I’m so excited! In less than two weeks, I’ll be hosting the first Two of a Kind Pup-Up in collaboration with Whole Foods Market Stevens Creek, Northern California’s flagship store. What exactly does this mean? Basically, we’re inviting local pup lovers and their canine friends to join us for an afternoon of good food and good company.
Rookie will even make an appearance – and I’m crossing my fingers she’ll be on her best behavior.
Lucky for me, I’ll be off kitchen duty as the Whole Foods Market Stevens Creek Catering team will be putting together a one-of-a-kind spread, crafted by yours truly. As you know, I’ve been spoiled by my local Whole Foods, so I can’t wait to share the love grub.
But that’s not all! In addition to tasty fare, we’ll also be giving away copies of Bubba Rose’s Organic Dog Biscuit Cookbook (while supplies last).
Just as the cover claims, it features more than 100 human-tested, animal-approved recipes. Of course, I had to try my hand at one – Rookie was practically begging me.
So I recreated the easy dog biscuit recipe for snickerdoodles featured on Page 120. They smell amazing while they’re baking, and Rookie scarfed down a few as soon as they were cool enough to eat! Now the question is: What treat should we tackle next?
Recipe adapted from The Organic Dog Biscuit Cookbook.
- 1½ cups oat flour (see notes**)
- 1½ cups brown rice flour
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ¼ cup honey
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup water
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the oat flour, brown rice flour and cinnamon.
- Add the honey, egg and vanilla extract and stir until well blended.
- Add ¼ cup water and mix with a fork. Continue to add more water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the ingredients start to come together. Then use your hands to lightly knead the dough in the bowl until it forms a ball.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees with rack in center position.
- On a lightly floured work surface, roll out dough until it's between ¼" and ⅛" thick.
- Cut out biscuits with a cutter; I used a 1" bear cutter, but any shape and size will work. Place the cutouts on a baking sheet. Press together scraps and repeat.
- Bake biscuits until they are golden and lightly brown around the edges, about 12 minutes (longer for larger biscuits). Allow biscuits to cool on the baking sheet; they will harden as they cool.
- Store the biscuits in an airtight container at room temperature.
**I rarely buy oat flour because it's so easy to make. Just pulse rolled oats in a food processor until finely ground.
These are so cute! I like that the ingredient list keeps things really simple – I always feel better about giving my dog homemade treats. I used to live really close to the Whole Foods where your event will take place! I wish I could attend, but now I live in the Midwest…
The book has a ton of other great recipes, some with longer ingredient lists. We would have loved to meet you – from the tagline on your blog, you sound a lot like me. 🙂
Hi,
My one year old bichon Charlie and I would love to attend. How do we sign up?
Regards, Jane
We would love to have you both – you can RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/403223753213824/!
Hi Allison,
I don’t use Facebook and it won’t let me RSVP without an account.
Regards, Jane
No problem – just show up! See you tomorrow!
I would love to come and bring my two Tibetan Spaniels.
Hooray – you can get the details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/403223753213824/ See you tomorrow!
The recipe sounds awesome… however we, (meaning my dog) is oat sensitive. (go figure) Do you think standard wheat flour would still work?
Hi Linda – I think wheat flour would be a good substitute, but you may need to adjust the amount of water in the recipe. Let me know how it goes if you give it a try!
I hate to sound really stupid, but I like the idea (as you did) of cutting the recipe down to one 1/3. Can you offer the revised amounts? Not sure I would have a clue of what to cut the ingredients down to.
Hi Lynda – I recommend halving the recipe to 3/4 cup oat flour, 3/4 cup brown rice flour, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 2 tablespoons honey, 1/2 egg, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract and 1/4 cup water.
This was easy and fun to do along with my daughter, who found the recipe. Roxy and Toby are some lucky dogs. Merry Christmas!
What a fun mother-daughter project! So glad you enjoyed making the biscuits together, Rayah! Happy holidays to you, too!
How can I order the cookbook??
Hi Danita – You can find a link to order the book above the recipe. Enjoy!