- Hi friends (chuckles).
Oh my goodness, such a nice hug Chickpea.
You look headless now.
But I do like that you're giving me hugs, it's so nice.
Hi friends, it's Sam and this is Chickpea dog.
She is the cutest mutt there ever was, aren't you?
Yes, yes you are.
And today I'm gonna make my pumpkin
and peanut butter dog treats.
It's just three ingredients, really easy to make,
very cheap and Chickpea loves them, don't you?
Are you excited for dog treats?
Yeah, okay, let's get making peanut butter
and pumpkin dog treats.
Good girl.
To make these pumpkin and peanut butter dog treats
you only need three ingredients, pumpkin,
peanut butter and oats.
You can use any kind of oat, an instant oat,
a one-minute oat, a rolled oat, doesn't matter,
whatever you've got on hand is perfect.
So one cup of oats into my food processor.
Now I'm gonna grind up these oats to make an oat flour.
(food processor whirs)
And there we go, homemade oat flour.
It's that easy, it's just ground up oats.
If you don't have a food processor and want
to make this recipe you can definitely buy oat flour
which is already ground up oats and then just mix
all of these things together in a bowl.
So whatever works for you.
Now to the oats I'm gonna add pumpkin puree.
This is just some pumpkin I had leftover from making
another recipe so this is a great way
to use up some leftover pumpkin.
When you're buying this you can buy the canned version.
Just make sure it's pumpkin puree and not pumpkin
pie filling which has a bunch of sugar and sweetness
and all sorts of whatever in there.
You want to just use pumpkin.
So 1/3 of a cup of pumpkin puree.
Whoo, get.
And 1/4 cup of natural peanut butter.
Again you want to make sure it's natural
and not the kind that's full of sugar and oils
and stuff that's not good for your pooch.
You want your pooch to be healthy
so keep the ingredients simple.
Right in the food processor with everything else.
And now just blend it together to form a dough.
(food processor whirs)
There we go, how easy is that?
(laughs)
Okay so here is my dough.
This is ready to roll out and make into dog treats.
To roll out the treats you want to lightly
flour a clean work surface.
You can use any kind of flour you like here.
If you want to grind up more oats in the beginning,
set aside a handful, then you can use that to roll out
or you can just use whatever flower you have on hand.
I'm just using a whole wheat flour today
'cause that's what I have on hand.
So dump your dough out onto your floured surface,
gather it up and now we can roll it out.
Roll out the dough.
Gonna flour the surface, it's a bit sticky,
so I can roll it a bit thinner.
There we go.
That is a very soft dough so it's very easy to roll.
And roll the dough until it's about 1/4 inch thick
and then cut out your treats.
I've used this little dog bone-shaped cookie cutter
to cut out the treats and they look very
cute and precious and great for a gift.
But I'm only gonna give these treats to Chickpea
and honestly I don't think she cares what kind
of shape they are.
So I'm gonna take the easy route and use a pizza cutter
just to cut it into squares.
I'm just being very gentle
so that I don't scratch my counter
but this is definitely the easy way to do it.
Or you know what, if you don't even want to roll out
this stuff you could just pick little pieces
of dough and just form them, flatten them
into a random treat shape and that would work as well.
So whatever you want to do, and the easiest way
you want to do it, I don't think dogs care
about what the treats look like.
They just care about what they taste like.
Need to get rid of the ugly ends at least.
I'll put in that much effort for Chickpea.
Does that count?
So spread the treats out on your parchment paper
lined baking sheet just so that they're not touching.
Now I'm just gonna gather up the leftover dough
and reroll it and make more squares out of there.
I like making these treats fairly little
for Chickpea dog 'cause she is a little dog
and then that way I can give her lots of treats.
But if you have a bigger dog you
can definitely make them bigger.
They might just take a bit longer to cook.
Okay, my treats are ready to pop in the oven.
I'm gonna bake them for about 25 to 30 minutes
until they are nice and dried out
and then we'll give them to Chickpea.
As always I'll put the link to the full recipe
down below in the description and one up here, as well.
The treats are out of the oven and they have cooled.
And now they're like dry and hard and crispy
so it's time to give them to Chickpea dog
and see if she likes them.
Chickpea, hi buddy, come here.
(groans)
There we go.
Can I give you a treat?
Want a treat?
Sit, ah that's lying down but close enough.
Here you go buddy.
(dog crunching)
What do you think, is that a good treat?
(dog crunching)
(laughs)
What's your review?
Delicious?
Yeah?
High five.
Nice work.
Good dog.
So there we go, Chickpea dog loves the treats.
I'm not surprised, I've made them for her before.
And you know what, she's actually a pretty picky food dog.
She doesn't love all treats so it's win-win for me.
These are very easy to make, they're much cheaper
than store bought treats and she loves eating them.
So she's just a lucky little dog.
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I'll see you next week, bon appetgan.
(chicken clucking)
(bright music)
You're such a suck, just loves a good hug.
Dog hair, always so much dog hair.
(sighs) This is the only time where it's kind of
not gross to be cooking and have dog hair on my shirt.
What are you gonna do (chuckles)?