dog cake recipe

Recipe video above. A dog cake with "frosting" that looks so impossibly real, it's been mistakenly eaten by unsuspecting people on many occasions! Made with dog friendly ingredients with an irresistible peanut butter smell. Fine for humans to consume - but it's a bit odd tasting for our palette!

Dog cake recipe - with dog friendly fluffy frosting!

eggs

peanut butter ((spread

oil ((canola, vegetable))

milk (or water)

honey

carrot ((2 large))

whole wheat / wholemeal flour ((or white flour))

tsp baking soda

yogurt (plain unsweetened) or water

Preheat oven to 180C/350F (160C fan).

Grease and line the base of 2 x 20cm/8" cake pans.

Whisk together eggs, peanut butter, oil, honey and milk (little peanut butter lumps ok).

Stir in carrots. Then add flour and baking soda, stir until just combined (over mixing = hard cake = sad birthday pooch).

Divide batter between the cake pans, spread and smooth surface.

Bake 25 minutes or until skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

Cool on racks. Frost per below.

Cake:

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 5).

Use water as needed to loosen frosting to soft spreadable consistency (like human buttercream frosting!). Use while warm (it "sets" when it cools).

Doggie Fluffy Frosting:

Spread 1/4 frosting on one cake.

Top with other cake. Frost tops and sides with remaining frosting, reserving some to pipe decorations if desired (3/4 cup frosting).

Frost:

Recipe video above. A four-layer drip cake that looks so real, it&#039;s hard to believe it&#039;s made entirely from dog-friendly ingredients!!Frosting note: While it might sound weird for a frosting to be made of whipped potato, dogs don&#039;t care! It looks and behaves like buttercream frosting, but is dog friendly so you can use it in abundance to decorate the cake (not recommended for usual frostings made with cream cheese/peanut butter etc etc)

Four-Layer Drip Dog Birthday Cake

eggs (, at room temperature (Note 1))

oil ((canola

milk ((or water))

carrot, grated ((2 large carrots, peeled))

tsp baking soda ((sub 6 tsp baking powder))

potatoes

Water or milk as needed ((to adjust consistency))

Blue food colouring gel (or liquid) ((or other colour of choice, Note 2))

cornflour / cornstarch

yoghurt ((plain, unsweetened))

milk

Silver, blue and white balls, candles, birthday sign

Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F (160°C fan).

Cake pans: Grease and line the base of 2 x 15cm (6&quot;) cake pans that are 7.5cm (3&quot;) deep (Note 3 for other cake pan sizes).

Mix wet ingredients: Whisk together eggs, peanut butter, oil, honey and milk (small peanut butter lumps are ok).

Add dry ingredients: Stir in carrot. Add flour and baking soda, stir until just combined (over-mixing = hard cake = sad birthday pooch!)

Fill cake pans: Divide batter between cake pans, spread and smooth surface.

Bake: Bake 30 minutes or until skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool on racks.

Level and halve: Trim the mound off the top of each cake to make the tops flat. Then cut each cake horizontally in half using a serrated knife so you have four, even, flat cake layers. Frost per below.

Cook potatoes: Boil, steam or microwave potato until very soft.

Whip: Whip potato and yoghurt with an electric beater until fluffy and smooth as possible –  about 1 1/2 minutes on medium speed (speed 5).

Adjust thickness: Use water as needed to loosen frosting to a soft, spreadable consistency (like human buttercream frosting). Use while warm – it &quot;sets&quot; and gets harder when it cools, Note 4.

White and blue frosting: Use uncoloured frosting to frost between cake layers and sandwich them. Keep remaining frosting to be coloured and used to frost the surface.

Dog-friendly &quot;Buttercream&quot;

Mix ingredients in a small bowl, starting with 1 tablespoon milk. The frosting should be thin enough so it will spread quite smoothly on the top of the cake, but thick enough so the drips you make down the side will hold their form. (Do a test on a straight-walled glass). Adjust thickness with more cornflour / cornstarch (for thicker) or more milk (for thinner).

White Drip Frosting:

Sandwich layers: Place one cake layer on a turntable or serving platter. Spread with 3/4 cup white frosting. Top with another layer of cake, spread with 3/4 cup frosting, then repeat once more and top with the 4th cake layer.

Colouring frosting: Colour the remaining frosting blue using blue gel. To achieve the colour pictured, dip a toothpick into gel container and smear colouring on the surface of the potato. Dip a clean toothpick again into the gel and repeat (you need two dips to get enough colour into frosting). Mix frosting until colour is uniform.

Frosting surface with blue: Frost the top and sides of the cake with the blue frosting, spreading it as smoothly as you can.

Drip Frosting: Spoon 2 - 3 tablespoons of Drip Frosting on the top of the cake and spread carefully to the edge, ensuring you don&#039;t coax it over the edge. Now scoop up a teaspoon of the Drip Frosting  and &quot;drip&quot; it down the side of the cake from the top edge. Repeat all around, making drips of different lengths.

Decorate: Decorate cake as desired with decorations that you want to stick to the frosting. I used silver, blue and white balls.

Set frosting: Immediately refrigerate for at least 3 hours to make the Drip Frosting set. (Also, the silver balls will sweat on the Drip Frosting unless it sets quickly). Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.

Happy birthday to your pooch!!!

Frosting cake:

Hi Nagi – just wanted to say that I’ve been following all of the Dozer doggie recipes and this cake especially turned out amazing! I’ll admit my potato icing wasn’t as clean and professional as yours but my beagle gets SO excited each time I take a piece out for a treat. I will definitely be making this again. PS my Ben says hi Dozer and thanks for the recipe!

I made this!!!! So moist! I did half the recipe and it was perfect!!! My drip wasn’t perfect but still came out awesome! Thank you for sharing! Ringo, my 9 yo German shepherd was pleased! ☺️

I went simple and followed your cake and frosting recipe in cupcake form. It made 24 treats.

Banana (the older dog) and Peppadew (the puppy) wanted to tell you that your cupcakes were The Best Birthday Treat!!!

Thanks So Much for posting, you made their special day Great❤️

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