Peanut Butter & Banana PupCakes

Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from the grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we are the greatest hunters on earth!

-Anne Tyler

Ya’ll, my oldest puppy Miller turned FOUR almost 1 year ago! What! I feel like yesterday he was sitting in my lap shaking as I brought him home. He is now my 60 pound monster that won’t go to bed at night until I give him head rubs and is staring at me every morning waiting for me to wake up.

Every year for my dogs birthday it is a huge celebration. They are normally allowed “human food” once a year on their birthday & they love it. Because Miller has to share my love with Charlie 364 days of the year, I decided to go big for this birthday and make him pupcakes.

What I love about this recipe is every ingredient is found in the average household & is both dog and human friendly to eat.

To make Miller feel special I used majority of the recipe to make him a 3 layer mini pupcake & made Charlie a few pupcakes so he could celebrate with us. Dogs & peanut butter go hand in hand so naturally they licked every crumb up that they could find.

How to make these simple but perfect for your furry friend PupCakes:

To begin, you will first make your “cake” and that starts by preheating your oven to 350 degrees.

Next, grab a large bowl and add your egg, peanut butter, honey, vanilla & coconut oil. Mix them until they are combined.

Pupcakes Baking Tip: The main “tip” I have for making your cakes is to mix the wet ingredients first then incorporate the dry ingredients in so the batter will be smooth. (Mine was a little lumpy because I did not mash the bananas out completely I left a few chunks in there.)

Next, add in your mashed banana. Stir to combine before adding in your flour and baking soda.

Combine all ingredients until a thick batter is created.

When your batter is ready, spray down your pupcake molds (or grab cupcake liners) and add an even amount of mixture to each mold.

Place your pupcakes into the oven & bake for 20-25 minutes.

Now it is time to make the frosting for your PupCakes:

To do this, grab a small bowl and add greek yogurt & peanut butter. Mix well until a thick frosting is created.

Frosting Fact: The frosting for the pupcakes was definitely a dog favorite (I tried it…definitely not a human favorite…way too bitter for me!).  If I had been making it for myself I would have swapped out the yogurt for cream cheese to help with the flavor but the dogs loved it!

When your PupCakes are completely cooked, remove them from the oven and place them on a cooling rack.

After they have had time to cool (5 minutes or so). Remove them from their cake molds & spread a thick layer of frosting between each layer. Top with more frosting & a dog bone for effect!

Serve to your pup and watch them enjoy!

The ever stoic birthday boy with his cake.

And here is Miller clearly loving life.

He got 10 uninterrupted minutes to eat as much of the cake as he wanted before we shared with brother & he was in dog heaven!

Happy 4th Birthday Mill-man! You have brought nothing but love to my life since the day I picked you up to come home with me. Thanks for being my best buddy, my protector & the best cuddler I know.

Dogs give us unconditional love so any chance we get to celebrate them we need to take the chance. Hopefully your dogs will love these peanut butter & banana pupcakes as much as mine did!

ENJOY!