Cranberry Apple Dog Treats

For Christmas my favorite and only mother bought me a smoothie maker. I think, in a not so subtle way, she was trying to tell me that I need to eat healthier. She doesn’t have a problem telling me this to my face, I just think she was getting tired of repeating herself for the past 30 years, so what better why to say it then with a smoothie maker.
Anyway, in attempts to make her happy I bought some cranberries, apples and blueberries to make a nice healthy smoothie for myself. I fully intended to make one, I swear.
So two weeks pass by and I go to get an apple out of the fridge for Gracie and there I see my cranberries, still in the unopened package they came in. Damn it! I forgot to make the smoothie! Oh well, obviously I’m a lost cause for eating healthy but I know of a few furry little doggies that could benefit from these happy little cranberries. So I googled cranberry dog treats and found a very simple recipe for Apple Cranberry Dog Treats.

Ingredients.

1 cup of cranberries
1 cup of apple sauce
2 cups of whole flour
1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
1/4 cup of milk

I had cinnamon apple sauce so I just used that and omitted the ground cinnamon.

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Puree cranberries and mix with applesauce.
Add mix and whole wheat flour and mix well.
Knead dough into a ball and roll out onto heavily floured surface to about 1/4 inch thick.
I just cut the dough into squares but you can also use cookie cutters.
Place on ungreased cookie sheets and bake for 10 15 minutes or until light brown.
I rolled the dough out a little thick and the boys like their treats crunchy, so after the 15 minutes I turned the oven off and left the treats in there overnight.

The dough was so pretty with the red cranberries in it that I couldn’t resist snapping a picture.
The dough was sticky, and I used a lot of flour on the surface, so I’m not sure what went wrong here.
I remember that someone once told me that there was something I could do to make the dough not as sticky but I forgot, so if you are reading please tell me again!

The treats came out pretty good and the boys love them, which makes me feel good.

At least someone is eating healthy around here! Sorry Mom!

Thanks to Doggy Dessert Chef for this great and simple recipe.

To see what other bloggers are cooking up for their pets stop on over at Kol’s Notes and Sugar the Golden Retriever for Tasty Tuesday.