Why?
Why to win a dehydrator of course!
Makes no sense right? Well let me explain.
I may have mentioned once or twice that I’m no Jodi Chick. Don’t get me wrong, I can cook and I can bake, in fact I quite enjoy doing both of those things. Except when I bake or cook, I tend to do those things for myself and not the dogs.
I do see the benefit of baking for my dogs, I mean I totally like knowing exactly what’s in my dog’s treats. The issue is more along ‘where do I find the time?” Which is exactly why dehydrating treats is the perfect fit for me!
Except I don’t actually have a dehydrator.
When I learned that Jodi had teamed up with Silvie on 4 and they were giving away an Excaliber dehydrator, well I knew I had to come up with something pretty quick.
Friday nights are easy dinner nights in my house and when I don’t have a hair appointment, I like to make Gluten Free Pancakes. I ran out of pancake mix and thought I might be able to make my own recipe. (Turns out I really couldn’t.)
The first pancake was pretty bland, so I decided why not dehydrate it and make it into dog treats?
Dehydrated Blueberry Pancakes
1 1/3 cups of oat flour 2/3 cup millet flour 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla 1 cup plus a tiny bit more of water Coconut oil for the pan Blueberries to your liking Mix the flours and egg together. Add the cup of water to the flours and mix well. If need be add more water until you get a good consistency for pancakes. Put a small amount of coconut oil in a frying pan and add batter to the pancake size of your liking. Drop your blueberries into the pancake. Cook until lightly brown on one side and then flip and cook the other side until lightly brown or until the pancake is no longer wet in the center. I put the pancakes in the refrigerator until I had some time to dehydrate them. Since I don’t have a dehydrator, I put my oven on the lowest setting which was 170 degrees. I set my cooling rack on a backing sheet and using my pizza cutter, cut the pancake into bite sized bits.
The pizza cutter was amazing for cutting these bad boys.
They’re not uniform in size, but who cares?
I place the cookie sheet with the cooling rack on it in the oven and baked them for about 2 hours and 40 minutes. I was planning on three hours, but when I checked them, they were dry and crisp.
I know they were dry and crisp because I bit into one.
I handed one to hubby to test and he ate the entire treat and said they’d be good to munch on!
But the real test was Sampson and Delilah.
Okay, you’re right. Delilah wasn’t REALLY a test. She eats poop for Dog’s sake.
It cracks me up when she takes a treat, she looks like her eyes are crossed.
Sampson likes his treats lying down. He didn’t get up for the testing.
BUT after I let them each have a taste, I called Delilah into the kitchen for another sample and Sampson got up and hobbled in behind her.
I’d say these dehydrated pancakes got a four paws and two thumbs up in our house.
What do you think? Is this something you would make for your dogs? Have you ever dehydrated anything in the oven? Do you have any good recipes you can share with me?
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