Doggie Donuts
Bakery Dog Treat Recipe

Make these gourmet dog treats and others using our gourmet dog treat recipes from Natural Pet Bakery.

Most of us try to give our dogs healthy and nutritious dog treats to supplement a healthy dog diet. Making your own dog treats lets you control the kinds of ingredients used--and still bake awesome gourmet dog treats.

And, of course, there are special occasions when we want to treat and pamper our dogs--just as we treat ourselves! Keeping the dog treats healthy but attractive can sometimes be a challenge.

Dog Treat Icing for Bakery Dog Treats

One question that many people ask is “What do you use for dog treat icing ?” That’s a difficult one to answer. You could use Royal Icing and just coat the donuts lightly.

Royal Icing is a “people” icing that gets really hard. It’s most often used on cookies or to decorate cakes. It does contain a fair amount of sugar.

On the other hand, when I was making a decision about what to use on my homemade dog cookies, I wanted to keep the dog frosting as nutritious as possible.

I finally decided to use yogurt coating, which is used to coat food like pretzels—and it is a natural ingredient with less sugar than most of the other options I found.

The recipe makes about 24 donuts.

Ingredients for
Doggie Donuts Gourmet Dog Treats

• 1 c water
• 1/4 c canola oil
• 1 ½ c whole wheat flour
• 1 c unbleached flour
• 1/2 c cornmeal
• 2 T soy flour
• 2 T wheat bran
• 1 t cinnamon
• 1 ½ t dry yeast
• 1 c yogurt coating
• 1 T colored sprinkles or bulghur

Directions for
Doggie Donuts Gourmet Dog Treats

• Place all the ingredients in your bread machine or mix them with your mixer, using a dough hook.

• When the dough is ready, divide it into 3 pieces.

• Sprinkle flour onto a cutting board.

• Roll the dough into ½” sheets

• Using a donut cutter, cut the donuts. Make sure you dip the cutter into flour in between donuts, as it can stick to the donuts easily—and get pretty messy!

• Place the donuts on a greased baking sheet.

• Let them rise for 45-60 minutes, or until they are close to doubled in size.

• Bake at 300 degrees F for about an hour.

• Turn off the oven and let them continue to dry overnight. They should be hard to the touch, with no “give” when you gently push on them.

• Ice the donuts with yogurt coating.

• Top with colored sprinkles or bulghur.

Of course you will want to make your bakery dog treat donuts look festive. The photo above shows some colored sprinkles on top of the yogurt coating.

If you wanted to use all natural ingredients, you might consider sprinkling bulghur or flaxseeds on top.

If you liked this homemade dog treat recipe, why not try some other gourmet dog treat recipes?

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