How Do You Make A Cake For A Dog

A dog cake recipe to celebrate Dozer's birthday!! A 2 layer block frosted with fluffy "buttercream" ….. but it's made with wholesome pooch friendly ingredients!

Aren't you just dying to know how I made that frosting?? 😜

(Looking for Pupcakes? Hither it is!)

Dog cake for Dozer'south altogether!

"That frosting tastes a chip odd," grumbled the husband of Dozer's boarder. Tin can you just imagine the pleasure she got out of telling him he'd just eaten a Dog cake??😂

"Serves him right for helping himself to anything that looks tasty" she smirked when she told me. I was laughing so hard at the vision, I actually snorted.

Who can blame him?? The whole bespeak of creating this block was to make information technology expect like a real birthday cake piled high with fluffy buttercream frosting – only with dog friendly ingredients .

And so information technology tastes nothing like what information technology looks like – it's a total spin out!!

OK OK I know you're busting to know how I made the cake look so "real" so I won't continue you in suspense whatever longer! Here's the rundown:

Good for you canis familiaris sponge cake – it's similar a very healthy carrot cake, very low fat, saccharide free
Fluffy whipped irish potato "frosting" – looks merely like buttercream, but it'due south pooch friendly! While we humans wouldn't put spud frosting on a cake, our pooches won't complain!😂Don't fall for pretty looking cakes piled high with cream cheese or other high fat or loftier dairy frosting. Bad for dogs!

🐾 Good for you dog sponge block 🐾

This is a healthy dog friendly version of carrot cake. It's a moist sponge that's very simple to make – dump and mix job – and all the ingredients are either skilful for dogs, or fine for dogs to eat in moderation. I've provided some nutrition commentary on each ingredient in the recipe below.

(PS I hope you didn't miss that I said this is amoist sponge. Just because it's a dog block, doesn't hateful we should let our standards skid! 😂)

🐾 Dog friendly fluffy frosting 🐾

Fabricated with fluffy whipped mashed tater! OK, and then it'due south non something you lot'd put on a cake for humans – but this is fordogs recall!

I wanted a frosting that was canis familiaris friendly that looked simply similar vanilla buttercream and then I could use information technology for sandwiching layers, frosting and piping. Most dog block frosting recipes I establish use yogurt and peanut butter which is too soft and too, likewise much of either of those ingredients is non good for dogs.

Solution: whipped mashed potato!! 🤣 I got the thought from Meatloaf Cupcakes that I shared years ago where I piped on mashed potato swirls.

I use yogurt to give it a flossy soft "buttercream frosting" consistency because yogurt has probiotics in it which is good for dogs. But water works just also!

Expect how well it works equally frosting for the cake! It's looks nearly impossibly similar to existent buttercream frosting!

🎉Dozer'south birthday party! 🎉

A block this good (and big 😳) is fabricated to be shared. And what better mode to share it than at an impromptu birthday party downwardly at the beach??

Information technology was, as one might wait, total anarchy, and my vision of an adorable photo of all the dogs wearing party hats sitting patiently behind the cake just didn't happen. (That was total wishful thinking on my part 😂)

Hats were swiped off within seconds of putting them on – hence why you only run across photos of 1 dog at a time wearing a hat 😂, the swarm of wet, sandy gilt retrievers effectually the cake was such a take chances at one signal I actually had to option the cake upwardly and run away!

Equally for the birthday boy, the cheeky bugger tried to become stuck into the cake earlier information technology was even served!!

Simply suffice to say, it was his idea of a perfect birthday. Embankment, all his best mates, a large fatty cake. What more than can a dog ask for??

Really, the only affair different between this 24-hour interval and every other twenty-four hours in Dozer'due south life was the presence of cake. 😂

Happy birthday Dozer! 🎊🎉Some other year older, though non wiser. But I wouldn't change a thing nigh yous – I love you only the way yous are! ~ Nagi x

Sentinel how to make it

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Servings 20 - 30 dogs

Recipe video above. A dog cake with "frosting" that looks so impossibly existent, it'due south been mistakenly eaten by unsuspecting people on many occasions! Fabricated with dog friendly ingredients with an irresistible peanut butter odour. Fine for humans to consume - just it'southward a bit odd tasting for our palette!

