Verified pet bakeries baking dog-safe birthday cakes, pupcakes, pup cups and cat-safe cat birthday treats — nearest-first once you share your location.
Every bakery on this page has been contacted directly and confirmed that it bakes dog-safe or cat-safe treats — no chocolate, no xylitol, no raisins. Unverified and scraped listings never appear here.
Chicago has a real dog-bakery scene — neighborhood bakers making carob-frosted layer cakes, pupcakes and peanut-butter biscuits to order. Every bakery listed on this page has been contacted directly and confirmed that it bakes dog-safe cakes; most take custom orders with two to five days' notice.
A pup cup is a small cup of dog-safe whipped topping or frozen treat handed out free or for a couple of dollars at coffee shops, ice cream counters and pet cafés. It is a snack, not a meal — one small cup is plenty for most dogs, and dogs who are lactose intolerant should skip dairy versions.
Usually not. Dog cakes lean on peanut butter, carob, banana and oat flour, which cats digest poorly and rarely enjoy. Several bakeries here bake a separate cat birthday treat — normally a small salmon, tuna or chicken cake. Ask for the cat version rather than sizing down a dog cake.
Use the 🐱 Cat treats filter on this page to see only bakeries we have verified as making cat-safe treats. A real cat birthday cake is built on salmon, tuna, chicken or plain pumpkin with a whipped-fish or goat-milk topping — it is not a sized-down dog cake, because peanut butter, carob, chocolate, xylitol and heavy oat flour do not belong in a cat's diet. Verified cat-safe bakers will tell you the exact ingredients and usually bake to order with a few days' notice; if a bakery cannot name a cat recipe, ask for a plain freeze-dried salmon or chicken topper instead.
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