Birthday cupcakes for your dog - easy, healthy recipe
If you'd like to make your dog happy on its birthday, make it these delicious cupcakes. The recipe is easy, and the ingredients are healthy. Your dog will love these cupcakes, and love you for making them!
Ingredients
- 90 gr wholemeal flour or gluten free
- 30 gr oats
- 90 gr carrot grated
- 30 ml honey
- 25 ml apple sauce
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp vegetable oil
- 60 ml water
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180 deg C /gas mark 4
- Combine the flour and oats in a mixing bowl
- Finely grate the carrots - the easiest and fastest way to do this is in a food processor.
- In a separate bowl, mix together the carrots, honey, apple sauce, egg and oil.
- Fold the dry ingredients into the wet. You will need to add some water to make the dough workable. I have found that the exact amount of water required varies according to how fine your oatmeal is. You want to end up with a cake dough-like consistency..
- Pour the dough into cupcake moulds. This recipe makes 5 cupcakes. I always use silicone moulds since it is so easy to pop the cupcakes out once they're cooked. DON'T use paper cupcake liners for these cupcakes - you don't want your puppy eating paper!
- Bake for 20 minutes
- Your dog will love these cupcakes as they are, but If you want to decorate them, try adding some cream and fruit as a topping (I used squirty cream and blueberries here). Or you could add a blob of unsweetened apple sauce.
- Store the cakes in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week (yeah, right, like they're going to last that long with Fido around...)
Notes
If you don't have wholemeal flour available, plain flour will work just fine. If your dog has a gluten allergy, use gluten free flour instead of wholemeal.
The carrots could be replaced with another veggy option, for instance, squash or sweet potato.
This recipe makes 5 cupcakes.