Spooky time has arrived, streets and houses get decorated with that spooky touch. Pumpkins get carved with scary faces, and we start getting ready to trick or treat!
So why not treat your pet too? Here are some spooky recipes to treat your new family member!
Grain Free no bake Pumpkin and Peanut Butter Treats
Not enough time to bake? These no bake treats are easy and fast to make. Your pup will love them!
Ingredients:
Half Cup of coconut flour
4 tablespoons of natural, sugar-free peanut butter
8 tablespoons of canned pumpkin puree
Half teaspoon of cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon of ginger
How to make:
Combine coconut flour, peanut butter, pumpkin, cinnamon and ginger. If the dough is a bit crumbly, add small amounts of peanut butter, working the dough in your hands to help the oil bring the dough together.
Break small amounts of dough off and roll into balls.
Pumpkin spice puppucino
Oh we know how our pups love their puppucinno! So why not treat them to a festive puppucino?
Ingredients:
¾ cup (unsweetened) coconut milk (Can sub with almond milk or goat milk)
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup pure pumpkin
1/4 teaspoon of ginger
How to make:
Combine all ingredients in blender.
Blend until well mixed.
Pour into small serving cups
Pumpkin cupcake? Pumpking PUPcake!
Pumpkin Pupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting. Just amazing!
Ingredients:
Pupcakes:
1 ½ cups whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 eggs
2 cups pumpkin
1 cup vegetable oil
Frosting:
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
½ cup peanut butter
How to make:
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour and baking powder until combined.
Add the eggs, pumpkin and vegetable oil and use an electric mixer on low speed to blend until fully incorporated or you can also mix by hand if you don’t have one!
Distribute the batter evenly into 12 muffin liners or muffin pan
Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the pupcakes are cooked through.
Allow to cool completely, meanwhile prepare the frosting by combining the cream cheese and peanut butter in a medium sized bowl and beating on medium speed until smooth.
When the pupcakes are cooled, pipe the icing evenly across the pupcakes and they will be ready for your pup to enjoy!
Somebody said meow?
Spooky cat biscuits
If there’s one food associated with Halloween, it’s pumpkin – fortunately, this is an ingredient that cats also enjoy. Mix it with salmon, and you’ve got the ultimate kitty snack!
Ingredients:
1 salmon fillet
1 large egg
40g pumpkin
150g flour (plus extra for dusting)
2 tbsp water
Halloween-themed cookie cutters
How to make:
Preheat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan, then cook the salmon for 30 minutes. At the same time, dice the pumpkin into small pieces and cook in the oven for about 20 minutes, until soft. When cooked, remove both from heat, but leave the oven on.
Flake the salmon into smaller pieces, then, in a blender, combine all the ingredients until the mix resembles a dough.
Dust a flat surface with flour and roll out the dough mix until about 1cm thick. Use small, Halloween-themed cookie cutters to cut out biscuit shapes.
Place the biscuits on a baking paper-lined tray and bake for 20 minutes until firm to touch. Remove from the oven and leave to cool
Spooky pops
Bite size cake pops for your kitty
Ingredients:
1 large carrot
1 egg
1 tbsp olive oil
80g rolled oats
1 tsp catnip
1 handful blueberries (washed)
Cake pop tray
How to make:
Preheat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan. Meanwhile, peel and wash the carrot, then finely grate. Flake the salmon into smaller pieces, then, in a blender, combine all the ingredients until the mix resembles a dough.
In a blender, mix the grated carrot, egg, oats, oil and catnip until well combined.
Using damp hands so it doesn’t stick, take about a tablespoon of mix and carefully roll it into a ball.
Place the balls into the holes in the cake pop tray. Using your little finger, gently make a small indent into the top center point of each ball. Carefully slice the blueberries in half, then place a half into the indent of each cake ball.
Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes, until a skewer poked into the cake comes out clean. Leave to cool, then gently remove each cake ball from the tray for a devilishly delicious cat treat.