Pumpkin & Peanut Butter Dog Treats

This weekend Lizzie and I made dog treats for Penny and Tucker!

Here they are (from another weekend), two BFFs and cousins - how precious?

We had so much fun making them that I thought I'd share the recipe!

Tucker seemed to enjoy the treats as well :)

Pumpkin & Peanut Butter Dog Treats

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour

2 large eggs

2/3 cup pumpkin puree

3 tbsp of peanut butter

First, you'll want to preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Next, combine all ingredients in a stand mixer 

until you have a nicely blended mixture of dough. 

Sprinkle some flour on your clean counter top so that the dough won't stick 

while you roll your dough out.

Form a ball from the dough and place it on your flour. 

(If your dough is too dry, add a little water. If it's too wet, add a little flour.)

Next, you'll want to use your rolling pin to flatten the dough until it's about 1/4 inch thick.

Choose a few cookie cutters that you want to use for the treats. 

(Lizzie wanted to use all of the mini cutters I had, so here they are!)

With mini cutters, the ingredient list above yielded approx. 100 treats!

Next, you can start cutting the little shapes into the dough, 

getting them as close to each other as possible.

When you're done, you'll have a full piece of dough with all of your little shapes.

Remove the cutout pieces and place them onto a baking sheet. 

You can place the treats close together - 

they will puff up a little but will not run together while baking.

With the left over dough, reform a ball and roll the dough out again. 

Repeat the process of cutting out your shapes. 

You'll want to keep continuing this process until all of your dough is used. 

(The last 2 rounds, we opted for stars for easy and faster cutting!)

Once you have used all of your dough and have filled your cookie sheets, place in the oven for 20 minutes for soft and chewy treats, or 30 minutes for hard and crunchy treats. 

(We opted for the softer treats, and set our timer for 20 minutes.)

Once your treats are done, you'll want to pull them off of the cookie sheet 

and place onto a cooling rack.

After a few minutes and once they are cool, 

you are ready to pack them up and give to your pup to enjoy! :)

Here are the treats - a set for Tucker, and the set that Lizzie took home to Penny!

Tucker loved the treats! I can't wait to make more to wrap up for cute gifts! 

If you end up making these treats for your pup, let me know how they turned out! :)