This baker makes breakups a little bit sweeter

Love and food. They have an intense, complicated relationship.
We celebrate getting married with a massive decorated cake. We show our love by cooking our date a fancy dinner. And when we break up, it’s accepted that we’ll head straight to a giant tub of ice cream.
Exploring that relationship in an entirely new way is Brooklyn-based designer Isabella Giancarlo.
She’s the creator of Eat Your Heart Out – a new project that takes quotes from breakups, puts them on a delicious cake, pie, or biscuit, and makes the whole heartbreak thing a little bit sweeter.

‘For me, a loss of appetite typically accompanies the end of a relationship,’ Isabella told metro.co.uk, explaining that this is particularly rubbish as she’s a big fan of food. Both cooking and eating.
‘After a break-up last spring, seven words sat me that I couldn’t shake. I thought about ways to reclaim that phrase… how could I sweeten words that initially took away my appetite?’
And so the baking began.

Isabella chose desserts for their relationship to breakups, and the idea of eating your feelings.
She explains: ‘As a medium, desserts seem to suggest: Go ahead. Gorge.

‘Engage with the uncomfortable, sticky feelings of a broken heart. Gorge in feelings that are so often dismissed as self-indulgent.’
Isabella sources the quotes for her puddings from her own relationship experiences and stories from her friends, and is now taking submissions over on her website.

She’d recommend an Eat Your Heart Out cake for anyone dealing with a breakup.
‘I think the desserts serve as fleeting memorials to past relationships and function as a sweet way to process something as emotionally taxing as a break-up,’ says Isabella.

‘My aim with Eat Your Heart Out is to allow people to engage with break-up feelings in a new way and to playfully foster solidarity around heartbreak.’