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Recipe: Coconut and Cranberry Dog Treats

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These coconut dog treats are easy to make, and can be made in bulk for storage and use at a later time.

If you don’t have coconut flour, you could use whole wheat, almond or oat flour instead. You could also substitute hemp seeds, ground sunflower seeds or chia seeds for the ground flaxseed in this recipe.

Ingredients

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  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • ½ cup dried cranberries
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbsp coconut oil
  • ¼ cup peanut butter
  • ¼ cup pureed pumpkin
  • ¼ cup shredded coconut
  • 2 cups coconut flour
  • ½ cup water
  • ½ cup ground flaxseed

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350°F.

In a large bowl, mix the coconut flour, ground flaxseed, cinnamon, shredded coconut and cranberries.

Add the peanut butter, egg, pumpkin and coconut oil to the dry ingredients. Combine until it forms a crumbly dough.

Gradually add water until the dough begins to come together.

If you’ve never baked with coconut flour before, you’ll notice that it has a unique texture. Because it doesn’t contain the gluten proteins that naturally bind and create structure, any dough made with coconut flour will be a bit crumbly.

As you can see, I just use my hands to pack the dough into small balls and place them on a cookie sheet.

If you’d prefer to roll the dough out and use cookie cutters to make cute shapes, you can do that too. You’ll need to roll the dough out until it’s about 1/4″ thick.

If you want to make small treats for a tiny dog or small treats to use during training, you can roll the dough out and use a pizza cutter or butter knife to score it into tiny squares.

No matter what shape you make them, bake the homemade dog treats for 20-25 minutes, until they turn golden brown.

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