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So you know what they say about art imitating life eh?
No? Me neither. What do I care about hat kind of thing, I’m just a dog. I could care less if art is ripping of life’s style. I’ve got bigger things to worry about like how I’m going to get all the stuffing out of my new toy and whether or not I can scam a second breakfast out of Daddy.
The only imitation I’m concerned about is when dog food imitates human food.
That’s the case this Tasty Tuesday. Inspired by one of her favourite human foods, the Mama decided she absolutely HAD to make it into a dog treat.
They look pretty good, right? Well, they taste pretty good too. The tasty sweet potato combined with the spicy cinnamon and ginger reminded the Mama of her own favourite Ginger Sweet Potato Pie and she couldn’t help but try one. (Turns out, she’d still prefer the human pie, which is just fine with me, because frankly, I might flip the woof out if she eats another one of my treats.
Ingredients:
- 2 1/2 cups brown rice flour
- 2 extra large eggs
- 3/4 cup baked sweet potato
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. ground ginger
- about 1/4 cup cold water
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350F. Line a baking sheet (or two) with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat
In a small bowl, lightly beat the eggs. Add sweet potato and mash with a fork until mostly smooth. (Don't be afraid to leave it a little chunky.) Stir in brown rice flour, cinnamon and ginger, until it forms a dry dough. Add cold water 1 tbsp. at a time until the dough is firm, but not sticky.
Roll out dough to about 1/8 - 3/16" thick. Cut out with cookie cutters (or if you're lazy as woof, like apparently the Mama is this week), just slice the dough into squares, using a knife or a pizza cutter. (I also recomend poking them once with a fork. Just stick a fork in 'em, wiggle it a bit and pull it back out, otherwise they'll get a bit puffy & misshapen - like mine did. You'd think I would know better by now, eh??)
Place cookies on the baking trays and bake for 20 - 25 minutes until the bottom is golden brown. Flip the treats and bake an additional 20 minutes.
Allow the treats to cool completely, then store in an airtight container.
Bone Appetit!
Do your humans ever make you treats inspired by their favourite human foods. What flavours?
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Jodi
Tuesday 2nd of April 2013
One of these days I'm really going to try and make one of the Mama's recipes!! I still like treats for humans though. :-)
KolchakPuggle
Wednesday 3rd of April 2013
Make the peanut butter banana bread. It can be both...and it's gluten free ;0)
SUGAR: Golden Woofs
Tuesday 2nd of April 2013
Woof! Woof! LOVE Sweet Potato, a great secret ingredients on my treats. Happy tasty Tuesday. Lots of Golden Woofs, Sugar
KolchakPuggle
Wednesday 3rd of April 2013
We love SP too - We use it alllll the time. LOL - in fact we have to stop ourselves from making SP treats like every second week!
emma
Tuesday 2nd of April 2013
Yummy!!! I will have to try these!
KolchakPuggle
Wednesday 3rd of April 2013
They're pretty good!!
Gizmo Geodog
Tuesday 2nd of April 2013
Jodi the blog is looking great and the addition of that ZipList for saving and the print option are really nice touches
KolchakPuggle
Wednesday 3rd of April 2013
Thank you very much! Someone suggested the print/save buttons and I was like DUH! Why didn't I think of that!? LOL, we're still trying to improve things so if you're ever like "Gee, I sure wish that..." just woof at us. We like to know what we can do better!