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Dog Treat Recipe?

MoJoV — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:41:22 GMT

Does anyone have a good dog treat recipe? I would like to start making a nutricious treat for my dogs. I know there are some online,but would like recs from some tried and true. Any with peanut butter,Daisy and Angie love their peanut butter Thanks for any input.

Re: Dog Treat Recipe?

emmysmom — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 19:44:50 GMT

You might try google..! I use it for everything!

http://www.thekitchn.com/cookies-for-canines-homemade-d-135078

Re: Dog Treat Recipe?

AnikaBrodie — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 02:11:38 GMT

Our dogs love these biscuits. I usually use 2% milk instead of powdered milk and often use less corn meal than recipe calls for. Let me know if your dogs love them.

Recipe: Yummy Dog Biscuits

1 ¾ cups whole wheat flour

¾ cup corn meal (less if desired)

½ cup powdered low-fat dry milk (may substitute 2% milk)

½ cup oatmeal

½ teas. garlic (+ or -)

2 tbsp. parsley

2 or 3 tbsp. brown sugar

6 tbsp. Crisco (1/2 cup + 1 tbsp.)

2 tbsp. peanut butter (optional)

1 egg (beaten)

½ cup ice water

Mix dry ingredients. Cut in Crisco. (If using 2% milk add it at this point.) Mix ice water and egg, add to dry ingredients. Add peanut butter. Form dough into round balls about the size of a walnut. Place on cookie sheet and flatten with glass. Bake for about 25 minutes at 350 degrees. Store in airtight container.

Re: Dog Treat Recipe?

Wahoogaz — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 02:33:30 GMT

The only peanut butter treat I make is just mix peanut butter and brown rice flower, form the mixture into little balls and put them in the refrigerator. They're great for quick treats and giving pills to the dogs.

Quick, easy, no cooking and all the dogs love them.

Re: Dog Treat Recipe?

emmysmom — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 03:14:16 GMT

On 2/13/2014 wahoogaz said:
The only peanut butter treat I make is just mix peanut butter and brown rice flower, form the mixture into little balls and put them in the refrigerator. They're great for quick treats and giving pills to the dogs.

Quick, easy, no cooking and all the dogs love them.

This is good to know, easy too! Brown rice flour at the grocery store?

Re: Dog Treat Recipe?

Wahoogaz — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 03:26:00 GMT

On 2/13/2014 emmiesmom said:
On 2/13/2014 wahoogaz said:
The only peanut butter treat I make is just mix peanut butter and brown rice flower, form the mixture into little balls and put them in the refrigerator. They're great for quick treats and giving pills to the dogs.

Quick, easy, no cooking and all the dogs love them.

This is good to know, easy too! Brown rice flour at the grocery store?

I use Bob's Red Mill Brown Rice Flour - I've found it in several grocery stores and Walmart. It's in a clear 24 oz pouch. Some stores have it in the regular baking section and others carry it in their 'natural food' section.

I use brown rice flour because wheat is one of the many things my DDB is allergic to. If you don't have allergy problems to deal with, you could just use regular flour or wheat flour. You're just looking for something to stiffen up the peanut butter.

Re: Dog Treat Recipe?

chickadee — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 03:04:36 GMT

I rarely use a recipe when making treats for my doggie. They really are easy to make, and very forgiving. My dog is sensitive to wheat and corn, so I use oat flour (I just buy oatmeal and put it in the blender to make my own inexpensive oat flour). The easiest "recipe" I make the most often for her is basically just a can of plain pumpkin, about half a cup of peanut butter, around a Tablespoon of molasses, an egg, and enough of the oat flour to make a rollable dough.

I roll it out and use a dog bone cookie cutter, or if I'm feeling lazy, I just use a pizza cutter to cut the dough into rectangle shaped cookies. I bake them at about 350 for approx. 10-15 minutes until they are done. Since these don't have any baking powder or soda, they do not spread on the cookie sheet, so you can put them VERY close together on the sheet and they wont spread and stick together. You might be able to bake them all in one batch depending on the size of your sheet.

But here's the trick to making them crunchy-good: after the cookies are done, turn the oven down to the lowest setting (around 170 on mine), and return all the biscuits to the oven and leave them in there until they are dried out and crunchy. This can take a couple of hours, but your doggie will appreciate your patience.

Sorry, this isn't an official recipe, but really, you can play around with it. I've made them with applesauce or baby food instead of pumpkin. I've added coconut flour or flax, and/or coconut oil. I've used more or less peanut butter. It's all good as long as you are using ingredients that are nutritious and well tolerated by your dog. The amount of flour will change based on whatever wet ingredient you choose, but the rest is easy. just don't use any onion, chocolate, raisins or other taboo food and you should be fine.

