Pumpkin Dog Treats are the perfect way to give your pup some extra love! Made with real pumpkin and peanut butter, these treats are guaranteed to get those tails wagging. Just like my popular Peanut Butter Dog Treats, these treats are quick and easy to make.
Reasons To Make This Pumpkin Dog Treats Recipe
- I know it goes without saying, but your furry friends will love them!
- When you make your own dog treats, you know each and every ingredient.
- Homemade dog treats are super easy to make.
- You can make them in any fun shapes you like.
Pumpkin Dog Treats Recipe
After realizing how many additives and preservatives are in many store bought treats, I started making my own. After making Peanut Butter Dog Treats and Homemade Dog Treats, I decided to try a version with both pumpkin and peanut butter. Pumpkin and peanut butter are both found in my popular Spoiled Dog Cake recipe and Dog Cupcakes, so if you love those recipes, make sure to add this one to your collection as well!
Based on the fact that the dog inhaled these pumpkin peanut butter dog treats and was immediately back at my feet for more, I’d say they turned out pretty well! These treats are so easy to make and a great way to use up any leftover pumpkin puree you have from your pie or muffin baking.
How To Make Pumpkin Dog Treats
Let’s walk through what you’ll need and what you’ll do. Reminder, the full printable recipe, with exact measurements and instructions, is found at the bottom of the page. This portion of the post is for discussion, helpful tips and answering common questions about the recipe.
Ingredients
These treats use ingredients you probably have in your pantry already! All you need for the pumpkin dog treats recipe are as follows:
- Flour: For this recipe I used whole wheat flour. Check with your vet to see which flour they would recommend for your dog.
- Eggs: Make sure to grab large size eggs.
- Natural Peanut Butter: Natural peanut butter is the only way to go. Most importantly avoid any peanut butter that contains the sweetener Xylitol, which can be poisonous to dogs.
- Pumpkin Puree: Double check that you are using pure canned pumpkin puree. Often cans of pumpkin pie mix sit right next to pumpkin puree in the store, and you don’t want all those extra ingredients in your pumpkin dog treats.
- Water
- Salt (optional)
- Ground Cinnamon (optional)
Steps To Take
Mix together all ingredients to combine everything to form a dough. This may be easier with an electric or stand mixer.
This will be a very thick and crumbly dough. Add a little bit of water to help moisten the ingredients, then you will be able to work and knead the dough. Only add a tablespoon or so as you go. You want the dough to end up being a dry and thick consistency.
Finally you roll it out and cut it into your favorite shapes, then bake. If you’ve ever made cut out sugar cookies, it’s the exact same process.
All that’s left to do is watch your dogs face light up when she realizes you’re finally baking something they can acceptably trying to sneak a bite of!
These are so cute when cut into shapes using different cookie cutters. If you don’t have cookie cutters, you can also just use a knife to make the desired shapes. Don’t sweat it–your dog only cares about the taste, I promise!
Tips, Tricks, Questions & Answers
What if I don’t have whole wheat flour?
First, always consult with YOUR veterinarian about what is best for YOUR dog. I personally prefer using whole wheat flour or oat flour for these treats. I’ve made them with both and my dog had zero complaints either way. Don’t have whole wheat flour or oat flour? You can substitute white wheat flour or all-purpose. Just be sure to feed them to your pup in moderation!
Storage
Keep these in an air tight container or zipped bag for easy storage; or make many batches at once and store them in the freezer! No need to thaw before rewarding your dog with a frozen homemade pumpkin dog treat; they last longer served that way.
Need a fun gift idea for the dog lovers in your life? Make a batch of these, put them in a jar wrapped with a colorful ribbon and a note and you have a unique and thoughtful token of appreciation for human and doggy friend alike!
If you love these, you should also try my Dog Cookie Recipes and Dog Donuts! I hope your furry friends love these treats as much as mine did. Don’t forget to give them an extra pat on the head from me!
Pumpkin Dog Treats
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
- 2 tbsp natural peanut butter avoid any peanut butter that contains the sweetener Xylitol
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- In a large bowl, mix together eggs, cinnamon, pumpkin, flour, salt and peanut butter. This mixture will become stiff, dry and crumbly really quickly when first mixing.
- Add a little bit of water to help moisten the ingredients, then you will be able to work and knead the dough. Only add a tablespoon or so as you go. You want the dough to end up being a dry and thick consistency.
- Flour your countertop and roll the dough out to be about a ½ inch thick. Use your cookie cutters to cut out individual treats and place on a greased baking sheet. You don’t need to separate them a ton, they don’t rise much.
- You will have left over dough after cutting out the first batch of treats. Quickly knead and roll out the dough left over dough to make even more!
- Bake for about 35 minutes or until hard. Serve to your fur-baby! They will be living their best doggy life!
Nutrition
Disclaimer
Nutrition information is estimated as a courtesy. If using for medical purposes, please verify information using your own nutritional calculator. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Healy says
Having hard time getting the dough to stick together no matter how much water I put in. Using coconut flour so I don’t know if that is reason.
Christi Johnstone says
Healy, I have zero experience with coconut flour, but a quick google search reveals… “Coconut flour is both denser and drier than other flour types, but it’s also extremely absorbent. This can make it difficult to substitute for all-purpose flour in recipes.” So yes, I would absolutely assume that the change in the recipe is what’s causing your problems. If you want to use coconut flour, I would suggest doing a bit of research on making such a swap. I’ve only tested this recipe as shared.
Rita says
Hi, this is my first time making dog treats. My question is, if you know: 1) how do I cut the recipe in half to try it first? If I needed to eliminate the peanut butter, do you know how would I modify the rest of the measurements for the other ingrediants? Have you ever tried making your dog treats with gluten free flour? SORRY so many questions, I want to make these this holiday with as few as ingrediants as possible. Thank you, they look so yummy, I would eat them myself! 🙂
Christi Johnstone says
To be totally honest, if you are wanting to make a gluten and peanut butter free treat, I would just look for an entirely different recipe. That many changes goes beyond tweaking the recipe, and into basically making something entirely different, at which point I think you’d be best off finding a recipe that was tested and made with the type of ingredients you are looking for. When you start changing the fundamental ingredients, I can’t assure you that the result will be as desired. I’d google Gluten Free Dog Treats and see what you come up with. Good luck!
Kay says
I made these long ago and simply forgot about them.
I made today and my dog was pacing the kitchen the whole time like he knew they were for him
He loves them. Thanks for the great recipe
R says
It’s in the dialogue above- freeze for up to 3 weeks
Alexandra says
How long would you store in the fridge or freezer?
These are my puppies favorite cookies!
Tammy says
My two Fur babies at very picky and won’t eat store bought treats at all!!!! But they LOVE THESE TREATS!!!
Nancy says
Can you press the dough into a silicone mold?
Christi Johnstone says
I haven’t tried, but it might work.
Jim says
So easy to make and all 5 of my dogs could not get enough.
I did have to add more water to mix dough well by hand just added more flour like a few tablespoons at a time until consistency was just right.
Rolled out cut out and baked for around 25 min at 350 degrees
They coil not get enough. They kept begging for more
Samantha says
Just wondering how long are these treats good for in a air tight container?
Christi Johnstone says
Around 5-7 days. I personally prefer to keep them stored in airtight bags in the fridge or freezer to extend that time.
Ella Wilcox says
My pups went crazy over these lol! Thanks for sharing this recipe!