{"id":20843,"date":"2020-10-10T20:15:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T00:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=20843"},"modified":"2020-10-10T21:47:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T01:47:48","slug":"peanut-butter-dog-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/peanut-butter-dog-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Peanut Butter Dog Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week was a double celebration: my beautiful pup Maggie’s 8th birthday, and 8 months since we adopted her! She’s completely changed my life for the better this year – she’s a perfect emotional support dog and companion, I get daily fresh air and exercise on our walks, and together we’ve made lots of friends in our neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

\"peanut<\/p>\n

Our first fall colours with our pup – and my first success at getting her to pose for me!<\/em><\/p>\n

We recently discovered that Maggie loves peanut butter, so, to celebrate those 8s, I decided to try making some peanut butter cookies for her. I compared several recipes and then came up with my own, and it was a huge success!<\/p>\n

With only 3 healthy ingredients and no additives or preservatives, I think I may have stumbled on the perfect recipe, so I’ll share it with you below so you can make some for your own canine companions.<\/p>\n

\"peanut<\/p>\n

Is it cookie time?<\/em><\/p>\n

Peanut Butter Dog Cookies<\/h2>\n

Makes about 50 tiny cookies or 25 small cookies (or you can halve the recipe for a smaller batch).<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  • 1\/2 cup (55g) whole wheat flour<\/li>\n
  • 1\/4 cup (75g) natural peanut butter<\/li>\n
  • 2 tbsp unsweetened apple sauce*<\/li>\n
  • 2 tbsp water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    *Tip:<\/strong><\/em> If you can’t find a jar of apple sauce, 100% apple baby food is exactly the same<\/em><\/p>\n

    Method<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F (180\u00b0C).<\/li>\n
    2. Mix all ingredients in a bowl to form a thick dough.<\/li>\n
    3. Pull off small pieces, roll each into a ball and flatten to 1\/4″ inch (6mm) thick.<\/li>\n
    4. Place on ungreased baking sheet and bake for 18 minutes or until golden brown. Allow to cool completely before serving\/storing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      \"peanut<\/p>\n

      These are the 2 sizes I made – I got bored making the tiny bite-sized ones and made half my batch double-sized. They were both equally enjoyed.<\/em><\/p>\n

      These cookies don’t spread at all in the oven, so, if you wanted to be fancy and make beautiful giftworthy cookies, you could roll out the dough and use a mini bone-shaped cookie cutter, but Maggie and her neighbourhood friends confirm that my rustic round cookies are just as tasty!<\/p>\n

      \"peanut<\/p>\n

      They are easy to break apart, but not crumbly.<\/p>\n

      My batch lasted for about a week and the last few were noticeable drier to me but still equally enjoyed by Maggie, so I think they should keep for at least a week in an airtight container.<\/p>\n

      \"peanut<\/p>\n

      My name is Maggie, and I approved these cookies<\/em><\/p>\n

      Maggie’s main present – a sweater I’m knitting for her on my knitting machine – isn’t quite finished yet, but it’s not quite<\/em> dog sweater weather yet, so that’s okay! I’ll share pics once it’s finished. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Last week was a double celebration: my beautiful pup Maggie’s 8th birthday, and 8 months since we adopted her! She’s completely changed my life for the better this year – she’s a perfect emotional support dog and companion, I get daily fresh air and exercise on our walks, and together we’ve made lots of friends […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}