The best natural dog cookies and dog biscuits for your pet are fresh and homemade. Experiment with one basic recipe by adding your own choice of extra ingredients.
Natural Cookies For Your Dog
Make your own customized natural cookies for your dog. If you add more wet ingredients, the treats will be soft. If you add less liquid ingredients and leave the treats in the cooling oven, the treats will be chewier. Your dog will love them whatever if the texture unless your dog prefer one or the other texture. Your cookies can be made easily with a few common ingredients. The natural cookies that you make for your pet will be healthy and you can save money by making your own pet treats.
Use One Basic Recipe That You Customize Whenever You Use It
You can use one basic recipe and cook it in whatever way best suits you and your pet. When the additional ingredients are added, it will take longer for the cookies or biscuits to get done.
Follow the basic recipe and then customize it with whatever you have on hand. You can add between ¼ cup and two cups of extra dry ingredients to create nutritious and inexpensive dog treats. You can cut the dough into training treat size or cut and extra-bake them into a chewing treat. The recipe is small enough that you can experiment with additional ingredient combinations.
Baking Powder Or Not
You can leave the baking powder out if you do not want to add that ingredient to your pet’s diet because store bought baking powder mixture can sometimes have aluminum particles and high levels of sodium. You can make your own natural baking powder out of one part potassium bicarbonate and two parts each of arrowroot powder and cream of tartar.
You can customize your dog cookies and biscuits by adding your choice of flavor ingredients. Meat, meat juices, gravy, bone meal, baby food meat, tuna, tuna oil, rendered fat and meat broth can be used for natural nutrition. You can also add leftovers to your pet’s cookies and biscuit recipes. You can also add brown rice; carrots, apple cider vinegar, cottage cheese, milk and vegetable water in your natural dog treat recipes.
Basic Dog Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 or 2 Eggs, use two eggs for a softer cookie
- 2 1/2 Cups Rice or Potato Flour
- 1/4 Teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1/4 Cup Butter, Vegetable Oil, Fish Oil or Combination
- Optional: 1/4 LIquid - Water, Stock, Soup, Milk, Meat Drippings
- Optional: 1/4 Cup Grated Cheese, Parmesan Cheese, Bacon Bits, Leftover Meat
- Optional: Up to 2 Tablespoons of Honey or Molasses, no honey for puppies. A sweetener depends on your flavoring choice.
Instructions
- Beat the eggs and set aside.
- Mix the dry ingredients. If you are using honey or molasses, blend the honey with the flour.
- Cut the fats into the flour mixture.
- Mix in the beaten eggs.
- For a tender cookie, add a small amount of liquid to soften the dough.
- Bake in a preheated 325 degree farenheit oven for twelve to fifteen minutes or until done. Watch for the edges to brown and to draw away from the original position. The cookie will also be evenly lightly browned. For a softer cookie, bake the cookies until done and then take them out of the oven to cool. For a harder treat, cookie or biscuit, you can turn the oven off and leave the cookies in the oven to cool completely into a harder dog cookie or biscuit before removing from the oven.
It is convenient and easy to make your own pet treats. Using what you already have on hand for making your homemade dog treats will save you money. Your pet will have nutritious goodies that can be made to suit your pet taste and needs. Click these links for recipes for dog party cake or the meaty dog party cake for your dog.
