Pupcake recipe for dogs

by Jamie Shanks | Nov 6, 2011

Last Updated: August 27, 2025

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Liver cupcake recipe for dogs

I was seeing a new client today, so afterward I nipped into Morrisons to get some shopping and for fun, I bought the ingredients for liver cake.  I’d been thinking about trying to cook the liver cake in a cupcake tray rather than a big cake.  So I bought a cupcake tray for £1 and thought I may as well blog my attempt to make … liver pupcakes!  Oh and just for fun I bought some cream cheese to use as frosting.  These are great and make great treats, gifts and cakes to sell at fairs etc.  We’re gonna be using a little, tiny bit of garlic too – an article about dogs and garlic.

Let’s do this!

Ingredients

Ingredients: 500g (1lb) of liver, 200g (7oz) of wholemeal flour, 2 eggs, clove of garlic, splash of milk & cream cheese (if you want frosting).

Method

pupcake ingredients

Put 500g (1lb) of liver in a jug with 2 eggs, 1 garlic clove (or ½ tsp lazy garlic) and a splash of milk.

blended liver cake mix

Blend.

mixing bowl with liver cake mix and flour

Empty liver cake mix into a bowl and add 200g (7oz) of wholmeal flour.

mixed pupcake batter

Mix.

adding pupcake batter to cupcake tray

Add your pupcake batter to a cupcake/muffin tray.

muffin tray in oven

Place tray in a preheated oven at 170c (Gas mark 4) for around 30 mins.

cooked pupcakes in tray

That’s them cooked – they look great! Leave to cool.

pupcakes on paper napkin

Pupcakes done!

Frosting

adding frosting to doggy cupcakes

If you want, you can add cream cheese as frosting.

pupckaes with cream cheese frosting

Wow, these look surprisingly good.

pupcakes in a cake box

Would make a lovely gift or something you could sell at a fair.

dog watching me make pupcakes

Flo wants one!

dog eating pupcake

Ruby loves them!

How to store

As a general guide if meat protein is present in recipe then it will last around 3 to 5 days stored in a cool place.  If it has second class protein in it eg. cheese, lentils, eggs, etc, then they will store for about 10 days in a cool place. If there is no meat or second class proteins present then it will last around 3 weeks before they go soft like human biscuits.

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By Jamie Shanks

BDWS is owned and run by me, Jamie Shanks. I’ve been a professional dog walker since 2010. When I’m not walking dogs, I’m usually at home entertaining my three dogs and attending to five hens and my vegetable garden. 

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