DIY – Doggy Birthday Cake with Red Fruit

For Juno’s birthday, last April, I made a Doggy Birthday Cake with Red Fruits and a delicious cream cheese frosting with honey. She loved it!

Several people asked me if I wanted to share the recipe, of course I do, so that’s why I wrote today’s blog.

Doggy Birthday Cake met Rode Vruchten

Ingredients:

• 250g buckwheat flour
• 3 eggs
• 2 tablespoons of honey
• a handful of red fruit (strawberry, raspberry, etc)
• water

Instructions:

1. Pre-heat the oven at 180C/350F
2. Grease a cake pan (I used a 20cm diameter pan)
3. Mix flour, eggs and honey together with a mixer. Add water until you get a smooth cake dough. Add the fruits and fold them in gently.
4. Put the dough into the mold and even it out
5. Bake for about half an hour, or until the cake is nicely browned and a skewer comes out clean
6. Let it cool before you decorate it

When your cake has cooled completely, you can start decorating it. You can of course opt for a decoration of, for example, kibble or something similar, but a cream cheese frosting with a cool Happy Birthday cookie is of course much more fun to look at! I printed my cookie cutter for the cookie myself, but there are several options for buying such cookie cutters available online, for example through Etsy.

Happy Birthday Cookie

Ingredients:

• 250g buckwheat flour
• 125g peanut butter (I use a dog safe peanut butter)
• 2 eggs
• water

Instructions:

1. Pre-heat the oven at 180C/350F
2. Knead the whole into a dough (add water until you get a well kneadable dough)
3. Roll it out thinly
4. Cut out the cookies with a cookie cutter and place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper
5. Bake the cookies crispy in about 15 minutes

Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients:

• Packet of Philadelphia cream cheese (or similar, Philadelphia is a brand that’s sold in the Netherlands)
• optional: an extra flavor (for example honey)
• optional: food coloring (preferably use dog safe natural dyes, I prefer natural color powders like Spirulina powder for blue)

Instructions:

1. Stir the extra flavor and coloring through the cream cheese, and scoop the whole into a piping bag with a star-shaped nozzle
2. Spin beautiful swirls on your cooled cake
3. Serve right away

Juno loved her cake!