Sweet Potato Peanut Butter Blueberry Frozen Goodness
This is a recipe for master estimators.
It is the only kind of recipe I can follow. And it’s for dogs, who will never tell me, anyway, if there’s a smidge too much cinnamon.
No bake sweet potato cookies.
Sweet Potato Peanut Butter Blueberry Frozen Goodness
Ingredients:
1. What’s left of last year’s sweet potato harvest. Or, as many sweet potatoes as you feel like cleaning, chopping up, boiling and pureeing in the blender – minus the amount of mash you decide at the last minute to save for yourself. Because mashed sweet potatoes are so awesome to eat they require no condiments (although a dash of salt and butter can’t hurt).
Chopped sweet potatoes.
Will it blend?
It blended.
2. Peanut butter. As much as you feel like spooning into the pureed sweet potatoes, but probably not an equal amount or the batter will get so voluminous that you’ll be at this all day.
3. Oats – regular or the instant kind. Really, the dogs won’t know the difference.
4. Cinnamon. Put the container on the sprinkle – not the dump – setting, and use your judgment.
This is basically what your mix should look like before you stir things up.
4. Dried blueberries. For topping.
Directions:
As the photos above indicate, you will mix all ingredients together. Be patient – the potatoes are light and fluffy, and the peanut butter is thick and heavy. Feel free to keep adding oats, since they seem to help stiffen up the taters.
Once you are satisfied that the mixture is sufficiently even, you will 1) wonder why you mixed things by hand instead of putting it all in your ridiculous $400 Blendtec blender and 2) proceed to the next step.
“The next step” is easy but messy: Use your fingers and a spoon to deposit little lumps of batter onto wax paper. How big you make these lumps is entirely up to you. How big are your dogs? I made two sizes – tablespoon-size for big dogs and teaspoon-size for my elderpin.
When you get sick of spooning out lumps, or when you realize you’re running out of containers to store them in, you might grab the nearest Kong toy and stuff it with this delicious-to-a-dog mixture. Just don’t drop it, or there could be a fight.
Three handsome beggars, Part Deux.
Once the Kong is stuffed, go back to the gooey lumps. Tuck a dried blueberry into the center of each, because it makes them look cuter. And, blueberries are good for dogs.
Scooby-size sweet potato snacks.
Finally: Freeze everything. Including the few sweet potato chunks you skimmed for healthy “training” treats.
Not as many snacks as it seems.
Like everything else I make (including yesterday’s basil mint tea), this recipe is adapted from a more specific version. When you don’t have sweet potato mash and blueberries on hand, make the simpler No Bake Peanut Butter Oat Treats by For the Love of My Dogs.
What homemade goodness do you make for your pets?
Posted on August 23, 2012, in Awesome, Dogs, Food, Gardening, Luke, Machete, Scooby and tagged Blendtec, cooking for dogs, frozen dog treats, homemade dog treats, mashed sweet potatoes, no bake sweet potato dog treats, peanut butter dog treats, sweet potatoes, will it blend?. Bookmark the permalink. 22 Comments.
My mummy’s naughty and doesn’t make me any treats! But those look super yummy:-)
I bet even your mummy could make these, especially if she skipped the sweet potato part.
that I’ll try for sure!
Let me know how Doggy likes these treats!
I’m totally making these on the weekend. This not only looks fun and yummy for me to do w/my kids but Lola will flip for ‘em. Not to mention that this will be way cheaper than Pupperoni!
Be sure to let me know how it goes!
Yum! I might even eat those….
That pic of all of them waiting so patiently:)
That scene gets re-enacted daily!
Looks so good, I may have to have some too.
Haha! That’s why I skimmed some of the sweet potatoes for myself before mixing in the peanut butter!
those sound so yummy! Off to the store to pick up some sweet potatoes
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Love the photo with all three pups looking at the Kong!
These look awesome, we are going to try them today!!! Thanks for the shoutout
Hope yall have a great week!
Gotta give credit where credit is due! Hope you have a great week, too. Let me know if you try my twist on your recipe!
Could you use canned sweet potatoes?
I think that would be fine. Just check the ingredients to make sure there isn’t a lot of added preservatives. If you do try the recipe with canned sweet potatoes, please let us know how it goes!
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