Kitchen

[vaberry]

Does anyone have any tried and true good dog treat recipes? Not anything to complex nor ingredients I'll have to go to a specialty store to find.

I want to make dog trick or treat bags. Does anyone make their own dog treats or do you just buy a box of milk bones and call it a day?

I'm thinking some type of treat like a cut out cookie or even a milk bone which I'll sandwich together with peanut butter. Dogs like peanut butter, right?

Has anyone done doggie trick or treat bags?

[tkins]

Hi berry50,

I have two recipes for you (one even has peanut butter in it). On the first recipe I am sure regular flour will work just fine. To start you may want to make a small batch of each to see which one or both they like (if both they get variety).

I know there are bone shape cookie cutters out there and hearts are always cute. Love the doggie trick or treat bag idea (never had doggie trick or treaters just kids). I

Best of Breed Dog Biscuits

From King Arthur Flour Website

2 cups King Arthur Whole Wheat Flour or Premium Whole Wheat Flour

1 cup rolled oats, regular or quick

1 tablespoon dried parsley or 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley

1/2 cup Baker's Special Dry Milk or nonfat dry milk

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 large eggs

1 cup peanut butter, crunchy or plain

1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon cold water, enough to make a cohesive dough.

Preheat the oven to 300°F. Lightly grease a couple of baking sheets, or line them with parchment.

Mix together the flour, oats, parsley, dried milk, and salt. Add the eggs and peanut butter, stirring to combine; the mixture will be crumbly. Add enough water to bring the dough together; depending on the season, you may need to add a bit more (winter), or a bit less (summer). To make biscuits using a dog-bone cutter, roll the dough about 1/4" thick, and cut with a 3 1/2" cutter (or the size of your choice). Gather and re-roll the scraps, and continue to cut biscuits until you've used all the dough.

To make dog "cookies," drop the dough in walnut-sized balls onto the prepared baking sheets. Flatten them to about 1/4".

Bake the biscuits for about 40 to 60 minutes, baking the smaller cookies for a shorter amount of time. When finished, the biscuits will be dark golden brown, and will be dry and crisp all the way through.

Remove the biscuits from the oven, and cool right on the pans.

Yield: about 42 larger (3 1/2" dog-bone) biscuits, 60 smaller (round) biscuits.

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DOG BISCUITS

2 ¾ Cups Whole Wheat Flour

½ teaspoon Garlic Powder

3 Tablespoons Brown Sugar

1 teaspoon Beef or Chicken Bouillon Granules

6 – 8 Tablespoons Crisco, meat drippings or bacon grease

1 Egg Beaten

½ Cup Milk, or less

Mix dry ingredients. Cut in grease. Add egg, then milk. Stir until mixture clings together, dump onto a floured board and knead until you can roll it out to ½ inch thick or less. Use a cookie cutter or knife to cut into shapes or squares. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet 25 to 30 minutes in a 350 degree oven.

If you do not have whole wheat flour, any flour will do.

Hope they like at least one of them.

tkins

[AnikaBrodie]

This is a biscuit recipe our dogs love. They can't wait until they cool off after they come out of the oven. Plus, they're easy to make. Just watch for wagging tails as the biscuits continue to bake; aww, the aroma.

Recipe: Yummy Dog Biscuits

1 ¾ cups whole wheat flour

¾ cup corn meal

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.

[Nightowlz]

The first one is similar to the 2nd recipe tkins posted above. The 2nd recipe is from Carolyn Gracies/Q blog that she mentioned when they had the Vitamix on.

Dog Biscuits

2 1/2 c whole wheat flour

1 T brown sugar

1/2 c powdered dry milk

6 T meat drippings

1/2 t salt

1 beaten egg

1/2 t garlic

1/2 c ice water

Preheat oven to 350°

Lightly grease cookie sheet.

Combine dry ingredients, cut in meat drippings until mixture resembles corn meal.

Mix in egg. Add enough water until mixture forms a ball.

Pat dough out onto cookie sheet to 1/2" thick.

Cut with cookie cutter or knife.

Bake 25 mins.

Remove from cookie sheet & cool on rack.

