There’s nothing like receiving something warm and hand-baked as a holiday surprise! These treats are sure to be the perfect stocking stuffer for your puppy or a puppy owner in your life!
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Gift the gift a savory treat to the pup in your life! These adorable holiday puppy treats are the perfect stocking stuffer and gift to hand out to any pup owners in your life. Each is packed with flavors pups love like apple, sweet potato, and peanut butter! The best part is, they’re healthy and easy to bake up using ingredients you probably already have in your pantry!
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What puppy doesn’t love apple? Apples, oat flour, and coconut are all healthy gut-friendly foods that can also be found in brands sold in stores. These holiday treats are super quick and easy to make the day-of or they can be stored for days ahead of the holidays. And the best part is, you can save this dough for up to three months in the freezer and use it to make more holiday treats later on in the year!
Ingredients:
2 cups whole wheat flour (you can substitute with oat flour)
2 cups rolled oat flour
2 eggs
2 tbs melted coconut oil
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 Tbsp Vanilla extract
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350ºF
Combine all ingredients in a food processor or stand mixer. Add flour as necessary until dough is no longer sticky and is ready to roll out.
For the different colored dough, divide into separate bowls and add natural food coloring.
Keep the dough covered to prevent drying between batches. You can rehydrate dough with a little coconut oil as needed.
Bake them for 20 minutes.
More cookies, please! Here’s another easy and quick recipe that you can whip up for your puppy. And if you have more than one pup you’re looking to give out holiday treats too, you can easily double (even triple!) this recipe! While this recipe does contain all-purpose flour, you can substitute it with oat flour. As always when you’re thinking of changing or adding something to your pup’s regular diet, ask your veterinarian for their input!
Ingredients:
1 cup molasses
4 tablespoons honey
1 cup of water
½ cup of vegetable oil
6 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 tablespoons chopped fresh ginger or one tsp. of dried powder ginger
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350ºF degrees. You will need two bowls, one medium, and one large.
Combine the molasses, honey, water, and oil in the medium bowl. In the large bowl mix the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and ginger. Then you will want to slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.
Divide this dough into four balls, wrap each ball in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 3 - 5 hours, or you can freeze them for 1 - 2 hours (just don't let them get solid!) After the dough is cold, lightly flour your surface and roll the dough out to about 1/4" thickness.
Cut the dough out into fun shapes, such as Gingerbread men, with a cookie-cutter. You can also just use a pizza cutter and make the cookies into squares and strips, depending on what you want to do.
Bake for around 20 - 25 Minutes, until the cookies start to get brown. You can take one out and break it to see how crunchy it is. If you want it really crunchy, then you will want to bake them longer.
Optional:
Frost these cookies using melted Yogurt Chips, and add a bit of food coloring, or you can use a small amount of white chocolate melting discs (does not contain cocoa), and add food coloring.
Sweet potato and peanut butter - talk about mouth-watering! Your puppy will literally drool over these holiday treats. Just like the other two recipes that we featured before, these treats are easy to put whip up and are totally healthy for puppies. A quick reminder, this recipe calls for fresh sweet potato for good reason! Pie purees that come in a can already feature preserving additives and spices that aren’t safe for your puppy.
Ingredients:
2 cups fresh sweet potato, pureed
1 egg
1/2 cup oats
3 cups whole wheat flour
3 Tbsp of all-natural peanut butter
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 salt, optional
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350ºF.
Peel and cube two medium sweet potatoes and bring to a boil in a pot of water. Reduce the heat to low and simmer approximately 15-20 minutes or until soft. Drain cooked potatoes and puree using a blender or food processor.
In a small bowl, stir together the flour, oats, and cinnamon.
In a separate large bowl, whisk together the egg, sweet potato, and peanut butter until combined. Stir wet ingredients into the dry ones.
Pour onto a floured surface and roll dough out to 1/4 - 3/8 thick. Cut out using Christmas cookie cutter. The dough will be a little sticky, dust your hands and the rolling pin with a little flour to help!
Bake for 30 to 35 minutes until golden brown.
Place on cooling racks and let them cool thoroughly and they will harden as they cool.
A Holiday Treat Tip for Owners!
Holiday treats are such a sweet way to give your puppy something extra special! But they’re exactly as the name says, treats, and they shouldn’t replace your puppy’s regular food. The ingredients featured in these recipes are safe and healthy for puppies to consume however if your puppy does have food allergies, consult with your vet if you’re considering giving them any homemade holiday treat.
And as a quick reminder, as this is the season of giving, consider the pups in shelters still waiting on their forever home. If you happen to make a few extra batches of holiday treats, contact your local shelter about bringing some goodies to the pups!
Happy Holidays!
Disclaimer: All of these recipes are curated and not our own. The original recipes are curated courtesy of www.rover.com, www.gonetothesnowdogs.com, and www.lemonsandbasil.com.
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