Who wants to make some gingerbread cookies for dogs with me? We need some holiday cookies around here, so I decided gingerbread would be a great flavor to try. They are not hard to make, but they do have a lot of small ingredients.
To get started I mix the dry ingredients in one bowl and the wet in another. Whip them each up real well, then slowly add the dry to the wet bowl. It sure smells good! According to Mom, these smell just like human cookies, but there is no nutmeg because dogs can’t eat that, and no sugar.
After mixing both bowls together, I have a big ball of dough to work with. As Emma taught us all, tasting makes a chef successful. I’m all about tasting, and it is really tasty!
The dough needs to be rolled out to about 1/4 inch thick, and then let the cookie cutters come out and turn ordinary dough into festive cookie shapes!
This recipe makes a lot of cookies and your paw may start to get tired pushing down all the cookie cutters. I decided to limit the shapes to simple ones and I got about forty cookies, maybe more if I hadn’t been eating dough along the way.
My cute cookies are ready to spend about the next half hour in the oven baking, filling the house with the aroma of gingerbread. Let the drool roll, doggies!
Once the cookies are out and cooled, you have the option to leave them as is or frost them. I think they look good either way.
Mom and I really wanted to decorate the Christmas cookies for dogs for a more holiday feeling. We tried and tried and tried to make a frosting that hardens, but it was a big disaster. Either it was too runny, or it was all chunky. Nevertheless, we were able to get some decorations on the cookies. If you would like to try the frosting it is supposed to be water, cornstarch, and then a bit of honey. The honey made things even worse, so we gave up on using it. The frosting part of the deal made a real mess.
In the end, the ones we managed to frost turned out pretty festive. What do you think? Some day Mom will figure out a good frosting for dog cookies because she is determined, but she isn’t there yet…getting closer, though.
In case you don’t believe me, I’m stealing one to show you they are worth stealing for! I highly recommend you give this recipe a try for your pup, or you can give them to other pups you know as a Christmas gift. Just make sure no one eats the wrapping paper. Give my recipe a try, your pup will love you for it!
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They look so yummy! Good job
Mom says since they smell just like human cookies she has to be careful she doesn’t eat one. If she tries, she won’t like them because they don’t have any sugar.
ooooh please call us if you need help… da nelly has da biggest paws of slice earth he is good with da dough ;O)
I wonder if Olivia’s paws are bigger than Nelly’s? She has jumbo paws too.
Those are sure impressive and you are a most wonderful Chef!
Thank you. Nothing better than getting to eat your work.
You look so cute in your chef’s hat!! I will be baking those cookies this Saturday – my Alex will love them!! Thank you for the recipe.
Your whole house will smell like gingerbread too. I know he will like them. Even Madison will eat them.
Oh what a great job. We think our Mom should bake us some. We also think that yoghurt plus some sort of thickener may work for a frosting….
Mom wants one that gets hard so we can do some fancy stuff. We will keep working on it. At some point we will figure it out.
Oh, yummy! I am drooling all over the keyboard. Your cookies are so pretty and festive…I do believe I can smell them through the computer. Mom’s back is so bad I doubt we will make them this year, and hopefully NEXT year it will get fixed and we can make them! XOXO, Sparkle
Back trouble is so bad. Sometimes Mom gets back pain and she can barely move. We don’t mind too much because she goes to our chiropractor for adjusting and he does one of us each time too. Still, it is not fun for humans.
I took several to eat with my coffee this morning and they are delicious. Well done.
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BOL! Did you notice the sugar was missing? Mom wants to eat one but knows it won’t taste right to her, but they look pretty good.
We had to laugh at you tasting all of the ingredients as you were baking, Bailie. Your cookies sure look like works of art to me!
Thank you. A good chef always has to taste to make sure the product is good, right? Tasting is my favorite part of baking!
Oh! YUM! Cinnamon is salivating at the pictures and demanding that Mom go and make some…too bad it is snowing and we are out of flour…
Purrs
Marv, Jo Jo, Kozmo, Cinnamon and Barb
Cat bro Bert has had a few pieces of them and loves them too, but then again, he eats anything. Hope you get more flour soon as it is needed for human cookies too.
Wow Bailie, you’ve outdone yourself!! Those look so festive and we bet they taste great too!!
They are super yummy, and the house wafted with gingerbread scent for a while after baking. Very holiday like.
Has your mom tried arrow root and plain Greek yogurt for frosting? We are curretly experimenting with these. or just giving a yogurt
dipping cup? Honey is only good when it is cooked in, or my great grandmother used it to ice molasses cookies. Wish we had that recipe!
We need one that dries like royal icing does, so yogurt is out and yogurt has to be refrigerated. Mom will figure it out at some point.
We might have to cut that recipe in half to even have enough time to bake it, but it would be worth doing.
The pups would love it and a half recipe would be just as tasty. Since we are three, we can eat a lot of cookies, and we also packaged a bunch up to give to some of our friends.
They look good! Besides, the taste is the more important part anyway, right? 🙂
It’s all about being super yummy in the tummy!
We know those are drool worthy! It’s a great recipe.
Bummer you boys are so sensitive with your foods.