My sweet Bentley boy turns two tomorrow, and we are planning to take him to the dog park to meet up with some of his siblings and parents for a little shin-dig. We did this last year too, and it was so much fun seeing all the dogs play together.
Last year I found a recipe for a dog cake that was basically a doggie version of carrot cake, so I made it for the pups to eat. It was super dense and didn’t even look good, but the dogs seemed to like it. So this year instead of following a recipe that was just eh, okay, I wanted to try and make up my own in a cupcake form. Based on the reaction from Bentley and the Beethoven style drool hanging from his mouth I’m calling this recipe a total success!
Here’s how to make these delicious doggie “pupcakes.”
Ingredients– (Makes 6 cakes)
- 1/2 cup organic whole wheat flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 1/2 cup apple sauce
- 1 egg
- 1/2 container of Oikos Greek yogurt with honey
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 2 tablespoons smooth peanut butter
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Mix all the ingredients into a bowl
- Scoop batter evenly into cupcake pan
- Bake for about 35-40 minutes
- Take out and let cool, spread frosting over (recipe below)
Frosting
- 2 ounces of cream cheese
- 4 tablespoons canned pumpkin
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoons of Oikos Greek yogurt with honey
- 1 tbspn of flour (just to thicken it)
- Mix all of the ingredients together until smooth and spread evenly onto “pupcakes”
Now, Bentley is a black lab that weighs right around 75lbs, so I give him one whole pupcake with no problems. If you have a smaller dog- maybe give them only 1/4- 1/2 cake and see how they handle it.
All of the ingredients I used are pretty harmless to a healthy dog but always use caution whenever you’re giving your pup something new to make sure they don’t become ill, and if your fur baby does have medical issues then make sure to consult your vet before making these for him/her.
Bentley is even more excited about his birthday party now because he knows he’s going to be getting these special treats…
Have you ever made your pet a special birthday treat? How about throwing them a party? I’d love to hear all about it either in the comments below, or on my Facebook page!
Talk to you soon guys, take care!
XO
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I have made several things for my dogs, I had a golden Retreiver years ago that had allergy problems, I used to make him homemade cookies that had bacon fat in them. When he would smell bacon cooking he would get so excited because he knew cookies were coming soon. I will have to try these for my pugs, we have 1 birthday in November and 1 in December.
Great! Happy Birthday to your pups 🙂 Let me know how they turn out for you! XO
Thanks for the recipe. We’ve thrown a championship party for our dogs to include bobbing for fish with goldfish or treats, a paper maiche ball made to be whatever your theme (we did fish) filled with dog treats, a retrieving splash competition in the pond, roller ball, and find your toy hidden in the yard. His celebration cake was a carrot cake without sugar made by the local baker-and parents had pizza. Good excuse to celebrate and fun for all!
Half a single serving? Half a 32oz?
Do you think you could throw some blueberries in there?
Sure, I think a few would be fine. My dog loves these specialty treats I get for him from a doggie bakery and they have blueberries in them 🙂
Do these need to be refrigerated ?
Yes, if you’re making a batch up to spread over a span of a week or so the you will need to either refrigerate or freeze 🙂
Thanks so much for the awesome recipe Toby loved them and I had fun making them!:)
For the yogurt…. Is it half of a single serving or half of a larger container?
A single serving.
Hi this is such a great recipe – I was just wondering for the decorations if it is possible to use food colouring to pipe a name etc so that then it isnt white on white. I didnt know whether or not this could be harmful to doggies. Thank you 🙂
I think a little bit of food coloring would be okay for a special occasion. 🙂
Ahh – Brilliant thank you (there would be nothing like poisoning your friend’s dog!!!)
I am thinking of making a large batch of these for all the hounds attending our Greyhound Rescue Groups annual Christmas party. Always a large variety of food for the humans in attendance but not a lot for the dogs.
Yum! I bet those sweet furbabies will love them 🙂