If you love traditional Italian pizzelle cookies, you’ll be surprised how easy they are to make for your dog and you can eat them too. These cookies are fun to make during the holiday season and winter months because of the snowflake cookie design.
Why Your Dog Will Love This Italian Pizzelle Dog Treat Recipe
By using simple and dog-safe ingredients like oat flour and apples, 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, crispy, sweet, and waffle-like treats. These pizzelle cookies are usually made with a batter of flour, eggs, sugar, and butter, often flavored with anise or vanilla. Then, the batter is poured into a special pizzelle iron that applies a decorative snowflake pattern to the cookies as they bake.
Can Dogs Eat Italian Pizzelle Cookies?
It is not recommended to share Italian pizzelle cookies with dogs because the licorice-like flavor, which comes from an ingredient called anise, along with butter and sugar, can upset their stomachs.
Pizzelle Maker – Non-stick Electric Pizzelle Baker
Making 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 on the market, usually single or double.
1) CucinaPro Mini Electric Pizzelle Maker – Makes A Personal Small Size 4″ Traditional Italian Cookie in Minutes. Check it out on Amazon.
2) CucinaPro Pizzelle Maker – Non-stick Electric Pizzelle Baker Press Makes Two 5-inch Cookies at Once. Check it out on Amazon.
How to Make Italian Pizzelle Cookies for Dogs?
You can bake delicious Italian pizzelle cookies using easy-to-find dog-safe ingredients like flour, eggs, and fruit that you probably already have in your kitchen.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups oat flour from Bark Bistro Awesome Apple Pooch Pancakes
1 cup blended apples
1 large egg
coconut oil
What’s different about this recipe is that 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 in the Use of Other Substances
flour – In addition to oat flour, you have the option of using alternative flours such as whole wheat, chickpea, coconut, and brown rice.
Fruits – Substituting bananas for apples is a great alternative.
Other ingredients – Enhance the taste by including peanut butter in the recipe. This will add a super delicious taste that your dog will love. For your dog’s safety, make sure the peanut butter is 100% made from peanuts and does not contain xylitol.
Direction:
1. In a bowl mix well the flour, apple mixture, and egg.
2. Pour a spoonful of batter into the pizzelle maker and close.
3. Bake according to the pizzelle maker’s instructions or until they are 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 important to preheat the Pizzelle Maker and apply a little cooking spray at the beginning and throughout cooking only if necessary (which is usually unnecessary). I chose to use coconut oil spray.
Mixed Apples
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 instead of draining quickly.
How Do You Store Pizzelles To Stay Crispy?
To keep pizzelle cookies crisp, let them cool completely before storing or stacking. It’s best to wrap them in aluminum foil, but you can also use the containers once they’ve 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 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 make a delicious dog-safe treat. With variations using different flours and fruits, the possibilities are endless.
