The Best Peanut Butter Dog Biscuits EVER – According to Sierra

These peanut butter dog biscuits are Sierra’s favorite and she claims that they’re the best dog biscuits recipe ever. She’d refuse most any other biscuit that anyone tries to give her. She’d sample the other treats then spit it out. Update: 3/21/2020: Our dear Sierra left this world at the age of 14 1/2. Her final months of pain and suffering finally came to an end and she’s now at peace. She had a wonderful life and brought us so much joy and love. xo

• We lost our sweet Lexi in May of 2024 and our dear Dante in May, 2011. We love you all so much. Thank you for bringing us so much love and joy into our lives. We can’t wait until there is the next set of dogs to share our lives with, but until then we will smile and have a few tears with the memories of our beloved pups.

Best Dog Biscuits Recipe

“Incentives.” That’s what we have to call dog biscuits now around the house. The pups have long figured out “treats” and spelling out the letters to each other in this LOL world was starting to get old. We’ve gotten in the habit of using letters instead of words so much I’ve started glancing over my shoulder expecting to hear a pre-K teacher about to scold “Use your words!”

I’ve been wanting to come up with a new dog biscuit recipe for a while. They are super handy to have around while Lexi is in her puppy-teenager phase. Nothing like a little “incentive” to help bring a distracted puppy running when you call them to “come”. My philosophy is that when you call them over to you, it should be the best thing in the world. Full of love, scratches, and oftentimes a delicious treat. Even when you want to twist their floppy ears for getting into something they aren’t supposed to.

Her Favorite Dog Treats

Unfortunately my last few attempts at a new biscuit recipe weren’t as good as I had hoped. Sure Lexi and Sierra slobbered, drooled and ate them all up, but I just wasn’t feeling the same excitement they’ve show for the other dog biscuits I’ve made.  And I didn’t like how the new recipes would roll out, or keep, or not crumble. It just wasn’t “it”. I think I was messing with the recipes too much.

After the the last few weeks of being crazy busy with shoots for clients getting ready with their Summer and Grilling Season recipes, the puppy parent guilt was starting to set it. So a few nights ago I gave up a couple hours sleep and was determined to make a slobber worthy treat for the pups.

Starting with a basic dog biscuit dough, I threw in a couple things that were good for them; turmeric and ground flax seeds. Sierra gets a weird head shaking thing which at best medical analysis is harmless but is probably caused by low blood sugar so I added a bit of brown sugar. Some peanut butter ’cause they really love peanut butter. And for the flavor kicker, added beef bouillon powder to the water used in the recipe. The dough rolled, cut, and baked beautifully. The only thing left was the white boxer test.

She’s a picky eater

Sierra has always been a cautious eater ever since testing out a devil pepper in the garden as a puppy. To this day, rarely does she take food without carefully testing it. Even then, food is about 5th or 6th down on her list of great things. Head rubs and attention, next is chasing balls, cozy fleece, walks… Oh and don’t forget chasing and arguing with the squirrels. It takes quite a bit to get her amped over any food item.

Verdict: In her 8 years of doggyhood, she has never camped out in the kitchen waiting for a treat. Nearly every night since making these “incentives” she can be found lying and waiting in the kitchen right below the treat container. Hand out a treat and our normally reserved, super gentle treat taker instantly flops her big fleshy lips over your fingers in a mad dash to get the “incentive” in her mouth. These are the best treats EVER.

Pups are happy and the “incentives” are mom and dad approved. Guilt appeased. Now back to work for a couple more client shoots then we’ll see about some dog beach time.

-Todd

Is Turmeric good for dogs? We did some research here and here.

 Dog Biscuit Cutter Sets

Here’s our favorite cutter sets. Obviously they have many uses beyond puppy treats, but ours tend to see a lot of action in that department. We love how all of these sets store, ’cause nothing drives us nuts more than messy kitchen drawers:

Set of 5. Snap together for easy storage Nice heart shape and easy to handle and press.

These are the bone shaped cutters we use at home all the time. Fun shape! Set of 3, comes in a handy storage tin.

This is our favorite round cutter set. Great selection of sizes. We’ll use the smallest for slightly larger than kibble sized training treats.

More of our stories:

• How Lexi stays warm
• Missing Sierra
• Fly Fishing trip
• Returning to our garden 
• Bryce Canyon