Chocolate Coated Date Hearts are a healthy Valentine’s Day treat with medjool dates shaped into hearts, stuffed, and coated in chocolate!

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chocolate coated date hearts drizzled with chocolate

Reasons You’ll Love This Recipe:

Healthier Valentine’s Treat – using more wholesome, nourishing ingredients.
Fresh Fruit – did you know that dates are actually a fresh fruit? They’re also chewy and delicious and give off kind of caramel vibes.
No Bake – no oven needed! The only heating is to melt the chocolate, which can be done in a microwave.
Family-Friendly! My whole family loves these treats!

Ingredient Notes & Substitutions:

For a full ingredient list with quantities, please check out the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

ingredients to make chocolate coated date hearts

Medjool Dates – this fruit is fresh, a little chewy, and gives caramel vibes. Make sure you follow the instructions below for how to pit it and turn it into a heart shape!
Chocolate Nut Spread – fill the medjool date hearts with nutella, chocolate peanut butter spread, chocolate sunflower seed butter, or any other similar option.
Chocolate Chips – I use semisweet chocolate chips, but you can use dark, milk, or white. You can also use ones with no added sugar or that are dairy-free, to accommodate different allergy lifestyle preferences.
Coconut Oil – a little is used to help thin the chocolate chips to make the melted chocolate a great dipping and drizzling consistency.

How to Make Chocolate Coated Date Hearts

For complete instructions, please check out the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

slicing a date halfway to remove pit and turn it into a heart

Use a small knife to carefully cut the date in half, length-wise, just enough to remove the pit.

Shape the medjool date into a heart, pinching the uncut bottom into the bottom point of the heart. Place the nut butter into a small resealable bag and fill the bottom and sides of the date, making sure to not overfill it, so it still resembles a heart.

a heart shaped medjool date dipped in chocolate

Melt the chocolate with coconut oil. Place each stuffed date into the chocolate, fully coat, and then use a fork to remove, gently shaking off the excess chocolate.

Tips and Variations

Swap the Chocolate – dark, milk, white…use whatever type of chocolate you enjoy!
Different garnish – I just drizzled the excess chocolate over the dates, but you could drizzle a different chocolate, sprinkle crushed freeze dried strawberries, use Valentine’s sprinkles, or (a personal favorite) a sprinkle of flaky sea salt.
Change out the filling – you can use any nut or seed butter, or swap with something like a raspberry chia pudding for an extra little fiber boost.

How to Store

Store the chocolate coated dates in an airtight container in the fridge for up to one week.

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