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Ooh, maybe not willy out.
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Today on the Edgy Veg I'm going to show you
how to make a birthday cake for your dog.
A pupcake?
That's more if it's a cupcake.
A birthday cake for your dog's paw-ty.
(laughter)
(bright music)
Yup, I'm one of those people.
James and I decided to throw a birthday party
for our two rescues, Harley and Winston,
because it's the first year that we had them.
Obviously we don't know when their actual birthday is,
but we just used the anniversary of their adoption.
So they are three this year.
Roughly, according to the adoption agency.
So this is a vegan, gluten free, carrot and pumpkin cake.
Because your dog, just like our dogs, deserve the best.
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It's so over the top.
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For our dog birthday party, I just ordered some
make your own decorations on Amazon, it was $20.
I'll leave a link in the description box below.
We got some streamers, and some tassels,
and a happy birthday sign.
And it, I don't know, it took me like an hour
to put all of that together.
And then we had cake for the dogs
and we had a cake for the humans.
The key to any great, successful birthday party,
especially a dog birthday party,
is drinks for all of the humans.
We made pink lemonade pupparitas, they're like margaritas,
but we stuck pup in the beginning of it.
Yup.
We invited all of our friends with dogs and friends
without dogs but that love dogs.
And it does help if you get dogs that you already know
are going to get along, so there aren't any fights
at your birthday party, because we don't want
any tears at this party.
We also don't want dogs mauling each other.
So, we kinda opted to have dogs of all similar size.
Except for our neighbor's dog, which is a huge
English Mastiff named Penny, she's just super docile
and loves smaller dogs.
This dog birthday cake is a pumpkin and carrot cake.
Dogs actually have a hard time digesting wheat.
Once in a while it's fine, but I was a bit concerned
about the other dogs there and I didn't know
what everybody's dietary dog restrictions were.
Or, dog dietary restrictions.
How do I say that in a way that doesn't sound
like we're eating the dogs?
Dog's dietary restrictions.
So, I opted for oat flour and brown rice flour,
so it's completely gluten free
and easy to digest on their tummy.
And actually high in protein as well.
The first step to our dog cake is mixing together
all of the dry ingredients.
So, I'm using one cup of oat flour,
one cup of brown rice flour,
one and a half teaspoons of baking soda,
one tablespoon of baking powder,
and half a teaspoon of cinnamon.
You're gonna mix that all together and set the bowl aside.
In a stand mixer or a large bowl,
we're now going to add all of our wet ingredients.
I'm going to add two tablespoons of flax seed
mixed with six tablespoons of water.
And I just let that sit on the counter
for about five minutes.
And then we are going to add two tablespoons
of either agave or maple syrup.
I like to use a natural sugar here,
we don't want a bunch of sugar in a cake for a dog.
The maple syrup or agave along with the sweetness
of the carrot and the pumpkin is enough sweetness for a dog.
They're not looking for a human style cupcake.
Along with two thirds of a cup of shredded or grated carrot,
which is about one carrot.
And half a cup of pumpkin puree,
half a cup of apple sauce,
and half a cup of peanut butter.
Now we're gonna add half a cup of almond milk,
and we'll mix that all together.
Now that we have our wet and our dry ingredients,
we are slowly going to add the dry ingredients
to the wet ingredients,
and mix it along the way until it's smooth.
I've decided to make this a smaller cake,
so I'm using a six inch cake pan.
I'm going to grease that with some vegan butter
or coconut oil, it's really up to you.
And then, we are going to line it with some parchment paper.
The easiest way I found to line cake tins
with parchment paper is just to use the bottom
of your spring form pan and just use a Sharpie or a pen
and just outline it.
That way you can just cut it out
and pop it in the bottom of your pan.
And we're gonna do the same thing
with the side of the cake pan.
Again, just take the cake pan, measure the parchment
around it, cut it to size, and just fit into the pan.
Now we're going to take our batter and scoop it
into the pan and put it into the oven at 350
for 60 to 80 minutes.
Start checking it at 60 minutes with a toothpick
or chopsticks if you have that.
And if it comes out clean, take it out of the oven.
If it doesn't, just keep it in and monitor it
in 10 minute intervals until the toothpick comes out clean.
We're doing this slow and steady because it is a gluten free
cake and they do tend to crumble and fall apart.
But it's for your dog, so they don't really care
about the texture, do they?
Unless you have a really, really high end picky dog.
Then, I can't help you.
Alright, while the cake is cooking, we are going to whip up
a coconut yogurt and peanut butter frosting.
In the bowl of your stand mixer, or just a large bowl
with a hand beater, we are going to mix together
one cup of coconut yogurt,
half a cup of peanut butter.
Again, I use natural, unsweetened peanut butter,
my dogs love it.
As well as a quarter cup of corn starch,
and this is what's going to make it look like an icing
and kind of keep it firm and keep it in place.
Usually when you make a human cake you use icing sugar
for this, but again, we don't want the dogs eating sugar,
so we're going to use corn starch instead.
Now just beat that together until it's soft and creamy
and stick it into your fridge until you're ready
to ice the cake.
Then take the cake out of the oven
and let it sit in the pan for 15 minutes.
You can let it just cool in the pan if you want,
or after 10 to 15 minutes you can just take
the spring form off the side of the pan and just let it
sit on a cooling rack until it's completely cooled.
When your cake is completely cooled, we can frost it.
Now, you can do this one of two ways.
You can just take the cake as it is and frost the entire
outside of the cake, or you can get super fancy
and cut it in half and then frost the inside.
I'm going to flip the cake upside down
so it's a bit straight along the top,
and then just frost the entire thing.
The more frosting the better, dogs love this frosting.
Alright, now you can just serve the cake as it is.
I've decided to put some treats in the center at the top
and some candles to celebrate their third birthday, yay.
But you can decorate it with anything that's dog friendly.
I mean, if you're as terrible at decorating with icing
as I am, you can just line it with, I don't know like
milkbones or whatever treats you're giving your dogs.
I found that just the simpler the better.
They're a dog at the end of the day, they're gonna eat it
whether it's pretty or whether it's ugly, who cares?
Alright, there you have it,
a birthday cake fit for your dog.
Let's see if they like it.
♪ Happy Birthday to you, ♪
♪ Happy birthday dear Harley and Winston, ♪
♪ Jack, and Penny, and all the dogs, ♪
♪ Happy birthday to you. ♪
- Will you sneeze on this cake?
(cheers)
(bright music)
I think these guys had so much fun at their birthday party.
I think they loved their birthday cake,
and I know that your dog's going to love it as well.
What did you think, hmm?
He never really has much to say.
If you don't know that James and I are nuts
and take things too far on a regular basis, now you know.
'Cause this extravagant birthday party for our dogs,
I guess it's the first and last time I'm going to do that.
We got some pretty funny looks from our friends
about how over the top it was.
Alright guys, I wanna know what kind
of crazy stuff you do for your dog.
Have you thrown your dog a birthday party?
Do you buy it crazy outfits on Halloween?
Do you buy it crazy outfits just on a regular basis?
I really wanna, you know, make sure
that I'm not the only crazy dog person out there.
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