Homemade dog treats: Peanut Butter Banana madness!!
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I ran out of dog treats and instead of going to the Natural Pet Market that I shop at, I thought, ‘I can totally make all natural dog treats myself!’
I used a small flower shaped cookie cutter then the end of a spoon to create a little divit for the center of the flower. Cute right?
After some searching across the Internet I realized that it was super simple, you could practically throw anything together that is natural, nutritious, and follows a few baking principle and voila! Home made natural dog treats!
Tony gets rolling!
The recipe below my two Yorkshire Terriers Ozzy and Lucy went bonkers over. I brought some over to my sisters house so she could try them out with her Pompoo Angel and she gobbled them up too. So these cookies have been tested 3 for 3…let me know how your puppies like them too! Next I will be trying a homemade tuna treats because that just sounds so delicious and smelly that my dogs will love me even more than they already do, if that is even possible…
Puppies anxiously waiting for treats to come out of the oven...they had a taste of the cookie dough and are itching for more!
Ozzy is pulling out all the stops and he's giving me his paw to sink his teeth into one of the cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup all natural peanut butter (I used creamy but I imagine that crunchy would be great too)
- 1 banana
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup wheat bran
- cookie cutter if desired
Directions
Preheat your oven to 300 degrees and line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper
Mix together the wet ingredients and then add in the flour and wheat germ. Bring it together into a ball and transfer to a floured work surface. Roll the dough out to about 1/4 of an inch thick and cut out your shapes. Re-roll the scraps back together and continue cutting. I didn’t have any cookie dough waste as I tried to use a limited amount of flour for dusting so that the dough didn’t dry out too much.
Bake cookies until dried out and the color changes to a darker shade of brown, will take about 25-30 minutes, but it depends on the cookie shape and thickness. Cool on the baking sheet and store in an airtight container in the refrigerator – these have no preservatives in them so they will get moldy on the counter if you don’t use them up quick, that’s why I keep them in the fridge.
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So, you’re going to the dogs. These sound so good and have all the ingredients Grampa likes. Don’t know what that means but they sound acceptable for human consumption as well. I must say, I was concerned about your hormone level until I realized it was Tony’s arms rolling the dough, not yours. Hats off to Tony for his participation!
P.S. Great pictures of the puppies.
LOL – they are entirely edible for human consumption, but there’s not a whole lot of sweetness to them so I don’t think they’d be very tasty to the human palette. I took the pics with the digital SLR camera the Tony got me for Christmas – I love it!