Krispy Kreme starts offering conversation heart doughnuts this week

You might not be able to get Sweethearts conversation hearts for Valentine's Day this year, but you can still express your love through doughnuts.

Posted 8:37 p.m. Jan 28, 2019 — Updated 8:37 p.m. Jan 28, 2019

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RALEIGH, N.C. — You might not be able to get Sweethearts conversation hearts for Valentine's Day this year, but you can still express your love through doughnuts.

Starting Wednesday, Krispy Kreme will be offering Valentine conversation doughnuts that contain messages like "So Extra," "BFF," "Be Mine," "All the Feels, "DM Me," and "Love." They are filled with cake batter, strawberries and Kreme, raspberry-filled and chocolate Kreme. The doughnuts are available through Valentine's Day.

“Finding the right word can be like, I don’t know….hard. But eating a doughnut is easy. So, we printed the right words on the doughnuts for you so you can’t mess this up,” Krispy Kreme Chief Marketing Officer Dave Skena said via a press release.

Krispy Kreme Valentine Conversation Doughnuts (Krispy Kreme)

The doughnuts resemble the Sweethearts conversation hearts, which will not be available this year for the first time in 150 years. The candy debuted at 1866 from the New England Confectionery Company (Necco). That company filed for bankruptcy and was bought by Spangler Candy Co. last May.

Since it reportedly takes about 11 months to make enough of the candies meet the demand each Valentine's Day, the company announced that it won't have enough lead time to create the hearts for this season. No word on when they will go back on sale.

Brach's will continue to make its conversation hearts, according to the Associated Press.

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