Thursday, December 6, 2012

Christmas baking for the pooches

Everyone else gets special treats all month long, so I want to give something to the doggies too. I don't have any other kids, so the dogs have their own stockings and get plenty of presents on Christmas day, but nothing wrong with treating them through the month, right?

I was googling Christmas recipes for dogs, and found these "Dog Christmas Delights-." I wouldn't eat them, but I'm sure the pooches will love them.

The recipe comes from the page k9puppydogs.com, and if you're into fixing stuff for your pets, it's well worth a visit!

Ingredients: 
1 cup of whole-wheat flour
½ cup of unbleached all purpose flour½ cup of graham flour½ cup of soy flour1/3 lb of raw chicken livers (eeewww)
2 tablespoons of chicken broth, or as much as needed2 tablespoons canola oil1 egg



Preparation:

Place the oven rack in the center of the oven and pre heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place 1 slightly greased baking pan on the side.

Use a large bowl and a wire whisk to mix the whole-wheat flour, all purpose flour, graham flour, and soy flour together.

Put the chicken livers inside a blender or food processor and blend them down to a paste. Then beat in the broth, oil and egg and blend it together until it is smooth.

Next, blend both the dry and wet preparation together with a spoon or use your hand until it becomes a soft dough and starts to pull away from the bowl it is in. If it is too dry add a teensy bit more broth to it.

Slightly flour a flat surface and turn the dough onto it. Use a rolling pin to roll it out to ½ inch of thickness. Use a cookie cutter to cut out the cookies shapes (whatever shape your dog likes) and make sure to reuse the scraps as you go. You will notice that the dough will become stiffer as you work it.

Put the cookies on the set aside prepared baking pan and place them in the oven. Bake for around 15 to 20 minutes or until the cookies have acquired a light golden brown color and look dry. Then remove them from the oven and place the tray over a rack and allow the cookies to cool completely. Turn the oven off.

Once the cookies have cooled, put them back inside the warm oven in a baking tray and allow them to sit in there undisturbed without opening the oven door for 10 to 15 hours straight.

Again, I didn't make the recipe up. I found it at k9puppydogs.com :-) 

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