This missing ice cream is melting a lot of hearts. A Boston bakery is searching for its lost mascot Swirly — a giant plastic vanilla soft-serve cone. Swirly, who stood proudly in front of Flour Bakery on the Boston Common, has been missing since the fall. “It was out for probably a month or so, and then one day it just disappeared,” the sweet shop’s co-owner, Joanne Chang told WBZ NewsRadio . Swirly has been missing from its post outside Flour Bakery since the fall. instagram/joannebchang “Everybody wants to see Swirly come home.” At first, the James Beard Award-winning pastry chef thought it may have flown away during heavy winds, according to NBC Boston . However, ever since her employee spotted what looks like Swirly just over a mile away — in a dorm window at Emerson College — she believes it may have been stolen. “She looked up and in the dorms was Swirly, or we think [it was],” Chang explained to the outlet. Chang even took to Facebook to make a plea for Swirly’s safe return.…