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Bake these Homemade Dog Treats for your doggie best friend. These dog treats are filled with peanut butter, chicken broth, honey and oats. If you’re looking for a grain-free option, make these Grain-Free Pumpkin Dog Treats.
Remember when I posted my sweet “Meet Amelia“. She’s now a grown up dog that is feisty, full of attitude but SO sweet. She deserves a dog treat. I’ve made her everything from a Grain-Free Dog Cake, a regular Dog Birthday Cake and of course, these Homemade Dog Treats.
Ingredients You’ll Need for Homemade Dog Treats
- Peanut Butter. Is there anything else dogs love more? Definitely not.
- All-purpose flour. I use a mix of all-purpose flour and whole wheat. You can use all AP flour or all whole wheat. Both will work.
- Oats. This adds some good texture. And I love oatmeal in cookies (see my: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies) so I figured she’d love them too.
- Honey. This adds some good flavor to these dog treats.
- Chicken stock. You can use a homemade chicken stock or store-bought broth or stock.
For the rest of the ingredients, please see the recipe index card below!
How to Make Homemade Dog Treats
- Mix together the peanut butter, honey, oil and chicken broth. We want this to be smooth and cohesive.
- Pour in the flours. Add in the flours and oats. Mix it until it comes to be a dough.
- Flour your work surface. Add the dough to the counter and roll it out until it reaches a 1/4-inch thick.
- Stamp out the cookies. And then transfer them to your prepared baking sheet.
- Re-roll the scraps. And stamp out more cookies.
- Bake the cookies. Let them cool on a cooling rack.
Recipe Tip
- Peanut Butter. Feel free to add a creamy almond butter instead of peanut butter.
- How to Freeze Cookie Dough. Freeze this cookie dough by placing the baking sheet in the freezer for 30 minutes. At the 30 minute-mark, transfer the cookies to a freezer-safe bag and keep in the freezer for up to 6 months. Bake them from frozen.
Recipe FAQs
Yes, you can use a gluten-free all-purpose flour. If you want to make a grain-free option, check out my Grain-Free Pumpkin Dog Treats.
They should last up to two weeks when stored in an airtight container.
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Homemade Dog Treats
Equipment
- 1 large bowl
- 1 spatula or wooden spoon
- 1 bone-shaped cookie cutter or another shape you like
- 2 Baking Sheets
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment and set them aside. In a large bowl, whisk together peanut butter, honey, oil and chicken broth until smooth. Pour in the flours and oatmeal. Mix until combined.
- Add some flour to your work surface. Turn the dough out onto the work surface and roll the dough until it's about 1/4-inch thick.
- Using a small bone cookie cutter (or any other shape you have), stamp out the cookies. My cookie cutter was a 5-inch bone-shaped cookie cutter. If you have a small dog, feel free to use a 2"-inch bone-shapped cookie cutter. Use a small bone
- Stamp out as many cookies as your cutter allows and transfer to the cookies to the prepared baking sheet.
- Roll up the leftover scraps and re-roll it. Cut out as many as possible. Bake the cookies for 14-16 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack. Store them in an airtight container for up to two weeks.
Notes
- Peanut Butter. Feel free to add a creamy almond butter instead of peanut butter.
- How to Freeze Cookie Dough. Freeze this cookie dough by placing the baking sheet in the freezer for 30 minutes. At the 30 minute-mark, transfer the cookies to a freezer-safe bag and keep in the freezer for up to 6 months. Bake them from frozen. Â
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
*This post was originally posted on April 29th, 2010. This post and recipe has since been updated with new photos.
HI! I have a quick question for you. Can you use any other flour instead of the whole wheat? This is like, the only recipe that I’ve found without crazy stuff like wheat germ and stuff like that. Can’t wait to give it a try!
You can substitute and use all-purpose if you like. Or you can use a grain-free flour like garbanzo or quinoa flour.
Thank you for posting this recipe! My little girl (10 years old) needed a recipe – they are planning to make dog treats to sell for her 4H group fundraiser. She found this and whipped out a batch on her own tonight. They are a hit with our border collie/golden retriever girl!
Oh yay! I love this. So glad they were easy to make/your doggie loved them. 🙂
made them and they are wonderfulllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll. thanks for the recipe
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My “little girls” first birthday was this weekend. We have a Golden named Maggie. My daughter and I decided to make treats for her to “celebrate”. This recipe looked great and got awesome doggie reviews. I cut the recipe in half (you mentioned 50) I figured-for now-lets try 25-less to throw away if I blew it!! They were so easy to make and roll. I rolled them a bit thin-will make them much thicker next time (yup-next time!) Now, for Maggie’s review…she loved them…though at first I did worry. She took the treat with a look in her eye of is this ok?? Even took her a minute to eat it (trust me-at 65 lbs. it should have taken just a few seconds!) I figured out her hesitation! We don’t give her food or treats from the kitchen counter (no trying to steal food or beg while I’m cooking!) I had cooled the treats there and couldn’t wait to give her one! She must have thought I was setting her up for trouble! Once she saw that it was ok she came back for more!!! Huge winner with Maggie! Thanks for sharing the recipe…
these dog treats are amazing my dog loves them where did you get that idea
I just made these tonight and the consistency of them were a little soft even after they’ve been cooled, are they supposed to be hard like milk bones? I might put them back in the oven and see what happens…
They’re not super super hard but should be pretty firm. I’d put them in the oven and bake ’em for an extra 15 minutes. 🙂
I make a Sweet Potato and Apple recipe for my GSD off of Whole Foods website that is excellent–I substitute with canned pumpkin regularly. I am looking forward to trying these. A suggestion… I only keep a couple handful of treats in a jar at a time and put the rest in a ziplock bag in the freezer so I don’t have to worry about spoilage due to the lack of preservatives. Just pull a couple handfuls out every week, so they are always fresh.
One of my four-legged boys has severe food allergies, so no chicken anything for him. I substitute vegetable broth in recipes for him. I also keep the white flour to a minimum and used 1/2 cup each of white and oat flour. Both boys loved the cookies! Thank you for sharing the recipe!
I DIDNT HAVE ANY CHICKEN BROTH SO I USED WATER HOPE ITS STILL YUMMY FOR MY PUP SHE IS A PICKEY EATER AND ONLY LIKES THE TREATS THAT ALMOST CAUSED HER DO DIE SO SINCE MAY WE HAVE BEEN VERY WORRIED ABOUT STORE BOUGHT FOOD IF YOU KNOW ANY RECIPES FOR DRY DOG FOOD PLEASE EMAIL ME
Water should work just fine. I don’t have any recipes for dry dog food, unfortunately.