The third part of our Sublime Sister’s Annual Crafting Weekend was making dog treats! We both LOVE our four legged daughters and have several friends who consider their dogs part of the family. If we’re making gifts for everyone else, it’s just natural that we include the doggies.
Originally this was one of the few projects that we wanted our daughters to do by themselves, but since they only see each other a few days every other month or so they just wanted to play and they weren’t too interested in ‘baking’ – which may be the first time they didn’t want to get involved in crafting or baking. Since they were oh so preoccupied with Rock Band 2 and a hundred Webkinz in Katie’s bedroom floor, we decided to go ahead and do it ourselves.
The recipe that we used is from the internet (we googled it) but apparently we forgot to save it. If you happen to know where the link is for this recipe, please let us know so we can pay credit where credit is due. It’s just 3 cups of oats (grinded), 1 1/2 cups peanut butter melted and 1/2 cup water – very simple! First we got all the ingredients together and started grinding the oats (they basically became dust).
Once everything was prepared, we mixed the oats with the melted peanut butter and started mixing it together. If you are anything like me, you will wash your hands about 17 times throughout this process!
I found it a lot easier to mix the ingredients with my hands. If it seems too dry, keep adding water a teaspoon at a time until it is the consistency below.
From here we decided we would just scoop the batter into balls and smoosh them down with a fork, similar to peanut butter cookies.
That’s it! Now bake them in the oven for 10 minutes and let dry completely before packaging. Here is what they look like as they are cooling…
Make sure to package them in an air tight container. Of course we decided to paint our own – with dog bones, paws and hearts. Here is what it all looked like when we packaged them and were ready to wrap them.
Some lucky dogs will be getting these for Christmas! Hope you liked them and got some good ideas for the extended members of your family!
- Renee
That is a great gift and awsome idea.
I have some friends who are “dog parents” I may have to make this for.
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