Banana Oat Dog Treats
The answer to the single brown banana on the counter. Mashed banana, oat flour, and one egg become golden biscuits with real sweetness and no added sugar.
Safety Snapshot — every ingredient, checked
- Banana — Safe · a sugary fruit, so these stay an occasional treat
- Oat flour — Safe
- Egg — Safe, cooked
Recipe Index Card
◷ 30 min
YIELDS 24
Easy
Ingredients
- 1 ripe banana, the browner the better
- 2 cups oat flour, plus a little for rolling
- 1 egg
Method
- Heat the oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with parchment.
- Mash the banana in a bowl until it is nearly liquid. Beat in the egg.
- Stir in the oat flour until a soft dough forms. Rest it for 5 minutes so the flour drinks up the moisture.
- Roll to about a quarter inch thick and cut into shapes. The dough is soft, so flour the cutter as you go.
- Bake for 20 to 24 minutes until golden and firm. Cool on a rack.
24 treats
Yield
about 10¢
Cost Per Treat
10 min
Active Time
Every kitchen produces one banana too ripe for people and perfect for this. Banana brings the sweetness and the binding, oats bring the body, and the result is a biscuit dogs can smell from the next room.
Ripe matters here. A yellow banana works, but a brown speckled one mashes smoother and tastes sweeter, which means the recipe needs nothing else at all.
Storage
- On the counter in an airtight tin: up to 5 days
- In the fridge: up to 2 weeks
- In the freezer: up to 3 months
Banana keeps these a touch softer than a plain biscuit, so the fridge is the safer home after the first few days.
Serving by dog size
- Small dogs: 1 treat a day
- Medium dogs: up to 2 treats a day
- Large dogs: up to 3 treats a day
Fruit sugar is still sugar. Keep these in the treat budget, inside 10 percent of daily calories.