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Soft Dog Treats

Unsweetened applesauce, creamy natural peanut butter, pure pumpkin, oats, egg -- so good, you may eat them too!
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time25 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Servings: 50 small bones (mold)

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup pure pumpkin NOT pie filling
  • 1/2 cup creamy, all natural peanut butter WITHOUT Xylitol
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
  • 1 cup flour (I use AP, but you can use brown rice flour for GF)
  • 1 cup oat flour (or oats pulsed in food processor)
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 Tbl honey

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 325F. Grease baking molds with cooking spray -- or if they're larger molds, you can brush melted coconut oil in them. 
  • Mix pumpkin, peanut butter, applesauce, egg, and honey until well combined. A whisk works great. 
  • If you don't have oat flour, just take old fashioned or quick oats and put them in a food processor quick until floury. Mix oat flour, AP (or brown rice) flour, and baking powder together. 
  • Add dry into wet until well combined. Grease molds (pictured above) and spoon batter into molds. Using a spatula, take care to fill precisely and scrape away excess.
  •  Place silicone baking molds on sheet tray and bake in oven at 325F for 20-40 minutes depending on the size of the mold. To test done-ness, poke treat while in mold with fork or finger -- it should sort of spring back. It will be totally set and not "watery" at all. 
  • Once done, pull tray out. Let cool for a few minutes, then treats should pop out of mold easy-peasy. Let cool completely before letting pups dig in -- I know, it's hard!

Notes

STORAGE: These should be stored in the fridge -- not your countertop cookie container. If it will take longer than a week to finish, I vacuum seal mine and place in the freezer until my dog is ready for the "second half". I let defrost entirely before giving them to him. A freezer bag with most of air pushed out works well too!