Grain-Free Peanut Butter and Jelly Dog Treats (Dairy-Free, Too!)

Who may say no to the vintage flavors of peanut butter and jelly? Not your canine, that’s evidently! These grain-free, sugar-free, and dairy-free peanut butter and jelly canine treats are price drooling over.

Packed with wholesome fiber, protein, and nutrients, those selfmade canine treats make a superb present for buddies, canine birthday events, or simply because your canine is the cutest.

Homemade Grain-Free Dog Treats with Peanut Butter and Jelly

Ingredients

Makes about five dozen sandwich cookies

For the Jam

• 2 cups frozen fruit (we used 11 ozstrawberries and five ozblueberries)
• Juice of 1 lemon (about three Tbsp)
• 2 tbsp cornstarch (arrowroot or tapioca is okay too)
• Optional: 1 tbsp chia seeds
• Optional: honey to style

For the Peanut Butter Cookies

• four cups rolled oats pulverized within the meals processor (or about three cups every other flour)
• 2 tbs flooring flaxseed
• four tbs heat water
• 1 cup peanut butter (be careful for xylitol, a sweetener toxic to canine)
• 1 cup applesauce

Notes: You can change 2 eggs instead of the flaxseed and heat water. You too can use store-bought jam, however our unsweetened model is more healthy—plus, tastes nice on biscuits, oatmeal, or yogurt. Yum.

Kiki Kane

Make the Peanut Butter and Jelly Dog Treats

Start the jam first to present it time to thicken and cool.

1. In a strong saucepan, position the frozen fruit and the juice of 1 lemon over medium-low warmth.
2. As the fruit thaws, mash it down with the again of a spoon.
3. Adjust the warmth accordingly to deal with a low however secure simmer till the fruit is lowered by means of part, about 50 mins.
4. Add the cornstarch and whisk till the jam is thickened (about three mins.)
5. Add the chia seeds (if the use of) and position your jam within the refrigerator to chill and set.

Dog-Friendly Jelly Video

For the Cookies

Preheat oven to 350º and alter the racks so you’ll simply manipulate 2 baking trays.

1. Pulverize flaxseed in a blank espresso grinder. Pop the flax in a small bowl and upload heat water, stir, and put aside.
2. Blitz four cups of oats within the meals processor till you get a pleasant flour consistency. Remove the oat flour to a big bowl and put aside.
3. Place the peanut butter, applesauce, and flaxseed into the bowl of the meals processor. Pulse frivolously to mix.
4. Add the flour to the rainy combination by means of the cupful, pulsing to include.
5. Turn dough onto a frivolously floured board to roll. Divide into two batches in the event you like.

Roll out your dough, including flour as important. Using your massive cookie cutter, reduce out your cookies. Use the smaller cookie cutter to chop out a window in part the cookies. These will probably be your cookie tops.

Place peanut butter canine treats within the oven and bake for 30 mins, rotating and swapping the trays midway thru. Bake till simply golden.

Allow cookies to chill utterly earlier than assembling.

Peanut Butter and Jelly Dog Treat Assembly

Apply a small spoonful of jam to the middle of a backside cookie and gently press a most sensible cookie on. Beautiful. If your jam is simply too skinny, take middle, you’ll simmer it with a bit of extra cornstarch till you get the consistency you want.

Keep those selfmade canine treats refrigerated to verify freshness.

Tasting Notes

Drool-worthy.