Re: Dog Treat Recipe?

emmysmom — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 16:15:06 GMT

On 2/20/2014 iam4truth said:
I rarely use a recipe when making treats for my doggie. They really are easy to make, and very forgiving. My dog is sensitive to wheat and corn, so I use oat flour (I just buy oatmeal and put it in the blender to make my own inexpensive oat flour). The easiest "recipe" I make the most often for her is basically just a can of plain pumpkin, about half a cup of peanut butter, around a Tablespoon of molasses, an egg, and enough of the oat flour to make a rollable dough.

I roll it out and use a dog bone cookie cutter, or if I'm feeling lazy, I just use a pizza cutter to cut the dough into rectangle shaped cookies. I bake them at about 350 for approx. 10-15 minutes until they are done. Since these don't have any baking powder or soda, they do not spread on the cookie sheet, so you can put them VERY close together on the sheet and they wont spread and stick together. You might be able to bake them all in one batch depending on the size of your sheet.

But here's the trick to making them crunchy-good: after the cookies are done, turn the oven down to the lowest setting (around 170 on mine), and return all the biscuits to the oven and leave them in there until they are dried out and crunchy. This can take a couple of hours, but your doggie will appreciate your patience.

Sorry, this isn't an official recipe, but really, you can play around with it. I've made them with applesauce or baby food instead of pumpkin. I've added coconut flour or flax, and/or coconut oil. I've used more or less peanut butter. It's all good as long as you are using ingredients that are nutritious and well tolerated by your dog. The amount of flour will change based on whatever wet ingredient you choose, but the rest is easy. just don't use any onion, chocolate, raisins or other taboo food and you should be fine.

This sounds so good and easy too. I'm sure Emmy would love these, I think I would too, lol! She loves pumpkin!

Re: Dog Treat Recipe?

chickadee — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:04:58 GMT

On 2/22/2014 emmiesmom said:
On 2/20/2014 iam4truth said:
I rarely use a recipe when making treats for my doggie. They really are easy to make, and very forgiving. My dog is sensitive to wheat and corn, so I use oat flour (I just buy oatmeal and put it in the blender to make my own inexpensive oat flour). The easiest "recipe" I make the most often for her is basically just a can of plain pumpkin, about half a cup of peanut butter, around a Tablespoon of molasses, an egg, and enough of the oat flour to make a rollable dough.

I roll it out and use a dog bone cookie cutter, or if I'm feeling lazy, I just use a pizza cutter to cut the dough into rectangle shaped cookies. I bake them at about 350 for approx. 10-15 minutes until they are done. Since these don't have any baking powder or soda, they do not spread on the cookie sheet, so you can put them VERY close together on the sheet and they wont spread and stick together. You might be able to bake them all in one batch depending on the size of your sheet.

But here's the trick to making them crunchy-good: after the cookies are done, turn the oven down to the lowest setting (around 170 on mine), and return all the biscuits to the oven and leave them in there until they are dried out and crunchy. This can take a couple of hours, but your doggie will appreciate your patience.

Sorry, this isn't an official recipe, but really, you can play around with it. I've made them with applesauce or baby food instead of pumpkin. I've added coconut flour or flax, and/or coconut oil. I've used more or less peanut butter. It's all good as long as you are using ingredients that are nutritious and well tolerated by your dog. The amount of flour will change based on whatever wet ingredient you choose, but the rest is easy. just don't use any onion, chocolate, raisins or other taboo food and you should be fine.

This sounds so good and easy too. I'm sure Emmy would love these, I think I would too, lol! She loves pumpkin!

So does my girl. And it's good for them, too. You can cneak in mashes sweet potatoes or the jarred baby food peas/veggies and they don't know you snuck veggies in them. just like kids and hiding veggies in spaghetti sauce. At least I used to hide strained veggies in sauces, meatloaf, etc. cuz my son never touched them any other way hahah.

Re: Dog Treat Recipe?

MoJoV — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 20:22:33 GMT

Thanks for all the great recipes. Angie and Daisy are going to be enjoying some good snacks soon. I found one in a magazine with just wheat germ, peanut butter and flour and water, they're liking that one now.

Re: Dog Treat Recipe?

Moonlady — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 20:56:58 GMT

I can't find the one I used to make for our dogs. If and when I find it, I'll post it. Between recalls and mystery ingredients, you're wise to make your own.

Re: Dog Treat Recipe?

CrazyDaisy — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:04:05 GMT

Lately I have just been baking liver in the oven till it dries out a bit. I can then just break it into whatever size I need.

One I am going to try is freeze dried peanut butter. Guess you just mix peanut butter with gelatin (can add fruit or veggies too). Spread it out on a cookie sheet and put in freezer. Need to leave in there for a week. A friend made them and they were well received. Those are my next project.