Millie is our dog. We adopted her from a local animal shelter less than a month after we moved into our house four years ago. I’ve never loved anything more than I love Millie. And yes, Mike is fully aware of that.
Millie and I get along so well because we share an appreciation for meat, cheese, and carbs. She is an effective beggar, so I admit that Mike and I give in, often sharing a strip of bacon, a bite of turkey, or a slice of cheese at the sight of her sweet, I’m-a-good-dog face. Nothing rivals Millie’s love of carbs, though. She likes to steal pizza crust off of plates and once snatched a loaf of challah from the counter, ate half, then left the other half shoved under the cushion on the living room chair. She has eaten the top crust of an apple pie, an entire platter of rugelach cookies, and, most recently, the remainder of a peach cobbler.
Because I bake for the ones I love, I can’t leave Millie out. These treats were adapted from larger recipe, which I cut in half to make a smaller batch; this yielded 15 treats. I used a four-inch bone-shaped cookie cutter, but you could use any shape you like or roll the dough into balls and flatten them with the tines of a fork, the way you would for peanut butter cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
- 5 ounces hot water (just below the 2/3 cup line on a glass measure)
Preparation
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large mixing bowl, stir together flour and oats.
Add peanut butter and water and mix with a fork until combined, then knead together with your hands to form a very pliable dough.
Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface and roll to 1/4 inch thickness.
Cut with a bone-shaped cutter and transfer to a cookie sheet using an offset spatula to prevent them from breaking.
Bake for 40 minutes; treats will be hard to the touch, like any store-bought treat.
Cool on a wire rack and store at room temperature for up to one week.
Treats can be kept in the fridge for up to three weeks or frozen for up to six months.
Meet Millie
Millie is a seven or eight year-old Rottweiler-Lab mix who enjoys napping, snuggling, barking ferociously at the mail man, and digging large holes in Mike’s garden beds.
Below, Millie snuggles with her Grandma Genny (my mom) on our sofa.
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