Pumpkin (Pup-kin) Spice Dog Treats
1/2 cup pumpkin baby food or equivalent substitute (single serving jar, measured to 1/2 cup)
1 egg
1 tbsp olive oil (optional)
1 tbsp turmeric (optional)
sprinkle of ground black pepper (optional)
1 tsp cinnamon (optional)
Approximately 1 cup of brown rice flour or equivalent substitute
Preheat oven to 180C. Mix the pumpkin/baby food, egg, oil, and spices. Incrementally add flour, mixing into a firm dough. The amount of flour required may vary depending on your individual pumpkin mixture and any optional ingredients, so working the flour in incrementally is important. Missed the mark? No worries! You can add a little bit of water or additional flour to adjust consistency if needed. Roll on a floured surface and cut, then place on a prepared baking sheet. Alternatively, the dough can simply be rolled into small balls and flattened gently if you want to skip the rolling/cutting. Bake for approximately 10 minutes. Cool before serving and storage.
To make these as leaf shapes, as shown, you will need leaf cookie cutters, but you can also create your own leaf shapes from round cutters as shown in our naturally green left treats, or cut free-form shapes by hand. The veins are simply indented onto the leaves after cutting, as shown. After baking, I dehydrated the treats, but this is optional. Any baked treat can be left in the cooling oven for a slightly crisper texture or, if you want to get things extra crunchy without overbaking/burning, you can place the baked treats in the dehydrator (fresh from the oven or later) and dry them out. As a bonus, these made the house smell awesome! I have not taste tested them myself, but only because I'm a veggie and they contain beef. So the dogs are safe from sharing...this time. ;)
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