If you’re like me you’ll think that your littlest mate deserves some fanfare on their big day. And if you’re not like me, I don’t mean to guilt you into this or anything but our best besties only get 12-15 birthdays (gasp!).

So, should you wish to make your best little mate a birthday cake this is the easiest, grossest, wobbliest way forward.

Enter: the jelly cake. A remnant from our mothers’ 70s cookbooks a set jelly is perfect for pooches, because it’s mostly just water. It’s truly gross but birthdays are about the receiver and I’ve never met a dog who doesn’t love gross.

All you do is take unflavoured gelatine, mix it to the instructions on the tub (I mix up half a litre), mix in the rest of their dinner and set!

I use a fancy Bundt tin because I’m extra but dogs will accept this in any form; loaf, tray, regurgitated puddle on the floor – they’re not fussy.

The cheap gelatine from the supermarket calls for 2tsp for 500ml to soft set, I make it 3. One year I went too far and made it so strong that my poor old dog confused his cake for a rubber toy and wasn’t sure how to eat it. It’s fine, he figured it out.

Again, it’s a foolproof recipe because Dogs. Aren’t. Fussy!

This post is more of an idea, rather than a recipe, though should you need more guidance, here you go;

Bloom (mix) 3tsp of gelatine in 100ml cold water. Wait a few minutes. Add 400ml boiling water. Mix. Let cool a smidge. Add in any bits; aka their dinner. Tip that into a greased, water-tight tin. Set overnight in the fridge.

Upend on a plate or a cake stand if you’re really feeling it. If it won’t de-mold, run the outside of the tin under warm water. The heat melts the jelly just a smidge, et voila!

Dogs love it, vets approve. Winner!