Delectable homemade delights for your pampered pup!
- 125 recipes for healthy homemade treats your dog will love
- Crunchy cookies and biscuits made with doggie favorites like cheese, carrots, salmon, and peanut butter
- Festive cakes for special occasions or everyday treats
- Nutritious muffins, biscotti, granola, and oatmeal bars
- Helpful tips on ingredient selection, baking, and storage
Dessert doesn't have to be unhealthy to be delicious, especially when it's a nutritious homemade dessert for your furry best friend!
The marriage of two of the world's favorite topics—dogs and desserts—Doggy Desserts offers dog owners over 125 recipes to spoil (and nourish) your pampered pooch! From sweet cakes and muffins to savory biscuits to refreshing frozen treats, Doggy Desserts shows you how to make tempting snacks for your pup with wholesome ingredients and, most of all, love.
This beautifully photographed and designed book presents easy-to-do, fun recipes divided into six categories: cookies, bars, drop cookies, cakes, muffins, and fruity frozen treats. For dog owners who are concerned about controlling what's in their dogs' food or who are looking to find low-cal, low-fat options for their slightly plump pups, Doggy Desserts provides many tasty options. From carob peanut butter crunch balls, sweet potato biscuits, and liver oatmeal bones to granola bars, apple sauce spice cake, and watermelon dog sherbet, you might be tempted to try each of these delectable delights yourself before serving your dog!
Author Cheryl Gianfrancesco is an avid cook and dog lover, and cooking for her dogs is her favorite passion! Inside this book, she shares 125 of her own recipes that she designed to give her dog healthful treats as part of his natural, preservative-free diet. Cheryl's recipes use simple, tasty ingredients to create irresistible tidbits that you will feel good about and that your dog will relish!
Inside this book, you'll find: how to make your own tasty, wholesome doggie snacks and desserts; more than 125 easy-to-make recipes; goodies your dogs will not only enjoy but are also good for them; healthy, tasty, and simple recipes with ingredients commonly found around the house; strategies to avoid preservatives and ingredients that can irritate sensitive canine tummies or cause allergies and other health problems; low-calorie, low-fat options for overweight dogs; and sections on cookies, bars, drop cookies, cakes, muffins, and frozen treats.
Here are just a few of the delicious recipes you'll learn how to create for your dog:
- Cookies: Salmon Balls, Almond Biscotti, Whole Wheat Biscuits, Chicken Biscuits, Sunflower Bites, Fish Bones, Cheese Braids, Rice and Cheese Cookies, Rye Crisps
- Bars: Granola Bars, Fruit Bars, Sour Cream Apple Squares, Power Bars
- Drop Cookies: Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies, Carrot Oatmeal Cookies, Walnut Apple Cookies
- Cakes: Cream Cheese Cake, Gingerbread Cake, Doggy Birthday Cake, Applesauce Spice Cake
- Muffins: Cornbread and Cheese Muffins, Carob Nut Muffins, Zucchini Basil Muffins, Carrot and Yogurt Muffins, Cheddar Apple Bran Muffins, Pumpkin Muffins
- Frozen Treats: Banana Split, Strawberry Frost, Fruit Dog Sherbet, Peaches and Cream, Cantaloupe Dog Sherbet
Delight your dog with healthy home-cooked treats they'll love, with Doggy Desserts!
"An absolute 'must' for anyone and everyone that has a beloved canine companion."
—Midwest Book Review
Cheryl Gianfrancesco is an avid cook. She is also the owner of LMG1, formerly Kooper's Products, an Internet business supplying recipes and health information for dogs. She currently lives in New York.
