Puppy Party Ideas

By Angela Sellari

As far back as I can remember, my niece Maddie has been a puppy fanatic. A couple of years ago we shared one of her many puppy parties here on the blog for which I made a 2-layer puppy themed birthday cake for her. It was a big hit with all the kids. The puppy madness continues around here and I would like to share with you a few of our latest Puppy Party Ideas.

Puppy Cupcakes

These Puppy Cupcakes turned out so cute and were surprisingly very simple to make. To keep it very simple, I made the chocolate cupcakes from a boxed mix and a container of chocolate frosting. Of course, you can use your favorite cake and frosting recipes to make these. Here’s what you’ll need to make puppy cupcakes:

Here’s What You’ll Need:
chocolate frosted cupcakes
Nutter Butter cookies, separated with filling scraped off
Nilla Wafer cookies
M&M’s
chocolate frosting
white frosting

After you have frosted your cupcakes with chocolate frosting, place a Nilla Wafer cookie on top of the cupcake, at one end. Using a small pastry tip or a sandwich bag with the end snipped off, and filled with chocolate frosting, draw on the puppy mouth. Use a dab of frosting to add an M&M nose.

Place one half of a Nutter Butter cookie on each side of the cupcake to form the ears.

Place some white frosting in a sandwich bag and snip the end off. Place 2 dots of frosting above the dog’s mouth to create the whites of the eyes. Place a brown M&M on top of the frosting for the dog’s pupils.

Classic Puppy Chow

You often see Puppy Chow recipes popping up around the holidays, but I thought it would be the perfect snack for a Puppy Party. There are many variations of this recipe, but I used a classic Puppy Chow recipe.

Ingredients:

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup margarine (1 stick)
9 cups Rice Chex Cereal
2 cups powdered sugar

Melt the chocolate chips, peanut butter and margarine together.

Place Chex cereal in a very large bowl with a tight fitting lid or into a double layered brown paper bag. Next, pour the melted chocolate mixture over the cereal. Place the lid on the bowl or fold the top of the bag down and shake/stir until all the cereal is coated. Allow to cool for 3 minutes.

Sprinkle powdered sugar over the cereal and shake well. Add more if needed and re-shake until all the cereal is coated in white.

Meet Lilly…

Every puppy party needs some 4-legged party guests in addition to the kids! Our other dog, Winston, only cared about eating his hat. Bad dog! I thought it best not to show that.

I hope you enjoyed this Puppy Paw-TY!