Last month, my daughters and I had a booth at a local community sale. We made several items to sell, including 4-ingredient homemade wholesome dog treats. The homemade wholesome dog treats ended up being our best seller. We almost sold out of our entire supply!
Before we came up with our homemade wholesome dog treat recipe, we took stock of the items we had in our pantry. We grabbed flavors that we knew our dogs would like, plus, they had some nutritional value.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup of Almond Butter
1/2 cup of Applesauce
1/2 cup of Beef Stock
1 1/2 cups+ of Whole Wheat Flour (have additional flour for kneading and rolling)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a mixing bowl combine all ingredients and form dough into a ball. Roll out dough on a floured hard surface until it is approximately a 1/4 inch thick. Gently press a cookie cutter into the dough to cut the shape and then remove. If you aren’t using a cookie cutter, you can use a pizza cutter to cut the dough too. Place treats on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until cookies are firm and golden brown. Let cool completely before serving.
Store homemade wholesome dog treats in an air-tight container.
Our homemade wholesome dog treat recipe is very versatile. Use any nut butter your dog likes, any fruit puree, any broth, and any flour. You can even use gluten-free flour if you wish.
With it being summer, we decided to freeze our homemade wholesome dog treats. Our dogs enjoy the cool treat straight from the freezer.
Homemade wholesome dog treats are also fun to gift! Make sure the recipient doesn’t have any food allergies before gifting them. Place homemade wholesome dog treats in a fun container and add a note. You can include the recipe for them to make more.
Do you bake your dogs treats?
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Hello, my name is Laurie. My family and I live near the Oregon coast. When we aren’t at work, in school, or on the volleyball court, we enjoy traveling, cheering for our favorite sports teams, playing outdoors, and checking off items on our bucket list. We are lucky in that both sets of our parents, as well as our siblings and their families, live within an hour of us. We get together often to help one another out, celebrate milestones, and go on adventures together.
This post currently has 25 responses.
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Dana Rodriguez
I bet any dog would love these. What a great recipe!
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ellen beck
Our dog does not get many treats. He is diabetic so I have to be super careful not to overfeed or too many carbs. I think he would enjoy something like this. The nut butter is high protein which I tend to give him.
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katie
My daughter loves giving our dog his daily treat. I think she would have a lot of fun cutting out the shapes he gets too.
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Lynne B
Beef stock is the ingredient I haven’t tried yet when making dog treats. My senior dog would love these.
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gala
Love it, much better than store bought
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donna porter
I am so glad you shared this recipe. I know my girl would love these. Just get so paranoid about all the recalls and deaths from store bought treats!
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Alice F,
I have never made homemade doggie treats. Great idea, price and very healthy for the dogs.
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Laurie Nykaza
My kids can’t wait to make these for our 2 dogs. They look so easy to make and i’m sure they will gobble them up too. We love making treat so we know what in them for our pets.
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Lesley F
Love making treats for our dogs. Thanks for sharing the recipe
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Love making treats for our dogs. Thanks for sharing the recipe
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Tracy Blakeman
I think I know who’s getting a special treat today… 🙂 These look so healthy for the pups, what a great idea!
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gloria patterson
What a great ideal! I know my family would buy homemade treats off store bought any time. Great ideal about freezing the treat
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Ronnell Storie
Right now I have a 150+ count of milk bones. When that runs out I will give this a try. Thanks!
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Debbie Welchert
I’m loving this recipe. The only thing I don’t have is the Almond Butter buts that’s no problem. I’ll have hubby run and get me some. I can already tell that my granddoggies are going to love these. Thanks for the great recipe.
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Tracie Cooper
Our dog Nellie would love these treats! I would love to try to some for her!
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I can’t wait to try making these for my dogs and i did pin it as well. My dogs would love the flavors im sure. They look fun for the kids to make too.
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Mary Gardner
These sound great. I have never fed almond butter to my dogs, but they love anything with peanut butter so I imagine they would love it.
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Shannon V Holmes
My dog is spoiled and only gets homemade dog treats, Thanks for the share.
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monique s
I love the idea of making my own treat. Seems like such a cost saver and east too.
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Shirley O
I really like the idea of making homemade dog treats. Looks like a great recipe.
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Katreece McGrath
What is the shelf life for these treats?
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Helga
This is a simple recipe my dogs would like me to make for them! The ingredients are healthy too.
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Nicki P Gary
I can’t wait to try these for my furry baby Duchess. She’s a 14 yr old black labrador. I do purchase her food but I make all her treats ?
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I can’t wait to try these for my furry baby Duchess. She’s a 14 yr old black labrador. I do purchase her food but I make all her treats ?
That’s an easy way to make home made dog biscuits. Now if I only had a dog….