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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.
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.
Ha! Ha! I’m with you Vanessa (comment dated February 8th) My husband came home and said “Yum! The house smells good! Oooo cookies! Why are the cut into the shape of a Boxer?” Me ” They are Dog cookies, and I used our Boxer cookie cutter. Try one if you’d like”. He did, and liked them! My poor boxer girls Stella & Sophie just sat and stared at him with sad eyes. 🙁
I did stay away from the whole wheat flour…they are just as tasty!
Love this story!
Can you sub peanut butter for soy butter? i am having my classroom make dog biscuits and they cant have peanut butter in the school.
Sorry I’m not completely positive. I haven’t tried them with soy butter.
Why aren’t mine crunchy? I made them as thin as possible.
Hmmm…it’s hard for me to say since I wasn’t in the kitchen with you. But if you can always bake them for longer.
Hi I have 2 dogs and they are losing there teeth . But they love soft treats is there any thing I can substitute the flour with so it will hold together but maybe make them a little more moist. Also can I leave out the chickean broth and add some thing else like mashed bananas. Please help me make my dogs happy. Thank you Susan Calise
Hmm…I’m not quite sure. I haven’t tested this recipe in this way. You can feel free to substitute the chicken broth with water. You can also cut down on the baking time tremendously. I’d say bake them in half and remove them when they’re a teeny bit golden brown on the edges but still really soft on the inside. Let them cool completely and they should be a bit softer. Hope this helps!
for my dog i put in a blender peanut butter oats strawberries and some cheese the blender then i transfer it to an ice cube tray and freeze it this might feel good on the gums!
If you bake the whole batch on a cookie sheet and and then use a pizza cutter to cut them, and take them out when just done they will stay fairly soft. My 4 like them soft or crunchy so I do batches of both.
I was wondering what you could use to replace the wheat and chicken in this recipe. My dog is allergic to both but this recipe sounds awesome.
Hi Corie,
Yes, I actually have this recipe:
https://www.acozykitchen.com/grain-free-dog-treats/
Which is grain-free and doesn’t use any chicken broth.
Thank you so much! I’m so excited to make these today.
My dog is allergic to chicken, too. I usually just substitute organic vegetable broth when I see chicken broth in a recipe.
Cocnut flour
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Thank you so much for sharing your recipe!
My puppy loves cookies made on this recipe:
Ingredients:
6 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/2 Tbsp baking soda
1 tbsp ground ginger
2 tsp cinnamon
3/4 c applesauce
3/4 c molasses
1/2 c honey
1/4 c vegetable oil
1 egg, beaten
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.Combine all of the ingredients in your mixer with a dough hook. Turn it out onto a floured surface and roll it out to 1/4 inch thick.
Cut it with cookie cutter or simply with a pizza cutter. Place them on cookie sheets and poke each in the center with a fork.
Bake for 8 minutes and turn oven off, keeping oven door closed. Let the treats sit in the oven until hard about 1-2 hours.
You may be interested to see my collection of recipes of homemade dog treats (snacks, biscuits, cookies and bones) :
http://www.pinterest.com/gornoz/recipes-for-homemade-dog-treats-cookies-and-bones/
Do you need molasses for this recipe?
There’s no molasses in this recipe.
It does contain molasses. It says
3/4 c molasses right after 3/4 applesauce.
So do we NEED the molasses???
I meant no molasses for the recipe on this page that I posted. I cannot vouch for the recipe a commenter posted.
Hi I was wondering if you could substitute all purpose for the whole wheat flour?
Sure, that should work!
I baked these for my dog, but my husband and daughter keep eating them. She wants to take them to school for a snack.
Hahaha! So funny and cute!
Lol!!!
My dog Chippy loved this recipe…and so did I! We could eat this everyday!