If you love the traditional Italian pizzelle cookies, you’ll be surprised how easy to make these for your dog and you can actually eat them too. These cookies are fun to make during the holiday season and winter months because of the snowflake-like cookie design.
Why Your Dog Will Love This Italian Pizzelle Dog Treat Recipe?
By using simple and dog-safe ingredients like oat flour and apple, you can easily make these Italian pizzelle cookies that your dog will love.
What are Italian Pizzelle Cookies?
From Italy, Italian pizzelle cookies are thin, crisp, sweet, and waffle-like treats. These pizzelle cookies are typically made with a batter of flour, eggs, sugar, and butter, often flavored with anise or vanilla. Then, the batter is poured onto a special pizzelle iron that imprints a decorative snowflake pattern on the cookies as they cook.
Can Dogs Eat Italian Pizzelle Cookies?
It’s not recommended to share Italian pizzelle cookies with dogs since the licorice-like taste, derived from an ingredient called anise, along with butter and sugar, can upset their stomach.
Pizzelle Maker – Non-stick Electric Pizzelle Baker
Creating your own dog-safe Italian pizzelle cookies is simple, but you’ll need a pizzelle maker (pizzelle iron or pizzelle press) to get started.
There are several pizzelle makers in the market, typically a single or double.
1) CucinaPro Mini Electric Pizzelle Maker – Makes One Personal Tiny Sized 4″ Traditional Italian Cookie in Minutes. Check it out at Amazon.
2) CucinaPro Pizzelle Maker – Non-stick Electric Pizzelle Baker Press Makes Two 5-inch Cookies at Once. Check it out at Amazon.
How to Make Italian Pizzelle Cookies for Dogs?
You can whip up delicious Italian pizzelle cookies using easy-to-find dog-safe ingredients like flour, eggs, and fruits that are probably in your kitchen.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup oat flour from Bark Bistro Awesome Apple Pooch Pancakes
1 cup blended apple
1 large egg
coconut spray oil
What’s unique about this recipe is I used a dog-safe pancake mix from Bark Bistro Awesome Apple Pooch Pancakes. The mix consists of oat flour, apple, cinnamon, and vanilla.
Variations on Using Other Ingredients
Flour – In addition to oat flour, you have the option to use alternative flours like whole wheat, chickpea, coconut, and brown rice.
Fruits – Substituting a banana for an apple is an excellent alternative.
Other Ingredients – Enhance the flavor by including peanut butter in the recipe. It will add an extra delightful taste that your dog will love. For your dog’s safety, make sure the peanut butter is 100% made from peanuts and contains no xylitol.
Directions:
1. In a bowl mix well the flour, blended apple, and egg.
2. Drop slightly a tablespoon of batter onto the pizzelle maker and close.
3. Bake according to the pizzelle maker’s instructions or until they’re golden brown, usually 30 seconds to 1 minute. Use a nonstick spatula to transfer the pizzelles to a cooling rack. Repeat with the rest of the batter.
This recipe makes about 12 pizzelle cookies
Preparation Tips
Pizzelle Maker
It’s crucial to preheat the Pizzelle Maker and apply a minimal amount of cooking spray at the beginning and throughout cooking only when necessary (which is usually not needed). I opted to use a coconut oil spray.
Blended Apple
Dice a medium-sized apple into small pieces, then blend it in a blender with 1/4 cup of water.
Pizzelle Batter
Make sure the batter is thick enough to drip slowly from the spoon rather than running off quickly.
How Do You Store Pizzelles So They Stay Crispy?
To keep the pizzelle cookies crispy, let them cool completely before storing or stacking. It’s ideal to wrap them in aluminum foil, but you can also use containers once they’re cooled.
Other Recipes for Italian Pizzelle Cookies For Dogs
In our previous posts, we shared these dog-safe pizzelle recipes:
Banana Cranberry with Peanut Butter Pizzelle Dog Treats
1 cup of flour (whole wheat)
1 medium 1gg
1 banana (mashed)
1/2 cup cranberries
2 tbsp of peanut butter
1/2 tsp of honey
~ 1/3 cup of water
Banana Pizzelle Dog Treats
1/2 of brown rice flour
1 small banana (mashed)
1 small egg
1/2 tsp of honey
~ 1/3 cup of water
coconut oil spray
Make Italian Pizzelle Cookies For Your Dog
These easy-to-follow Italian pizzelle cookie recipes allow you to create delicious dog-safe treats. With variations using different flours and fruits, the possibilities are endless.
