Dog birthday cakes may seem kind of different and strange to many people, but in most pet lover families, pet birthday celebrations are a big event, especially dog birthdays. Birthday cakes for dogs come in all shapes and sizes. Of course, you can make one too.

If you are a pet lover, have pets and never had a birthday party for your dog or your pet; you’re really missing out on a lot of fun. You definitely need to try out celebrating your pet birthday the next time. Here are some pet and dog birthday cake tips.

The most obvious design for a dog cake is to shape the cake like a bone. How perfect for a dog birthday cake! A cake bone design can be really cute, but there are a lot of other cute cake designs you could use too such as Dalmation themed cake or even a Blue’s Clues birthday cake.

Don’t be afraid or embarrassed to make a dog cake, people will have fun with it and give the kids a few chuckles. The kids will absolutely love the idea and certainly won’t turn down the chance to munch on a funny birthday cake. Even the grownups will get into the spirit of it when they see such a cute and amusing birthday cake design for your favorite pet. It is really worth your time to bake a decorate the pet birthday cake.

Doggie cupcakes are perfect for the human guests. Frost cupcakes in white frosting. Use mini oreo cookies for the ears, and pipe the face with buttercream.

Don’t forget the dog. The dog needs to eat as well. The perfect cake for a dog is meatloaf style cake, frosted with a savory mashed potato frosting. It is a little time consuming, but it will all be worth it.

Bow Wow Birthday Cake
4 lbs ground turkey
3 cups cooked brown rice
1 cup chopped carrots
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup mince parsley
2 eggs
3 Tbsp chopped garlic
2 Tbsp olive oil
1/4 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking powder
1 1/3 c whole wheat flour

4 cups cooked mashed potatoes
Beet juice

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine ground turkey, brown rice, carrots, celery and parsley in large bowl. Add eggs, garlic olive oil and vanilla and mix. Stir in baking powder and whole wheat flour.

Place in a lightly greased 9×13 pan, or 2 9×3 inch round pans. I liked using the 9×3 pans as it looks more like cake.

Bake for approximately 1 1/2 hours until cooked and crisp on top. Turn out of pan and cool.

Frost with 3 1/2 cups of the mashed potatoes. To decorate or write on the cake, add beet juice to 1/2 cup of the potatoes and place in a piping bag. Pipe decorations as you would on a regular cake.
Bake your meatloaf with dog eating in mind. You can scoop out the meat into a cupcake type of holder for the dog. Or, shape the meatloaf into a bone. Of course, you need to ice the cake. For your dog, mashed potatoes will make the perfect meatloaf cake frosting.

My pup loved this cake!

For my son’s YMCA Indian Guides Holiday Bowling Party, I decided to make a Penguin cake that I saw online. I made a chocolate cake with oreo cookie filing. The decorated top was all edible buttercream icing, fondant and ice cream sugar cones for the trees.

Click here to read the article and see pictures of the penguin decorated holiday cake.

For my son’s YMCA Indian Guides Holiday Bowling Party, I decided to make a Penguin cake that I saw online. I made a chocolate cake with oreo cookie filing. The decorated top was all edible with buttercream icing, fondant and ice cream sugar cones for the trees.

Here is the final cake as I put it together in the bowling alley.

To read how I put this together, view the full post.

To make the chocolate holiday cake, I began about 10 days before the party by making the fondant and shaping the penguins. To make the wings on the penguins, I used a small leaf cookie cutter. All other pieces of the penguin were hand shaped.

For the igloo entrance, I used paper rolls, ok, toilet paper rolls, for its shape. Cover the paper roll in parchment. Then, cover the paper roll with a piece of fondant. Cut fondant squares using a pizza cutter to create straight, even edges. Begin placing the squares on the paper roll, covering completely. Let dry for at least 4 days.

To bake the chocolate penguin party cakes. I used a 10 inch round pan for the base and half of a ball pan for the main igloo piece. In the middle of the base, I used oreo cookie filling. Making the filling was fun for the kids. We bought a package of Oreos and I let the kids mash them up. We then added the oreos to white buttercream.

Frost the 10 inch cake with white buttercream. Since the igloo can get heavey, I placed three wooden dowels in the 10 inch in the spot the igloo would go. Place the igloo cake on top and frosted that as well. To make the empty pond, I scooped out a little bit of cake then frosted the hole in the cake.

Next, I built the igloo by adding square fondant pieces all around the igloo. As you go up the igloo, the squares will have to be adjusting according to the shape of the igloo. Some might be more triangluar shaped, or have to be cut a little to completely cover the igloo.

To make the treees, I used sugar ice cream cones, I piped the trees using tip 16.

Finally, dust the cake and trees with a little powdered sugar for the snow.

The pond is filled with piping gel tinted blue. The fish is made of fondant.

Finally, at the bowling alley, I added all the penguins for the final holiday cake.

Wedding anniversaries are truly to be celebrated. Every year of married life is a milestone of marital success; at KeenCakes.com, we believe the best way to celebrate this joyous occasion is having a get-together with friends, a private dinner and, of course, cutting the anniversary cake.

The celebration of the first year wedding anniversary is a great chance to recapture the bliss of your wedding ceremony. On the chance that the top of your original wedding cake actually made it through the first year, you will be celebrating with that particular cake.

However, if the original top didn’t make it, or, you are having a party, choosing your first wedding anniversary cake should be fun. It can be simple or extravagant. If you are making it yourself, balance what you want with the time you have available. At your party, guests will look at your anniversary cake in the same way they viewed your decorated wedding cake. Both decorations and style are as important as taste.

Try some of the latest trends in your cake design. This will help you to choose the appropriate cake for your anniversary. Wedding anniversary cake toppings come in fondant lace, rolled fondant, white or dark brown chocolate and butter cream. One can customize their own fillings to their personal like, taste and flavor.

The size of the anniversary cake also matters. Some couple tend to have small wedding anniversary cake and some couples prefer big anniversary cake. The latest trend is to have a number of small sized anniversary cakes and place one at each table with different fillings. This is a great idea, as the guests have the opportunity to taste all flavors while they interact with the other guests.

This garden bug cake was for my daughters birthday.

Section 1
Here is a snail made of fondant.

Section 2
This bug has a vanilla wafer cookie as a body.

Section 3
This ladybug was yummy.

Section 4
I used cut up marshmallow pieces for the wings of this butterfly.

For the end of the school year YMCA Indian Guides and Indian Princesses pool party, I created a swimming pool cake with all of the kids having fun.

Section 1
The twin towers made of rice krispie treats.

Section 2
I positioned the cake and towers on one long wooden base.

Section 3
I started the cake with an outline of the pool.

Section 4
The green grass surrounded the pool. I filled the pool with blue icing and created a stone edge around the water.

Section 5
Time to start filling up with kids.

Section 6
Here is another angle of the set up.

Section 7
It got really crowded once I added all the kids on tire floats using fondant. Here is the front view.

Section Full
Finished cake from the side.

This article is coming soon. It will detail how I created this butterfly birthday cake for my daughter.

Section 1
Creating the based of the cake.

Section 2
Setting up the border.

Section 3
Creating pizzaz with flowers and petals.

Section 4
Without the top or the butterflys.

Section 5
Figuring out how to position the butterflies.

Section 7
Here is a closeup of the edible butterfly.

Section 8
Here is more detail of a different butterfly.

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Finish
The final birthday cake.