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!
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. 🙂
Dog Cake Recipe
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.
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.
Homemade Dog Treats Recipe
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.
Cake Recipe For Dogs
Ingredients
- 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
- 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
Instructions
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.
Mix Greek yogurt and peanut butter until well combined. Spread over cake. If not serving immediately, store in refrigerator.
*Recipe can easily be doubled to make a layer cake
https://www.lovefromtheoven.com/spoiled-dog-cake-recipe/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.
Now that you’ve got the dog cake made, what about some gifts? Here are some adorable gifts for dogs!
Doggie Donut No Stuffing Squeaky Toy
Cake Squeaky Toy in Pink or Blue
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.
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.
If you have a new puppy on the way, I’ve got a great list of new puppy items to help you out!
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.
Disclosure: This post was sponsored by Bounty. All opinions however are mine and mine alone. This post contains affiliate links.
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Your recipe came out perfect- our dog Zuki went nuts over it! We had lots of fun- thanks!
Julie, I’m so glad that Zuki liked it! 🙂
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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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!
Hi Veruska, sorry, I can’t say that I have. I hope your pup has a great first birthday!
Hello! Did you try freezing it? I made a double of this recipe for our dogs birthday last year but this year we have just one dog and she can’t eat all of it before it’d go bad. If you did freeze it, did you try freezing the icing too?
Erin, I have not so I can’t say how it would turn out.
Can I use oat flour instead of regular?
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.
Hiii! I made this for my pups 1sr birthday! She loved it!! Check out her ig @mollie_doodle
Thanks!
our dogs absolutely loved this cake we made it this evening, we sprinkled bacon bits on top.
we made this cake for our dogs this evening they absolutely loved it and we sprinkled bacon bits on top!
we love celebrating our dogs birthdays!!! My daughter we love making this cake!!
Thanks so much, Cheryl!
Have you tried making it with cupcake tins instead of a cake pan?
Hi Susan, I haven’t but I’m certain you could, you’d just need to adjust the bake time. 🙂
This is incredibly easy & my pooches loved it! Thanks so much for posting! 🙂
Making this for Marley for his birthday. He’s a lab and I’m sure he’s gonna love it!
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!
Could I substitute wheat flour for the regular flour?
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.
Can i use this to make cupcakes? Would I need to switch the time?
Hi Rae, I’m sure you could but I haven’t tried it so I’m not sure on the bake time.
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.
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.
Hi, I can’t get hold of pumpkin any suggestions as to what I could use instead?
Thanks Emma
Hi Emma, I’ve only made this cake with pumpkin so I’m afraid I don’t have a substitute to suggest.
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!
this looks great is the recipe suppostedto be thick