National Cookie Day -tasty treats for your pets
Cats and dogs love to snack on a tasty cookie almost as much as we do, so to celebrate National Cookie Day here are recipes for treats that are sure to please your four-legged companions.
Bake some up today for a special surprise or bundle them up as edible gifts to put in their Christmas stockings.
Simplest Dog Biscuits:
This recipe is from Tasty Treats for Demanding Dogs. It is just about the easiest dog cookie around and you probably have the ingredients in your kitchen.
3 cups whole-wheat flour
½ cup nonfat dry milk
1/3 cup vegetable shortening
1 large egg
¾ cup beef or chicken broth
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Lightly grease two cookie sheets
- In a large bowl, using a fork or wire whisk, blend the flour and dry milk. Cut in the shortening.
- In a small bowl, using a fork beat the egg and broth together until smooth.
- Using a large spoon, combine the two mixes until a soft dough forms. (Add more broth if the mixture is too dry)
- Roll the dough onto a floured flat surface until it is ¼ inch thick. Use a 1 ½ -inch cookie cutter to cut as many cookies as you can, reworking the scraps as you go.
- Place the cookies side by side on the cookie sheets. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the cookies look very dry and golden brown.
- Remove the trays from the oven and let the cookies cool to room temperature. Turn off the oven.
- When the cookies have cooled completely, put them all on one tray and return them to the cooling oven. Let them remain in the oven in the “off” position for 8 hours.
8oz. tuna in oil
2 cups cornmeal
2 cups flour
¾ cup water
2/3 cup vegetable oil
½ teaspoon salt
- Mix the all of the ingredients in a large bowl until it becomes a stick dough.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Roll the dough on a flour flat surface to approx. ¼ inches thick.
- Cut dough into squares or with a cookie cutter.
- Place cookies onto a large greased cookie sheet.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes.
- Remove from oven and allow cookies to cool.