For a Good Paws

by Linda O. Johnston

  And I was glad.

  the end

  Recipes

  barkery and biscuits dog treat recipe

  Grand-Dog Treats

  1/2 cup water

  1/4 cup vegetable or canola oil

  1 egg

  2 tbsp crunchy peanut butter

  3/4 cup white whole wheat flour

  1/4 cup unbleached all purpose flour

  1/4 cup quick oats

  1/4 cup cornmeal

  Preheat oven to 350ºF. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.

  Combine water, oil, egg, and peanut butter in food processor (or mixer).

  Stir together dry ingredients (flour through cornmeal) and add to peanut butter batter. Mix until well combined. (Add more water if dough is too crumbly.)

  On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to about 1/4" thick. Cut dough into shapes using your favorite cookie cutters and place on baking sheet.

  Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and turn treats over. Return to oven and bake for another 10 minutes. Turn oven off and leave treats in oven for another 20 minutes.

  Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.

  icing on the cake people treat recipe

  Please be aware that because this recipe contains chocolate, it is only for people, not dogs! Chocolate can be poisonous to dogs.

  Choco-Cranberry Drops

  1/2 cup butter, softened

  1/2 cup margarine, softened

  11/4 cups firmly packed brown sugar

  1/2 cup granulated sugar

  2 eggs

  2 tsps vanilla

  13/4 cup flour

  1 tsp baking soda

  21/4 cups quick oats

  1 cup semi-sweet chocolate morsels

  1 cup dried cranberries

  Heat oven to 375ºF.

  Beat butter, margarine, and sugars until creamy.

  Add eggs and vanilla; beat well.

  Combine flour and baking soda. Add to batter and mix well.

  Stir in oats, chocolate morsels, and dried cranberries.

  Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto

  cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

  Bake 4 minutes on lower oven rack. Turn and bake

  approximately 4 minutes on upper rack until golden brown.

  Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet, then remove

  to wire rack to cool completely.

  Makes about 6 dozen cookies.

  Acknowledgments

  Once again, I thank my wonderful agent Paige Wheeler. I also thank the great people at Midnight Ink who have worked with me, including editor Terri Bischoff and production editor Sandy Sullivan. I have enjoyed being a Midnight Ink author and will miss that wonderful mystery publisher when it is gone.

  And again, I thank my friend Paula Riggin, who enjoys cooking and developing recipes. Once more, I owe the recipes included here to her: Grand-Dog Treats for dogs and Choco-Cranberry Drops for people.

  about the author

  Linda O. Johnston (Los Angeles, CA) has published fifty romance and mystery novels, including the Pet Rescue Mystery series and the Kendra Ballantyne, Pet-Sitter Mystery series for Berkley Prime Crime. With Midnight Ink, she’s published Lost Under a Ladder, Knock on Wood, and Unlucky Charms in the Superstition Mystery series, along with the first four Barkery & Biscuits Mysteries: Bite the Biscuit, To Catch a Treat, Bad to the Bone, and Pick and Chews.