Home Made Dog Cookies - Carrots and Meat

 Carrot and Meat Dog Cookies in Heart Shapes

Here is a Kilohana K9s healthy dog cookie recipe. Sometimes we get tired of talking about Bed Bugs! These cookies are loved by Zoey and Daisy anytime we make them. We are sure your dog will love them too!

This recipe calls for shortening, but we use butter. Butter seems to work just fine but you may prefer shortening for your dog.

Meat and Carrot Dog Cookies
Ingredients
2 1/2 cups sifted whole wheat flour
4 Tbs Powdered Buttermilk
1 cube of bouillon, crumbled or 1 tablespoon powdered bouillon
1 cup cooked ground pork or pork and beef mixed
1 cup grated carrots
6 tablespoons shortening or butter
1 xtra large egg or 2 medium eggs
1/2 cup cold water, if or as needed

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (or 180-190 C) depending on your oven. 

In a large bowl, mix the flour, powdered milk and bouillon. Add the cooked meat, grated carrot, shortening and egg, while adding water gradually until you get a firm ball of dough. You may find you don't need the entire 1/2 cup of water.

Lightly flour your rolling surface and then roll out the dough to about 1/4 inch (0.5 cm) thickness. Use what ever design cookie cutters you desire, I use 'hearts' or 'dog bone' shapes. Cut out the shapes of dough and place them on the baking sheet. Use a Silpat baking/cookie sheet or lightly oil a plain cookie sheet. Silpat works the best. You can put them fairly close together, but not touching. They do not spread during baking.

When you make heart shaped cookies, I have found that pressing my finger lightly and making indentations at the top of the hearts makes them formed better (after peeling them off the rolling surface and placing them onto the Silpat in which they sometimes get malformed a bit) and it adds a cute texture when they are finished baking.

 Dog Bone shaped cookies on the Silpat baking sheet.

Add Some Cheese!

Here is a photo of some cookies made in the shape of stars with cheese.  I added just a pinch of shredded cheese on top of each cookie before baking for an extra flavor treat (click on photo to enlarge and see the cheese more closely). You can see the cheese melted nicely while baking. I used a cheddar and jack cheese mix on these cookies, but you could put almost any kind of semi-hard cheese such as cheddar, mozzarella, gruyère, edam or jarlsberg.