Pumpkin POW

Here's a super easy one for both dogs AND cats:

3/4 cup water

1 cup cooked (or canned) pumpkin

1/4 cup UNSALTED pumpkin seeds

Place all 3 ingredients in your Vitamix, close the lid, press vari-speed 1, quickly increasing to vari-speed 10.

Blend for 30-45 seconds or until smooth, using the tamper to press the ingredients into the blades.

That's it! This makes about 2 cups and serving size is 1 teaspoon. Pumpkin is a healthy addition to your pet's diet!

Carolyn Gracie/Q

[walker]

Check out the forum for Pet Lovers under Home Talk too.

[luv pzzl]

Hi Berry~here's the recipe I use for my furry kids. I use one jar of meat/meat & rice and two jars of a vegetable & the wheat germ. The milk makes it sticky, so I use my cookie press and am done in no time. I bake mine, never tried the micro version.

Baby Food Soft Doggie Cookies Recipe

• 3 jars baby food -- (2 1/2 oz. each) either beef or chicken
• 1/4 cup Dry milk powder
• 1/4 cup wheat germ (cream of wheat can be substituted for wheat germ)

Combine ingredients in bowl and mix well. Roll into small balls and place on well-greased cookie sheet. Flatten slightly with a fork. Bake in preheated 350F. oven for 15 minutes until brown. Cool on wire racks and STORE IN REFRIGERATOR. Also freezes well.

*Variation: substitute cream of wheat for wheat germ and then used tablespoon to make cookie sized drops on plate. Microwave for 4 minutes on Medium-High. Suggest keeping an eye on them in microwave and perhaps start out for only 3 1/2 minutes. They do come out soft.

Also suggested using Beef/Vegetable Dinner Baby Dinner instead of Beef or Chicken. Tester's note: Definitely something to howl about! Cookies are soft and chewy (good for older pets who have lost a few teeth). And they can be whipped up in no time.

[NiteStar]

My 16 yr old Shihtzu LOVES these. He doesn't have a lot of teeth now, but he can eat these because they aren't hard. If your furbaby loves peanut butter like mine does, he/she will love them! And they are soooo easy to make!

Ingredients

· ½ cup of oatmeal

· 1/ tablespoon of peanut butter (I used chunky you can use whatever you have in the house)

· ½ tablespoon of water

· 1 large egg

· ? teaspoon of cinnamon

· ½ teaspoon of honey

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

2. It really does not matter what order you mix your ingredients together these are dog treats not a wedding cake. I

3. Personally started with the oatmeal and then mixed in the cinnamon. After the cinnamon I decided to drizzle in the honey and stirred it together. Then came the peanut butter which I also mixed in before adding the water and egg. I stirred the mixture together really well to ensure that all of the oatmeal was covered.

4. I don't use cooking oil spray so I coated the baking sheet with olive oil - you could certainly use any healthy oil you choose.

5. I made these into round cookies but you could do spoon drop cookies if you don't want to get all messy.

[Carmie]

I have 2 dogs who's diets do not include any grains. I make dried sweet potato treats for them and they follow my command in a split second for them.

I cut either sweet potatoes or yams like french fries, or sometimes into flat chips. I place them on a cookie sheet (parchment lined make for easy clean up) single layer and put them into a 250 degree oven for 3 hours turning them over once. Store in the fridge if you don't use them within a week or so.

If you have a food dehydrator you could use that instead of the oven.

My grandkids love them too.

I make several sheets of them at a time using every shelf in my oven.

[Lipstickdiva]

I believe Carolyn Gracie has some homemade treat recipes posted.

[feline groovy]

On 8/21/2014 Carmie said:

I have 2 dogs who's diets do not include any grains. I make dried sweet potato treats for them and they follow my command in a split second for them.

I cut either sweet potatoes or yams like french fries, or sometimes into flat chips. I place them on a cookie sheet (parchment lined make for easy clean up) single layer and put them into a 250 degree oven for 3 hours turning them over once. Store in the fridge if you don't use them within a week or so.

If you have a food dehydrator you could use that instead of the oven.

My grandkids love them too.

I make several sheets of them at a time using every shelf in my oven.

Me too, "Gram"!

Thanks for the yummy recipe.