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Today is National Spoil Your Dog Day and I have a pooch approved dog cake recipe for you to spoil them with!  My friends at Bounty asked me how I planned to spoil my dogs for #spoilyourdogday, and of course the answer included baking.  Like any special day, I think we should celebrate with cake!  A dog cake that is! And fun dog gifts!

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I think it’s safe to say my furry friend is thrilled.  Then again I have a cocker spaniel, so he basically lives, eats, breathes and sleeps for food. I feel his pain though, when it comes to the love of food, the struggle is real, even if you are a dog.  🙂

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This dog cake is packed full of good stuff, including peanut butter, applesauce and pumpkin.  It comes together and bakes up just like any other cake, but is perfect for your pets. The consumption of this cake can get a little messy (um, hello, dogs, and mine are slobbery messes!) but Bounty has you covered for cleaning up any messes your pups might make.  Thanks to Bounty for sponsoring this post.

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I topped my cake with some store bought dog bones (because they are minis, which makes them almost like dog cake sprinkles in my book!), but you could also bake up some homemade dog bones (here’s my recipe!) to garnish this cake with.

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Homemade Dog Bones

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No matter what you top it with, I’m sure your dog will love this homemade dog cake recipe.  This recipe makes a single layer, but as you can see I doubled the recipe to make a layer cake. The frosting is optional, but I really never think of frosting as optional (it’s my favorite part of the cake!) so I recommend it.  While you can absolutely share this cake with your dogs, it’s lacking sugar so it won’t be sweet – just so you know.

Dog Cake Recipe

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Spoiled Dog Cake Recipe

Ingredients

Cake

  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/8 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/4 cup peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup applesauce
  • 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
  • 1 egg

Frosting

  • 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt
  • 1/4 cup peanut butter
  • Instructions

Instructions

Cake

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. In a large bowl, combine flour and baking soda.
  3. In a separate bowl mix together vegetable oil, peanut butter, applesauce and pumpkin puree. Once combined, mix in egg and mix until combined.
  4. Combine wet and dry ingredients and stir until combined.
  5. Pour mixture into an 8" round pan (a square pan can also be used) that has been greased with oil.
  6. Bake for approximately 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean and the cake springs back when pressed lightly.
  7. Allow to cool on a wire rack prior to removing from pan.
  8. After cooling, add frosting if desired.

Frosting

  1. Mix Greek yogurt and peanut butter until well combined. Spread over cake. If not serving immediately, store in refrigerator.

Recipe Notes

One 8" round cake. Recipe can be doubled to make a layer cake. *Recipe can easily be doubled to make a layer cake

While this dog cake recipe is SUPER easy, I know that sometimes a cake mix is what we all reach for. Well guess what, I found some awesome cake mixes for dogs. Check these dog cake mixes out! They even have grain free options.

Cake Mixes For Dogs

If your dog has allergies, as so many of them do, and you need a grain-free dog birthday cake, head over to Table For Two for her Grain-Free Dog Birthday Cake.

Grain Free Dog Birthday Cake

Big Bear’s Wife has some Cheesy Tomato Basil Dog Treats. Those sound good enough for me to try!

Brown Eyed Baker has some Frozen Peanut Butter-Yogurt Dog Treats that are sure to be a summer hit.

Tidy Mom has some Homemade Peanut Butter Dog Biscuits that you can cut into any shape you like.

We don’t want to leave our other four legged friends out of the fun! All Roads Lead To The Kitchen has some Homemade Chicken & Cranberry Cat Treats for your feline friends.

Homemade Cat Treats

If you have a new puppy on the way, I’ve got a great list of new puppy items to help you out!

List Of New Puppy Items

I hope you find a way to spoil your dogs for #SpoilYourDogDay and maybe have a chance to whip up this delicious cake or try my dog bone recipe. Your furry friends will thank you, I promise!  And remember, Bounty has you covered for cleaning up all those messes that our beloved pets always seem to make.  With Bounty, the #QuickerPickerUpper, spills, accidents and other pet messes are no problem.

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      • Yeah but you MUST try this recipie all you need is rolled oats , peanut butter, and water!!!!! Believe me it’s got to be the best doggie treat recipie EVER !!!!!

