Whale of a Treat! Crispy Whale Cheddars!

Ahoy Mateys! We've found another dog treat keeper her at Classic Hound Headquarters! This time, I turned to Allrecipes for a little inspiration. As you can see the doggies LOVED them. Abby will snatch up these whale sized treats gently in her mouth, and cleverly hides them somewhere safe until she can get to them later. It's like these little whales are her puppies she fusses over them so.

Recipe notes: I used Better than Bullion instead of beef bullion and substituted honey for the white sugar.

Ingredients

• 1 cup rolled oats
• 1/3 cup margarine
• 1 cup boiling water
• 3/4 cup cornmeal
• 2 teaspoons white sugar
• 2 teaspoons beef bouillon granules
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
• 1 egg, beaten
• 3 cups whole wheat flour

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). In a large bowl, combine rolled oats, margarine, and boiling water. Let stand 10 minutes. Grease cookie sheets.
2. Thoroughly stir in cornmeal, sugar, bouillon, milk, Cheddar cheese, and egg. Mix in flour, 1 cup at a time, until a stiff dough has formed.
3. Knead dough on a lightly floured surface, mixing in additional flour as necessary until dough is smooth and no longer sticky. Roll or pat out dough to 1/2" thickness. Cut with cookie cutter (I prefer bone shaped), and place 1 inch apart onto the prepared cookie sheets.
4. Bake 35 to 45 minutes in the preheated oven, until golden brown. Cool before serving. Store in a loosely covered container.

Peamutt Butter Shamrocks!

These doggy treats rocked! My 3 year old ate one when I wasn't looking, and the two doggies have been lucky (har har) enough to snack on these for the past few days. Honestly, this is probably the favorite dog biscuit recipe of the house. Easy to bake and easy to eat (even for little humanoids who get sneaky).

Peamutt Butter Shamrocks

Ingredients

1/4 cup Peanut Butter

1 tablespoon Vegetable Oil

1 cup Water

2 1/4 cups Whole Wheat Flour

1 cup Oatmeal (we omitted this - by accident!)

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees fahrenheit.

Combine peanut butter, oil and water in a large bowl. Once mixed slowly add whole wheat flour and then oatmeal. Roll dough out 1/4 inch thick and cut with cookie cutter. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 20 to 35 minutes or until edges begin to brown.

Cool and refrigerate.

Adapted The Doggy Bone from The Doggy Bone Cookbook by Michele Bledsoe

Valentine Dog Treats

My Heart Beets For You Treats

Adapted from Kaboose.com's Red Velvet Pupcakes

I just loved making these dog treats. I did actually make the Red Velvet Pupcakes from Kaboose, but didn't like the cottage cheese frosting it called for, because it didn't turn out like anything that remotely resembled frosting. And since I had my heart set on making heart shaped cookies anyway, I decided to add more flour and make the cupcakes into cookie biscuits. Beet juice gives them their color, and whole-wheat flour gives them fiber.

Ingredients

* 1/4 cup canola oil
* 1 cup applesauce
* 1/3 cup beet puree or fresh beet juice
* 1 and 1/2 cups whole-wheat flour
* 2 teaspoons baking powder

Cooking Instructions

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a six-cup muffin tin with muffin cups.

2. In a large bowl whisk together oil, applesauce and beet puree.

3. In a separate bowl, combine flour and baking powder. Slowly stir flour mixture into the wet ingredients.

4. Knead for 3 minutes. Roll out dough to 1/4" and use the cookie cutter of your choice to cut out cookies. Place on prepared cookie sheet (either use parchment paper or grease sheet) and bake 14 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into a cookie comes out clean. Remove cookies from the pan and cool on a rack.

Here's what Dewey thought of the cookies:

Peamutt Butter Squirrels Dog Treats (or biscuits)

These peanut butter & oat squirrels (AKA Doggy Dessert Chef's Peamutt Butter Treats) were definitely fun to make. The recipe is fast and easy and Abby and Dewey snarfed up these little squirrels like nobody's business.

You know we're big fans of squirrels over here. Well, I suppose the little furry guys are more of a frenemy, than anything. They're totally cute, but totally overpopulated. Last summer the squirrels in Albany were totally way too sneaky with my vegetable garden. The dogs LOVE them but HATE them at the same time too. If you live with a dog (or two, or three, or...) you know exactly what I mean.

So have fun baking a batch of these treats, and then letting your dog's chomp them to bits.

Ingredients

1/4 cup Peanut Butter

1 tablespoon Vegetable Oil

1 cup Water

2 1/4 cups Whole Wheat Flour

1 cup Oatmeal

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees fahrenheit.

Combine peanut butter, oil and water in a large bowl. Once mixed slowly add whole wheat flour and then oatmeal. Roll dough out 1/4 inch thick and cut with cookie cutter. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 20 to 35 minutes or until edges begin to brown.

Cool and refrigerate.

Adapted from The Doggy Bone Cookbook by Michele Bledsoe

Courtesy of Doggy Dessert Chef.

Dog Treat Recipes

Peanut Butter & Oat Squirrels
Ginger Bread Muffins
Whole Wheat Peanut Butter Carob Treats

My Heart Beets For You Treats

Farm Dog

Farm Dog of Tennessee offers a variety of tasty and healthy treats for your pup! These biscuits are grain-free, vegan, and sustainably-sourced, so you know that you're not only doing your dog a favor but the Earth as well. All the ingredients used are ecologically harvested, free of herbicides and pesticides, and produced in the United States. With 'Variety Packs' available, your dog can try them all!

And I really like the 'Hard Tack' thin biscuit strips, that make it easy to break off smaller or larger treats depending on the size of your pooch. I think Dewey just drooled on my elbow just looking at these pictures!