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Homemade Peanut Butter Dog Treats

February 18, 2014 By Talya Tate Boerner 6 Comments

I made homemade peanut butter dog treats in honor of Love Your Pet Day (Feb 20). Of course in our house, EVERYDAY is pet day. After reading various recipes and double checking ingredients to make sure they were safe for dogs, I whipped up my own recipe using ingredients I already had. Lucy and Annabelle went nuts for these treats.

peanut butter and sweet potato dog treats

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Homemade Peanut Butter Dog Treats

Yield: 2 dozen depending upon size of cookie cutter

Ingredients

  • 2 cups whole wheat flour
  • 1/2 cup oats
  • 1/3 cup peanut butter
  • 1/3 cup sweet potato (baked)
  • 1 1/4 cup water
  • egg white (optional)

Notes

I used crunchy peanut butter because that's what I had...

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https://gracegritsgarden.com/2014/02/homemade-peanut-butter-dog-treats.html

Homemade Peanut Butter Dog Treats

Method

Mix everything together (except the egg white). Knead into a ball. It will be sticky so add flour to your hands and rolling pin. I was surprised at how wonderfully malleable this dough turned out to be, easy to roll and cut and waaaaaaaaayyyyy better than any pie crust I’ve ever made.

homemade peanut butter dog treats

I bought this bone shaped cookie cutter at Sur La Table after Christmas. So cute! (If you don’t want to roll and cut your dough, you could form into little balls and press with a fork like human peanut butter cookies…) I also made some heart-shaped treats.

peanut butter and sweet potato dog treats

Place on a parchment lined cookie sheet and finish with a little egg wash. The cookies will not spread so you can place close together. Bake for ten minutes at 350 then turn and bake another five minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

how to make homemade peanut butter and sweet potato dog treats

They smell peanut buttery, and they taste pretty good too. Go ahead and sample. The inside texture is a bit creamy but not messy when the dogs dine on the rug like all dogs do.

Lucy loved hers.

Lucy enjoying her homemade dog treat

Annabelle inhaled hers.

Annabelle inhaling her homemade dog treat

They both wanted more and followed me around the rest of the day like the Pied Piper.

Lucy and Annabelle

I’m not kidding…

Annabelle

I’ll be making these again.

Grace Grits and Gardening

P.S. These will keep for several days, but store in the refrigerator…

“Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.”
― Orhan Pamuk

Filed Under: Food & Recipes, Pets Tagged With: homemade dog treats, Love Your Pet Day, Lucy and Annabelle, miniature schnauzers

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Comments

  1. Gary Henderson says

    February 18, 2014 at 12:04 pm

    The whole time I was reading this recipe I was thinking, “I don’t HAVE a dog and I would make these. For myself.”

    Maybe add a little brown sugar and some cinnamon? Some more liquid, of course…

    I’ll have to make sure my mother sees this so she can make her dogs some treats she knows don’t come from China.

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      February 18, 2014 at 1:48 pm

      Might need a little baking powder to make it rise and sugar for sure. Not sweet enough for humans:)

      Reply
  2. Kim says

    February 18, 2014 at 3:43 pm

    Might just make these too!! Will definitely pin it for future use!! Thanks again.

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      February 18, 2014 at 9:32 pm

      Thanks Kim!

      Reply
  3. Ann says

    February 18, 2014 at 10:40 pm

    Talya,Thank you so much for sharing your recipe!
    My doggy loves cookies made on this recipe:
    Ingredients:
    6 cups whole wheat flour
    1 1/2 Tbsp baking soda
    1 tbsp ground ginger
    2 tsp cinnamon
    3/4 c applesauce
    3/4 c molasses
    1/2 c honey
    1/4 c vegetable oil
    1 egg, beaten
    Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.Combine all of the ingredients in your mixer with a dough hook. Turn it out onto a floured surface and roll it out to 1/4 inch thick.
    Cut it with cookie cutter or simply with a pizza cutter. Place them on cookie sheets and poke each in the center with a fork.
    Bake for 8 minutes and turn oven off, keeping oven door closed. Let the treats sit in the oven until hard about 1-2 hours.
    You may be interested to see my collection of recipes of homemade dog cookies,snacks, biscuits, :
    http://www.pinterest.com/gornoz/recipes-for-homemade-dog-treats-cookies-and-bones/

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      March 14, 2014 at 4:55 pm

      these sound wonderful!

      Reply

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