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        • Hello how are you doing this evening? Me I’m fine just watching the pitbull &and& parolee’s with my hubby and my lil doggy’s we’re all just kicked back chilling and I can honestly say that it’s a gud evening, So I really hate to bother you but I was wondering if you please could message me thee recipe that you spoke of in thee comment section of doggy recipe @
          [email protected] PLEASE and THANKS hun.

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  2. I can’t wait to try this for our golden’s first birthday! Have you ever tried to freeze this ( like a normal layer cake) ??

    thanks for any tips!

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    • I haven’t tried so I can’t say how the results would be. Usually oat flour doesn’t work exactly 1 to 1 for me, and the liquids need to be adjusted a bit.

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  11. Just made this for my dog Max’s 6th birthday. Came out perfectly and even the 3 other neighborhood dogs in our culdsac enjoyed it!

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    • Hi Ashley, I haven’t tried so I can’t speak to the results. I usually use white whole wheat flour as I find it does well as a substitute. Sometimes swapping straight for whole wheat can lead to a dry finished product.

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  14. Hi, I want to make this cake for my dog for her first birthday this Saturday, but I’m finding online that baking soda can be deadly to dogs. Have you heard about this? What could I use instead of baking soda? Is it only harmful if they eat baking soda uncooked?

    Thanks for any help or suggestions you may offer.

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    • I researched ingredients quite a bit prior to writing this recipe and didn’t come across, that so I did some searching. What I found is that in large amounts (like the entire container) can be dangerous. You need to go with what you are comfortable with though.

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  16. Hi Christi,

    I just tried this recipe for my new puppy’s 1st birthday. Her name is Gemma, and today is her birthday! This was so much fun to make, and surprisingly tasty. Can’t wait to see how she likes it! Thanks you for the recipe!

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    • Hi Isabella, I’m afraid we don’t have any cats so I’m not really familiar with what is and is not safe for cats. I would probably just check each individual ingredient and see. Good luck!

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  21. Thanks for sharing this. I just made this to celebrate my dog’s adoption/birthday. I got him about a year ago. He loved the cake! And so did his canine brother.

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  23. Would this cake be ok to make a day prior and store in a container? Using it for first birthday pup shoot but will have to take it with us so I wanted to make it tonight for tomorrow morning

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  25. I used coconut flour because I have heard all purpose flour can upset dogs tummies, it came out super soft and not really cake like but hoping my pup loves it. Today is her 1st birthday!!

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  26. This recipe was easy to make and my dog, BEAR, LOVED it and so did his guests. I had many of my guest wondering if they could eat them because they looked so good. The dogs enjoyed it so much and there were NO problems later with vomiting or diarrhea because I checked with all the owners. What a great recipe!!! This will be BEAR’s yearly cake recipe!!!!! Thank you for sharing your talent!!!

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  27. Thank you for this recipe! Doubled up and made it sans applesauce since I had none, and used used a whole can of pumpkin. Also added about 1/3 c water as the batter was so stiff. Baked inmuffin tins with paper wraps for 18min. Possibly a little long. 15 would have been plenty.

    For icing, peach sugar free custard style yogurt, peanut butter, and a tablespoon of sugar free apricot preserves. They each got candles and the birthday song. I blew them out. Needless to say, they ate these in the back yard.

    All three dogs went wild at their 5th Rottweiler, 4th Husky and 10th Corgi joint birthday celebration.

    Thanks so much!

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  29. Hey there i was wondering about how long the cake will stay good for in the refrigerator? I’m not really thinking letting my pooch eat the whole thing in one sitting is a good idea? Do you let your dogs eat it all at once or just give them pieces ? Thank you! Steve

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    • Hi Steve, it would most likely last a few days, when wrapped and stored in the fridge, exactly as any regular (human) cake recipe would last. You could also freeze portions if you have more cake than you need for a few days time. Hope that helps!

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  31. We have a few fur babies so I made it into cupcakes and froze them so I can pull a couple out for each celebration ? thank you for the great recipe! I used chopped bacon for sprinkles on some and shredded cheddar for my cheese lover, not to much of either just a tiny bit shredded carrots for our next party ?

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  32. Thank you so much! Celebrated my Bella’s 8th birthday and she loved it! This was so easy to make ! They couldn’t get enough of the frosting! Wish I could post a picture of how it turned out. Thanks again!

