Frozen Pumpkin Peanut Butter Dog Treats
Made with just a few ingredients, these tasty frozen pumpkin peanut butter dog treats will keep your pup cool in the summer.
We just celebrated Grace’s 10-year gotcha date and I surprised her with these frozen pumpkin peanut butter dog treats from a recipe I found on Eat the Gains. I love that this frozen puppy treats recipe only uses a few ingredients–canned pumpkin, peanut butter, coconut oil, and cinnamon. Grace excitedly licked the bowl clean while the treats were setting up in the freezer and she devoured two once they were ready.
Side Note: Make sure the peanut butter you use doesn’t have Xylitol in it. It’s a sweetener used in many foods, including peanut butter, and is safe for humans but potentially deadly for dogs. If ingested, it can cause seizures, liver failure, and death, warned one animal hospital, which called xylitol “extremely toxic” to dogs.
How to Make Frozen Pumpkin Peanut Butter Dog Treats
Combine the pumpkin puree, peanut butter, melted coconut oil, and ground cinnamon together in a bowl until very well combined.
Spoon the mixture into the silicone dog treat molds until they are filled to the top. Tap the silicone trays lightly on the counter then scrape the top of the mold with a rubber spatula to remove any excess from the top.
Place the silicone molds into the freezer on a flat shelf for 3-4 hours.
Remove the pumpkin peanut butter treats from the silicone molds and store the frozen treats layered in parchment in an air-tight sealed container in the freezer or in a sealed large freezer zip-lock bag.
Equipment
- Dog Treat Silicone Molds
Ingredients
- 1 cup pumpkin puree **puree NOT pie filling
- ½ cup + 2 tbsp peanut butter **Side Note: Make sure the peanut butter you use doesn’t have Xylitol in it. It’s a sweetener used in many foods, including peanut butter, and is safe for humans but potentially deadly for dogs. If ingested, it can cause seizures, liver failure, and death, warned one animal hospital, which called xylitol “extremely toxic” to dogs.
- ¼ cup coconut oil, melted
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Combine the pumpkin puree, peanut butter, melted coconut oil, and ground cinnamon together in a bowl until very well combined.
- Spoon the mixture into the silicone dog treat molds until they are filled to the top.
- Tap the silicone trays lightly on the counter then scrape the top of the mold with a rubber spatula to remove any excess from the top.
- Place the silicone molds into the freezer on a flat shelf for 3-4 hours.
- Remove the pumpkin peanut butter treats from the silicone molds and store the frozen treats layered in parchment in an air-tight sealed container in the freezer or in a sealed large freezer zip-lock bag.
If I can’t come back as your kid in the next life, I’ll settle for being your dog.
I get all the way into this recipe before realizing it doesn’t tell you how much peanut butter to use. Fail.
Sara,
Thanks for letting me know. I’m sorry it was missing the word cup, the recipe has been corrected.
-Pam
Going to try this today
Can you substitute the coconut butter with something else?
Ali,
You can substitute coconut oil for vegetable oil. I hope that helps.
-Pam
I haven’t made them yet I’m super excited to make them I always worry I give my dog human treats thank you for sharing about that sweetener that can be deadly so I can make sure the human treats I share don’t have that in them now I will make him treats from you thanks again