My confession is that I LOVE to bake anything … from cookies to cakes to breads. Nothing is more satisfying to me than making a homemade healthy dog cookie for my Doodle Emma. So when I saw this strawberry banana cookie recipe, I just knew I had to make it for her. Wow did they turn out amazing, and boy did she love eating them!
My true love of dogs is why I am a dog photographer. I have been into photography and had a camera for years (I won’t want to tell you how many years .. eek!). I started by taking pictures of landscapes, wild animals and flowers, then later on started taking pictures of my dogs. I loved doing that so much that one day I thought, wouldn’t it be fun to take pictures of other people dogs? So I did and the next thing I knew Too The Dogs Photography was born!
It is a fabulous thing to take two of your passions and put them together.
Here is the recipe for these yummy cookies.

Strawberry Banana Dog Treat Recipe
1 egg
1/3 cup peanut butter*
1 c Wheat flour**
1/2 c Oats
1/2 c mashed banana
5 ripe strawberries (cut into tiny pieces)
*Make sure to use peanut butter with no sugar or sugar substitutes. I’ll admit I love my Jif, so I don’t keep all natural peanut butter on hand. My tip is to use fresh ground peanut butter at your store then you can ground the amount you need for recipe.
** You can substitute wheat flour with grain: barley, buckwheat, millet, oat, pea, quinoa, rice or sorghum. Non grain: chickpea, coconut, hazelnut, lentil or potato.

Instructions
1.) Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
2.) Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and knead until a dough ball forms. If it is too sticky add a bit more flour.
3.) You can go two ways here. The simpler way is to put the dough into a silicone mold (if you mold skip to step 6. You can also roll out and use a cookie cutter. That is what I did.
4.) If you use a cookie cutter, the dough will be a bit sticky and you just need to be patient and use flour once you have rolled the dough out. You can decide on the thickness of the cookie. I used heart-shaped metal cookie cutter.
5.) Place on cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
6.) Bake approximately 20-25 minutes based on the thickness of the cookie. Let completely cool on a cookie rack.
Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days; then freeze up to 3 months. Thaw out a cookie when you feel like treating your pup to something special as these treats should be given sparingly.

Great photos of the ingredients and the mixing bowl and the cookies on the cookie sheet!
You are amazing!