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  33. Oh my goodness my dog loved this cake so much! Yesterday was her 12th birthday and I don’t know if she’ll have another, so thank you for helping me make it special.

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    • I did! Came out to about 6 little cupcakes; I filled the tins ~2/3 of the way with the batter and cooked them for just under 25 min at 350. They came out great! Way easier to serve between my 2 dogs than the whole cake, that’s for sure.

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  35. Came across your recipe and I can’t wait to try it out on our little Chihuahua, Feisty. She’ll be 2 here in a week. Loved the pictures posted as well. Thank you for sharing!

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  37. This recipe is so easy and a total hit with the canine crowd! I modified it to pupcakes for a fund raiser bakesale and they sold out in 45 minutes flat and now am making 3 dozen more for people who wanted them after the ones I brought were gone. This recipe makes 8 pupcakes that are normal sized so I double it.
    Thanks for this great recipe! You’ve made many doggies super happy!

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  39. I just made this and a friend asked what peanut butter did i use as some have sweenters that can be poisionous for dogs, what is the best brands to use thanks?

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    • Hi Janet, yes, you definitely want to make sure you are using a brand that doesn’t have added sweetness. Unfortunately I don’t have any peanut butter on hand at the moment to check the labels on, but I would look for the brands with the least ingredients and no artificial sweeteners.

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    • Most store brand peanut butters are fine. What you want to be conscious of is xylitol. Xylitol is a sugar alcohol added to different things for sweetness and is poisonous to our furry friends. Just check ypur labels. I use kroger brand peanut butter for Roxy since I make so many treats and go through a lot but Skippy Natural is great too!

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  40. This is the first time I have made a cake for my dog, she turned two today, I think it turned out great, for a dog, like you probably shouldn’t eat it (although it is completely safe to do so) though it does taste better than a peanut butter protein cake that I once made (that was for humans to eat). Thank you for the great recipe, will make it again next year (If I remember!)

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  42. I doubled the recipe; it came out cooked, but it’s actually pretty flat. I used 8 inch round pans. Any idea what might have happened? Do I need more baking soda?

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    • Laura, do you have an oven thermometer? I’m finding that’s one of the biggest issues with baked goods not rising correctly. I actually keep an inexpensive one in my oven and it’s crazy how oven temps can be off. For example yesterday mine said it was 375 and it wasn’t even 340. That can absolutely impact rise. I don’t think I’d impact baking soda, I try to be really careful with ingredients for pets.

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  43. It’s my pupper’s 3rd Birthday today!
    We’re having a tea party for him on the weekend, these recipes will be much appreciated by him, his sister & all their 4 legged friends!

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  44. I just made this for our 9 year Labrador retriever for her Final Barknic Pawty. She has cancer and a month or so left, so she is getting any and everything she wants!

    I’m SO excited to see her munch into this!!

    A few things I noticed and it may be because I used Gluten Free flour (cup4cup), but the batter is a wee dense. It’s a little lumpy, but came out great!

    Also, if I ever make this again (I’m sure I will for other dogs) but I will use a little more Greek yogurt and peanut butter for the frosting. My cake has a few bare spots, which is fine. But the perfectionist in me yes have like a few extra ounces.

    Other than that, so far it is a wonderful recipe!! I even tasted it — pretty delicious. 😉

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  46. Both my pug and boxer loved this cake! They went nuts over it! I didn’t have pumpkin on hand so I substituted puréed sweet potato instead (just peeled it, boiled it till soft and threw it in the food processor). Will definitely make this again next year.

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  47. We can’t wait to make this next week as our puppy Izzi is turning 1…. thanks sooo much for the recipe!!

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  48. I made this cake for a Doggie Birthday Party.. and doubled the recipe, but put it in a 9 inch pan.. five dogs.. from a 12 pound Yorkshire Terrier to a 149 pound Newfoundland ..DEVOURED it.
    Easy to make, smelled amazing and a hit with the doggie part guests.

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  50. I made this for my dogs party today! He’s a year old and instead of treats I crushed oat treats and covered the edges in it. It’s pretty fancy looking and he seemed pretty stoked. Extremely simple recipe, to a T. Thank you so much!

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  51. My Frenchie loved it!! Shared with other pups and they all went nuts over it. Shared the recipe to other doggie owners.

