This time of year I like to bake Christmas Cookies, including baking some for the brown dawgs. I decided to make a cookie recipe which incorporates one of their favorite fruits–bananas.
I found this recipe on Allrecipes. It is a good thing that I read the comments because the recipe on that site is wrong. Here is the correct recipe which is printable.
Brie's Banana and Honey Dog Treats
Ingredients
- 1 cup water + more as necessary
- 2 bananas, mashed
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 4 ½ cups whole wheat flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350° F (175° C).
- Lightly grease 2 large baking sheets (or line with parchment).
- Combine water, mashed banana, honey, vanilla extract and egg in a large bowl.
- Stir in the whole-wheat flour and baking powder.
- Beat dough with an electric mixer on medium speed until ingredients are thoroughly combined, 1-2 minutes. If mixture is too dry, add some extra water.
- Turn dough onto a floured surface and knead until no longer sticky, 5-8 minutes.
- roll out dough until ¼-inch thickness and cut into mini shapes with your favorite cookie cutter.
- Place dough shapes on prepared baking sheets.
- Bake in preheated oven until cookies are lightly browned, about 20 minutes.
- Turn off oven and leave until cookies are thoroughly dry and crisp, 30 to 40 minutes.
- Remove cookies from oven and allow cookies to cool on pans for 10 minutes. Transfer cookies to wire rack to fully cool.
Credit: Allrecipes
Making Christmas Cookies
First I assembled the ingredients. I like this recipe because it uses simple ingredients that I had on hand. If your dog is sensitive to wheat flour, you could substitute rice or coconut flour.
This recipe calls for two mashed bananas. It is a good way to use up those ripe bananas you have lying around. My dough was a bit dry so I added approximately an extra ¼ cup of water. Whether you add extra water or not is something you will have to judge for yourself.
Next I turned out the dough, kneaded it with a bit extra flour, and rolled it out. This is a firm dough so I got a bit of a workout rolling it out. I selected small cutters because I wanted small shapes. If you want to make larger cookies, you may have to adjust the baking time.
Look who showed up.
Thunder decided he needed to supervise.
This recipe makes a lot of cookies. I filled two baking sheets and had left over dough to freeze.
The cookies look great right out of the oven.
Now for the taste test.
Thunder loved them. No big surprise.
Freighter is our most finicky taste tester and he loved them too. The cookie is very hard so the dogs have to chew them rather than swallow them in one gulp.
Are you baking any Christmas cookies this year?
Wonderful!
Thanks Earl Lover!
These sound good. I’m a big banana fan!
They don’t look that exciting to me, but the brown dawgs really love them.
Thunder looks like a good assistant.
“Supervisor” not assistant…lol.
It’s nice to have a good helper! I don’t understand Rita – she loves sweet things, but has zero interest in bananas. As for Christmas cookies, I’m not making any. My sisters always bring SO many to my house and the hubs won’t eat any ot them (cuz he’s crazy!) so I don’t want to contribute even more cookies to the already out-of-control amount that we get!
My hubby would be happy to eat your hubs’ share of cookies. 🙂
Easy and nummy can’t beat that. Thunder is a great helper!
It looks like a nice recipe. I’m lazy when it comes to baking for the dogs, I know I should get better. Maybe this will motivate me.
Nice looking taste testers you have there. 🙂
These sound great, and the crew loves bananas. I pinned it so we can try them later. I do plan on doing some baking tomorrow but I have a couple other recipes I’m going to try this time (plus I have no ripe bananas in the house!).
The idea of having to chew a treat is terrific! Supervision is a huge part of the indoor job!