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August 20, 2026 5 min read
TL;DR: Puppy Scoops is a just-add-water dog ice cream mix, dairy-based with added cane sugar, meant to be served like a real bowl of ice cream. Our Pupsicle Mix is a just-add-water freeze-dried meat mix, no dairy and no added sugar, meant to be portioned into small frozen treats you can hand out regularly. Puppy Scoops costs less per ounce and gives you an actual ice-cream texture. Pupsicle Mix costs a bit more per ounce but publishes a calorie count per treat (about 20 calories) and skips the sugar, which makes it easier to give often. Buy Puppy Scoops for an occasional frozen dessert. Buy Pupsicle Mix if you want a frozen treat in regular rotation.
Puppy Scoops and Cooper's Pupsicle Mix sit in the same small category: dry mixes that turn into frozen dog treats once you add water and freeze them. Almost everything else marketed as a "frozen dog treat" is ready-made, a cup you buy already frozen. These two are the ones you make yourself.
Since people ask us how the two actually compare, here's the honest version: what each one is, what's in it, what it costs per treat, and how the prep differs.
Puppy Scoops is made by the company behind Puppy Cake (puppycake.com). It's sold as a Pint Size mix (4.65 oz, $7.49) and a smaller Cup Size (2.32 oz, $4.50). You add water, stir, and freeze. The listed freeze time is 5 or more hours, and a finished batch keeps about 6 weeks in the freezer, or 12 months unmixed on the shelf. Vanilla is the flagship flavor, and the brand's site also lists Peanut Butter, Carob, Maple Bacon, and seasonal flavors like Christmas Cookie, though we haven't independently verified those flavors' ingredient lists.
Our Pupsicle Mix is a shelf-stable, freeze-dried powder. You mix it with water, pour it into a mold or ice cube tray, and freeze. A 4.3 oz jar makes about 25 Pupsicles, and a 14 oz bag makes about 80. Each Pupsicle runs about 20 calories. It comes in four flavors: Chicken & Sweet Potato, Beef & Cheddar, Turkey & Cinnamon, and Lamb & Spinach, our sensitive-stomach option built around a novel protein. Everything is sourced and made in the USA, with no added sugar, salt, preservatives, color, or artificial flavors.
The Vanilla Puppy Scoops mix lists: lactose-free whole milk, cane sugar, gelatin, natural vanilla flavor, and salt. That's a real ice cream formula, dairy first, sweetened with cane sugar, thickened with gelatin. Worth noting, the milk is lactose-free by design, which sidesteps the most common reason dogs react badly to dairy treats.
Our Chicken & Sweet Potato Pupsicle Mix lists: freeze dried chicken, whole wheat flour, sweet potato powder, and whole egg protein. No dairy and no added sugar in any of our four flavors. The other flavors swap the protein and a couple of ingredients (beef with cheddar cheese powder, turkey with cinnamon), but the no-sugar, no-dairy pattern holds across the whole line.
Neither ingredient list is complicated. The real difference is what each mix is trying to be. Puppy Scoops is trying to taste like ice cream, so dairy and sugar are the point. Ours is trying to taste like meat, so they're left out entirely.
By weight, Puppy Scoops is the cheaper option:
Per-treat math is trickier, because the two products aren't portioned the same way. We publish a yield, 25 treats from a jar, 80 from a bag, because Pupsicle Mix is meant to be poured into individual molds. That works out to about $0.50 per treat from the jar, or roughly $0.37 per treat from the bag, each around 20 calories.
Puppy Scoops doesn't publish a treats-per-pint count, because it isn't really a discrete-treat product. It's closer to soft serve: you freeze the batch and scoop out however much you want to serve, the same way you'd portion regular ice cream. You could freeze it in a small mold instead of a bowl to stretch a pint across more servings, but that's a DIY workaround, not something the label spells out.
Both start the same way: add water, stir until smooth. From there they diverge a bit.
Puppy Scoops needs at least 5 hours in the freezer per the label, which fits freezing a denser, dairy-based mixture in a bowl or larger container. Pupsicle Mix goes into a small silicone mold or ice cube tray, so individual treats generally finish sooner, since each cavity holds much less than a bowl.
Neither one needs an appliance beyond a freezer. If you want a specific shape (paws, bones, stars) for the Pupsicle side, our paw and bone silicone molds or a plain ice cube tray both work, and the Pupsicle Starter Kit bundles two jars of mix with a paw-and-bone mold for about 50 treats total ($29.99, or $32.99 for the grain-free version, which stretches to about 75 treats), if you want to start from scratch instead of buying mix alone.
Neither product struggles for interest. Cold, sweet, and creamy gets a tail wag. Cold and meaty gets one too, in our experience most dogs perk up harder for anything that smells like actual chicken or beef than for a vanilla dessert, but that's a general pattern, not a controlled study, and plenty of dogs would happily take either one out of your hand.
The more useful question than "which one did my dog like more" is how your dog's stomach handles dairy. A meaningful share of adult dogs are at least mildly lactose intolerant, even with a lactose-free formulation cutting the risk. If your dog has never had a dairy-based treat before, Puppy Scoops is a reasonable one to test in a small amount first, rather than serving a full pint on day one. Cooper's Pupsicle Mix skips that question entirely, since there's no dairy in any flavor to react to.
Both are legitimate takes on the same idea: a shelf-stable mix that turns into a frozen treat with nothing but water and a freezer. Puppy Scoops leans into being a dessert. Ours leans into being an everyday treat that happens to be cold. If you want to see how our Pupsicle Mix stacks up against a wider field, our best frozen dog treats roundup covers more ground, and our dairy-free frozen treats guide is worth a look if lactose is the deciding factor for your dog.
As with any new treat, introduce it gradually and watch for loose stool the first time, whether it's a dairy-based mix or a meat-based one. And keep the 10 percent rule in mind, treats of any kind shouldn't make up more than about a tenth of your dog's daily calories.
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