This quick and easy Dog Cake Recipe is perfect for celebrating your pup’s birthday or spoiling them, just because!
My friends asked me how I planned to spoil my dogs for National Spoil Your Dog Day, and of course the answer included baking. Like any special day, I think we should celebrate with cake. A puppy approved dog cake!
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’m sure I’m not the only one with a food motivated pup!
Dog Cake Recipe
This dog cake is packed full of great ingredients, including peanut butter, applesauce and pumpkin. It comes together and bakes up just like any other cake, but is perfect for your pets. The optional frosting is made from peanut butter and yogurt.
I’m often asked if humans can eat this cake as well, and the answer is YES! However, unlike a traditional cake, it lacks sugar, so just know it won’t be as sweet as your pet is.
Since first sharing this easy dog safe cake recipe years ago, thousands of pet parents just like you have made it. You can even see some of the great recreations that readers have made over on Instagram by checking out the #spoileddogcake hashtag! I’m so happy that so many of you have made, and loved, this recipe.
Decorating Your Cake
When I made my cake, I topped it with some store bought dog bones. Because they are minis, which makes them almost like dog cake sprinkles in my book!
That said, you can bake up some dog cookies, pumpkin dog treats, homemade dog treats or peanut butter dog treats to garnish this cake with.
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.
If your furry friend loves this puppy cake recipe, make sure to check out my Pupcake Dog Cupcakes and Doggy Donuts as well!
Dog Cake Recipe
If you make this recipe, I’d love to see and share a picture of your pup enjoying it! You can email me or tag me on social @lovefromtheoven!
Spoiled Dog Cake Recipe
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 cup vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup natural peanut butter (Do NOT use a peanut butter with Xylitol (also called birch sugar) as it's dangerous to dogs. Check ingredients!)
- 1/2 cup applesauce (go with plain, unsweetened)
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree (make sure you use pure pumpkin, not canned pumpkin pie mix)
- 1 egg
Frosting
- 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
- Instructions
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large bowl, combine flour and baking soda.
- In a separate bowl mix together vegetable oil, peanut butter, applesauce and pumpkin puree. Once combined, mix in egg and mix until combined.
- Combine wet and dry ingredients and stir until combined.
- Pour mixture into an 8" round pan (a square pan can also be used) that has been greased with oil.
- 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.
- Allow to cool on a wire rack prior to removing from pan.
- After cooling, add frosting if desired.
Frosting
- Mix Greek yogurt and peanut butter until well combined. Spread over cake. If not serving immediately, store in refrigerator.
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Notes
Nutrition
The nutrition facts provided are calculated using a third-party tool and are estimates only. Actual nutritional content may vary based on the ingredients and brands you use, as well as portion sizes. For accurate results, please consult a registered dietitian or nutritionist.
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 mixes out! They even have grain free options.
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.
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Meet Christi, Love From The Oven
I’m Christi I love sharing easy & delicious recipes that your family & friends will love. I’m a mom, baker, cookbook author and lover of sprinkles.
Wonderful recipe. I added doggie jerky as well.
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has tried to eat this? I want to make it for my dogs birthday but he is a tiny Chihuahau and my other dog is a tiny chi also. I don’t want to waste it. So I was wondering what it would taste like to a human?! Lol this is a serious question I am not trolling.
You can, I would just expect it to be a bit bland. But all ingredients are fine for you to eat as well.
I’ve made “Pup cakes” with this recipe and my dogs & their friends were crazy for it! So fun to give them something they love that’s also good for them! Five stars for this recipe!
Made this for my Papillon Teddy’s first birthday doggy party. It was a hit ?
Hi just wondering about the flour in this recipe from everything I heard regular flour is not good for dogs just wondering if you have researched about this and if what I’ve heard is true I really like your recipe and I’m having a party for my dog Zeus’s first birthday party this weekend would like to make this cake can you please let me know if what I’ve heard is true I’m trying to bake the cake by Friday so the quick response would be nice thank you so much have a great night Jamie DeWitt
Jamie, I am comfortable making it for my dogs, as do many of my readers. I can’t tell you what YOU consider to be okay for yours. That’s going to have to be up to you, your research and your vet. Some people think no humans should eat flour, but most of us eat it. You might think walnuts are safe, but they are deadly to me. More than ever ingredients in food, for people or dogs, have become fairly subjective and personal, as so many of us have food allergies or sensitivities – making “safe” a case by case basis. I’m sorry I can’t give you a black and white answer, but what is “good” is something you’ll have to decide.
This is a good recipe for my dog Marley
Super easy and fun to make. Toby my Golden Retriever LOVED it and so did all his doggy pals. I made it for his 1st Birthday and I’m sure I’ll make it again for future b-days. Highly recommended!
My dogs love it and it’s sooo easy to make. This is the second time I’m making it and my toddler loved helping!
My baby Kratos love love loved your recipe! He had a fantastic bday, thank you!
So glad Kratos enjoyed the dog cake! Happy Birthday to him!
I’ve made this before and my dogs loved it! But since the last time I made it we’ve gotten a cat and I was wondering if this is safe for cats to eat too. If not that’s ok, but I’d love for him to be part of the birthday festivities too. Thanks in advance for letting me know!
Maggie, so glad your dogs liked it! I’m afraid since I don’t have cats I’m not as familiar with their foods. I’d probably google each of the ingredients or check for a list of foods cats can’t have.