White Dipping Chocolate
Carob and Yogurt Coating

Used for Coating and Dipping
Gourmet Dog Treats

White chocolate, carob and yogurt coating and candy melts all have advantages and disadvantages.

When I started my dog bakery, I did a lot of searching for dog treat icing before I decided what I would use.

Dogs can eat some sugar and it doesn’t affect their teeth nearly as much as sugar affects ours. But, at the same time, I wanted to keep sugar to an absolute minimum!

I also wanted to find easy dog treat icing ideas, but they needed to be as healthy as possible. You can do this in two ways: use dog treat ingredients that are sugarless (or low in sugar) and you can use dog cookie icing as an accent, instead of covering the whole dog cookie.

Now I know that there is a third alternative—that’s even better! Using dog frosting mixes mixes that are sugar-free and fat-free. Knowing what I do now, I’d never go back to using sugar on my dog treats!

Carob yogurt dog frosting mix looks just like chocolate.

Carob Coating
Gives Treats a Chocolate Look

Carob is naturally sweet. In some countries it is actually used as a sweetener. The sweetened carob coating that you buy from a bakery supplier does have some sugar, but it’s not a huge quantity.

One way to get around the sugar issue is to purchase unsweetened carob chips and melt them. You would use them the same way, except that you may have to thin the melted carob because the carob chips were designed for a different purpose.

• Heating the Carob Coating - Carob coating can burn easily and when it gets too hot, the consistency can change and become kind of lumpy. To prevent this, you can heat the water in the bottom of the double boiler (with the top removed) and then, when it is boiling, remove it from the heat and put the top (with the carob in it) over the hot water. The carob coating will usually melt pretty well this way. The advantage is that you won’t burn or overheat the carob.

• Thinning the Carob Coating - Sometimes the carob coating gets too thick, especially if you heat it a second time. If this happens, use 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil or shortening and mix it in with the coating. Don’t go overboard with this or your coating will get TOO soft and never harden! Or use a product like sugar-free Coating Flow Crystals —which was designed for this purpose.

• Application There are a couple of ways that you can apply the carob coating. You can apply it like you would frost a cake—using a non-serrated knife.

  Or, you can dip part or all of the dog cookie into the melted carob. Or, lastly, you can drizzle interesting patterns onto your homemade dog cookies. An easy way to do this is to use a mustard or catsup bottle with a small opening!

Yogurt Coating for Dog Cookie Icing

You would heat it the same way, thin it the same way, and apply it the same way as a carob coating dog treat icing.

Like white dipping chocolate, yogurt coating is white, and it also contains some sugar. To color yogurt coating, you can use natural ingredients like tumeric (yellow), beet powder (red), or spinach powder (green) or food colorings.

Candy Melts

The advantage to using candy melts as a dog treat icing is that they come in a variety of wonderful colors—and you don’t have to do a thing to color them.

The disadvantage to using these is that they contain more sugar than the other coatings, so, if you decide to use these, use them sparingly.

Using white dipping chocolate, yogurt or carob coating or candy melts is a fun and easy way to decorate your homemade dog treats!

Or, if you prefer a sugarless dog cookie icing, you might try one of these dog treat icing ideas.

And if you have a dog bakery or give home made dog treats as gifts, your decorated dog treats will look just like people cookies!

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