As you know, we make our own dog food, so it only makes sense to make our own dog biscuits. After making and letting the dogs try out a few different recipes I decided on the following recipe, which the dogs lovingly know as “crunchies”. The recipe is adapted from Bullwrinkle’s Peanut Butter Puppy Popper recipe and has the fewest ingredients of all the dog biscuit recipes I’ve seen.
To make the treats extra special for Christmas, I added in carob chips, just as you would for chocolate chip cookies. Although they look like chocolate chips, they aren’t. They taste like bitter cocoa, but they aren’t poisonous to dogs and they enjoy them. Carob chips also do not melt on their own very well. I wanted to make the treats last Christmas but dunk them in melted carob. I had to add a lot of milk to the chips.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 cups milk
- 1 cups peanut butter
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- Optional: carob chips
Instructions:
Mix everything together – this is easiest with a stand mixer as the dough gets very thick.
Roll out to 1/4-inch thickness and use a cookie cutter (I used a stocking shape, I’ve also used star, candy cane, and egg shapes)
Bake on a greased pan for 20 minutes at 375 degrees-F (or until lightly brown)
Cool and store in an airtight container. These also freeze well.
If you’re interested in more recipes you can check out my food and recipes pages. If you want to know what I’ve been up to this week, visit my front page!
I’m also participating in the following carnivals today! You can find many more recipes here:
- Finer Things Friday @ The Finer Things in Life
- Food on Fridays @ Ann Kroeker’s blog
- Foodie Fridays @ Designs by Gollum
- Friday Feasts @ Mom Trends
- Homemaker Monday’s @ 11th Heaven’s Homemaking Haven
- Mouthwatering Monday’s @ A Southern Fairytale
- Tasty Tuesday @ Balancing Beauty and Bedlam
- Tempt My Tummy Tuesday @ Blessed with Grace
- Tuesday’s at the Table @ All the Small Stuff
- Tackle it Tuesday @ 5 Minutes for Mom
- Works for Me Wednesday @ We Are THAT Family
- What’s Cooking Wednesdays @ Tales from the Fairy Blogmother
- What Did You Bake Today @ The Krazy Kitchen
My dog is peanut butter-crazed, he’ll just love these!
btw, I’ve never been to your blog before, so I wanted to let you know it took a long time to load.
Comment by Rhonda @ Shellbelle's Tiki Hut — December 11, 2009 @ 1:42 PM
Mister will love you for these treats!
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We have two dogs. Our kids would have a blast making these for them!
Comment by Amy @ Finer Things — December 13, 2009 @ 5:26 PM
Too bad I don’t have a dog it really looks almost good enough to eat!! haha
Comment by Brandie — December 15, 2009 @ 5:05 PM
What a fun treat for the dog!
Comment by Brenda — December 15, 2009 @ 6:01 PM
Thanks for the recipe and linking to TMTT. I know the dog owners will really enjoy this one.
Comment by Lisa@blessedwithgrace — December 15, 2009 @ 9:09 PM
Our Lily would absolutely love these! She loves peanut butter and is always trying to steal the girls sandwiches.
~Amber
Comment by Amber — December 15, 2009 @ 9:09 PM
What a great idea!! Thanks!
Comment by Angie @ The Shabby Chic Cottage — December 16, 2009 @ 10:08 AM
These sound sooooo yummy for the pups! I’m going to make a batch this weekend.
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