The 6 Best Dog Cake Mixes of 2023

Best Overall

Pooch Cake Cake Mix (Peanut Butter)

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Pooch Cake Cake Mix uses minimal ingredients—the wheat-free peanut butter version includes white rice flour, sugar, peanuts, baking powder, and salt, with a frosting made of tapioca starch, yogurt, and olive oil—to create a cake that's fully safe for your dog to eat. Plus, it's surprisingly high in protein.

To make Pooch Cake, all you'll need is 2/3 cup water, 2 tablespoons oil, and a single egg. The instructions are straightforward, letting you bake a cake in about half an hour. Or you can use the microwave for a doggy birthday cake ready in less than five minutes. The only tricky part is the mixing, which can be done by hand but would be much more efficient with a mixer.

Pooch Cake Cake Mix is also versatile since you can opt to make either eight dog-friendly cupcakes, or a single 6-inch, double-layer cake. While suitable for any breed of dog, Pooch Cake suggests serving sizes based on your dog's weight.

Pooch Cake offers three different flavors—banana, pumpkin-spice, and peanut butter—with two also available in wheat-free versions. Pooch Cake also offers a starter kit that includes a box of cake mix, a carton of dog-friendly ice cream, and a bone-shaped silicone mold.

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Best Flavors

Puppy Cake Cake Mix for Dogs (Birthday Cake with Sprinkles)

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Puppy Cake is very similar to Pooch Cake, with similar ingredients, directions, and serving sizes. But what it offers over other dog cake mixes is a wide variety of flavors, including banana, carob, peanut butter, pumpkin, red velvet, and a birthday cake with sprinkles. Puppy Cake also offers ice cream, cupcakes, and even doggy party supplies.

You may have seen Puppy Cake on Shark Tank, where it was the butt of jokes from incredulous sharks who didn't believe anyone would want to bake a cake for their dog. Of course, people love celebrating their dogs, and specialized cake mix has become one way to give them something they'll love on a memorable day.

_{Flavor(s): Banana, carob, peanut butter, pumpkin, red velvet, vanilla-sprinkle︱Servings Per Package: 6-inch cake︱Additional Ingredients: egg, water, vegetable oil}

Best Egg-Free

The Lazy Dog Cookie Co. Bake-at-Home Vanilla Birthday Cake Mix

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Unlike our top two picks, the Bake-At-Home Vanilla Birthday Cake Mix from The Lazy Dog Cookie Co. doesn't call for the addition of an egg. Plus, the Bake-At-Home Birthday Cake Mix is wheat-, soy-, and corn-free. Instead, it uses ingredients like oats, vanilla, and flaxseed, while the yogurt frosting uses molasses for sweetening.

While The Lazy Dog Cookie Co.'s cake mix uses fewer additional ingredients and has similar baking instructions to our other picks, it does not come packaged with microwave instructions.

_{Flavor(s): Vanilla︱Servings Per Package: 8-inch cake︱Additional Ingredients: Water, olive oil}

Best Wheat-Free

Whisk & Wag Dog Treat Mix

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Whisk & Wag Dog Treat Mix makes treats instead of a single cake, but the wheat-free dough results in a toothsome dessert, with a result that seemed closer to miniature cakes than cookies to us. This dog treat mix uses a combination of oat flour and canola meal instead of wheat, soy, or corn. Apple powder and cinnamon provide flavor, while the addition of brewer's yeast aids in digestion.

The mix makes a dough that does have to be rolled out, but the advantage is that you won’t need a mold to make your dog mini cakes with this mix. Plus, you only need to add water and oil to the dough. Still, it's a little more complicated than other dog cake mixes we've recommended, making it a better pick for more experienced bakers.

Whisk & Wag Dog Treat Mix is available in the Apple & Cinnamon flavor and a Honey & Oats variety. Each container of mix makes 25 treats.

_{Flavor(s): Honey & oats; apple & cinnamon︱Servings Per Package: 25 treats︱Additional Ingredients: Water, oil}

Best Splurge

Bark Bistro Company Pooch Pancakes (Pumpkin Flavor)

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Why not skip the traditional frosted cake and make your dog some birthday pancakes instead? (We don’t think it’s cheating—pancakes have the word “cake" in them, after all). With only four ingredients (and zero preservatives), these mixes are all-natural, safe, and come in five dog-friendly flavors. Plus, since you’re making pancakes, the cakes are foldable, so you can wrap them around pills—a handy trick that your pup won’t even mind when it comes time for medicine. Best of all: You only need water to bake these pancakes.

_{Flavor(s): Pumpkin, banana, apple, berry, bacon︱Servings Per Package: Not listed︱Additional Ingredients: Water}