We had to delay the celebration a little, as we were heading out of town on August 15th for my niece's birth. Cooper didn't seem to mind the late birthday cake, though. You have to spoil them a little bit, right?
I found a basic birthday cake recipe here through a search. I decided to alter it a little with an apple and some blueberries that I had in the fridge.
The original recipe called for carrots, which I also had. Cooper loves to eat raw carrots, apples and blueberries, so I thought they would fit together well.
We had an oven-safe bowl we got for a past BarkBox subscription that I decided to put the batter in. Not all of it would fit, so I threw the rest into a cupcake tin.
There is not a lot of rise to the batter, so you can fill whatever you place the batter in almost to the top. I baked the cupcakes for about 20 minutes and the cake for 35.
Instead of mixing together a frosting, I just melted Cooper's favorite ingredient - peanut butter. The heat made it a lot easier to spread.
Blaze was sure to join in the celebration.
The recipe is below, but feel free to substitute your dog's favorites or whatever you have on hand at the time.
Ingredients:
1 egg
1/4 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup cooking oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 cup honey
1/2 cup finely chopped carrots
1/2 cup finely chopped apples
1/4 cup blueberries
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 tsp baking soda
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease pan or place cupcake foils.
2. Combine the egg, peanut butter, cooking oil, vanilla extract and honey. Mix in Carrots and apples. Sift together whole wheat flour and baking soda and slowly fold into the wet mixture. Gently mix in the blueberries. Place batter in prepared pan.
3. Bake in preheated oven (check cupcakes at 20 minutes, check 6 inch pan at 35 min). Let cool 10 minutes in pan, then remove to a cooling rack to completely cool.
4. Be sure to let Cooper and me know how it turned out!
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