Why should the kids get all the home baked treats? With all the dog food recalls recently, it’s easy to forget that making simple, nutritious homemade dog biscuits for your furry friend is easy and usually involves just five or six pantry ingredients.
Why pay six, seven, eight dollars or more for organic, natural dog biscuits when you can make a batch of your own in less than a half hour that easily avoids preservatives, strange ingredients, fillers, and harmful chemicals?
These homemade dog biscuits are incredibly easy to make. If you have peanut butter and flour, you are mostly there. If not, it’s pretty adaptable.
You can sub in different flours or grains or your dog’s favorite flavor. Bacon bits? Sure. Some rice? Sure. Just not Xylitol. Or chocolate. And probably not cantaloupe, our dog’s favorite food.
It also makes a great project for kids. You can easily just shape them into balls or round discs. Or you can grab these dog biscuit cookie cutters for five bucks.
There’s really no reason not to give these simple dog treats a shot. You might also try this other homemade dog biscuit recipe which includes olive oil and cornmeal but is also just as easy.
Oh, and if you decide to sample one… just call it a crunchy peanut butter oatmeal cookie. No one will know.
Simple, Easy 5-Ingredient Homemade Dog Biscuits
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 cup rolled oats
- ½ cup peanut butter – crunchy or smooth – your call (make sure there is no Xylitol)
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º F.
- Mix the flour, peanut butter, and eggs together in a large bowl until combined. Feel free to use your hands.
- Add water, 1 Tbsp at a time, until the dough is just wet enough to roll out as a dough.
- You can scoop it out and make it into balls or flat discs or you can…
- Roll out the dough to approx ¼ inch thickness and use a cookie cutter to cut the treats out.
- Place treats on an un-greased cookie sheet (I like to line with parchment) and bake for 20 minutes.
- Store the treats in an airtight container.
Notes
You can use different flour. I like whole wheat for the added nutrition.
You can also add a dash or salt. I sometimes add a little cornmeal.
The longer you bake the harder and crunchier the treats will be.
