The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, but to make it that far you have to be disguised as baked goods. Don a cape of baked goodwill with today's Groupon: for $10, you get a signature fruit cake at Classic Bakery Inc. in Gaithersburg, Maryland (a $20 value).

Classic Bakery’s kitchen craftsmen bake an immense selection of artfully crafted cakes, combining old-fashioned ingredients with sweet and sophisticated flavors culled from decades of homemade family recipes.The 6-inch signature fruit cake (a $20 value) layers a mosaic of natural sweets atop a feathery yellow sponge cake, keeping fruits mortared in place with a beribboned dollop of creamy filling. After calling 24 hours in advance, customers pick up their handcrafted morsel, which serves four to six people or 16–32 imaginary friends.