Dog Birthday Cake Recipe

A dog birthday cake on a table with balloon decoration behind it.

It’s time to celebrate your furry best friend with this dog birthday cake recipe! Your pup will love this healthy dog cake made with pumpkin, peanut butter, apple sauce and greek yogurt!

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American

Keyword can dogs eat cake, dog birthday cake, dog birthday cake recipe, dog cake, dog cake recipe, easy dog cake recipe, healthy dog cake, how to make a dog cake

Prep Time 25

Cook Time 20

Total Time 45

Calories 4368kcal

Author Megan

Equipment

Ingredients

Dog Cake

1 cup (170 g) pumpkin puree
½ cup (140 g) creamy natural peanut butter NO XYLITOL
½ cup (140 g) unsweetened applesauce
¼ cup (60 g) vegetable oil
4 large eggs room temperature
2 tablespoon (50 g) honey
1 ½ cup (190 g) all-purpose flour
2 teaspoon (10 g) baking soda

Frosting

2 cups unsweetened plain Greek yogurt
1 cup natural peanut butter

Instructions

Dog cake

Prepare the oven and cake pan. Preheat the oven to 350°F or 176°C. Grease two 6-inch cake rounds and add parchment paper to the bottom of each pan. Set aside.
Mix wet ingredients. In a large bowl, mix together the pumpkin puree, peanut butter, unsweetened apple sauce and vegetable oil until combined. Then add the eggs and honey and mix until combined
Sift in dry ingredients. In a separate mixing bowl, sift the all purpose flour and baking soda and mix until combined.
Combine. Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredient mixture and whisk until just combined.
Bake. Evenly divide the batter into the two greased cake pans and bake for 18-20 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Remove the cake from cake pan and cool completely on a wire rack before frosting.

Frosting

Mix the yogurt and peanut butter. In a large mixing bowl, beat the yogurt and peanut butter with an electric mixer with a whisk attachment on medium high speed until light and fluffy about 3 minutes.

Assembly

Frost the cake. Once the cakes have cooled you can frost them with the frosting. You can either make a 2 layer cake or slice each cake in half and make a 4 layer cake depending on your preference.

Notes

Avoid adding Xylitol. Dogs have sensitive stomachs and it is important to check the ingredients on every label before you add them to your cake. Xylitol is a sweetener that can be found in peanut butter. Xylitol in dogs can possibly cause liver failure so it won’t hurt to double-check!
Avoid added sugar. Adding too much sugar can lead to diabetes and digestive issues in your furry friend. Make sure to use plain peanut butter, unsweetened apple sauce, plain Greek yogurt, and 100% pure pumpkin puree.
Don’t frost until the cake is at room temperature. Avoid frosting your cake until it reaches room temperature. If you frost your cake when it is too warm, the frosting will melt and cause your cake slices to slide around.

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