Tip$ - December 2011

Tip$ - December 2011

Recipe for Fun: A Holiday Treat You Can Share with Your Pet

by Leslie Crane Rugg and Eva Saks

You and your pet share a lot: love, good times, a home, the holidays. Now you can share a holiday cookie, too. It is with the joy of the season that we present our lovingly devised, sharable sweet: the Snap-a-Cookie. It’s a gingersnap of sorts that includes whole grains, fresh fruit, and honey. A word to the wise: it IS a treat, so don’t overdo it. We cannot live by treats alone!

We developed this recipe with nutritional input from Joanne Ikeda, lecturer at UC Berkeley in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and co-founder of Berkeley’s Center for Weight and Health. Additional input was provided by the Rugg Collies, Kipling and Kirby, and the Saks Shelties, Momo and Hobby.

Enjoy! And remember to brush your teeth and your dog’s teeth afterwards…unless you both eat raw bones.

HOLIDAY SNAP-A-COOKIE (Our sharable human-dog gingersnap!)

Ingredients:

· 2 cups whole grain oat flour

· 1 tablespoon ground ginger

· 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

· 1/3 cup honey

· 6 tablespoons canola oil

· 1 large egg

· 1/2 cup molasses

· fresh raspberries in season

Directions:

1. In first bowl, combine flour, ginger and cinnamon.

2. In second bowl, with mixer on low, beat honey and canola oil until blended. Increase speed to high and

beat in thoroughly egg and molasses. Then beat in flour mixture on low just until blended. Cover bowl

with plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour (dough will be slightly sticky).

3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Place spoonfuls of dough 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Put raspberry in the center of each cookie.

4. Bake cookies 9 to 11 minutes. Cool soft cookies on cookie sheet 1 minute. Transfer cookies to wire rack

to cool completely.

5. Repeat with remaining dough.

6. Store cookies in tightly covered non-plastic container at room temperature up to 3 days or in freezer

up to 1 month.