3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Dog Treats
The recipe half the internet came here for. Peanut butter, one egg, and oat flour, mixed in five minutes and baked into the biscuits dogs lose their minds over.
Safety Snapshot — every ingredient, checked
- Peanut butter — Safe, with one hard rule · the jar must have no xylitol, also sold as birch sugar
- Egg — Safe, cooked
- Oat flour — Safe
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Ingredients
- 1 cup natural peanut butter (no xylitol, ever)
- 1 egg
- 2 cups oat flour, plus a little for rolling
Method
- Heat the oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with parchment.
- Stir the peanut butter and egg together until glossy and smooth.
- Work in the oat flour until a stiff dough forms. Add a spoon of water at a time if it cracks.
- Roll to about a quarter inch thick and cut out bones, rounds, or whatever cutter you own.
- Bake for 18 to 22 minutes until dry and firm. Cool on a rack. They harden more as they cool.
If this site could only keep one recipe, this would be the one arguing hardest. Three ingredients, one bowl, and a dough so forgiving that a first time baker cannot really get it wrong.
The only rule that matters stands at the top of the ingredient list and it is not negotiable. Read the peanut butter label before the jar goes in the cart. Plain peanut butter is a wonderful dog food. Peanut butter sweetened with xylitol can kill a dog, and the full story lives on the verdict page linked in the safety snapshot above.
Storage
- On the counter in an airtight tin: up to a week, since these bake up dry
- In the fridge: up to 2 weeks
- In the freezer: up to 3 months
Dry is the whole game with this recipe. If a batch comes out soft in the middle, give it five more minutes in the oven rather than a shorter life in the tin.
Serving by dog size
Peanut butter is rich, so these are celebration treats, not confetti.
- Small dogs: half a treat a day
- Medium dogs: 1 treat a day
- Large dogs: up to 2 treats a day
Keep all treats under 10 percent of daily calories, and count these honestly. They are delicious little calorie bombs and your dog will lobby hard for an exception.