Your furry friend will go crazy for these healthy apple oat dog biscuits, dotted with blueberries!
I'm "picky" when choosing food for my family, and I'm just as picky when choosing food for my dogs. I avoid things with high fructose corn syrup for my family, and I avoid ingredients like corn, byproduct meal and brewers rice in my dogs' food and treats.
After I learned about dog nutrition and ingredients to avoid, the results spoke for themselves: most noticeable was their softer, shinier coats. They had fewer ear infections. And there were other benefits that probably shouldn't be discussed on a food blog (let's just say that more nutritional ingredients in = less waste out).
I always buy their kibble at a local pet supply store, and I almost always buy their treats there, too. But every once in a while, I make them homemade treats.
Fruits are very high on my dogs' "favorite foods" list. Sometimes I think I should start using berries as training treats instead of, well, training treats. They love it when Liam eats apples because they know he doesn't eat the peel, which then gets tossed to them.
My pit bull, Carl, is allergic to wheat, so I use oat flour in most of my homemade biscuits. Buying oat flour can get expensive, so I simply process old-fashioned oats in a food processor to fine flour.
If your dog is allergic to all grains, you can substitute garbanzo bean flour (available from Bob's Red Mill), you'll just need to an additional tablespoonful or two of applesauce.
Blueberry-Apple Oat Dog Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups old-fashioned oats
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbsp to 4 water
- ¼ cup dried blueberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment.
- Place the oats in a food processor. Pulse 15 to 30 seconds, until oats are ground to a fine flour.
- Pour the ground oats into a medium mixing bowl, and add the eggs and applesauce. Whisk together until all the oat flour is moistened. If the dough is too crumbly, add 2 tablespoonfuls of water and whisk. If dough is still too dry, add more water, a tablespoonful at a time, until dough holds together.
- Use a small or medium cookie scoop to form balls of dough and place them on the cookie sheet. Using the flat side of a spatula sprayed with nonstick spray, flatten the balls of dough into discs.
- Bake for small biscuits for 15 minutes, or medium biscuits for 20 minutes, until golden brown around the edges. Cool completely on a wire rack.
An original recipe by The Redhead Baker
Jean Paloma says
Could pumpkin be substituted for applesauce?
Coleen says
Hi Jean,
You can substitute pumpkin for apple. You may need to add an additional tablespoon or two of water, since the pumpkin puree has less water content than applesauce.
- Coleen
Kelsey Vasquez says
Hi Coleen!
SO excited to try this recipe! I was just wondering how many biscuits this yields?
Coleen says
It depends on the size of the scoop you use, but about 3 to 4 dozen.
Shannon says
Thank you so much for this recipe my baby was recently diagnosed with cancer and I've been searching for treats that had blueberries and no flour in it steel cut oats however are good for her so this is perfect thank you
ANNETTE says
I just made these for my Furbabies 🙂
I made a few changes I uses fresh apples and fresh blueberries! I also doubled the batch! I pureed the apples and blueberries in my Ninja seeing how moist it was I decided not to add the water. I also decided to make it in a 9" × 12" glass baking dish. I evened all.of the mix out in the glass baking dish. It is baking now! Looking very forward to cooing and treating my furbabies with these delicious Apple/Blueberry/ Oatmeal treats:-)
Thank you Redhead Baker.
From another Redhead Furbaby Mom ?
Nicole says
I made these for our kids (with four paws). We have 4 dachshunds that I love making my own treats for. Yesterday, I made peanut butter, oatmeal, pumpkin cookies. I stumbled across this recipe last night and decided my baking wasn’t done for the weekend. Lol. I doubled the recipe. The kids LOVED THEM! We (my fiancé and I) always try, out of curiosity the treats we make for them. Hey, if it’s not good enough for us, it’s never good enough for them. Lol. These are not bad ... absent any sweetener, pretty tasty. Lol.
Nicole says
I made these for our kids (with four paws). We have 4 dachshunds that I love making my own treats for. Yesterday, I made peanut butter, oatmeal, pumpkin cookies. I stumbled across this recipe last night and decided my baking wasn’t done for the weekend. I doubled the recipe. The kids LOVED THEM! We (my fiancé and I) always try, out of curiosity the treats we make for them. Hey, if it’s not good enough for us, it’s never good enough for them. Lol. These are not bad ... absent any sweetener, pretty tasty.
Merilyn HarrIgan says
Thanks for the hany recipe.
I also doubled it. And added blueberries, apple, bannana and a small amount of peanut butter.
They abosolutely loved their healthy treats.
Thank you
Jan says
My Labrador/Retriever puppy loves these biscuits, but for her daily treat she has one.
I use frozen blueberries and apple sauce.
Can they be frozen? I'm finding they are not keeping well in an airtight box after 5 days.
The Redhead Baker says
Yes! You can stack them in a container with wax paper between layers, or freeze them in a single layer on a cookie sheet, then transfer to a storage ziptop bag.
Kitty says
Can I use wheat flour in place of oatmeal flour
Coleen says
Yes, you can use an equal amount of wheat flour.