What do you get for the Dad who has everything? Dessert! Fake Dad out this year with a gift that looks like that boring old work shirt, but is so much sweeter. Best of all, you won't have to return it because know you'll get right color and size.
What you'll need
- 9-by-12-by-2-inch cake, store-bought or homemade from scratch or a mix
- Pastel icing the color of dad's favorite shirt
- Cardboard shirt box (ask at the drycleaner's), lined with waxed paper
- White paper for making a shirt collar and two cuffs
- Colorful frosting for the tie
How to make it
Bake a cake in a 9-by-12-inch cake pan, remove from the pan, cool, and place on waxed paper.
Start by lining a 9-by-12-inch cardboard shirt box with tissue paper. Cover with a larger piece of waxed paper and flip the cake over and set it bottom-up in the box.
Frost with a pastel-shirt colored icing. Cut a collar and two cuffs out of white paper. The collar is a strip, rolled into a ring and taped, with a small V cut out of the center. The cuffs are rectangles with candy cufflinks.
Add a colorful frosting tie below the point where the collar will be placed. Just before serving, trim away the waxed paper and add the collar and cuffs.
