Healthy Cookies for Skin and Coat
By Tracy on Wednesday 1 February 2012, - Permalink
These cookies were inspired by a post from over at Ruffly Speaking. While I've changed the recipe a bunch, I've very thankful to Joanna for posting up her recipe.
The original recipe did call for items that you can only get online and well,
I'm lazy. So I did some reading of the original ingredients, add my own spin
and created these!
First off, you've got to get your coconut oil to be liquid. Which means that it
needs to be 76 degrees or hotter. While that's not too hard in the summer and
fall, it's a little colder than that in our house. So the night before, I leave
the oil on our awesome vintage Merritt & O'Keefe Stove.

Now Lets meet the other ingredients! In this bowl is a pound of ground flax
seed, some ground alfalfa, some ground kelp, some (you see how much I measure!)
ground ginger and turmeric.

The we add our wet ingredients! This time I used about ha;f of that bottle of
coconut oil - so I think it's about 8 or 9 ounces. Then a few glugs of salmon
oil and one of those medium sized deli containers of peanut butter. I buy the
peanut butter that is just peanuts. Make sure to check out your ingredient list
when it comes to peanut butter. Many of them have sugar and other extras that
the dogs don't need.

Here's an extra photo of some of my supplies and my supervisor, Fred the
cat.

Mix, mix, mix!
Then get out your handy little one ounce scoop. I love this thing. Once upon a
time, we had a plastic one and it wasn't smooth and got junk stuck in it and,
well yuck. Then I got this more expensive metal one a few years ago and it's
the best!

Get the pan ready for flash freezing. If you don't have a Sil-Pat, you can use
parchment or wax paper. It really helps them pop off of the sheet pan
easily.

Scoop out little balls of tasty fats!

Now pop that pan in the freezer for about 15-20 minutes. That will give them
time to freeze up into individual portions.

What? Oh you want to know what else is in our freezer? Well, we keep our ground
food in there in those green containers, there's some homemade turkey stock to
the left. To the right is our bacon stash :) and in the yellow container are
Hank's training truffles, aka black socks soaked in black truffle oil. They
keep longer in the freezer.
and finally, put your frozen cookies in a big ziploc freezer bag and store in
the fridge.
I give the big dogs one each day, sometimes every other day. If they get greasy, back off to one every other day. They all love their cookies and I love how sleek and shiny they are.
Comments
Hmm, these look interesting! I might have to make some.
Bacon stash... I've got one of those XD
The Ruffly Speaking link is broken but I think that's because she's moving her blog around and doing some site construction.
bummer that this link is now broken! I think I'll wait to fix it until Ruffly Speaking stops moving all of her stuff around.