Do you have a four legged, furry friend in your house who loves dog treats? And when you go to store & have to spend an arm & a leg for treats? I don't know about you but I definitely came across this. I would go into the store & look at all these treats that I would eat if I was a dog. Kind of like McDonald's to a human. Junk. Yes sometimes it's nice to have a McDouble, with only ketchup & a medium Dr. Pepper. I would be the first one to admit it. While at the store, I would look at alot of the ingredients on the back of some of these dog treat labels & was made aware that these aren't what dogs need, at least all the time. So sense then I have been making alot of my dog treats from scratch. But don't think for a second that I wouldn't snatch up some of those store label treats whenever they were on sale to save me a week without making dog treats. Haha.
The first recipe that I tried was given to me by my partner, Kyle's grandma & his mother, Emily. Kyle & his family like to call their grandma, Nonni. Her name is Norma & I was told that when Kyle's brother, Jay was little he couldn't say grandma or Norma, so it came out Nonni & it stuck. I think that's so awesome! I am unable to post that recipe because I have lost it & have been meaning to get my hands on it again. So Nonni or Emily, if your reading this, hook me up! Haha. From what I could remember it was very easy & had a few more ingredients then the one I am going to talk about next.
This one is a dog favorite, as far as I can see. I found this while searching the web looking for something easy & had house hold items that I had around the house for ingredients. So I found this one:
Peanut Butter Biscuits:
1 1/2 cup water
1/ 2 cup oil
2 eggs
3 tbs. peanut butter (I was surprised about the amount; I was routing for peanut butter. haha)
2 tsp. vanilla
2 cups flower (I sometimes use wheat flower but if you don't have that regular flower is fine.)
1/2 cornmeal
1/2 cup oats
Directions: Blend wet ingredients together. Which dry ingredients together in a separate bowl, and then mix with wet mixture to form a ball of dough. Toll out and shaped as desired. Place on a non-stick cookie tray or lightly greased pan. Bake twenty minutes at 400 degrees. When finished, turn off oven and allow the biscuits to coll inside oven until crisp and hard. Then store in a airtight container. (Storing, is very important because I didn't do this the first & they were moldy by the next day) I put them in one of those cute containers, with paw prints & dogs all over & come to find out it's not all that air tight. So now what I do is put them in a zip lock bag & then store them in the container. Genius I know, right? Hardly. I also wanted to add that if the mixture is a little running, add more flower, I found out that you really can't add to much flower if you happen to make a mistake.
I also like to make these for friend's dog & neighborhood dogs. For special occasions such as Christmas, Halloween & May Day. Those are just a few times I have made treats for other dogs besides my own. My own dogs are a different story, I usually make them treats every other week. Some examples how this could make cool present for other dogs are shown above. There are recipes out there where you can make a frosting to decorate them with. I am currently looking into getting a recipe.
Good luck with this. If you aren't a good cook, your dogs will think that you are! There are recipes out there for homemade cat treats also. For those who are cat owners.
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