Puppy Cakes!

So confession time: we're the kind of people who treat pets kind of like children. Particularly the chihuahuas. They have wardrobes. They have shoes. They have coats. They get birthday parties, complete with cakes made specially with them in mind - people cakes that have ingredients the pups like (cheese, carrots, apples, etc.) Yes, we are slightly insane.

When Claire turned one, she got a lovely carrot cake.



It has a cream cheese icing and decorated with marzipan carrots and dog bones which were hand sculpted. The bones were also dusted with gold colored pearl dust. I also subbed apple sauce for half the oil, cut the sugar by 1/2 cup, and omitted the raisins.

While the people enjoyed the cake, Claire thought we had all lost our minds:



(Admittedly, we probably had.)