This week’s recipe is something just a little different in that it is geared towards the canine in your life. If you happen to not have a canine in your life, please feel free to skip over this post. I promise to return to regularly scheduled human-geared programming next week.
I have been wanting to make homemade dog treats for Lola for the longest time and decided that her seventh birthday was the perfect time to give it a try! There are a plethora of dog treat recipes available online to wade through, a mind boggling amount in fact. I ultimately created my own recipe based on her dietary restrictions (she doesn’t eat too much grain), what human foods she enjoys the taste of and, admittedly, what I thought would also be acceptable for human consumption. I was curious to see what they tasted like!
Based on Lola’s reaction I think I hit it out of the ball park with this recipe. Not only did she adore them, they’re also healthy and actually make a decent human snack as well.
They turned out looking like oatmeal cookies.
This recipe comes with a warning. Lola is OBSESSED with these, kind of to a frightening level. She sits and stares at the spot on the kitchen counter where she knows they are kept all day. She just can’t get enough and I’m slightly concerned she has a borderline addiction. But hey, you only turn seven once. I guess we can all indulge every now and then.
“Give me my treat!”
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 1/4 cup gluten free baking mix or 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 2 tbsp ground flax seed
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/3 cup melted coconut oil
- 1 large banana mashed
- 1/3 cup water
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Oil cookie sheet or cover in parchment paper.
- Combine flax seed, oats, baking mix, and cinnamon in a bowl or mixer, mix well.
- Add coconut oil and mashed banana, mix well.
- Add 1/3 cup water, continue mixing.
- One completely combined use a tablespoon to spoon dough onto cookie sheet.
- Bake for 20 minutes.