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'My Mouth Dropped': Woman Goes Viral For Sharing Hilarious Cake Decorating Mishap at Walmart Peyton Chimack has received over 703,000 views on her TikTok post of her birthday cake.

By Emily Rella

Key Takeaways

  • A Chicago-area woman named Peyton Chimack is going viral on TikTok after showing a mistake that a Walmart cake decorator made on her birthday cake.
  • Chimack showed photos of the Walmart employee accidentally writing the instructions for how to decorate the cake as the decorations on the cake.
  • Her post has received over 703,000 views.

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Sometimes, when you're ordering a customized item it pays to be very specific about what you want done — other times, if taken too literally, it does not.

Such was the case for a Chicago area-based woman Peyton Chimack who went viral on TikTok after posting a cake she ordered from her local Walmart.

In the post that's been viewed over 703,000 times, Chimack shows an inspirational cake that she wanted for her birthday, noting that she asked the retailer to write "Aries Baby" in black on a white cake and to make the writing "small, cursive, and in the middle of the cake" like this example:

(Tiktok via Peyton Chimack)

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However, the cake decorator took Chimack's directions quite literally and wrote on the cake "(small, cursive, middle of cake)" in large black lettering under where it said "Aries Baby."

(Tiktok via Peyton Chimack)

"When I tell you my mouth dropped when I got in the car and opened up the cake," she wrote.

Chimack told Today that she went back inside to point out the mistake to the cake decorator. She was on break, but the butcher working at the store got a good laugh out of it. When the cake decorator returned, Chimack told Today, "[S]he was kind of confused about what she did wrong. She didn't realize she put the instructions on the page, she thought that's how I wanted it."

Viewers of her post were in stitches over the erroneous cake decor.

"I NEED to know what goes through people's heads while they are actively piping on what is clearly a note," one viewer wrote. "Are they really just like 'Yep, perfect, no concerns whatsoever!'"

"This is better than getting what you originally wanted," another pointed out. "You can look back at it anytime and just laugh."

Chimack eventually had the cake fixed and shared the result with viewers in a follow-up video.

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"She did the best she could," Chimack wrote in the caption.

Walmart did not immediately respond to Entrepreneur's request for comment.

Emily Rella

Senior News Writer

Emily Rella is a Senior News Writer at Entrepreneur.com. Previously, she was an editor at Verizon Media. Her coverage spans features, business, lifestyle, tech, entertainment, and lifestyle. She is a 2015 graduate of Boston College and a Ridgefield, CT native. Find her on Twitter at @EmilyKRella.

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