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.
How much tuna would you use if you replace tuna instead of liver. …really gonna try this as my pup really took notice of the trainers liver cake and did anything he asked her, but ignored me lol
Can you use rice flour instead?
This recipe is excellent! Made it this morning and it came out perfectly he he!! At dog training class last Saturday they suggested we make homemade liver treats so I googled and hey presto I’ve made these. Whiskey loves them, he was interested in me making them and smelled them cooking and could hardly wait to try them. He had to do a ‘sit stay’ first tho lol. Thanks Jamie for the recipe! Have cut them into weanie pieces for training and a few larger squares for a game we play around the house where I hide treats and he has to find them and have frozen the rest in batches. Definitely a keeper.
Love this recipe, I’ve made it many times and freeze it for training treats.
Be careful if you use an electric mixer. Make sure the stringy/Sinew on the liver is cut up or removed. I’ve twice nearly burnt out the motor on mine. ? It gets trapped on theblades.
Thanks Jamie, my Paddy The Laddy and visiting dogs love it and it’s so cheap too.
Trish x
OMG no sooner had the food processor come out of the cupboard and the fridge yielded it’s bounty of liver, did my two spoilt spaniels come charging in from the garden. Looking at the baking tray with mournful eyes and rumbling tums I felt guilty and let them lick the spatula! Fab recipe and I shall certainly be trying some of the others. Thank you Thank you Thank you!
thanks for the recipe. love the last photo!
Thanks Tim
Did you guys use plain or self raising flour? Tia x
Plain. But I know self raising works too.
what is the weight of this cake?
Met a fellow dog walker who’d used this recipe & I decided to give it a go today. Not keen on the texture of liver but overcame my dislike and persevered. Followed the very clear instructions despite not being the best cook in the world & despite causing havoc in my kitchen everything went to plan. I actually found the aroma rather pleasant & not at all overpowering . The result was perfect & felt incredibly proud that I’d made it. Our two yorkiepoo’s were very impressed with their mum’s masterpiece? & enjoyed a square each broken down into small pieces once cooled down. I’ve frozen 4 bags which will keep them happy for months. Many thanks for great receive.???