Jojo turned 1 year old on December 7th! We decided to celebrate with a homemade grain-free doggy cake. It took a while to find an online recipe that I could feel good about giving our dogs. I wanted it to be grain free, sugar free, and have limited ingredients- only what was necessary to make a delicious cake.
The recipe is Grain-Free Peanut Butter Apple Doggy Cake and it came from the website Spoonful of Sugar Free (love the site name!). FOUR simple ingredients: egg, peanut butter, apple and baking powder. Now baking powder is not something I would feed my dogs on a daily basis, but 1/2 tsp. in the cake is perfectly fine.
This recipe makes 1 individual serving, so I chose to double the recipe since I wanted a separate cake for each of our dogs. I used all organic ingredients and the homemade peanut butter I make for the Eli & Jojo treats. I baked it in 2 ramekins for 25 minutes, a little longer than the recipe stated. I also made a simple frosting of equal parts cream cheese and peanut butter. Jojo thought the frosting was the best part of the cake! I do have to say it smelled delicious while it was baking.
If I make this again for Eli’s next birthday in April, I wouldn’t double the recipe. Making just 1 serving like the recipe states and dividing that into smaller cupcake size portions would be enough.
You can see some more of the birthday party pictures including a few of Jojo’s older brother Eli on our facebook page.
If you make this recipe, let me know what you think.
Do you have a homemade doggy birthday cake recipe you’d like to share?
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