How to Make Liver Cake
This is the world's most popular homemade dog treat—and for good reason! It's incredibly simple to make, uses cheap, everyday ingredients, and your dog will absolutely love it.
Liver is easy to find in any supermarket (Morrisons is a great bet) or from your local butcher. The recipe calls for roughly 500g (about 1lb), but don't worry if your pack is a bit more or less—this recipe is very forgiving. If you don't have liver, you can easily swap it for other proteins like minced beef, kidney, heart, chicken livers, or even tuna!
This cake is perfect as a training treat, a special birthday cake, or even to sell at fairs. You can top it with cream cheese for a "frosting" or bake the mixture in a cupcake tray for individual pupcakes (check out my pupcake recipe for details).
For this recipe, you'll need a 9" cake tin. You can find one online here.
Equipment
- 1 9" Cake tin
Ingredients
- 500 g Liver (approx. 1lb, a standard pack)
- 2 Eggs
- 200 g Wholemeal flour (200g = 7 ounces)
- Splash of milk
Instructions
- Add the liver, the eggs and a splash of milk to a jug.
- And blend it. It should look a bit like a smoothie once done.
- Transfer the mix to a large bowl and add 200g (7oz) of flour
- Mix ingredients until it’s a thick sticky goo. You can add a bit more flour if it’s not thick enough. But it should be fine.
- Grease a cake tin with a little butter.
- Empty your mix into cake tin, making sure it’s level.
- Put cake tin into the middle of a preheated oven at 160ºC (320ºF/Gas Mark 3) and cook for about 45 mins.
- Right, it should now be cooked. Yummy!
- It’s easier to cut while it’s still warm.
- Cut into squares and fridge. Freeze what you won’t use in a few days.
- If your dog is like mine, she will have watched you the entire time.
Just discovered your website and loving the recipes. About to try the liver cake and the banana bombs. For liver cake would like to substitute minced beef. Would it be 500g ?
Hi,
Yeah minced beef is fine and a pack roughly 400-500g will do, it’s quite a forgiving recipe. oh and try the sardine oatcakes before banana bombs
Can I add cooked mashed sweet potatoes?
Hi Kim, yes, you can try adding cooked mashed sweet potato! I’d try using about 100-150g of cooked, mashed sweet potato, added along with the flour. Because it adds moisture, you might need a tablespoon or two of extra flour to get the right consistency—a thick, spreadable paste. Let me know how it turns out!
Hi there everyone I’m so pleased I’ve found this website as I have a 17yr old papillon who suffers with pancreatitis and bladder stones so I have to be Uber careful with what I can give him, he is on a vet recommended diet but treat wise he’s left really quite disappointed. So we are going to give the low fat banana biscuits ago but just looking at some of the other things on here does anyone have experience of a similar diet situation to ours who can advise those things that are ok and those that are absolutely no no,s for example can he have liver etc.? I’ve looked a supplements for him now he’s a more mature gentleman but he’s extremely picky especially if they smell funky (exactly like his mother) plus we have limited teeth now too so our days of chewing rock hard stuff is long gone sadly so any advice or suggestions would be greatly welcomed. TIA x
Thanks for this recipe. My boys drooled like mad next to me during the preparation.
I baked this in mini muffin pans. The treats fit well in the palm of your hand for training and frozen mini muffins are awesome Kong stuffers…keeps my Vizslas entertained… for little while anyway!
Hi Sacha,
Can I ask…how long did you bake them in the mini muffin tins? We’re getting a new Newfoundland puppy on Sunday and these will be great for her training.
Thank you
About 30 mins
My Arwen never left my side as I made this and has just walked beautifully to heal with this as her reward, easy and excellent value for money high value reward treat for training and rewarding your pup’s!
Thanks, Judith, I’m really glad to hear that and glad it worked out so well.
I have been celebrating my dogs birthdays with this cake and use some mashed potato etc for frosting..and oh my do they love it!!!!! Thank you for such an easy and wonderful recipe.