Homemade Dog Cookies

It was Hayden’s Birthday yesterday and I can’t believe he’s already nine years old! Today, I made him some delicious (they smelled delicious) homemade dog cookies – I know I’m such a good brother.

I saw this recipe on a towel in my neighbor’s kitchen with the heading “Healthy Dog Cookies” and decided to try them out. However, I swapped out cornmeal for another helping of rolled oats. Although, I sent the 1/2 cup of rolled oats through the food processor. They are really simple to make and if didn’t know they were dog cookies, I would have been eating the dough myself!

I had two different sized cookie cutters. I was able to make 90 cookies from the 1.5 inch cookie cutter, and 32 from the 2 inch cookie cutter. So over 122 cookies in total! I made two batches of these to split between the 15 dogs in our family for Christmas. They loved them!

[recipe title=”Homemade Dog Cookies” servings=”100+” time=”1 hour” difficulty=”Medium”]

 

[recipe-ingredients]

• 1.5 cup water
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup safflower oil
• 3 tbps natural peanut butter
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 2 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/4 cup white flour + more for rolling
• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 1/2 cup crushed or food processed rolled oats

[/recipe-ingredients] [recipe-directions]

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
2. Mix together water, eggs, safflower oil, peanut butter, and vanilla.
3. Combine the flours and oats.
4. Roll out dough to 1/2 inch thick, use flour as needed when rolling out. The dough will be slightly sticky so you can use the flour generously.
5. Cut into dog-cookie shapes.
6. Bake for 25 minutes.
7. Turn off the oven and leave in for 20 more minutes.

[/recipe-directions] [/recipe]