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  52. I was thinking about my birthday – texted my husband shared it with him and texted him again to say I cant celebrate without the kids- my beagle boy and the cat . That was 2 hours ago – a few minutes ago I thought- I’d love to make Vopper a cake too and well celebrate our birthdays together- after all my sweet boy is my favorite person – I also say he may not be a person in others lives but hes my person- and being my most favorite person in the world theres nothing I want more then to celebrate my day with him , after all we are together every day, 24/7 and we are only apart when life calls for it. Soooo – yes I’m long winded – I typed in I want to make a cake for my dog- and saw your site among others- I’m happy I’ve found it- even happier with the information, recipes- even for my cat – and all the other recommendations – so I’m going to try it next week ! I’ll come back and let you know how the cake turns out and if Copper loved it – I’m so excited! Another thing Copper and I can share – baking- he keeps his mama company- it just so happens that I’m completely in love with him so yay for us ! Thank you!!

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  53. I tried this recipe for Nibbler’s 11th birthday. Turned out great. I didn’t have applesauce so I substituted plain greek yogurt. Worked fine. I made mini pupcakes with 1 reg pupcake for the birthday girl. I found making ANY dog cake recipe into mini pupcakes is best, especially if you want to put frosting on it, a LOT less mess. I used the icing recipe that was provided, however added more peanut butter until I got the consistency I wanted, to pipe on the pupcakes :). Added a small amount of birthday sprinkles (remember these have sugar in them so keep it light) they were so cute!!! To answer other’s questions about freezing…they freeze great. I even iced them first then froze them (we had to take some to share with her cousins the following week). If you wanted to sweeten these up a bit, add maybe 1 TBSP of honey. My girls loved it both ways 🙂 Thanks for sharing such a wonderful & versatile recipe!!!

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    • Funny you ask Angel, we made it for my dog this weekend and my daughter wondered the same thing. There is no reason you can’t eat it, it’s all regular ingredients. That said the lack of any sugar in it might not make for the most appetizing “cake” if you will. 🙂

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  56. Just made this for our dog’s birthday and it was a huge success! I turned them into cupcakes so they could each have their own little cake. It made 8 cupcakes and I just had to bake them for about 22 minutes altogether. They licked the bowls clean! Great recipe:)

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  57. I made this last night substituting the flour with whole wheat flour since it’s what I had. I also used a mini loaf pan to make mini cakes instead of 1 big cake so we could split it up better between the pups. It turned out perfectly. All 4 of our Poms devoured their little cakes.

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  59. Hello! I’ve made this cake awhile ago and my dog loved it! Making it again but I was just wondering if you had an idea of how many days I can keep it before it goes bad?
    Thanks in advance!

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  65. I make this cake every year for all of our pups birthdays – I add some bacon bits on top as sprinkles 🙂 Thanks for a simple, tasty, and dog-friendly recipe with items that are usually always on hand!

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  67. Made this into cupcakes for my German Shepherd, Gunner’s 1st Birthday. Let me just say him and his 6mo old brother, Stryker absolutely LOVED it. I will definitely be making this every Birthday for by boys❤️?

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  70. Will these be ok to sit in Fridge for 2 nights before serving or will they be too hard on to serve on the Third day?

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  71. Thank you for the doggy cake recipe. It looks simple and easy to make. My dog’s birthday is coming up. So this should be great.

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  72. When I made it, the cake turned out real flat/ dense; not so much like “cake”. Any ideas what went wrong or what to try different next time? I doubled the recipe & each cake round is less than an inch thick. Is it possible the recipe should be baking powder, rather than baking soda? Cooked a bit too long? (They’re not the least bit burned)

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    • Hi Kevin, this is actually the most popular recipe on my site, and probably the one made the most, so I think the recipe as written is pretty solid. Question, how did you measure your flour? Did you use the measuring cup to scoop the flour, or did you spoon the flour into the cup? I will say, this is more dense than a cake that you or I might eat from a bakery, it has more of a quick bread texture (think banana bread, pumpkin bread) just to give you an idea of what you should be getting as a final result.

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    • I would not recommend it, especially since the cake is pumpkin based, and thus fairly dark in color. You’d need a lot of food coloring to change the tone, and even then I’m not sure you could get a very attractive result. As far as safe, I don’t know since I’ve never thought to include it, so if you do want to color it, make sure you research if food coloring is safe for dogs.

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