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!
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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’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.
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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!
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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.
can I use a 9×12 inch pan instead of two round pans
Hi Brenda, it would probably work fine, you’ll just have to watch it to adjust for time. 🙂
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
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!
I don’t have pumpkin puree Can I double up on the unsweet applesauce?
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!
Thank you!!!!
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!!!
You are so very welcome! So glad that Bear enjoyed it!
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!!
Maybe a dumb Q, but do you use plain flour or self rising?
Just regular all-purpose. 🙂
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
Hi! For some reason I don’t have baking soda! Can I use baking powder instead?
Thank you!
In this particular recipe I haven’t done so, so I can’t speak to the results.
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.