I love to bake. Somehow the cooler weather of fall brings out the baker in me.
Back before I became Gluten Free, this time of year would find me baking every weekend. But Gluten Free baking requires a lot of work as well as a variety of flours. I guess you could say going GF sort of took the wind out of my sails.
But today is Tasty Tuesday and I needed a recipe to share, which is how I found myself in the kitchen looking for an easy, GF recipe that was both human and dog friendly. Because those are the requirements I give Jodi Chick. If I’m going to bake for my dogs, I want it to be something I can eat too.
Like these carob and banana cookies.
Look at these luscious little biscuits? Aren’t they beautiful?
They’re not mine. I told you they had to be easy. Rolling out dough and cutting it into shapes does not equate to easy in my book. No, these were made by the amazing Jodi Chick. She brought a whole bunch of them to BlogPaws and I froze them. And yes, I actually tasted them, they’re not bad at all.
But looking at those beauties wasn’t helping me with my task. I had a recipe for pumpkin cookies that a friend had given to me but I was missing a few ingredients, so I set out to modify it a little.
I named these Pumpkin Patties because I was worried that Pumpkin Pasties might be copy written by J.K. Rowling.
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups of oat flour 1/4 tsp cinnamon 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg 1/4 tsp ground ginger 1 egg 1/3 cup pumpkin (canned or fresh) 1/4 cup water (maybe a bit more)Mix everything together, this dough is stiff so bring your muscle arm. You can add a little more water if you need to, your goal here is to get everything mixed together.
When you are finished it should look like this.
Thick right?
Take a teaspoon and scoop some out, then roll it between your hands to form small balls. (I’ve already said stiff and balls in this post, and I know where Mrs. Taleteller’s mind is going.) I got about 22 of them out of this batch.
These guys don’t spread at all, so you can place them fairly close together.
Press them flat with a fork. I put a squirt of coconut oil spray on my fork, to keep it from sticking. I had to do that once about every four cookies.
As you can see, my ball rolling skills leave something to be desired as there is no real uniformity with these guys.
Bake in a pre-heated 350 ° oven for 18 to 22 minutes or until they are golden brown. Remove to a wire rack and let them cool completely. Store them in the refrigerator in an airtight container.
Now for the official taste test.
Delilah was first, and you have to be FAST with the camera with this gal. She nommed the heck out of them.
Mr. Picky was next, and the fact he was already in the kitchen gave me a good indicator that he’d eat them. Which you can see he did.
Sampson and Delilah both give these cookies 4 paws.
Whenever Jodi’s in the kitchen baking I always tell her to find me something easy that I can bake and share with my pets. Humanize it, I always tell her. So I had to Humanize this recipe as well. After all, I can’t expect people to do things that I’m not willing to do myself.
My initial thought was to drizzle a bit of honey on top of the cookie.
I split this cookie in half. Sampson and Delilah shared the un-honeyed half, while Hubby and I shared the honeyed half, which wasn’t bad at all.
As I was describing them to my mom, I mentioned they remind me of a scone. My next thought to Humanize them is to make a thin drizzle from confectioner’s sugar and water or milk and drizzle along the top.
I think they’d work well with a cup of tea, don’t you?
This is the Tasty Tuesday Blog hop hosted by Kol’s Notes and Sugar the Golden Retriever.
They look great! good for you for baking.
Usually, the food I bake, the dogs won’t even eat, much less humans!
I love that you “humanize” your recipes…These do sound good enough to share and they look just like peanut butter cookies…hmm, maybe add a touch of peanut butter too?
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I never thought I’d say this, but those dog biscuits look good enough to eat! Add the confectioners sugar drizzle and tea. Yum. Is it tea time yet???
Very tasty they look too. Have a terrific Tuesday.
Best wishes Molly
That’s so neat Jodi, what a great idea to make dog snacks the pups can share with the humans. With a bit of peanut butter and part of a date on top, they might be just sweet enough for this human (and her dogs). The pictures of your pups nomming are absolutely precious.
They sound yummy and we love pumpkin. We have to get some of that oat flour and then we can make some too. Thanks for sharing!
My Mom would have said that you’re “a lady after my own heart”! She almost always went the easy route. Actually, I’d have to take out the “almost” to describe her last several years.
The recipe does sound tasty — I’ll have to give it a try. But I think I will roll it out a bit and use my bone- and paw-shaped cookie cutters. Heck, I’m not fussy — I’ll eat any shape cookie!
Um, they sound delicious. A little drop of honey sounds delicious too! Good job for not being a baker.
*high paws*
Oz
The key to good “rolling” dough is the amount of flour n water. Pumpkin is one of my favorite. Mom several meals with pumpkin and got to taste it. Happy Tasty Tuesday. Lots of Golden Woofs, Sugar
They look good enough to eat – pumpkin anything is good in my book! Nice work 🙂
Those look so pretty! I love fall baking too – and of course Blueberry loves it when baking becomes a weekly ritual!
I’ve never enjoyed baking, but those look very tempting.
They look good. Perfect for fall. I’m tempted to make some and leave them out so the BF will eat them unaware.
Those look yummy and easy. But wait a minute, you can. I’ve seen the pictures. Canning is not easy in my book! You are hiding your mad skillz from us. 🙂
Those look delicious! And I mean for me, and maybe the dogs if I was nice enough to share. I’m no cook, but I do like to bake. I’ll have to remember this for the future.
Mr. Picky and Delilah are lucky lucky dogs. I feel so ashamed…
I never bake for mine. Sometimes I’ll slow cook up little bits of meat to dry it out and use it as training treats, but that’s about it for me.
I also don’t bake for Nick, unless it comes out of a box that says “brownies” somewhere on the label, and with the organic, soy-free stuff being so expensive, I haven’t done THAT in ages either.
I was doing okay until you got to ball rolling! 😛 But then again, I told someone to make Satin Balls on Facebook today…
They actually do sound pretty good. I am craving cookies so badly right now that I’m afraid if I turn on the oven, there won’t be anything involved for the dogs! *sigh*
they look very yummy
urban hounds
Safe to say, I don’t think Sampson or Delilah care how uniform or not uniform these tasty little things are!
Those look amaaaaaazing! Did you know you can get cookie scoops (kind of like mini ice cream scoops ) to get uniform balls? Then you just have to roll them around a bit to warm ’em up & shape them and voila! You’ve rolled Mrs. Taleteller’s mind right into the gutter (but your cookies will look good too.)
sounds and looks yummy, i love pumpkin stuff. GF, wow, my gf is gf and eating is a challenge for her. Did you have do to it for your health or just because you wanted to be healthier?
You’re such a good mommy. The cookies look delicious. Do I have to share with my pooches? 🙂
I love these easy recipes….I am definitely making these for my dogs. I think I even have oat flour. I bought it for some more complicated recipe that I never made. 🙂