Man is left BAFFLED by disastrous frosting fail on his wife’s 30th birthday cake – after the baker misread their OWN writing

An annoyed man has gone viral after revealing the disastrous icing mistake he discovered on his wife’s 30th birthday cake.

John Ellis, from Tewksbury, Massachusetts, shared details of the “cake mix-up” on Reddit’s popular Mildly Infuriating thread.

He explained that he bought the custom-made sweet from a local bakery for his wife Chanda, but was let down by the laughable outcome.

The post was quickly flooded with thousands of comments as readers debated whether it was hilarious or disturbing.

John’s light-hearted post, shared last week, featured two photos of the incident, alongside a caption that read: “My wife’s 30th birthday confusion.”

The first image was of the submission form with the word ‘thirty’ written in italics as part of the request for it to be played on top.

However, the second image revealed that the end result – a delicious pastel-coloured buttercream product – was actually emblazoned with the word ‘hinty’.

The original Reddit post was flooded with thousands of mixed comments.

On the one hand, there were people who did found the situation humorous, as one wrote: ‘Idk, this is really funny. Next year I would 100 percent write ‘Hinty Won’ on her cake.”

A second person commented: ‘Okay but I burst out laughing. That’s a funny mistake. I think the person who wrote the order and decorated the cake is not the same. And the cake decorator can’t read cursive lol.”

Another added: “Lmfao. I think you’ll write more clearly next time, hahaha sorry.’

Someone else wrote: ‘I would be happy, just because I wouldn’t be thirty, I would be HINTY years old, that’s much better.’

But on the other hand, there were people who questioned the use of cursive handwriting at all.

One person wrote: ‘I used to work in a bakery. I was the only one taking wedding cake orders because I could give clear instructions and had legible handwriting. This is why!’

Another added: ‘Never write in italics for items like this.’

And a third shared: ‘Reason why you should always use CAPITAL LETTERS when filling out forms.’

John has spoken since Today to shed more light on the accident.

He explained that his wife had a Sopranos-themed party, complete with deli platters, Italian flags and guests who opted for the mafia wife aesthetic.

The loving husband said that at the bakery he had placed an order verbally with an employee who wrote it on the order form – and so now assumes that someone else must have done the actual pipe work.

He said: ‘The party was at two o’clock and just as people started showing up, my wife said, ‘Do you remember picking up the cake?’ and I had to run out the door real quick, grab it and run out with it, so I didn’t check it in the store.”

And so when Chanda, his high school sweetheart, finally went to open the box at the party with all her friends around her, she was in for quite a shock.

She told the outlet, “I honestly buffered for a while. I thought, “What does that say? Someone named Hinty must have a cake that says Thirty on it.”

John said they finally hit it off and finally pieced together the accident after looking at the order form again.

The couple, who own a gluten-free calzone business, admitted they now plan to make the innocent mistake an annual tradition, as Chanda concluded: “My friends have already put me in their phones as Hinty.”