Post by Loupy on Apr 5, 2013 21:00:23 GMT -7
Homemade Natural Dog Treats, Fresh Apples
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Our recent trip to the apple orchard lent the perfect excuse to finally take on a recipe of our own as a way to help use up a small portion of the abundance of apples we brought home.
The base ingredients could quite literally substitute any additional ingredients to come up with different variations on these natural treats. For example, instead of fresh apple, we could have swapped in fresh sweet potatoes, bananas, carrots or a mixture of them all.
Here's how it all went down in our kitchen (We tripled the following recipe in order to use more apples and stock up on treats in one shot):
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 cup oatmeal
1 finely chopped or grated apple
1 beaten egg
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/2 cup cold water
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease cookie sheets.
Blend flour and oatmeal in large mixing bowl, then incorporate apple, egg, oil, brown sugar, and water until well blended.
Flour your workspace and roll out dough to desired thickness.
Mine was just under 1 inch thick and uneven in some spots (we'll call that homemade flair)...
Side note: the recipe called for finely chopped or grated apples. I chopped mine into large pieces, then slowly pulsed them in our food processor. This not only saved me time, but created semi-regular sized apple chunks to blend right into the rest of the base ingredients. I left the processed pieces fairly chunky instead of pureeing them, because I like the idea of being able to see the actual apple pieces throughout each treat.
Cut cookies to desired shape and size.
Place dog cookies on baking sheet and bake 35 minutes.
After baking, turn oven off and leave cookies inside oven for another 30-45 minutes until crisp.
Once crisp, remove dog cookies from oven and let cool.
Transfer to zipper bags or airtight containers and freeze to preserve freshness for your little one!
www.17apart.com/
Our recent trip to the apple orchard lent the perfect excuse to finally take on a recipe of our own as a way to help use up a small portion of the abundance of apples we brought home.
The base ingredients could quite literally substitute any additional ingredients to come up with different variations on these natural treats. For example, instead of fresh apple, we could have swapped in fresh sweet potatoes, bananas, carrots or a mixture of them all.
Here's how it all went down in our kitchen (We tripled the following recipe in order to use more apples and stock up on treats in one shot):
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 cup oatmeal
1 finely chopped or grated apple
1 beaten egg
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/2 cup cold water
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease cookie sheets.
Blend flour and oatmeal in large mixing bowl, then incorporate apple, egg, oil, brown sugar, and water until well blended.
Flour your workspace and roll out dough to desired thickness.
Mine was just under 1 inch thick and uneven in some spots (we'll call that homemade flair)...
Side note: the recipe called for finely chopped or grated apples. I chopped mine into large pieces, then slowly pulsed them in our food processor. This not only saved me time, but created semi-regular sized apple chunks to blend right into the rest of the base ingredients. I left the processed pieces fairly chunky instead of pureeing them, because I like the idea of being able to see the actual apple pieces throughout each treat.
Cut cookies to desired shape and size.
Place dog cookies on baking sheet and bake 35 minutes.
After baking, turn oven off and leave cookies inside oven for another 30-45 minutes until crisp.
Once crisp, remove dog cookies from oven and let cool.
Transfer to zipper bags or airtight containers and freeze to preserve freshness for your little one!
