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 dear Dante in May, 2011. We love you both so much. Thank you for bringing us so much love and joy into our lives. We still have Lexi in our lives to continue the love.
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 often times a delicious treat. Even when you want to twist their floppy ears for getting into something they aren’t supposed to.
Watch video for Peanut Butter Dog Biscuits featuring Sierra & Lexi:
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.
Sierra, our dear white boxer and Lexi, our Rhodesian ridgeback. Sisters!
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:
This dog biscuits recipe was originally published in 2013 and re-published in 2018 with a new video, updated photos and recipe box format!
Peanut Butter Dog Biscuits w/ Flax & Turmeric - Best Dog Biscuit EVER!
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup (180 ml) hot Water
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) Beef or Chicken Bouillon Powder
- 2 1/2 cups (325 g) all-purpose Flour
- 2 Tablespoons (30 ml) Brown Sugar , optional
- 1/2 cup (55 g) ground Flax Seed
- 1 Tablespoon (15 ml) Turmeric
- 1/2 cup (130 g) Peanut Butter
- 1 (1) Egg
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper.
- Dissolve the bouillon in the hot water. Set aside.
- Combine the flour, brown sugar, ground flax, and turmeric in a mixer bowl. Using a dough hook, mix in hot water mixture, peanut butter and egg. Continue mixing until the dough ball is smooth, occasionally scraping down the sides of the bowl to help everything mix together.
- Roll out the dough to a little less than 1/2" thick. Cut into desired dog biscuit shapes (we use hearts for "good dogs" and small circles or small bone shapes for training incentives). Place the cut out dog biscuits on the prepared sheet pans.
- Bake for about 35-40 minutes or until the biscuits feel dried and fairly hard (they will harden a bit more after cooling). Baking time will vary depending on how thick the biscuits were rolled out. As long as the biscuits are cooked fully dry, they will keep for several weeks or more.
Have read that peanut butter is very unhealthy for your dog!!
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I made these this morning. Our dog,Chewie, stayed close to the oven as they baked. I used coconut flour, brown rice flour and whole wheat flour. I doubled the recipe because I’m making these for the dogs I pet set for. I grabbed flax seed instead of flax flour. Added shredded carrot for extra color. A little more turmeric with pepper. All in all they were so easy to make. Chewie loved the end results. Bagged them up for my four legged friends. Made little treats for my little dogs.
These are fantastic! ย My dogs love them. (I actually tried one myself- not bad ?) Be prepared to use a heavy duty cleaner to wipe off the countertop if you roll out dough directly onto the countertop – the turmeric stains.ย
Great! More recipes thanks. These look good and easy to make perfect for kids to enjoy making dog treats. I’ll try making one with the kids.
Fun to make.
Additions and substitutions:
More water
Oatmeal
Whole wheat flour
Half a can of smelly cat food
Applied coconut oil to the top before baking
NO SUGAR! nope nope nope.
And you have to add black pepper to help the body absorb turmeric so I added about a 1/4 of a teaspoon.
I used honey, whole wheat flower and some steel cut oats instead of brown sugar, turmeric, flax seed, and regular flour. I got about 140 1.5in heart treats. My dog loves them. I have some to my friend and her dogs all give positive reviews!
Great recipe! My dogs love them but itโs too crumbly. No way I can roll the balls out and cut them with a cookie cutter. I just form them in my hand and theyโre not too pretty but the dogs eat them. All that matters. Thank you!
Just made these. If you knead the batter prior to rolling it out, the batter holds together well.
I’ve ended up with 4 dogs, 3 are rescues. We threw a joint 5th, & 15th birthday party, so I made your biscuits. I didn’t have flax seed, so I substituted wheat germ, & used liquid chicken broth. All 4 dogs love these biscuits, & keep looking for more. This recipe is a keeper!
Hi Yvonne, what a wonderful family of pups you have. You’re an amazing Mom! ๐
My baby girl loves these! Theyโre great for training if you make them in smaller pieces!ย
Yay! So glad she enjoys them. Thanks for letting us know.
Love this recipe as it is very easy to make and feels that anyone can make it with a little presence of mind moreover there are little bit things which you can add it to make it tastier for your pet.
Can I add more turmeric as my 14 year old bagle has a lot of anxiety and is having a bit of a problem getting around, although at times he runs around like a puppy. He stays at my daughters house where he can run around in a fenced yard and I don’t have that here in a condo.
Sure. I’ll often add a more to our batches, especially as Sierra gets older (she’s almost 14 too!). I wouldn’t go crazy, because there always is the downfall of too much of a good thing. In high concentrates it has occasionally caused kidney stones in humans and less reputabel companies will color their turmeric with metanil yellow, also called acid yellow 36, which is illegal in the States and Europe, but might still slip past the labeling regulations.
But it takes a lot of turmeric to be considered a high concentrate. In general, you’d almost have to dump a jar into the batch to be too much!
Looks good. My babies will definitely like this.
Is there a substitution for turmeric??
You can just leave it out. Dogs still love it!
Wonderful biscuits, my Shelties loved them! I used homemade chicken broth because it’s lower in sodium so healthier for their pancreas substituted hemp heart for flax seed. Thanks ๐
That’s fantastic that you used help heart! Thanks for sharing.
The house dog stole some while they were waiting for the pan and then knocked the cooling rack stand over and ate more while I was waiting for them to cool enough to bag up for the neighbor’s “Christmas cookies”. I would say they are a hit.
I made these for my sisters dog and he went absalotly crazy over them! Thankyou for the recipie will deffinatly continue to make these for him.
Awesome! We’re thrilled that the pups enjoyed them. Thanks Bettina!
These biscuits look so good and adorable ๐
My dog is allergic to wheat, can I use another flour? Maybe half all purpose, half gluten free? Thank you โค๏ธ
I have to praise you and Thank you for finding a wonderful antiinflammatory treat that doesn’t taste like cardboard, or curry. My pickier-than-thou pups absolutely love these treats! I subbed Steel cut oats for flax seed, only bc I had them on hand from other (failed) treat recipes. I tripled the turmeric because my girls are large dogs, and can use the extra goodness. Thank you thank you for the excellent recipe! Suz, Sasha, and Molly