Walmart customer shares ridiculous custom cake fail: ‘My mouth dropped’

Brooke Kato
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Woman holding a birthday cake from Walmart with unexpected frosting text misinterpretation
Woman holding a birthday cake from Walmart with unexpected frosting text misinterpretation

Does this take the cake for dessert fails?

A flabbergasted woman shamed Walmart’s bakery department online after incorrectly decorating her cake, sharing images of the sweet snafu online.

TikToker Peyton Chimack, 22, from Illinois, ordered what should have been a simple birthday cake: white frosting with black, cursive lettering reading “Aries baby.” She even provided a photo of a similar creation for decorators to follow.

Instead, she encountered a confectionary miscommunication.

Peyton Chimack shared this photo of a simple white cake with black, cursive lettering for Walmart cake decorators to follow. TikTok/peychimack
Peyton Chimack shared this photo of a simple white cake with black, cursive lettering for Walmart cake decorators to follow. TikTok/peychimack
Instead, the decorator scrawled the customer’s full instructions in frosting. TikTok/peychimack
Instead, the decorator scrawled the customer’s full instructions in frosting. TikTok/peychimack

Evidently, Walmart’s cake decorator misunderstood Chimack’s written instructions. She had asked for the words “Aries Baby” to be written on the top, and continued to describe what she was looking for in those letters: “Small, cursive, middle of cake.”

So, that’s what she got — the words “Aries Baby” followed by the words “small, cursive, middle of cake” in parenthesis — just as she’d scrawled on the bakery’s form.

“Walmart wtf is this???” Chimack wrote on a now-viral TikTok video, which has amassed over 667,000 views this week.

In the caption, she claimed her “mouth dropped” upon opening the cake box and seeing her instructions included as the cake topper.

Some viewers were irritated on behalf of Chimack, while others saw the humor in the unfortunate situation.

While the decorator fixed the cake, it wasn’t exactly what Chimack requested. TikTok/peychimack
While the decorator fixed the cake, it wasn’t exactly what Chimack requested. TikTok/peychimack
The “Aries baby” said she went back to Walmart’s bakery department and demanded that they correct the cake. TikTok/peychimack
The “Aries baby” said she went back to Walmart’s bakery department and demanded that they correct the cake. TikTok/peychimack

“I NEED to know what goes through people’s heads while they are actively piping on what is clearly a note. are they really just like ‘yep, perfect, no concerns whatsoever!'” one person quipped in the comments.

“I’d be FURIOUS,” wrote another.

“LMFAOOO. Honestly i love it,” laughed someone else.

“This is better than getting what you originally wanted! You can look back at it anytime and just laugh,” another person commented.

Chimack caught the gaffe before leaving the Walmart parking lot, and returned to the store for a correction. The new version wasn’t quite as “small or in cursive” as she’d imagined, but the decorator on staff that day “did the best she could,” according to Chimack.

But debacles such as these are not so uncommon, as TikTokers have taken to the app to share some of their unsavory results from grocery chain bakeries, like Costco.

The snafus have spurred an influx of creators to make cake-ordering tutorials to ensure a smooth experience, although they’re not always fool-proof.