Do you take your dogs trick-or-treating? Over the years, I see more and more furry family members out and about and all dressed up for Halloween, trick-or-treating with the kids. It’s so cute to see and I think it adds a new level to the family fun of the evening. We’ve been known to take ours along for the ride a time or two and everyone loves stopping to pet and chat with us about our gentle giants! Today’s Halloween conversation about treating our pups during the holiday is sponsored by Lunchbox Create. As always, though, all thoughts, opinions and love of including our dogs in our Halloween celebrations are that of Rural Mom.
As so many of our friends have their pooches out on Halloween now, I’ve decided to have treats ready for them when they visit our home or when we see them along our trick-or-treat path. So often we noticed the dogs looking wistfully a their owner’s candy buckets and it makes me feel great to gift a special treat the dog can enjoy.
Pumpkins simply scream “Halloween” so I thought it would be extra fun to craft a pumpkin-shaped cookie to serve along with some of our favorite dog treat favorites of Milk-Bone®, Pup-Peroni® and Milos Kitchen®. I love that Milk-Bone is a wholesome treat, making it the perfect companion to the wholesome dog cookie recipe I created. Pup-Peroni and Milos Kitchen are made with real meat, making them a great bonus treat and one that every pup I know finds hard to resist!
Making the Halloween Pumpkin Peanut Butter Dog Treats recipe takes only a few minutes to prep and about 40 minutes to bake. You could easily whip them up the day before Halloween and even make an extra batch later for your Thanksgiving celebrations. Dogs love the peanut butter and pumpkin flavor combination, it’s truly a year-round special treat you can gift them anytime.
Ingredients
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Milk-Bone Flavor Treats
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, eggs, pumpkin, peanut butter and salt until fully incorporated.
- Shape dough into a large ball shape.
- Use a rolling pin to roll the dough into a 1/2-inch-thick roll.
- Use pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter to cut out pumpkin cookie shapes.
- Gather remaining dough and re-roll, use pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter to cut out cookies. Repeat until all dough is used up.
- Bake cookie shapes in preheated oven 40 minutes.
- Remove cookies from oven.
- Cool cookies on a cookie rack until completely cool to touch.
- Use a little peanut butter to adhere a Milk-Bone Flavor Treat to the top of the pumpkin cookie.
Once you have your cookies ready to serve the canine trick-or-treaters who show up at your home or to deliver to neighborhood pups, you can easily serve them straight from a bowl to each dog and/or pack a nice little goody bag for each pooch filled with Halloween Pumpkin Peanut Butter Dog Treats and a handful of Milk-Bone, Pup-Peroni and Milos Kitchen dog treats, too. The dogs will enjoy the extra goodies and the owners will love having additional treats to hand out to their pets during the Halloween celebrations and beyond.
Don’t have time to create special pumpkin cookies for your dogs? No problem! Just do the same thing you do for regular trick-or-treaters and have a bowl full of Milk-Bone, Pup-Peroni and Milos Kitchen dog treats ready to hand out on Halloween night!
Do you create a special treat for your dog for Halloween? Would love to hear your ideas!
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I’ve never had a dog come to the door looking for treats on Halloween :), but I would welcome it if one did! This sounds like a great recipe that any dog would love!!
I have never heard of Halloween dog treats, but what a terrific idea! You’ll have all the pooches coming round to you!
These are too cute! I need to make Max some of these treats. I bought him a new toy for Halloween, but I bet he would love these. I don’t see dogs trick or treating around here, but I would love it.
I’m a new dog owner and I’ve been on the hunt for doggie treat recipes. I’ll have to give yours a try and see how well Peanut likes them.
I bought a box of mini treats for the dogs that trick or treat. My kids would love to make these cookies for our dog. I just hope she doesn’t steal them all before they’re cooled (it’s happened before).
I have never thought about taking the dog trick or treating with us. But I love the idea of making sure they have their own treats for the day.
What a great way to get dogs on the pumpkin train. I know any pooch would love these tasty treats.
Aww, that is the most adorable Dog treat I have ever seen, I love Dogs so much! I must give the recipe a go seeing as it’s Halloween soon!
Oh this makes me miss my pups! Do you think cats would enjoy this? Lol
I have always wanted to make homemade treats for my dogs, but I haven’t done it yet. I might try this soon.
This can really make your dog treats more apt to the Halloween season. They would also surely love this.
Those Pumpkin Peanut Butter Dog Treats would be perfect for my little Loki! I’m tasked with staying home and handing out the treats this year and Loki will definitely be there with me to greet the trick-or-treaters <3
i know my doggie would love these…and wouldn’t they be fun to hand out around the neighborhood to the doggie moms!
I’m not a pet owner and had no idea that people make homemade treats for their pets!
I never used to make actual treats for my dogs back when I had them–but they certainly had their share of Milk Bones and various other treats and not just on Halloween!
We take our dog with for a little while because my daughter likes dressing her up. Thanks for that recipe. I always mean to make my dog her own treats.
Oh I will most definitely be making this for my dog, she loves pumpkin and peanut butter!
These treats are adorable!! I need to make some soon for my puppy girl, she would love them!!