Fido's Kitchen: Paco's Peanut Butter Cups

As you all know, I love my four legged friend and love even more to spoil him with homemade yummy treats.

Today I have been trying out a new recipe from a very special cooking book...

Home Cooking for Your Dog

Thats right a whole cooking book dedicated to dog friendly dinners and treats. I received this as a gift for Christmas and I am already using the dinner recipes to feed my dog with. The idea of the book is that by cooking your dogs meals, you can control what is in it and adjust the nutrition to suit your animals needs. This is something I know from experience can have a huge effect on your dogs health and wellbeing. 

At the start of the book, there is clear and well explained information about why you might want to consider a more holistic approach to your dogs care as well as heaps of helpful charts about nutrition, good foods and foods that dogs should not be eating. 

The author of the book, Christine M Filardi not only had professional credentials but more than ten years of experience in feeding her own animals raw and cooked diets. The thing that I really enjoy about this book is the mix of everyday recipes and the special occasion ones that are a bit more out there and one of in the back of the book.

I thoroughly recommend checking this book out, even if you are just thinking of swapping your dogs diet, this book has plenty of information to allow you to make an informed decision.

Here's a quick little recipe from the treat section of the book... Paco's Peanut Butter Cups....

Paco's Peanut Butter Cups- Home Cooking for your Dog

For this recipe you will need:

2 cups porridge oats,

2 eggs,

1 cup shredded mozzarella,

1/2 cup peanut butter

1/4 cup hot water.

1) First step is to preheat your oven to 170C. 

2) Measure out all of your ingredients into a mixing bowl and then thoroughly combine... It's really as easy as that!

Paco's Peanut Butter Cups- Homemade Cooking for your Dog

3)When you have finished mixing everything together you should have a dough that is similar to cookie dough consistency.

4) Line a baking tray and lightly grease to prevent the treats from sticking. As you can see from the image bellow I used a layer of tinfoil dusted with flour. You could also use some baking paper or grease the pan directly.

 5) Collect a heaped teaspoon of the mixture and let it fall off onto the tray. You will then want to bake these for around 18 minutes or until they harden ever so slightly.

Let them cool completely before storing them. It is recommended to keep them in the fridge for up to three days, or in the freezer they will last 3 months.