Dog birthday cake:

▢ two eggs
▢ 1/two cup peanut butter (spread or pure)
▢ 1/4 cup oil (canola, vegetable)
▢ 2/3 cup milk (or water)
▢ 1/3 loving cup honey or maple syrup (or apple sauce or skip it)
▢ 2 i/2 cups shredded carrot (2 large)
▢ 2 cups whole wheat / wholemeal flour (or white flour)
▢ 2 1/2 tsp baking soda

Dog Friendly Fluffy Frosting (Whipped Potato Yogurt):

▢ 600 - 700g / 1.2 - i.4lb potatoes , peeled, cut into chunks
▢ 3/4 - i cup yogurt (plain unsweetened) or water

Cake:

Preheat oven to 180C/350F (160C fan).
Grease and line the base of operations of 2 10 20cm/8" block pans.
Whisk together eggs, peanut butter, oil, honey and milk (piffling peanut butter lumps ok).
Stir in carrots. And then add flour and baking soda, stir until just combined (over mixing = hard cake = pitiful altogether pooch).
Divide batter between the cake pans, spread and polish surface.
Bake 25 minutes or until skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Cool on racks. Frost per beneath.

Doggie Fluffy Frosting:

Boil, steam or microwave potato until very soft.
Whip potato and yoghurt with an electric beater until fluffy and smooth as possible (won't go 100% smooth) - about 1 1/2 minutes on medium speed (speed v).
Use water as needed to loosen frosting to soft spreadable consistency (like human buttercream frosting!). Use while warm (it "sets" when it cools).

Frost:

Spread 1/4 frosting on one cake.
Meridian with other cake. Frost tops and sides with remaining frosting, reserving some to pipe decorations if desired (iii/4 loving cup frosting).

one. Cake pan - could likewise use a bundt pan or ane block pan and cutting the cake in half. Or a square pan nearly 20cm/viii".

ii. Serving size - Appropriate serving size should exist determined having regard to the health, size, action and digestive sensitivities of your dog. Dozer was fine fifty-fifty eating a very large slice (almost 1/8th of the block!). Merely he is a highly agile dog and has a wide nutrition, he eats many things I make and tastes near everything I eat myself!

Do not utilise in identify of a meal - just similar with human cakes, dog cakes are not a well rounded nutritious meal!

three. Diet commentary (assumes 20 slices):

Eggs - good source of protein for dogs
Peanut butter - "treat" chemical element, dogs are mad for peanut butter! Gives the block an irresistible peanut butter aroma, two.5 tsp per slice
Oil - very small amount used, nearly 1/2 tsp per slice
Milk - if you're concerned most your dog consuming dairy, sub with water. Works out at ane.5 tsp per serve, and also recall it'south cooked!
Love - For a touch on of sweetness, three/four tsp per piece. Tin can skip if you lot want.
Carrot - carrot is expert for dogs! I hibernate a lot of carrot in Dozer'southward meals. Aso makes the sponge moist. Can sub with zucchini or sweet irish potato.
Wholewheat / wholemeal flour -just like with humans, carbs are fine to consume in moderation!
Baking soda - to make the sponge rise.
White potato - Same equally flour, cooked potato is fine to consume in moderation! It'due south a better, healthier option than slathering the cake with a peanut butter yogurt frosting which seems to be the default for dog cake recipes. Too much yogurt or peanut butter is not good for our pooches (whether commercial sweetened spread or even pure unsweetened peanut butter, it'due south very high in fatty. Some yogurt is practiced for dogs but not vast quantities)
Yogurt - probiotics in yogurt is good for dogs digestive system, just like with humans! If your domestic dog is sensitive to dairy, simply utilise water.

4. Nutrition per slice.

Calories: 157 cal (eight%) Carbohydrates: 20 k (7%) Protein: 4 g (8%) Fat: half-dozen thousand (ix%) Saturated Fat: one g (six%) Cholesterol: 16 mg (v%) Sodium: 204 mg (nine%) Potassium: 241 mg (seven%) Fiber: ane g (4%) Sugar: 5 thou (half-dozen%) Vitamin A: 1060 IU (21%) Vitamin C: 4.4 mg (five%) Calcium: thirty mg (3%) Iron: 2 mg (eleven%)

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Life of Dozer

Just because this whole post is for Dozer, that's no excuse to break tradition past excluding the Life of Dozer department!!!

Then here he is, starring in his get-go recipe video. Shooting with Dozer IN the video was somewhat of a challenge…… if he had his way, he'd accept eaten the batter raw!! 😂