Children’s Book: Dad makes an ugly cake for a bake sale
Thank you in advance for your help. My wife is looking to ID the following book:
Picture book from late 1980s/early 1990s. A boy’s eccentric dad makes a cake for a school bake sale. The cake looks ugly on the outside — I think dark brown/black and shaped like a tire. The child is embarrassed. But when they cut into it at the bake sale, the inside is beautiful — I remember pink frosting and fancy wedding-cake-style piping/designs. The dad intentionally made it as a surprise. Illustrations were realistic, not cartoonish or watercolor-y.
Thanks again!