"Yukon Quest" Dog Treat Recipe

It's time for the Yukon Quest! We have created a special dog treat recipe to celebrate the brave dogs who enjoy this sort of sport. And they do!



Yukon Quest Dog Treats

In Alaska this past summer I was fortunate to meet Mandy Nauman, a 32 year old rookie dog musher training for her first Yukon Quest race. The Yukon Quest is a 1,000 mile sled dog race starting in Fairbanks, Alaska and ending in Whitehorse, Yukon. Whitehorse is the capital city of the westernmost Canadian territory Yukon.



Mandy Nauman talks about training for the Yukon Quest

This race began in 1984 to support long distance sled dog racing as a sport. The race commemorates the Yukon River which was the historical highway of the north. It follows the winter trail traveled by prospectors, adventurers, and mail and supply carriers. 

Mandy works at a kennel and trains sled dogs. She introduced some of them to us. She demonstrated how the dogs are hitched to the sled and how they run. You could see the excitement throughout the team. These animals could not wait to start pulling that sled! Mandy explained that the most enthusiastic dogs are the ones chosen for mushing training. As you can see from the photos, they are mixes, not purebreds.

Sled dogs

There are 21 contestants in this race. The youngest musher is 22, and the oldest is 61.

"Yukon Quest" Dog Treat Recipe

This original recipe for dog treats uses reindeer sausage. It looks like any other sausage and is a favorite in Alaska.



Reindeer sausage

What you need:

• 1 package K9Katie's All Natural Cake and Biscuit Mix For Dogs
• 1/3 cup water
• 1/4 cup oil
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon honey
• Reindeer sausage diced into small pieces
• 18 mini bone silicone baking pan from K9Cakery.com greased
• Flat baking sheet for stability
• Fido’s Royal Icing for Dogs

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Using a large spoon, mix K9Katie’s Cake And Biscuit Mix, water, oil, cinnamon, and honey together in a large bowl to form a dough
• Fold in diced reindeer sausage.
• Press the dough into a greased 18 mini bone silicone baking pan. 
• Place the baking pan on a flat baking sheet for stability and place on the middle oven rack.
• Bake at 350 degrees F for 20 minutes.
• Turn off the oven and let the pan sit in the oven for 60 minutes more to dry out the biscuits so they become crisp and crunchy. 
• Take the pan out of the oven and let it cool. Then gently turn it over. The biscuits will easily drop out.
• Let the biscuits cool completely.
• To finish, mix up ½ cup of Fido’s Royal Icing adding the correct amount of water for drizzling as per the instructions on the package. Drizzle the dog treat icing over the finished biscuits and let it dry completely.

For the photo, we made mini dog bone ice cubes to display the treats because the Iditarod is run over ice and snow. To make ice cubes, simply put water in the silicone pan and place flat in the freezer.

Macaroon Recipe For Dogs

Are you looking for something different in the way of a recipe for dog treats?

Try this simple macaroon recipe for dogs (or macaron recipe) shared by Sue Hughes.

Macaroon recipe for dogs

What you need:

• Parchment lined baking sheet

Ingredients:

• Egg whites
• Shredded coconut
• Use approximately 1 egg white to 1 tsp coconut. (Amounts of egg whites will vary due to the size of the egg. You need enough egg white to hold the coconut. Too much coconut or too little egg white will cause the macaroon not to hold together.)

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• Beat the egg whites until stiff.
• Fold in the shredded coconut.
• Drop tablespoons of mix on the parchment lined baking sheet.
• Bake at 325 for 5-6 minutes, or until lightly browned.

Jodi Chick offers that a little meringue powder can be added to help hold them together. 

For a finishing touch, drizzle Fido's Royal Icing yogurt icing on top!

Homemade Dog Treat Recipe

Want a healthy homemade dog treat recipe? Here's a good one!
Submitted by Marla Matera, it calls for applesauce, mashed sweet potato, and Greek yogurt.

Homemade Dog Treat Recipe

Sweet Potato Apple Pup Cakes

Ingredients: 

• 1 cup flour (whole wheat, spelt, oat, barley, etc.)
• 3/4 cups rolled oats
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 3/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1/2 cup mashed sweet potato (baby food sweet potatoes works well)
• 3 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 apple, peeled and diced small
• Non-fat plain Greek yogurt for frosting
• Small treats for garnish (crumbled biscuits/cookies, fresh or dried fruit)

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Mix dry ingredients together in one bowl.
• In another bowl, mix the wet ingredients together. Combine wet and dry ingredients until well-blended.
• Then, scoop the batter into paper lined muffin tins (6-8). Fill to the top as this dough is very dense and will not rise.
• Bake standard sized muffins for 25-30 minutes, mini muffins for approximately 15 minutes (or until a toothpick stuck in the center comes out clean).
• Cool on a rack.
• Frost and serve, or freeze the muffins without the frosting.
• Refrigerate muffins that are not eaten.

# # #

For a dog muffin frosting that does not require refrigeration, use 
Fido's Frosting, all natural sugar free yogurt cake frosting for dogs.

Yogurt Icing For Dogs Dries Hard And Does Not Melt

The best dog treat icing is the award-winning Fido's Frosting brand. The dog icing is made with all natural yogurt and all human grade ingredients. It is sugar free and made in the USA.

And the best feature? It dries hard and will not melt, even in hot environments like Arizona deserts! You can put a hot flame over it and it will not even begin to droop, which makes it a perfect yogurt frosting if you plan to ship dog cakes or decorated dog treats to friends or customers.

Take a look at this beautiful homemade dog birthday cake made by a pet parent named Kendall:

Dog Birthday Cake With Fido's Frosting

It was Mozart's first birthday and Kendall decorated his cake with Fido's Frosting. It is very easy to use. Just add the specified amount of water and stir. You can pipe decorations just like you see in the photo with this yogurt frosting. 

See how it dries with a smooth finish? You do not have to be a professional baker to produce a gorgeous cake! Fido's Frosting was created specifically to make the dog cake decorating process quick and easy.

Finally, this dog cake frosting does not require refrigeration, unlike frosting made by melting yogurt chips.

Go into your favorite pet store and tell them about Fido's Frosting, manufactured by K9Cakery.com.

Make your own doggie cake, decorate it with Fido's Frosting, send us a photo and we will blog about you!