Doggie Birthday Cake

 

Jazzy turns 14 years young this year!  We celebrated with a homemade doggie cake from a recipe book I purchased recently.  Jazmine enjoyed her cake, except for the blueberries.  She is not a fan of fruits or veggies but she did eat the shredded carrots!  However, by day 2, Jazmine refused to eat any pieces that ever had a blueberry on it.  Picking off the blueberries was simply not good enough.  Next time, I’ll be sure to skip the blueberries – but your pup may love them!  To ensure Jazmine safely ate her cake, I did cut up her slice into small chunks.

 

 

CAKE:
1 ½ cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
¼ cup coconut oil, softened
1 egg
½ cup canned pumpkin (NOT pie mix)
1 banana, mashed
½ cup unsweetened applesauce
¼ cup shredded carrots
2 tbsp peanut butter (containing no Xylitol, which can be lethal)
 
FROSTING:
¼ cup shredded carrots
¼ cup blueberries
1 tbsp honey
1 cup plain Greek yogurt

 

Grease two mini loaf pans with coconut oil.  Mix together all dry ingredients in one bowl and all moist ingredients in another.  Fold wet ingredients into dry and mix to combine.  Pour batter into prepared pans and bake at 350 for 20-30 minutes, until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.  Let cakes cool.

** I do not have mini pans, so we used one regular loaf pans and cooked for about 30 minutes, until toothpick came out clean. **
 
FOR THE FROSTING:
Mix yogurt and honey together.  Level the bottom cake by cutting the top flat.  Stick layers together with a little frosting.  Use the remaining frosting on the top and sprinkle with carrots and blueberries.  Store in fridge.
 
This recipe comes from “When Life Gives You A Furry Friend” – A collection of recipes to spoil your fur-babies.  This recipe book can be found here.