Good, wholesome ingredients for my Thermomix dog biscuits
Billy will do anything for bacon. Sit, lie down, fetch, it all suddenly makes sense when there’s a bacon treat in the offing. So when I learned from fellow Thermomix user Shelley Green that she had a really good Thermomix dog biscuit recipe with a version that included bacon, I asked her for it and made both Billy and Harley extremely happy boys!
Shelley’s Dog Biscuits
Adapted by Madame Thermomix from a recipe that uses whole wheat grains and popping corn, which are easily milled in the Thermomix (same weight; 1 minute/Speed 10). Shelley leaves out the bacon but my boys love it too much so I left it in. I also changed the order and combined some of the steps to save even more time and washing up 
Makes 50 – 140 biscuits depending on the size of your cutter and how thick or thin you roll the dough. Could make up to 200 training treats!
Ingredients
100 g rolled oats
100 g cheddar cheese, cubed
200 – 250g (3 – 5 rashers) bacon, roughly chopped or cut with scissors if you’re lazy like me!
50 g butter or oil
200 g water
100 g milk
350 g whole wheat flour
150 g cornmeal/polenta
1 egg
Method
- Pre-heat the oven to 160°C (325°F/Gas 3).
- Add cheese and oats to TM bowl and mill 5 seconds/Speed 8. Set aside.
- Add bacon to TM bowl and chop 5 seconds/Speed 5. Cook at 100° C/10 minutes/Reverse Blade Function/Speed spoon with Measuring Cup at an angle to allow steam to escape.
- Add butter, water and milk to TM bowl and heat at 60° C/1 minute/Speed 1. Add whole wheat flour, milled oats and cheese mixture, cornmeal and egg to TM bowl. Lock lid and mix 1 minute/Dough setting or until just combined.
- Tip bowl upside down onto a silicone mat and turn base of blade to release mixture. If mixture is slightly wet leave to stand for 5-10 minutes before rolling out. Roll out to ½ inch or 1 cm thickness and cut into desired shape (2″ dog bone shapes are great; I also had American-style fire hydrants and some kitty cats). Alternatively, roll balls of dough into ½ inch or 1 cm diameter rolls and cut into bite-sized nuggets to make small training treats. Place on a lined baking tray and bake for 40 – 45 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack and store in a biscuit tin.
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- Ingredients for my Thermomix dog biscuits
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- This is the milled oats and cheese mixture
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- Here are my American-style fire hydrant biscuit shapes
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- Harley really likes these kitty cat shaped biscuits
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- With some judicious placement I was able to cut out loads of bone shapes
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- These bone shapes are ready for baking
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- Here are the baked kitty cats – nicely golden brown!
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- Billy takes a sniff…
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- …takes a bite…
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- …and decides these dog biscuits are good enough to eat!
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- Harley is a more cautious fellow…
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- …but has decided he likes Madame Thermomix’s dog biscuits, too!
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- I was able to make 138 dog biscuits with this recipe, shown here in my tin
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- We take these dog biscuits with us in a dog treat bag from L.L. Bean, who make the world’s best dog beds in Freeport, Maine, USA
ThermoHubby John walked by as I was making these, grunted and said “Darn expensive dog biscuits!” so I decided to do a cost comparison. My ingredients cost me (prices correct as of August 2012) £5.05 and I made 138 biscuits. That’s less than 4 pence per 2-inch/4-cm biscuit. I looked online for comparable homemade dog treats and an equivalent bag of 30 treats costs £2.65 + P&P, which would make my 138 treats cost over £10 plus P&P. ‘Nuff said, I think!
It’s all good, edible stuff inside, and they actually taste like really good savoury biscuits for cheese – I tried one! And besides, Harley and Billy can’t get enough of them
“Bone” appétit ! (sorry, couldn’t resist)
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Harley and Billy are absolute cuties and seem to very much enjoy their treats! What a great idea using your thermomix to make dog biscuits and you proved it’s half price from bought ones…
Thanks, Nora! Our four-footed boys keep us busy and it’s only fair that we keep them healthy. I’m so glad Shelley shared her recipe!
Yay oh yay!!! I was hoping someone would do a good dog buiscuit recipe for Thermomix. And these photos are outstanding. Love, love, love the recipe AND the ‘snoutcam’ photos
As I was reading I couldn’t help thinking… “oats… cheddar… bacon… um… what’s not to like?” I would love to eat these myself! What a super nibbly to keep in the pocket for dogs and humans on walkies. Great post!
Tee hee hee! I’ve tried these dog biscuits & you’re right Helene, they’re delicious. All human grade ingredients, and yummy, too. Bon appétit !
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Hiya, tried these for my dog, and gave some to my friend for her dog, she would now like the recipe, however she does not have A Thermomix, would you be able to give me this recipe but with out the adjustments for the thermomix. Thanks
Hi Lauren, thanks for reading and commenting. I’m delighted your friend – and her dog – love my Thermomix dog biscuits! But because this is a Thermomix recipe blog, my recipes are to be made in the Thermomix. Looks like your friend needs to get herself one
She can adapt the recipe herself like making a cake batter or cookie batter to mix the ingredients together and then bake. Should be simple enough.
Hi, do you have a raw/paleo alternative ingredient for the ‘whole wheat flour” and “cheddar cheese”?
I have a Cavvy with skin issues – wheat is not good
Cheers
Hi Debbie, thanks for your question. I am not yet very good at finding raw substitutes but you might try grinding brown rice into rice flour in your Thermomix and trying that? Let me know how it works! Check out quirkycooking.blogspot.com for Jo Whitton’s vast experience in ingredient substitution; she might have some ideas for your Cavvy with skin issues. Good luck!
Thanks so much for this recipe–just made these last night. I plan to surprise my dog-loving friends with a little Christmas gift for their fur-kids. Can’t wait to see their faces! Hope the little critters like them. They smelt so good while they were baking it was all I could to hold back from tasting them myself!
LOL you’re right, Sharon, these “dog” biscuits smell good enough to eat – and it’s all good, human-grade ingredients so let me admit that I’ve tasted them myself! They’re actually quite delicious and I have a good mind to adapt the recipe somewhat and make it into a human-style cheese biscuit
By the way, I had a slight amount of trouble finding a bone-shaped biscuit cutter. The guy at the pet shop actually said it was the weirdest request he’d had! Thankfully a specialist cooking shop came to my aid–they said I wasn’t weird at all!
I found my doggie biscuit cutters on good old Amazon… I have to agree that there wasn’t a huge choice but I got what I needed. And I must agree also with the specialist cooking shop person who recognised that it’s not a weird request at all!!