- If your man has a sweet tooth, then consider making him a sports cake inspired by his favorite sport or team. There are all sorts of ideas, from helmet and baseball hat cakes to football field and golf ball decorated cakes. Your local grocery store baker may have some ideas for a sports-inspired cake, but cake makers and bakeries also have expertise in designing special cakes in unique designs. Now all you have to do is figure out his favorite type of cake, vanilla, chocolate, red velvet, cheesecake or many other types.
- From cookies to frozen bananas, you can take a simple gift up a notch by dousing them in different chocolates. The Chocolate Covered Company sells entire gift sets that you create for him, from fortune cookies to brownies, covered in your choice of chocolate and toppings, like macaroon, milk chocolate, peanut butter swirl, dark chocolate and white chocolate.
- For a special romantic night, make some of his favorite dishes a la carte as a surprise and light up some candles to set the mood. If he has ever mentioned how much he loves California Pizza Kitchen's barbecued pizza, Red Lobster's cheese biscuits or garlic mashed potatoes from his favorite restaurant, you can find the recipes online through places like CopyKat.com or ChainRestaurantRecipes.com, then whip up all his favorites for a special edible gift.
- Women are not the only ones to enjoy a good gift basket. Forget Me Knot sells edible gift basket for men -- including Gentleman's Choice, which has cookies, honey mustard-flavored pretzels, dried fruit and cranberry mix, cigar-shaped cookies and chocolate toffee malt balls. Edible Arrangements even makes fruit bouquets for men, such as their NASCAR Victory Celebration arrangements that are different race cars named after NASCAR's racing stars, then topped with strawberries, oranges, bananas and chocolate.