A Simple Treat Recipe to Get You Started!

Valentines Day is right around the corner why not make your fur-babies they're own little treat and let them know you heart them as well. Here's a simple recipe I found to be a basic treat recipe. My babies loved them, they received 12 paws across the board.  I will give you a tid bit though when purchasing your chicken or beef broth make sure it has no onion or little garlic as possible.  Both, I learned are quite toxic to animals. I knew about the onion but not the garlic.  Also if you'd like to frost your treats melt some white chocolate wafers(from Wilton) or white chocolate chips.  While Chocolate is toxic, white chocolate is not,thin it with a little vegetable oil and add some organic dry food coloring like dried beet root, dried spinach powder, cinnamon or use the Wilton's color paste for other colors.  Happy Baking!

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Basic Yeast Dog Treats

This very basic dog treat contains whole grain and all-purpose flour as well as cornmeal. The flavoring comes from chicken or beef broth so the better the quality the better the flavor. Because we use yeast we get a nice, tall puffy treat.
Yield: Approximately 4 dozen 3" treats

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Ingredients

3 1/2 cup all-purpose (or unbleached) flour
2 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup cornmeal
1/2 cup skim milk powder
1 tablespoon (or 1 package) dry yeast
3 1/2 cups lukewarm chicken or meat broth (about 2- 15oz cans)

1 egg beaten with about 2 tablespoons water (for egg wash)

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Grease cookie sheets.

Mix together all dry ingredients.

Dissolve the yeast in the lukewarm chicken or meat broth. Let yeast broth mixture set 10 min. Then stir in flour mixture until a soft dough is formed. If the dough is too sticky you can add more flour.

Roll resulting dough out 1/4" thick. Cut dog biscuit shapes from dough. Put scraps back in bowl and re-roll out until all dough is used.

Brush biscuits with egg wash. Bake on greased cookie sheets at 300* for 45 min. Then turn off oven and leave in overnight to finish hardening.

Makes 60 medium-sized biscuits**


**Recipe Note
We used 3" medium dog-bone cookie cutters as well as a few 3" dog paws and fire hydrants. We made about 4 dozen treats. Additionally, we did not use the egg wash in the batch we photographed.


basic yeast dog treats - image by gourmetsleuth.com


Storing Dog Treats
In general you should store dog treats the same way you would homemade people cookies. That being said, there are two main variables that determine storage time - the amount and type of fat in the recipe and your local weather conditions. If your recipe uses fats such as butter, or meat bits or juices then it will be more prone to rancidity than a recipe that uses some vegetable oil or shortening. Your treats may mold or spoil much faster in humid or very hot climates.

Refrigeration and Freezing - Refrigeration will prolong the life of more fragile dog treats. Make sure to store in a tightly sealed container or zip lock bag. You can also freeze most treats in zip lock freezer bags. Allow to thaw completely before use.

 

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My Testing Panel

My Test Panel Abbey, Izzy Bella, and Clyde

I just wanted to introduce to you my personal test panel Abbey, my 12 year old blue tick, she

is the pickest of all eaters when it comes to treats.  If she doesn't like it after smelling it , will

 just walk away without even putting it in her mouth.  Izzy Bella is our 2 year old pommerian,

pug,dauch. mix.  She will pretty much  eat anything except carrotts.  She'll take them, chew

 them up and then spit them out, such a nice treat to stumble upon later on with bare feet. 

 Now Clyde is my 8 year old chuck russel, he loves his veggies and will sit directly under the cutting

 board waiting for any kind of veggies.  He does have bad teeth so when I can I tend to give him softer food.

Each one is a rescue; Abbey wasgoing to be destroyed from her owner a neighbor rescued the  pups

 and one look at her and she came home with me.  Clyde is from the shelter, a needed addition

 when the love of my life Muffy left us after 13 years. Lastly, we have Izzy, who's owner thought

 she was cute, but kept her kenneled apparently 22 hours a day without food and water.    I think

 she's happier here in our forever home with plenty of food and water, with almost too

 much love spent on hugging,playing with her buddy Clyde.  So thats my test panel, well that and

if I'm making peanut butter treats the hubby thinks I'm making peanut butter cookies for him, but

 that could be a whole different kind of blog.

 



Homemade DogTreats

We all love our dogs and consider them as part of the family.  Have you ever gone to pick up a box of your dog's favorite treats and read the package to find you couldn't pronounce the ingredients much less read them, or realize they are made in China or some other country.  I have and not knowing what is in my dogs treats drives me nuts.  I make cookies for my own family why not make them for my other babies.  So thats what I did, they not only love them so did my furry nieces.

I made Snickerpoodles, Cat got your tongue,( cheese flovored), and Cluck & Piggies (chicken and bacon flavored).