Recipe: Banana Carob Peanut Butter Cookies

We baked yet another lot of cookies for Shalom. Its also part of her Goodnight Cookies series. We have to vary the flavours or else the girl is going to frown at her cookies and leave crumbs all over the house when she plays with them instead of eating them.

Ingredients:

2 tablespoon of crunchy peanut butter (creamy works just as well)

200g bananas (that's about 3 pieces of Dole bananas)

1 tablespoon of carob

100ml olive oil

150ml cold water

1 egg beaten (for brushing)

400g flour

Method:

• Mix peanut butter, banana and carob well. It will look mushy.

• Add in oil to the mushy mixture.

• Add flour to the oily mushy mixture.

•Add water slowly as you knead the flour and mushy mixture into a firm dough. Break the carob bits as you knead.

• Flatten dough till 1.5cm or thinner if furkids don't have strong teeth. Cut to your choice shape.

• Glaze with egg.

• Place on lightly greased pan.

• Bake in oven at 160C for 20 minutes or until firm.

• Let cookie cool and harden before storing in air tight containers.

You'll notice that the recipe for Shalom's cookeies are pretty much similar. I just play around with different "flavoured"ingredient e.g. cod, peanut butter, pumpkin or even peanut butter. So have fun experimenting with what is good for your furkid or what your furkid likes best.

Carob is a safe alternative to chocolates. Chocolates are poisonous to dogs so I use Carob which is somewhat similar tasting but a wee bitter to replace chocolate. You can get Carob at good organic or baking shops.

#1 egg is more than sufficient to glaze the cookies. So I normally beat the egg and reserve only 1/3 of the mixture for glazing. The other 2/3 is added into the cookie mix.

Goodnight Cookies

Baked Shalom some of her fave "Goodnight Cookies". Some good home made goodness in her treats without any preservatives, colouring or artificial flavouring.

Simple and easy to make and it's quite yummy for humans too. A wee like our bread sticks.

Preparation time including baking is about 45 minutes.

Ingredients:

200g cod fish (or chicken meat)

125ml olive oil

170ml cold water (or meat broth if you're using meat)

1 egg beaten (for brushing)

300g gluten free flour

50g wheatgerm

5g of preferred herbs / spices (I use Italian herbs and cinnamon)

Method:

• Mix flour, wheatgerm, tuna, olive oil, half of egg mixture, herbs and spices well.

• Then add water bit by bit and knead till it becomes a firm dough

• Flatten dough (until approximately 1.5 cm high) on a lightly floured surface. Cut into desired shapes.

• Place cut out cookies on a greased baking pan.

• Brush with egg mixture

• Bake in 160C oven for 20 minutes or until firm.

• Let it cool and harden for about an hour before storing in bottles.

## If you're using meat, boil the meat to make the broth. Then separate meat from broth. Once the chicken is cool, tear it into slices.

## Gluten free flour is a bit harder to roll out. So use regular white flour if you need to.

The above keeps in the fridge for up to 4 weeks and a week in room temperature.