I’m seeking a recipe for homemade horse treats. The kind that look like stud muffins or something similar. I’d like to give them as gifts.
A few years ago got a recipe book from Sunkissed Acres that had great recipes for horse treats, dog treats and even fly spray. The one I made was grape nuts, peppermint oil and I can’t remember. Cute and the horses loved them. Bought that book as Xmas gifts for my horse buddies, maybe it is still available?
Here’s a great recipe that I use every year for gifts:
1 c. dry oatmeal
1 c. flour
1 c. shredded carrots
1 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. sugar
2 tbsp. corn oil
1/4 c. molasses
1/4 c. water
Can be pressed into well-oiled mini muffin tins, or rolled into balls/various shapes. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes or until golden brown. I also always let them cool on cookie racks.
Here’s a great recipe that I use every year for gifts:
1 c. dry oatmeal
1 c. flour
1 c. shredded carrots
1 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. sugar
2 tbsp. corn oil
1/4 c. molasses
1/4 c. water
Can be pressed into well-oiled mini muffin tins, or rolled into balls/various shapes. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes or until golden brown. I also always let them cool on cookie racks.
Here’s my recipe:
10 cents. Bread shop animal feed.
I slaved and sweated over this! They love it and prefer it as a treat. And oh my the calories in the middle of winter, I can’t eat a whole loaf of bread, altho I wish I could.
P.s I love muffins :))
I made some the other night. I think this is how it went. I modified from the Oregon muffin recipe here: http://www.thehorse.com/articles/33084/horse-approved-homemade-treat-recipes
Peggy’s Horse Treats
- Combine 1/4 cup ground flax with 3/4 cup warm water; swirl; let stand 10-15 minutes
- Add 1/2 cup sugar (I used half and half sugar and molasses) and mix
- Add to that 2 cups oat flour (can buy or can make your own using any type of oats and a cuisinart) and 2 cups of oats.
- Add 1 tsp salt.
- Mix everything together.
- Press into some sort of a mold (I used one of those little salad dressing containers that come in Trader Joe's pre-made salads, pressing the dough in with a spoon to about 2/3-3/4 full) and plop out onto a cookie sheet outfitted with parchment.
- Bake at 375°F for 20 minutes.
- Let cool a few minutes on cookie sheet and then transfer to cooling racks.
I was inspired by my horse who is allergic to carrots, apples, alfalfa, barley…
I plan to make some with just sugar for a friend’s horse who is allergic to molasses, but not sugar, and some without sugar.
I’ve made something like these:
Peppermint Treats
Ingredients
10 crushed peppermints
2 cups flour
2 apples
1 cup of oats
1/4 cup of molasses
water
Directions
Mix flour and oats together
Add molasses
Add water slowly until mixture is doughy
Add peppermint
Add apples
Cook at 350 degrees until golden brown
From here:
http://www.aboutyourhorse.com/easy-make-horse-treat-recipes
I just made some! Here was my recipe (if in mini muffin tins it makes thirty six)
-3 cups flour
-3 rolled oats
- 1 1/2 cups water
-1 cup brown sugar - 3/4 cups molasses
-~36 peppermints
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all ingredient in large bowl until combined. Scoop into mini muffins tin. Bake for 15-20 minutes. The treats are cooked whim the are soft but not gooey. Before the treats cool,press a peppermint into the center of each one. Let cool. Enjoy!
I was running up to the only Dover for 500 miles to get Stud Muffins for my draft - do you have any idea how many of those he can eat?!?!
Dr. Beth Valentine, who is the leading expert of drafts and EPSM, said she gives her horses Cracklin’ Oat Bran cereal for treats. Hmmm . . .
OMG! :eek: They are like CRACK for horses! I mean, he has loved his treats before, but this is a whole new level of treat obsession.
Win win, for $3.67 a box :winkgrin:
(And the BM can snack on them in a pinch too 
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I use this recipe (made huge tins for each barn this year, horses love them!). Very easy, I’ll add applesauce instead of shredded apple for carrots because I’m lazy.
speaking of cereal as treats -
there is NOTHING my guy loves more than Mini Wheats. He is normally polite about treats but he will frisk AND mug you if he sees that box come out.
Cheap too: one box will last me a while if he, the mice, and the other horses do not get it. Added bonus, when you crumble it up our resident wood duck & the chickens will eat it too.
I once cut a pound box of dark brown sugar into cubes then dried them in a slow - 200F - oven overnight.
They were great, but if exposed to damp air, started to dissolve.
You could press the sugar into mini cookie cutter molds.
For amusement value try dry pasta.
To you it is tasteless, but to horses it is a Crunchy Delight.
Shape is immaterial, but I do use spaghetti for little kids to feed - they can hold one end of the long strands & not get little fingers inhaled along with pasta.
My own 2 Treat Hos are thrilled with gingersnaps - from Dollar Tree.
60 cookies for $1 = 10 nightime treats for the 2 of them.
They each get 3 & yes, they can count.
