtesy Justin’s).
[2] Chop or break up chocolate bars to create a “broken heart” (photo courtesy Hebert Candies).
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If your Valentine’s Day will be more doleful than joyful—or if you simply have a twisted sense of humor—express your feelings in broken-heart chocolate.
HOW TO MAKE BROKEN-HEART CHOCOLATE
Break apart peanut butter cups (photo #1) or other chocolate candy.
Chop up chocolate bars and form them into a heart shape (photo #2).
Take a meat mallet (or a small hammer covered in plastic wrap) to a box of bonbons, smashing in the tops.
Partially melt chocolate hearts, as if they were weeping.
PLUS
Make black cupcakes (recipe).
Pipe skeleton heads or jagged lines across the top of iced cupcakes.
Broken heart sugar cookies.
Ice unhappy message heart cookies: Broken, Die, Go Away, Hate You, Love Sucks, Misery, Sad, etc.
HOW TO CREATE THE HEARTS
Use an existing form:
A heart-shaped plate.
The bottom half of a Valentine candy box.
A heart-shaped cake pan.
A cardboard heart or heart-shape paper plates from the party or craft store.
A large heart-shape doily…
…Or create the shape freestyle (photo #2).
…Or do all of the above!
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DECORATIONS
If you want to lay it on thickly:
Black balloons.
Black streamers.
“Happy Valentine’s Day” banner with pasted-on “UN.”
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