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.
Hi, I regularly make these treats for my 9 year old dog, she loves them. I’m trying to get her to lose some weight, is there anyway of making them less fattening? Do you know how many calories per 100g?
this is terrific 🙂 I’ve made a similar liver “cake” and added bacon to make it even more tasty. I also use half liver and half lambs fry cos the smell of the liver nearly kills me when I make it LOL cream cheese and grated carrot can look good as “icing” too…. remember it’s just a treat though ^..^
Thank you for this recipe! Just cooked up a huge batch ready for a fundraiser for rescued English bulldogs!
I think they might just love it, based on my own dogs reactions!
Also doing the peanut butter biscuits!
Thanks Leesha! Good luck with the fundraiser!
Do you think it would work with a sub for the strong wheat flour? For the family members who shouldn’t eat grains? I am thinking of Potato flour as I don’t like rice flour due the recent news about the problems with rice?
Hi, WestieMom. I’ve never tried it without wholemeal. You could try potato flour, chickpea flour or soy flour and let me know how you get on!
Hi Jamie
I work in a slaughter house , i can get liver easerly does it all mix the same ?
Hi Howard!
Yeah, any liver whether mixed with others or not is fine.
Hi jamie forgot to ask is this low fat as i dont give my dog anything fatty dint want him to fet fat its cruel i think many thanks again
Kind regards
Sharon
Hi Sharon. It’s not gonna make your dog fat but just remember it’s just a treat but a great treat for getting your dogs attention. Liver is relatively low in calories and fat and high in proteins, vitamins and minerals. Good luck!
Hi Jamie many many thanks for this I have a border collie who doesn’t do anything I say he’s manic but I lad I know has this and my dog obeys him like a god now I can be the goddess for a change and hopefully train the little monkey i’ll make some and let you know thanks again really appreciate it.
Made this today with chicken livers, also brown rice flour and oats, worked a treat and went down even better!
That sounds great Nikki! I’ve used chicken livers in dog food but never in liver cake!
Fab recipe. ive made endless batches of it and my dog loves it! Also give to friends dogs and even raised some money with it for doggie charities, you cant lose as dogs just love it!