As an avid dog lover, I have spent far too much money on dog treats at various stores. When my dogs started gaining weight I began to pay more attention to the content of what I was feeding them. I was surprised by the fat content in some of the common dog treats. I wanted to find a tasty treat for my dogs that is low in both fat and cost. Every dog I have met loves peanut butter but it is not very healthy to feed them globs of peanut butter even though they enjoy having sticky mouths. These cookies are both simple and inexpensive to make. You do not have to be an experienced baker in order to successfully make these delectable dog treats. If this is your first baking experience it may take longer but the preparation time is usually about 20 to 30 minutes and then add 20 minutes for baking time.
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1. Gather the following materials
- One large mixing bowl
- One mixing utensil (rubber scraper or large spoon)
- One large cutting board
- Two baking sheets (depending on the size of cookies you make)
- Cookie cutters (or you can cut out any shapes you want)
- Rolling pin
- Two tablespoons of oil (you can use either vegetable or corn oil)
- One-half cup of peanut butter (any brand is fine)
- One cup water
- One cup whole wheat flour
- Two cups white flour
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PB Dog Biscuits
½ cups water
½ cup oil
2 eggs
1/4 cup peanut butter
2 tsp. vanilla
2 cups whole wheat flour
½ cup cornmeal
½ cup rolled oats
Blend wet ingredients together. Whisk dry ingredients together and mix into wet mixture to form a ball of dough. If it is too sticky, add a bit of white flour. Roll out and cut into the desired shapes. Put onto a non-stick cookie tray or lightly greased one. Cook 18 minutes at 400 F. Turn off oven and allow the biscuits to cool in oven until crisp and hard. Store in airtight container.
Thanks for such a great 'ible!
Beth
I have made two batches of these treats. The first time I used your recipe, but instead of the combination of flours I used white flour because that was all that we had. I cut the recipe in half and still had a lot of treats. The dough was the perfect consistency to work with and make shapes with cookie cutters. My dog Peekay also loves them! :)
Tonight I did a full batch (and more! haha) and substituted a few things:
- Brown rice flour instead of the combination of white and whole wheat.
- Olive oil instead of vegetable oil.
I made these treats to give to my local animal rescue to sell at a craft show. I am certainly not an expert, but I believe that the brown rice and olive oil are nutritionally better for dogs and have less things in them that can cause allergies. I also used a peanut butter with peanuts as the only ingredient, so there was no extra salt or sugar. I just wanted to make a simple treat as healthy as I could to sell to the public. I also want to impress the rescue so they let me work with them more. :P
But the whole point of that was to say that the brown rice flour was a little harder to work with. With the full recipe, I could only use about 2 cups of it until it started to get too dry. The dough was a little crumbly and I had to be pretty delicate when doing the cut outs. Also took a lot longer to bake! 30-40 minutes to make them crunchy. But they still came out great, and I am very happy that I got this idea here! I will post a picture of them all packaged up and ready to sell. Thanks! :)