{"id":371474,"date":"2026-10-13T00:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371474\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T00:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:16:11","slug":"nyc-carvel-customer-reveals-hilarious-birthday-cake-message-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371474\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Carvel customer reveals hilarious birthday cake message blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New York City Carvel took a customer\u2019s request for a customized birthday message too literally, leading to a \u201chilarious\u201d verbatim inscription atop the ice cream cake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hysterical message came about after casting agent Chelsi Kern ordered <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/03\/06\/how-fudgie-the-whale-became-a-pop-culture-icon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a classic Fudgie the Whale cake,<\/a> she said in an Oct. 3 Threads post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kern had asked that<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2007\/08\/02\/softies-mourn-carvel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the cake, a childhood favorite of husband Matthew Bennett\u2019s,<\/a> cheekily read \u201cRUN\u201d in celebration for his birthday.<\/p>\n<p>A receipt Kern posted showed instructions for the message on the receipt, requesting that \u201cRUN\u201d be written \u201c(BIG, all caps, creepy if possible)[.]\u201d chelsikerrn\/Threads<\/p>\n<p>A receipt Kern posted showed instructions for the message, requesting that \u201cRUN\u201d be written \u201c(BIG, all caps, creepy if possible)[.]\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, instead of receiving a big, creepy inscription of \u201cRUN\u201d on top of the chocolate whale, the cake decorator took the instructions much more literally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, instead of receiving a big, creepy inscription of \u201cRUN\u201d on top of the chocolate whale, the cake decorator took the instructions much more literally.\u00a0 chelsikerrn\/Threads<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/06\/05\/carvel-new-york-brewery-team-to-create-fudgie-the-beer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The delicious whale cake was instead verbosely decorated,<\/a> featuring spelling errors, to incorrectly read: \u201cRun &amp; Big, All Caps Creepy if Possiple.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kern found the mistake comical, saying she \u201cwas wheezing so hard\u201d and \u201cliterally collapsed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mistake had Kern laughing nonstop.<\/p>\n<p>But Kern\u2019s husband was a little slower to see the humor in the cake\u2019s message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then the more he read it and read it again, and I showed him the receipt. He was dying,\u201d Kern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/food\/trends\/nyc-woman-carvel-cake-literal-birthday-message-whale-rcna602568\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told Today.com.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carvel did not respond to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While some friends suggested Kern contact Carvel for a refund due to the botched cake message, she declined, calling the mistake \u201chilarious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause this happened, we have this deeply funny story that us and our friends are going to know forever,\u201d Kern told the outlet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s easy to get mad and annoyed when mistakes happen, but it\u2019s so much more fun to lean into it and find the joy in it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York City Carvel took a customer\u2019s request for a customized birthday message too literally, leading to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33470,3996,217,57,9,24,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":["post-371474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-birthdays","tag-cake","tag-ice-cream","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}