Canonical: https://coopersdogtreats.com/blogs/news/puppy-cake-vs-coopers-treats # Puppy Cake vs Cooper's Treats: Cake Mix or Frozen Treat Mix? - **By:** Alex Willen - **Published:** 2026-08-21 **TL;DR:** Puppy Cake makes dry cake mixes, add egg, oil, and water, then bake, built for a dog's birthday or a "cake" moment, complete with a Pupfetti version and frosting. Cooper's doesn't sell a cake mix. What we've got instead is a Baked Biscuit Mix for everyday oven-baked treats, and a Pupsicle Mix for everyday frozen treats, neither with added sugar. Puppy Cake wins the actual birthday-cake job outright. For everything outside a once-a-year celebration, ours are built for regular use instead. Here's the full comparison, including where the two can share a shelf. Puppy Cake and Cooper's Treats get compared a lot, mostly because both sell "just add something and finish it yourself" mixes for dogs. But they're not actually built for the same moment. Puppy Cake is a cake company. We're a training-and-frozen-treat company. The overlap is smaller than people assume, and the honest comparison is more useful than a straight ingredient fight. ## What Puppy Cake Makes Puppy Cake sells dry cake mixes you finish with egg, oil, and water, then bake. The lineup includes Peanut Butter (wheat-free, $7.49), Pumpkin (wheat-free, $7.49), Banana ($7.49), and a Birthday Cake mix with "Pupfetti" ($8.49). The Peanut Butter mix lists rice flour, cane sugar, peanut flour, baking powder, and salt, with a separate icing mix of tapioca starch, unflavored yogurt powder, and olive oil. Puppy Cake's own site doesn't publish a bag size for these mixes. A few retailers list the Peanut Butter mix around 9 oz, which would put it near $0.83 per ounce, but we couldn't confirm that size against the official listing, so treat it as an estimate. The brand also sells single-serve "Cuppy Cake" mixes ($7.99 to $8.99, meant for the microwave) and full Birthday Cake Kits with mix, icing, and a candle ($14.99 to $15.99). ## What Cooper's Makes Instead We don't have a cake mix. What we have covers the other 364 days: - **Baked Biscuit Mix** ($12.49, Beef & Cheddar or Turkey & Cinnamon), an oven-baked mix. Roll it out, cut it into shapes, and bake. Same mix-it-and-bake method as Puppy Cake, just built as a biscuit instead of a cake. - **Pupsicle Mix** ($12.49 to $13.49 depending on flavor), a freeze-dried mix you add water to and freeze in a mold instead of baking. About 20 calories per treat. Nothing stops you from baking a Baked Biscuit Mix into one large round instead of individual biscuits for a cake-like effect, and topping it with plain yogurt in place of frosting. It won't have Puppy Cake's Pupfetti sprinkle or an actual icing layer, but it gets you a baked, dog-safe "cake" out of a product built for daily biscuits. Both of our mix lines also come as starter kits if you want everything in one box. The Pupsicle Starter Kit is two jars of mix plus a paw-and-bone mold for about 50 treats ($29.99, or $32.99 grain-free for about 75 treats), and the Baked Biscuit Starter Kit is $29.99. Kits ship free within the US in 2 to 5 business days. If you want to go bigger for an actual party, we also sell a $59.99 Doggie Deluxe Box as a larger celebration bundle. ## Ingredients Side by Side We haven't published a full ingredient panel for the Baked Biscuit Mix's exact formula, so we won't guess at a side-by-side there. What we can compare cleanly is Puppy Cake against our Pupsicle line, since both have verified ingredient lists. Puppy Cake's Peanut Butter mix: rice flour, cane sugar, peanut flour, baking powder, salt. Cane sugar is the second ingredient, which fits a cake, sugar is part of what makes it taste like one. Our Chicken & Sweet Potato Pupsicle Mix: freeze dried chicken, whole wheat flour, sweet potato powder, whole egg protein. No added sugar in any Pupsicle Mix flavor, and none in the Baked Biscuit line either. The pattern holds across our whole catalog: nothing we sell has added sugar, added salt beyond what naturally occurs, artificial color, or artificial flavor. Puppy Cake's cake mixes are built to taste like dessert, so sugar is a deliberate ingredient there, not an oversight. ## Price and Batch Math Puppy Cake runs $7.49 to $8.49 per mix. Without a confirmed bag size or a published serving count, we can't give you a clean price-per-treat for it, and we'd rather say that plainly than make up a number. Our Baked Biscuit Mix is $12.49, and we haven't published a serving yield for it either, so the same caveat applies on our side. Where the math does work cleanly is our Pupsicle Mix: a 4.3 oz jar makes about 25 treats at roughly 20 calories each, for about $0.50 per treat. If you're weighing an occasional $7.49 cake against an everyday treat mix, that $0.50-per-treat figure is the more useful number, since it's the one built for repeat use. ## Occasion Fit This is really the whole comparison. Puppy Cake is built for a specific moment: a birthday, a gotcha day, a party where a cake-shaped centerpiece matters. Cane sugar, icing, and Pupfetti sprinkles aren't a knock on the product, they're the point of a cake. Our mixes are built for the other 364 days. No added sugar, because they're meant to be given often, not once a year. Baked Biscuit Mix for training and everyday rewards, Pupsicle Mix for a frozen treat in regular rotation. Where they overlap: nothing says you can't bake a Baked Biscuit round for a birthday, or hand out a Puppy Cake cupcake occasionally outside of a party. The products aren't in conflict, they're just built for different frequencies. ## What This Actually Looks Like at Home If you're the kind of dog owner who marks the calendar for a birthday or a gotcha day, a dedicated cake mix with icing and sprinkles is worth having on hand once or twice a year, that's the whole appeal of Puppy Cake, and it does that job well. If you're baking treats most weekends, whether for training, a lick mat, or just because your dog is staring at you, a mix without added sugar is the one you want in daily rotation. Plenty of households end up with both. A cake mix in the pantry for the occasional celebration, a biscuit mix and a frozen mix for the other 51 weeks of the year. Nothing about picking one means giving up the other. ## Buy Puppy Cake If... - You're planning an actual dog birthday party and want a cake-shaped centerpiece, icing included. - You want the Pupfetti novelty or a ready-made candle kit. - You're fine with cane sugar as an ingredient for a once-in-a-while treat. - You want a single-serve microwave option for a quick individual treat. ## Buy Cooper's Treats If... - You want a mix built for regular, not occasional, use. - You'd rather skip added sugar across the board. - You want both a baked option and a frozen option from the same shelf. - You still want a birthday-worthy result, just baked into a larger round instead of bought as a dedicated cake mix. If a dog birthday is what brought you here, our [birthday cake guide](https://coopersdogtreats.com/blogs/news/dog-birthday-cake-because-your-pup-deserves-one-too) and [birthday treat ideas](https://coopersdogtreats.com/blogs/news/dog-birthday-treats) cover the DIY route, including how we'd bake our own [Baked Biscuit Mix](https://coopersdogtreats.com/products/baked-biscuit-starter-kit) into a cake-shaped round with [bone-shaped cutters](https://coopersdogtreats.com/products/set-of-3-bone-shaped-cookie-cutters). For the other 364 days, our [Pupsicle Starter Kit](https://coopersdogtreats.com/products/pupsicle-starter-kit) is the everyday pick. *However you celebrate, the birthday splurge still counts toward the day's calories. A little extra room on a birthday is fine, but skip the sugar-heavy option entirely for dogs with diabetes or weight concerns, and check with your vet first.*