VEGETARIAN DOG TREAT RECIPE
I thought a meat free dog treat recipe without using liver or meat would make a nice change so I thought I'd try banana alongside peanut butter and honey to make recipe I call Banana Bombs! These dog treats are great, they have a hard crusty shell which makes them excellent to carry around but moist and bready inside and packed with flavour! Dogs love them!
After making them I took some with me while I went out dog walking. Ruffles the Lhasa apso loved his and I even got plenty of attention from other people's dogs who could smell them in my bag. So that's a big paws up for them already!
Please note: Some 'low sugar' peanut butters use xylitol sweetener as a substitute. Avoid this as it's harmful to dogs.
Banana bombs
Vegetarian dog treat recipe
Equipment
- Mixing Bowl
- Hand Blender
Ingredients
- 2 Eggs
- 2 Bananas
- 200 grams Peanut butter (200g = 1 cup)
- 1 Squirt of honey
- 200 grams Wholemeal flour (200g = 1 cup)
- 200 grams Cornflour (200g = 1 cup)
Instructions
- Add two eggs, 200g (1 cup) of peanut butter, 2 chopped bananas and a good squirt of honey to a bowl
- Blend it till it's smooth
- Now add 200g (1 cup) of wholemeal flour
- Then add 200g (1 cup) of cornflour
- Mix the flours in with a fork then roll up your sleeves because you'll need to get stuck in with your hands to mix it all up
- Roll into little balls and place onto baking tray. Be quite firm when rolling them in your hands
- Preheat oven to 130°C (270°F) and then cook for 45 minutes. The buns above are now cooked and look brilliant
- Give to dog
Could you substitute unsulphured blackstrap molasses for honey ?
I have never even heard of that till now… but read this: http://canigivemydog.com/molasses
I would like to try the Banana Bomb recipe for my finicky Yorkie boy but would like to know what gluten free flour can I substitute for the cornflour and wholemeal? Can almond flour or tapioca flour or potato flour work just as well? What different ratio/grams/weight of the flours be compared to those you listed in original recipe?
Fantastic looking recipes, can’t wait to try them, thanks Jamie.
Well, I’m certain that I did something wrong, but stuck to the recipe but it was ridiculously wet and had to put over a cup more of flour to be able to use it. I followed the recipe and ingredients exactly. They are now in the oven. But I’m afraid as I added more flour I wasn’t sure how they would pan out so I managed to roll and make some in biscuits and half in the balls. Will let you know how they come out. But the dogs were happy to sit by me and lick the spoon!