Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig littlemissgelato.com. NS
Answer
littlemissgelato.com. 5 NS ns1.littlemissgelato.com.
littlemissgelato.com. 5 NS ns2.littlemissgelato.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.littlemissgelato.com. 5 A 74.48.69.226
ns2.littlemissgelato.com. 5 A 85.17.4.157
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0