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.
I’d love to make this cake for my pups upcoming birthday! He is not a fan of pumpkin though- any suggestions on what I can substitute for the pumpkin?
I loved making this for my dogs on National Dog Day ❤️I also made the frosting and they loved it. Next time I am trying cupcakes to bring to our doggie friends 🥳🐶
Thank you for this recipe! I’ve been making this cake for my pug Biscuit on his birthday for three years now! I’m making it again tomorrow for his 4th bday. He loves it!!! Thank
You again 😊
Best dog cake recipe EVER! Our four dogs absolutely LOVE their birthday cake so much! Thank you for the amazing recipe! We have 2 Australian Shepard’s, 1 poodle, and 1 Aussie doodle! We breed and sell Aussie doodles, check out our site!
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I love this cake and always make some version of it for my pup! I’m wondering if you think there is a way to adapt it to make it a gender reveal cake? My thoughts were to add dried strawberries if it’s a girl and blueberries if it’s a boy but I’m wondering if you think this would be safe? I obviously don’t want to give my dog regular food coloring. Thank you so much!
Any tips for making this into pupcakes?
Here you go, here’s the pupcakes version! https://www.lovefromtheoven.com/pupcake-dog-cupcakes/
I made cupcakes using this recipe and my aussie doodle was the happiest ever! It made 8 cupcakes. Nice recipe and simple to follow!
This my 2nd time using this recipe as a guide line.My 2 Blue Heelers love their Birthday cake! I use whole wheat flour, coconut oil, and duck eggs, along with more applesauce ( 15 oz, unsweetened) and 15 oz pumpkin. Comes out perfect! They love licking the bowls 😆! I share with other pupper moms and their babies love it as well! I wish I could send you pictures!! Thanks from Maggie May who is 7 today, and son Atlas!🎂🎉🎉💕🐾🐾
I didn’t think about decorating my dog’s cake. thank you for sharing. for your information
Made this for our golden doodles 2nd birthday party, all the dogs loved it! When getting the ingredients I could have sworn I had vegetable oil, but of course day of it was no where to be found! I ended up just putting the applesauce as recommended and about the eighth of what should have been vegetable oil as the apple sauce to replace it. I also completely forgot to grease the pan but we put it in a bunt pan that was supposed to be “nonstick” after some beating we got it out and after icing it was the cutest cake! All of the dogs LOVED the cake! Thank you for this amazing recipe!