Making Frostings & Icings
Making frostings and icings for dog birthday cakes is not very much different from making the dog birthday cakes themselves. You need to make sure that you are using ingredients that won’t harm your dog. That means (for instance) NO chocolate, and try to limit the amount of refined sugar that you use. Dogs are subject to diabetes and pancreatitis, just as humans are, so they don’t need to have excessive amounts of sugar and fat in their diet or an enormous meal with unhealthy ingredients.
Fortunately, most cakes for dogs can be made with frostings and icings that are healthy. Frostings for dog cakes can be made from such things as yogurt, melted carob, mashed bananas, cream cheese or cottage cheese.
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You can spread yogurt, cream cheese or cottage cheese on a cake. You may wish to puree cottage cheese for a finer consistency. Melted carob can be drizzled on many cakes for dogs.
Mashed bananas works well in dog cake recipes like this one:
Banana & Mock-Choc Frosting:
• 2 cup mashed banana
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 6 tablespoon powdered carob
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 3 tablespoon unbleached flour
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Blend thoroughly and spread on cooled cake.
Cinnamon and vanilla are fine to use as flavorings in dog cake recipes. Bananas make great treats for dogs. Especially frozen bananas on a hot summer day.
It’s up to you how you want to use the frosting and icing. You may want to spread it on thinly or, in the case of bananas, you could use them for decoration and places slices around the top of the cake. You could place a layer of cream cheese on the cake and lay banana slices on top. And so on. It’s fine to be as creative as you like when working with dog cake recipes as long as you are using ingredients that are healthy for dogs.
Birthday cakes for dogs always benefit from these frostings and icings, especially if you wish to enhance them a little with some safe food coloring. There’s no reason why all of your dog cakes have to be white or natural-colored. You can add some food coloring and make cakes for dogs that are bright and bold.
Remember that, as with human cakes, frosting for dog cakes (including dog birthday cakes) sometimes handles better when it has been allowed to cool in the refrigerator for a while. It shouldn’t be either too warm or too cold when you’re trying to put it on the cake. If you’re baking the cake then the cake should be thoroughly cooled before you attempt to do any decorating. Put the decorated cake bake in the fridge to let it “set” before you serve it. You may be making birthday cakes for dogs for a group of wild puppies but you still want it to look nice.
That’s really all there is to it. Frosting and icing are an important part of making cakes for dogs into something really special for your dog. They are, literally, the icing on the cake. Your dog will love them.
