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.
Made one which uses the microwave am going to try your version what temperature do you have the oven.
Can this be given to my frenchie who is raw fed, but refuses to eat raw liver?
Yeah it can. My dogs wont eat raw liver either but love it cooked. I’d start with just a little bit of liver cake and see how he gets on. Lovely dog btw 🙂
I’ve created a nightmare. He’s never stopped barking or jumping up my kitchen cabinets to get to his treats. Trouble is I can’t afford to give him anymore as he’s had 6 x 1 inch squares! I took a video which is hilarious. Thanks for this recipe. I used whoemeal flour which I bought for another dog recipe and never got around to using. I only made a third of the recipe and I cooked for one hour in a 12 inch square pan and I have about 100 3/4 inch treats. Thank you so much. I think! Can’t stand the barking for more though….
How long will a batch stay fresh for if refrigerated?
I believe the reason you shouldn’t give too much of it to dogs is that it is a good source of vitamin A, which is good in low doses but toxic if you have too much of it.
Brilliant my dogs are in love!, yum yum for liver cake ???
Thanks Maria. Glad your pups like it.
My 4 Rescues fur babies LOVE the Liver Cake, made 3 so far, so successful , bagged up and froze for when we need em, I do add, grated carrot and oats too, make it all at once as have a large bowel and electric blender, brilliant getting it all done in one go, many thanks indeed, …. appreciate recipes as a pensioner it helps with the pennies.
Does it matter what type of liver is used?
no, any type is fine
Hi my cockerpoo will do anything for liver cake! Like a drug for him! Other biscuits are just not the same. Someone told me though that you shouldn’t give them too much of it for health reasons – have you heard of this?
Liver is a natural laxative so maybe that’s what they meant. Not too much at a time or poss a runny botty.
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