Exquisite desserts add a bit of sweetness to bitter breakups
A creative baker is making the bitterness of breaking up a little easier to stomach.
"Eat your heart out" project founder Isabella Giancarlo loves to cook, but after a bad breakup last spring, she didn't have much of an appetite. Instead, she thought incessantly about the breakup itself -- particularly the relationship's final conversation.
"Seven words sat with me that I couldn't shake," she told Mashable.
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But Giancarlo wanted to reclaim the words that were troubling her. "How could I sweeten words that initially took my appetite away?" she said. "I asked my friends for their heartbreak quotes and felt those familiar pangs."
"You didn't need to understand the intricacies of the relationship to feel the weight of those final words," she added.
So Giancarlo started asking other people for the parting phrases weighing them down. Now, she bakes those phrases into gorgeous desserts -- to foster sweet solidarity in the often sad time following a relationship's end.
For Giancarlo, no medium would have worked quite like desserts.
"To me, desserts suggest: Go ahead. Gorge. Engage with the uncomfortable, sticky feelings of a broken heart that are so often dismissed as self-indulgent," she said. "Devour and reclaim those words and experiences."
Giancarlo is currently accepting submissions for future "Eat your heart out" desserts -- and she hopes to get many, many more as the project gains momentum. "It’s been so humbling to see people so willing to share their vulnerable parts," she said. "It has made the process feel even more intimate and collaborative."
Check out even more of Giancarlo's stunning creations below.
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Chloe was the shopping editor at Mashable. She was also previously a culture reporter. You can follow her on Twitter at @chloebryan.
