Yesterday, March 4, was my birthday! I am one year old now!! We were going to throw a party, but we decided to keep with just a small group of my friends. I invited Dexter and Duke over, and of course my brother and sister, Harley and Sandy, were there too. I had a lot of fun playing outside with them all afternoon.
This is me and my big sister, Sandy, waiting for my friends to come over!
Here I am all dressed up!
Here Duke was celebrating with me! Him and I were the only ones who didn't try to take our hats off. Well actually, with the exception of Dexter, who just wouldn't keep his hat on to save his life, everyone else was wearing party hats. But then I decided since it was my birthday I wanted to be the only one wearing a hat, so I took matters into my own paws, and took everyone else's hats off of them.
This is the birthday cake mom made me. It was so good! I'll make her share the recipe at the end of my post so that you can talk your mom into making it for you too!
Yum! This is me and my friends eating my cake!
From left: Me, Dexter, Harley, Duke, and Sandy.
Licking my plate! So good!
And finally I got to open my presents. Harley felt the need to help me, so I let him.
So overall, my birthday was great! I finally got the toy I've been wanting forever! It's a big stuffed fish! His body squeeks and his fins crinkle! Every time we would go into the pet store I'd play with it, but mom never bought it for me because she said it was way too "over-priced". Mom also got me a 6-foot rope toy, a squeeky fox, and a new kitty toy (yes, a cat toy. I love them, they are so much fun the chase and jump around with). She got me some bones too, like a huge pig ear!
Here is how we made my birthday cake:
1 cup white or whole wheat flour (we used organic)
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup peanut butter (we probably used more than that. What can I say? I love peanut butter!)
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 cup shredded carrots
1 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup honey
1 egg
Mom and I doubled this to make a cake big enough for all my guests. This recipe is meant for a little cake, because dogs aren't supposed to eat as much cake as humans are.
You need to heat the oven to 350°F.
Then you mix together all the ingredients and pour it into a greased cake pan. Mom and I used an 8" round cake pan.
Then we baked it for about 35 minutes.
Once the cake was cooled we put it onto a plate and frosted it. Since human cake frosting is really bad for dogs, mom puree'd a tub of low fat cottage cheese and we used that. It was really yummy, and mom said it worked as a frosting surprisingly well. Mom decorated my cake with some soft Milk bones.
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