Handmade dog treats
A simple recipe to make yummy dog treats.
I have a confession. I’m Italian, I love food but I’m not the best cook, in fact I would say I’m pretty average. It’s just not something I picked up from my mum (she can cook amazing things!) but someone thinks I’m the best in the world… My dog Meg!
Last summer, she became the only dog in the family, so I started to let her get a bit spoiled. She can eat anything! She loves her food, her treats and eating or ‘stealing’ the cats’ food, much to the huge disappointment of the cats who always complain about having their bowl empty.
So, one day I decided to try to bake some homemade treats for her. I have to say this was a very simple recipe, but it was a HUGE success with Meg. And the cats.
Ingredients
250g plain flour
120g creamy peanut butter
2 eggs
60ml water
You can use other kinds of peanut butter such as chunky, but if you do, you’ll probably need to add more water to the mixture in order to make it into workable dough.
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 180°C.
Mix together your flour, peanut butter & eggs in a large bowl until slightly combined.
Add in a little bit of water (approximately one tbsp at a time) until the mixture becomes wet enough to roll out as dough.
Roll out your dough & cut out your favourite shapes with some cookie cutters.
Place your treats onto your baking sheet & cook for about 15 minutes. For a little bit of crunch, I like to take mine out once the bottoms start to darken.
If you don’t have any cookie cutters to hand you can use a knife to cut out some fun shapes, or you can use a small glass.
For storage, these can be kept in the pantry for a week. Since this recipe makes so many treats, I usually keep half in the jar and freeze the other half for later.